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
Europe Greece About 43.000 tonnes of plastic packaging are neither landfilled nor recycled in the country every year according to a study by the think tank IOBE; for the low recycling rate of plastic packaging, about 127 million will have to be paid to the EU
America Mexico Avocado imports from Mexico - the largest avocado provider for the US - have been suspended after an American inspector received a call from organized crime call from the country
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
Africa Lesotho Money transfer agent Mukuru Lesotho has launched a new product that will allow customers to send money to 20 different countries, while previously customers in Lesotho could only receive money
Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo The East African Community (EAC) Council of Ministers has approved the country's admission to the regional bloc, after its application to become a member was pursued in 2019
America Cuba The Holguín Provincial Meteorological Centre is promoting a new study on climate variations and trends as part of the priorities established by the Life Task, a state plan to tackle global warming and extended to some 70 municipalities on the Caribbean
America Costa Rica The newly elected Legislative Assembly is mainly composed of women; the fact was saluted as a historic milestone
Oceania Palau Attendance was estimated a little less than 50%, Minister Dale Jenkins said of the first day back to school after four weeks of closure due to the Covid-19 outbreak
Oceania Samoa Imports last December exceeded exports, causing a $100 million trade deficit, according to a recently released report by the Samoa Bureau of Statistics titled "Overseas Merchandise Trade"
Asia Syria Less than 6% of the Syrian population has completed the vaccination cycle and only 10% have received the first dose, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
America Chile The country declared a state of emergency in its northern region due to the heavy ongoing protests against migrants
America Venezuela A violent outburst on the Venezuelan frontier left 86 people dead; president Ivan Duque stated that it is mainly due to Venezuelan armed groups
Asia Iraq Iraqi government officials, farmers and entrepreneurs have approved two strategic plans to improve competitiveness, strengthen production capacity and ultimately create jobs in the poultry and tomato sectors