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
Oceania Tuvalu The country has ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), bringing the total number of ratifications of the treaty to 172 and underlining the Pacific island state's commitment to ending all nuclear tests, everywhere
Asia Taiwan The National Human Rights Commission report, published on Friday, urges the government to act against online bullying, protect digital education rights and ban corporal punishment and it suggests to address rural areas with specific attention
Europe Slovakia The first comprehensive urban-landscape study of the future Bratislava Danube Park presents the 28km waterfront initiative as a measures to better protect the river and to make it more accessible, boosting local and foreign sustainable tourism
Africa Kenya Former First Lady Mama Ngina Kenyatta shaved off Field Marshall Muthoni Wa Kirima's dreadlocks during a ceremony in Kamakwa; Muthoni Wa Kirima had donned her dreadlocks for 70 years, as a testimony to her frontline role in Kenya’s fight for independence
Oceania Marshall Islands A National Women's Forum involved over 100 people to raise awareness of Marshall Islands gender equality, engaging women leaders to support the national approach in implementing these commitments
Europe Switzerland Federal Statistical Office on 1 April published March inflation data, at +2.4% on March 2021, and consumer price index (CPI) at +0.6% year on year; it also made public the average salary figures for 2020: CHF 6.665 a month working full time
Europe Norway 37% of female employees in Norway aged 20-66 worked part-time in 2020, over twice as much as men, with 17%; large gender differences in education contribute to reproducing differences in working life according to Statistics Norway
Asia Qatar A WHO delegation has evaluated the Ministry of Public Health's application for the six municipalities to obtain "Healthy City for 2022" accreditation and the University of Qatar's accreditation as a healthy educational city
Europe Russia Russian foreign minister on a visit to New Delhi thanked the country for not judging the crisis in Ukraine from a single perspective but "in the totality of the facts" and said he was ready to open a door on oil supply to India
Europe Slovenia Alojz Kralj, the last remaining member of the clandestine anti-fascist organisation TIGR, has died at the age of 101, said TIGR Primorska, an association promoting anti-fascist values
America Saint Lucia Saint Lucian born entrepreneur, Ross Cadasse, founder and CEO of Innovative Talent Solutions Global Inc, has been accepted into the Forbes Business Council
Oceania Samoa Manu Samoa fly-half Melani Matavao has been named Manu Samoa Sevens captain at the Singapore and Vancouver Sevens in April as the team looks to begin its HSBC World Sevens Series campaign
America Trinidad and Tobago Wage negotiations with all public service associations/unions have commenced and 11 unions/associations will be received in the coming weeks for the review of terms and conditions for 90.000 public service employees