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
Asia Sri Lanka The distribution of school uniform fabric for 2023 has began; the first consignment of the uniform materials was officially sent to Provincial and Zonal: 1/3 of the fabric has been cut, packed and labeled so that it is given directly to the schoolchildren
America Chile Along with Argentina, the country has opened its doors to more than 300 Nicaraguan opposition members who were stripped of their nationality by their country's justice system, and has offered them a citizenship and shelter
Oceania Australia Over AUS$31 million of illegal tobacco has been seized and destroyed after it was grown in fields in regional Victoria; raids at two properties near the border with New South Wales were carried out after an anonymous tip-off, uncovering the illicit haul
Africa Sudan Sudanese transitional government and several opposition groups signed an implementation matrix for the Juba peace agreement and agreed on a roadmap for the next two years, local newspapers report
Africa Somalia After three decades, support for Somalia will be strengthened and direct investments in the country will resume, which had been suspended due to delays in the payment of the debt accumulated by the government in Mogadishu with Ifad, which has now been set
Asia China Some provinces are granting young newlyweds a month's paid leave in the hope of encouraging weddings and boosting a declining birth rate
Europe Montenegro A church fresco defined ‘anti-Bosniak’ sparked dispute in local authorities in Rozaje, who called on the Serbian Orthodox Church to remove a fresco in the local church that depicts Bosniaks threatening a mother and baby with knives
Asia Bangladesh The Bangladesh telecom industry market report forecasts 247 million mobile and broadband subscribers by 2030; the telecom sector is expected to grow at an average rate of 6,3% from 2023 to 2030
America Argentina President Alberto Fernández arrived in Ushuaia this week to commemorate the Day of Argentine Antarctica by inaugurating a branch of the University of Tierra del Fuego and conducting the fourth official head-of-state visit to Antarctica
Africa Ivory Coast In eleven years, the country has doubled its cashew nut production from 400.000 tonnes in 2011 to 1,028 million tonnes in 2022
America Venezuela State channels have begun using AI-generated “avatar reporters” to promote pro-government narratives, as recently seen in the circulation of online news stories highlighting the nation’s recent economic progress
Africa Senegal The inhabitants of the Senegalese Saloum islands, a very touristy coastal area in the Delta close to the Gambian border, have observed a rapid rise in sea level since twenty-three oil wells were drilled off the tip of Sangomar
Asia Azerbaijan On 22 February, the UN International Court of Justice rejected in toto the requests for provisional measures made in Azerbaijan's case against Armenia, obliging the country to allow free passage through the Lachin Corridor