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
Africa Cameroon Two people will be tried this week at the Court of First Instance in Bonaberi, Douala, for illegal possession of a mandrill, following their arrest by wildlife officers
Africa Somalia In the Sool region of Somaliland, the plant that makes the water from the Caynabo well drinkable is now operational, thanks to Genius Watter, which has applied its solar drinking water project in the area
Africa Egypt The managing director and head of sustainable finance at the Institute of International Finance said she welcomes Egypt's efforts to host the UN Climate Change Conference in November, given the great global importance of the event
Asia Singapore The publication of statistics on the racial composition of the prison population and criminals could "deepen" stereotypes, said Law and Home Affairs Minister Shanmugam
Asia Yemen Yemeni special forces have launched an offensive against al-Qaeda in the southern governorate of Abyan, following reports that the terrorist group is attempting a comeback
Africa Botswana A ceremony just took place to celebrate the first water-saving and drought-resistant rice harvest, a breakthrough supported by China that should help curb the impact of climate change, improve agricultural production and guarantee food security
America Antigua and Barbuda The launch of the 2022 school uniform grant programme kicked off at the Multipurpose Cultural Centre, providing school uniforms to beneficiaries until 2 September
Europe Albania PM loudly expressed his disappointment with the accession process, the EU's "impotence" and Bulgaria's veto over Skopje and de facto Tirana, calling the way the EU works "obsolete"
Oceania Tuvalu The State of the Environment Report 2022 and the National Environmental Management Strategy 2022-2026 have been launched
Africa Zimbabwe The World Bank has classified Zimbabwe as a lower middle-income country for the 2023 fiscal year
Asia Japan Nearly 40 million Japan residents spent the weekend as if in the era before smartphones, after local phone company KDDI Corp. suffered its largest outage to date, affecting both voice calls and data communications
Europe Andorra The month of June has been the hottest since 1950; data recorded at elaborated at Andorra Recerca + Innovació show an average temperature of 20 degrees celsius
Asia Armenia Armenia has agreed to normalisation talks with Turkey to open their common border for third-country nationals and to begin direct cargo flights, notwithstanding decades of strained relations between the two neighbours