Africa Seychelles Parents whose autistic children didn't meet medical assessment criteria for support in November 2024 - June 2026 will now be eligible for assistance under the Children Neurodivergent Disorder Needs Scheme CNDNS, introduced by government in July 2026
Europe Latvia After Rīga public transport company Rīgas Satiksme launched a new ticket offer and revised its mobile application, passengers complained of problems with money disappearing from their accounts or tickets not working
Asia Thailand Today sees the opening of Can't Stop Won't Stop, a photo exhibition reliving the work of the Bangkok Community Help Foundation over the past two years of the pandemic, celebrating its 500 volunteers
Europe Liechtenstein The Hilti Group wants to minimise its CO₂ emissions with various measures, intending to invest between 500 and 1.000 million Swiss francs over the next ten years in adapting business processes
Europe Lithuania The municipality of Panevezys, a northern town in Lithuania, will continue to subsidise public transport fares for Ukrainians: among other things, all school-age war refugees will be entitled to a free monthly public transport pass
Africa Kenya Women from the Ilpolei Twala Cultural Manyatta Women group are taking action against an invasive cactus that kills their livestock and makes their land difficult to cultivate, using a machine to grind it to a pulp, which they use to produce biogas
Europe Luxembourg Households threw less waste with a 16% decrease in the amount ending up in black bins since 2018, although, of the residual waste ending up in black bins, one third is organic waste that could be thrown in the green bin and turned into biogas or compost
Asia North Korea Last year, several North Korean drones entered the Republic of Korea's airspace and even violated a no-fly zone near the presidential office; this is likely to further complicate relations between the two countries this year
Europe Albania A 70-year-old woman from northern Albania, File Kola, is one of the few to make the ancestral dress called Xhubleta, which UNESCO recently included in the Intangible Cultural Heritage List
Oceania Australia One of Australia's most prominent politicians, New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet, has admitted to wearing a Nazi uniform to his 21st birthday party and has apologised, calling it a terrible mistake, made when he was young and naive
Europe Switzerland Rents in Switzerland are getting more and more expensive: in 2022, average rents for new or re-rented flats rose by an average of 3%, with some cities showing variations of up to +6,7%
Europe Bulgaria Bulgaria's two largest trade unions, KNSB and Podkrepa, protested in front of Parliament in defence of the country's energy security, unhappy with the commitment to reduce carbon emissions by 40% by the end of 2025 compared to 2019 levels
Asia Afghanistan A suicide bombing in front of the Foreign Ministry left several people dead; police in Kabul said five people were killed, but another Taliban official put the death toll at 20
Asia Sri Lanka Sri Lanka's central bank has urged China and India to agree to write down their loans as soon as possible