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 Sri Lanka A committee appointed by Sri Lanka's government said the crisis-hit country's central bank and finance ministry must form a team to seek urgent international financial assistance as the economy is faltering under a foreign currency shortage
Asia Iraq According to Human Rights Watch in a report published with IraQueer, there are serious crimes that go unpunished against LGBT people, also perpetrated by armed forces
Europe Monaco The Principality has welcomed three more diplomats from Costa Rica, Mauritania and Lesotho after recently welcoming the new representatives from Australia, Hungary, the Arab Republic of Egypt and Ukraine
Oceania Papua New Guinea Thanks to the Kokoda Track Foundation, one of the few kindergartens in the Northern Province, operating in the local community hall for about eight years, now has a new double classroom
Asia Turkey A suspension bridge across the Dardanelles Strait has been opened, the latest of Erdogan's major infrastructure projects in the country; linking Turkey's European and Asian coasts, the bridge has the longest main span of any suspension bridge
Africa Nigeria The 'Nigeria, full stop' initiative is aimed at fighting against the stigmatisation of Nigerian community in Italian media, with about 35 Nigerian associations clustered around it with the intention of showing a lesser known face of immigration
Africa Kenya The Khalifa Empowerment Programme Aqdar has completed the first phase of the 'Fifty Tree' initiative campaign, launched at the Aqdar World Summit Dubai Expo 2020, which aims to plant 50.000 mangrove trees in strategic areas
America Peru According to the Central Reserve Bank (BCR), national formal employment increased by 6.5% in the month of January
Africa Tanzania Rajabu, the rhino thought to have the largest family in East Africa and one of the country's most reproductive male rhinos, has died in Tanzania at the age of 43; the eastern black rhino is listed as a critically endangered species
Europe Bosnia and Herzegovina New negotiations on amendments to the electoral law have failed after four days of talks in the EU delegation in Sarajevo, mediated by international negotiators
Europe Luxembourg Luxembourg has submitted a letter of complaint to Belgium after the country announced it will delay the closure of its nuclear power plants by a decade because of the war in Ukraine
Europe United Kingdom A high air pollution warning has been issued for London for the first time since August 2020, with the mayor warning that the capital is "importing pollution from the continent" along with a build-up of local emissions
Asia Turkmenistan The start of the spring planting campaign was launched in recent days with the participation of President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, an event with a high value in the country's tradition