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
America Mexico Mexico CIty’s new airport - a multibillion-dollar construction built to host up to 20 million passengers a year - has been inagurated by the highest authorities, including President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
Oceania Micronesia Startup Weekend Micronesia, an annual 3-day event aimed at preparing aspiring entrepreneurs, will be held online from 27-29 April with TechStars Startup Weekend, an organisation dedicated to promoting local entrepreneurship and strengthening communities
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
Oceania New Zealand "Fantastic and well-deserved": this is how the owner of the farm where The Power of the Dog was filmed described Jane Campion's win as Best Director
Asia Singapore In an effort to ease the financial pressure on caregivers and better support them, the government is proposing to increase the Home Caregiving Grant, a $200 monthly cash payment to help families care for loved ones who have moderate or severe disabilities
Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo Construction of the 125 km Kasindi-Beni-Butembo road on the Uganda-Mpondwe border has begun
Oceania Tuvalu The Enhanced Integrated Framework is now implementing the Tuvalu Sustainable Support Project with the objective of further strengthening the Department of Trade
Africa eSwatini According to local sources, the bus donated to the Eswatini Football Association in 2010 after the World Cup was bombed by arsonists in Mbabane as political parties continue to call for democratic reforms in the region
Africa Rwanda Rwandan citizens on Saturday formally resumed their monthly community work, locally known as Umuganda, for the first time since the outbreak of Covid-19 in March 2020, with 1.500 people clearing bushes, drains and cleaning streets in capital city Bumbogo
America Bolivia The OAS and the UN have called out the country due to the ongoing illegal use of mercury to extract gold from rivers, which has caused the Amazonian community of Eyiyo Quibo to be intoxicated by the chemical
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
Asia Pakistan The Sindh High Court has observed that it is mandatory for provinces to exercise their executive authority in a manner that is fully compliant with federal law after the provincial cabinet decided to lower the passing grades of medical and dental exams
Europe Germany Elon Musk and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz presided over the opening of the new electric car "gigafactory" near Berlin, the first European hub for the company, after eight months of delays due to licensing problems from local authorities