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
Asia Cambodia Lt. Gen. Sanderson, a former UNTAC commander, begins a 10-day visit today to mark the 30th anniversary of UNTAC, which was established to repatriate Cambodians displaced by the civil war and the 1993 national elections
Asia South Korea The Seoul Metropolitan Government has proposed the transition team of President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol to ease the country’s taxes on property
Europe Liechtenstein Telecom Liechtenstein closed financial year 2021 much better than expected, registering a loss of 92.000 francs (€89.000)
Africa Sudan Many Sudanese users reacted angrily to a video taken on social media showing deposed president Omar al-Bashir walking into a hospital ward where he was moved because he was too ill to remain in prison
America Antigua and Barbuda The public will be better protected in the event of an emergency as the Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force (ABDF) has commissioned a new air wing to assist in everything from search and rescue to medical evacuations
Europe Vatican City Monsignor Powers, recently named rector of Pontifical North-American College, said that in these complex times seminarians and priests must be well trained, live exemplary lives and be ready to answer very complex questions
Oceania Australia Northern Territory schools were to be advised to help children as young as 14 transition their gender without their parents’ consent under draft guidelines that have now been scrapped
Europe Denmark The birch pollen season has started; Wednesday count of 11 particles per m3 in the capital region shows a slow start - it often exceeds a thousand during the first fortnight - still enough to bother even who had never suffered from any hay fever
Africa Cameroon The country has signed an agreement with Russia on defence, with the two countries undertaking to develop military cooperation between their armed forces
America Barbados A payments platform and technology-based medical service in Barbados will be launched in the coming weeks by a Jamaica-based private equity group, Delta Capital Partners
Africa Ethiopia The Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray has set several preconditions for its withdrawal from Afar and Amhara, after the international community urged the Tigrayan organisation to withdraw, a request also echoed by the Addis Ababa government
Africa Angola The Angolan Academy of Letters is organising a lecture series in April to address the issues of suicide and rape in the country
Asia Turkmenistan GDP is expected to grow by 6,0% in 2022 and 5,8% in 2023, according to the Asian Development Outlook 2022 recently published by the Asian Development Bank; inflation rates are forecast at 13,0% in 2022 and 10,0% in 2023