Asia India Workers and homemakers, with robot-hands and head-mounted cameras record first-person "egocentric data" of manual tasks, precious for tech companies to train physical AI and humanoids, building for free knowledge that will eventually take up their jobs
Africa Malawi The Africa Future Foundation has donated diagnostic laboratory test kits for Covid-19, HIV/AIDS, syphilis and malaria, worth 150 million Kwacha (more than US$8 million) to the Ministry of Health
Europe Portugal A commission investigating child sexual abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church has been contacted by more than 200 alleged victims since it was launched last month
Asia Maldives The country recorded a 44% increase in exports in January 2022, compared to the same period last year, according to the Maldives Customs Service; main import partner was Thailand with 54%, followed by UK, Mauritius, Germany and India
Africa eSwatini Médecins Sans Frontières is supporting through mobile vaccination sites the Ministry of Health's campaign to increase vaccination coverage in the Shiselweni region, an area with vulnerable people in remote communities far from health facilities
Europe Bosnia and Herzegovina With estimated 50.000 pathological gamblers, Sanela Pekic - associate expert for addiction prevention programs - pointed out that the country has a serious problem with gambling and betting
America Dominica Following his first single from 2020 "Vote them out", Dominican reggae artist Garner "Fingee" Fingal has released "Give and You Will Get", available now on all streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Tidal
America Bahamas The EU has named the country on a list of those that have not fully complied with a criterion relating to base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) and having to do with a country's minimum reporting standard
Asia Pakistan Archaeologists in the Swat Valley in north-west Pakistan have unearthed a 2.000-year-old Buddhist temple that promises to be one of the oldest in the country
Oceania Fiji A foreign investor is looking for locations in the Yasawa Group, the archipelago in the Ba province, to build a six-star hotel that would employ 4500 people, announced the Economy Minister, who stressed the government's efforts to provide jobs for Fijians
America Guatemala Flower exports in this period usually increase by 300% due to Valentine’s Day, an extremely positive statistic since the Guatemala floral industry employs around 20.000 people
Asia Afghanistan UNICEF has expressed concern over the situation of malnourished children in the country, adding that Indira Gandi Hospital in Kabul receives up to 8 malnourished children every day
Oceania Solomon Islands To re-establish its presence in a strategic region and counter China's growing presence in the Pacific, the United States intends to reopen its embassy in the country, closed since 1993
Africa South Sudan The United Nations warned that the country is facing a major risk of a return to war, with outbreaks of inter-ethnic violence and political strife threatening to undo even the limited progress made in implementing the peace process