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 Kosovo The government signed with Albania 19 new agreements and memoranda concerning the free movement of people and goods, as well as education, trade and tourism issues, at the eighth bilateral meeting
Africa Chad Malaria, the country’s main cause of death, affected only 31% of the population in 2021 - a decrease of 8%, compared to 2018-2019 figures as reports the National Disease Monitoring Programme
Africa Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera announced that he has withdrawn the powers of his deputy, who allegedly received money from a businessman in a corruption case that could put his position in the balance
Oceania Australia Antarctic team recently took the traditional plunge into ice at Mawson Station to celebrate the middle of winter- shortest day/longest night; inhabitants of most remote station don't see the sun in the day and the next sunrise is due in a week
Asia Saudi Arabia Members of the Jeddah Association of Hearing Impaired Women (Emkan) triumphed in a chess tournament in Jeddah, competing against non impaired people to take the top four places
Africa Kenya From 23 to 26 June, starting from Kasarani, Nairobi, and ending at Hell's Gate National Park, Naivasha, the 2022 Safari Rally will take place over a total competitive distance of 363,44 km
Asia Azerbaijan In accordance with the Combat Training Plan for 2022 approved by the Minister of Defence, tactical exercises of the Naval Forces are underway
Europe Belgium The three largest trade unions organised a nationwide strike in Brussels on Monday to protest against wage legislation and demand more purchasing power for workers, kicking off a series of nationwide strikes this week
Europe Germany Immigration Minister is proposing radical plans to rewrite the nationality law, pushing for migrants to obtain citizenship faster and for them to be able to have more than one nationality, making Germany a "modern country for immigration"
Asia Uzbekistan Uzbekistan Energy Forum 2022 opens today in Tashkent, a two-day event debating a range of topics related to energy development with senior government officials and international energy industry leaders
Africa Rwanda 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is taking place in capital Kigali these days with dozens of sessions scheduled and over 5.000 participants from governments, business and civil society
Asia Turkmenistan With the help of the EU-funded Advice for Small Businesses programme, Atamyrat Saryyev, owner of the Turkmen dairy company Garagum, has rebranded and developed the design of his dairy company's product range