Oceania Marshall Islands The fish aggregation devices FADs that fishing boats use to make catches easier, lately equipped with satellite communications gear to pinpoint location, are now being built by drug cartels that wrap packs of cocaine and radio transponders to trace troves
America Trinidad and Tobago Some 2.700 pupils out of 9.000 have registered for remedial lessons to boost scoring under 50% in the Secondary Entrance Assessment Exam as they head to secondary school
Africa Somalia The country has reached the milestone of 10% of citizens vaccinated against Covid with two doses, thus exiting the band of countries with the lowest vaccination rates
Europe Sweden Bringing back the old system of labour market testing for work permits would be "an absolute catastrophe" for Swedish companies, depriving them of "critical foreign skills", the Centre Party's labour market spokesperson has said
Africa Kenya Due to incoming elections, the country has been labelled as world's second most uncertain for investors; market watchers, however, say that it has been numbed to political risks having gone through many
Asia Thailand Computer security researchers say Thai activists involved in the country's pro-democracy protests have seen their mobile phones or other devices infected and attacked with government-sponsored spyware
Europe Malta Gozo Minister announced that the regional impact assessment, studies and public consultation on the proposed Gozo Rural Airfield project have been concluded; the project explores the possibility of turning the dilapidated Gozo Heliport into an airfield
Asia Cyprus Shortage of lifeguards in Kato Pyrgos will be addressed with a lifeguard workshop to cover staffing needs, as the reason for insufficient lifeguards on duty has been identified in a general lack of qualified professional
Europe Andorra 156 young people between the ages of 16 and 26 are employed in different services of the municipality of Andorra la Vella as summer workers, tourist and street informants, sports monitors or alongside the environmental service
Asia Jordan 696 administrative detainees will be released - ensured it wouldn’t pose a threat to their lives, security and public order - to give them the opportunity of reintegrating into society and enabling them to lead normal lives
Asia Pakistan Melting glaciers are threatening with flooding the north of the country, home to more than 7.000 glaciers, more than anywhere else on Earth outside the poles
Europe United Kingdom The Welsh Government started this month to offer a basic income of £1,600/month for one year to a group of 500 citizens aged 18 years, an experiment to test whether an unconditional income can help younger people to become independent economically
Asia Japan A Tokyo court ordered former executives of TEPCO to pay some 13 trillion yen ($95 billion) in total damages for failing to prevent the 2011 crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant
Europe Liechtenstein Prof. Dr. Pavel Laskov from the University of Liechtenstein has been awarded the prestigious prize ‘Test of Time’ at the International Conference on Machine Learning in Baltimore, USA