Oceania Papua New Guinea Condemning a man to a 3 years sentence, a Judge explicitly said women harassed or abused at work should report the episode to the police, underlining no one has the right to touch women without their consent
Oceania Marshall Islands The 75 recipients of the Republic of China/Taiwan-RMI Presidents' Scholarship were honoured at the Marshall Islands Resort
Africa Madagascar Farahantsana hydroelectric power plant, built and owned by the Italian holding company Tozzi Green, was inaugurated by President Rajoelina
Africa Sierra Leone Africell, a Sierra Leone-based mobile phone company, recently donated beach cleaning equipment worth thousands of dollars to two top clean-up organisations at its Lumley Beach Road branch
Europe Ukraine A $200m superyacht owned by Viktor Medvedchuk, a Ukrainian oligarch and friend of Vladimir Putin who is under sanctions, is to be auctioned off by Kiev after being seized in Croatia
Europe Sweden Self-driving trucks have started to hit the roads in the country, with other companies besides Swedish truck manufacturer Scania looking to launch new self-driving trucks
Africa Guinea-Bissau The president of the Guinea-Bissau Bar Association, Januário Pedro Correia, has been elected president of the Union of Portuguese Speaking Lawyers (UALP) for the two-year period 2023/2024
America Costa Rica The country’s match with Germany during the Qatar World Cup was the first ever in its history with all referees being women
Oceania Papua New Guinea Transparency International PNG will host a two-day election seminar to present the results of its observations during the 2022 national general election to promote transparency for election integrity
Europe Iceland Around 300.000 tourists are expected to arrive in Ísafjörður next summer via cruise ships, a number of tourists equal to ten times the population of the city
Europe Greece The final of the World Robot Olympiad 2022 ended with important awards for the Greek mission, ranked first in Europe and fourth worldwide
Africa Niger President Bazoum gave a long speech on Thursday evening at the Luiss University in Rome, on the occasion of the meeting entitled "Italy, Niger, Europe, Africa. Two continents, one destiny" for the cooperation among the two countries
Oceania Fiji Koroklevu Beach Hotel, a luxury hotel that helped launch mass tourism in Fiji, is now an abandoned ruin on the Coral Coast, halfway between Nadi and Suva, a stretch of coastline known as Fijian Riviera
Africa Algeria Algerian musical genre raï has been inscribed on the UNESCO intangible world heritage list, which concluded yesterday the 17th session of Intergovernmental Committee for Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Morocco