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
Europe Lithuania Svaros Broliai, a car wash and cleaning service provider, claimed that hackers leaked the data of some 50.000 customers: names, car registration numbers, e-mail addresses and phone numbers, stolen from the booking system
Asia Kuwait The country has authorised the issuance of residence or iqama permits for domestic workers in the country through a new government services app that will save time and relieve pressure on government agencies
Asia North Korea A group of employees and their families from Russian and Mongolian embassies in Pyongyang have left for their home countries, further reducing the total number of foreigners in North Korea while the country's borders remain closed to incoming travellers
Europe Finland The country will update its transgender legislation in the autumn; currently, a transgender person must present proof of sterilisation before they can receive legal gender recognition, but the government would like this requirement to be abolished
America Guyana The country will begin using the funds it received due to its low deforestation rate in order to finance one of its largest solar energy projects to date, which will provide clean energy to circa 70.000 people
Africa Sudan Among the thousands of demonstrators who have been taking to the streets in Khartoum for months to protest against the military coup, there is also Spider-Man, a young anonymous activist who wants to draw the attention of the Western media
Africa Republic of the Congo The Ministry of Public Health and Population plans to vaccinate 4.500.000 people as part of a preventive vaccination campaign against yellow fever that will be launched on 30 July in eleven departments of the country
Oceania Palau US marines and sailors from Task Force Koa Moana 22 recently volunteered to work with the Palau National Police in a summer youth programme
Europe Germany Since the introduction of same-sex marriage, some 65.000 marriages have been celebrated, according to data published by Germany's national statistics office Destatis, with the highest number in 2019
Asia Iraq Some 600.000 families displaced by ISIS have returned home since the group's defeat in late 2017 after security, public services and social benefits were restored, said the director general of the ministry's Directorate for Branch Affairs
Europe Kosovo A new opinion poll commissioned by UNDP and USAID and carried out in April shows that 58,4% of Kosovar citizens are satisfied with the performance of President Vjosa Osmani, 52,6% with Prime Minister Albin Kurti, and 47,2% with the government
America Argentina The national Congress has approved a new human rights-based HIV law, that prohibits mandatory testing for HIV and other STIs as part of pre-employment exams, seeks to protect against discrimination in all areas, and ensures the privacy of the diagnosis
Europe Denmark The Danish Energy Agency has postponed the start date of the North Sea Energy Island tender by 12 months, as the Agency wants to carry out more preparatory work after receiving feedback through market dialogues