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 Palestine North America's largest Middle Eastern academic body, the Middle East Studies Association, officially voted to ratify the BDS - Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement - resolution in support of Palestine
America Cuba Authorities have announced the updating of customs regulations, with a direct impact on the population and new economic actors, as they allow the border to speed up the processes of import and export of goods and the flow of passengers
Africa Chad The Ministry of Public Health has opened a national dialogue to find ways and means to reduce the maternal, neonatal and infant mortality rate; Chad has a maternal mortality rate of 860 per 100.000 alive births, against a world figure of 211/100.000
America Uruguay 2,7 million Uruguayans voted in a national referendum on whether to repeal the Law of Urgent Consideration, or LUC; this being an omnibus law that addresses many topics as ‘urgent’, thus postponing hundreds of other laws that might need priority
Africa Sierra Leone Thousands of residents from Masumana Junction to Magbeni Village in Port Loko District have called on the Ministry of Finance, Sierra Leone Road Authority and road maintenance funds to build a better road network to reduce transport time or fares
Africa Uganda Human Rights Watch reports in a new document the detention and possible torture of government critics, opposition members, and peaceful protesters; the information has been gathered with personal and telephone interviews with dozens of citizens
Africa Angola Young farmers in Bié Province will receive funding from the Agricultural Development Support Fund 2022; in the first phase just 12 young people, out of the only 30 registered, will receive means to enhance their agricultural production
Asia Taiwan Officials from Taiwan and the Vatican have planted three olive saplings to symbolize the two countries' solidarity with war-torn Ukraine and their commitment to world peace, according to Taiwan's embassy to the Holy See
Oceania Samoa Vaccinations of children aged 5-11 years carried out in Savaii last week registered a notable success, with 96% of eligible children receiving their first dose
Europe Ireland Irish Ambassador to Washington Dan Mulhall will become Global Professor of Irish Studies at New York University (NYU) this September, retiring from the Department of Foreign Affairs in August after a 44-year diplomatic career
America Dominican Republic After several months of complaining to the authorities about sewage puddles in the La Rotonda neighbourhood, La Ciénega highway, Santiago, residents are in despair as they have received no response; the situation has caused infections in many children
Europe Serbia The country has refused to join the US and EU in imposing wide-ranging sanctions against Moscow for its aggression in Ukraine, thus earning a praise by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
Africa Gabon The inhabitants of the village of Andock-Foula, about 100 kilometres from the town of Kango, have a new 130-hectare electrified enclosure to deal with the invasion of elephants on their plantations