Asia Bangladesh An auto-fine system will be launched today on Dhaka-Chittagong highway: it will automatically detect speeding, illegal parking, driving against traffic with AI-powered cameras; police urged transport owners, workers, stakeholders to support the initiative
America Trinidad and Tobago As debate over human trafficking and prostitution in Trinidad and Tobago continues, an official list of convicted sex offenders has been made public for the first time through an online registry, the Trinidad and Tobago Public Sex Offenders Website
America Bolivia The government is currently working on a plan to fully industrialise lithium by the end of this year, by carefully studying and selecting the companies that will be extracting and processing the good for its commercialisation in the next years
Oceania Tuvalu His Excellency Rashid Matar Al Qemzi presented his credentials to His Excellency Rev. Tofiga Vaevalu Falani, Governor General of Tuvalu, as Non-Resident Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates
Europe Malta Figures released by the Office for National Statistics show that 1,8 million guests stayed in hotels and other accommodation facilities in 2022
Oceania Tonga The island community of Mango received financial assistance from two donors to help its rehabilitation: $20.000 from the Rotary Club of Nuku'alofa and $5.000 from BSP Tonga Country Manager Marcellina Wolfgramm Ha'apa
Africa Cape Verde An open conversation to make students aware of the importance of energy transition has been promoted by the Multisectoral Regulatory Agency for the Economy in cooperation with the Centre for Renewable Energy and Industrial Maintenance
America Colombia A group of 79 police officers and oilfield workers were taken hostage by residents blocking an oil exploration, and have now been freed in exchange of government negotiations to suspend the operation
America Mexico Ovidio Guzmán, a son of the drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, currently suspected of leading the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel which his father founded, is the object of a formal extradition request by the USA
Europe San Marino Trek-Segafredo cyclist Antonio Tiberi was fined €4.000 for killing a minister's cat in San Marino and his team suspended him for 20 days without pay
Asia Uzbekistan Russian airline Pobeda will launch a direct Moscow-Tashkent charter flight from 21 April and a twice-weekly Moscow-Samarkand flight, Uzbekistan Airports said
Africa Morocco Out of a total of 23.411 foreign students in Morocco in 2021, 19.256, almost 83%, were of African origin, reports Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation Abdellatif Miraoui
Asia Sri Lanka An exhibition on the work of Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa will be hosted at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, India, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Indo-Lankan diplomatic relations
Asia Thailand According to the Department of Health, one in 10 Thai children is clinically obese; the head of the DOH emphasised the crucial role parents have to play in cultivating a healthier environment