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 Sweden Muslim migrant families have protested against the state social services for unfairly taking their children from their homes; many claim there are different criteria for the children of Muslim migrants and those of Swedes
Africa Guinea A recent study focused on identifying the impact of modifiable variables in acute stroke management in Conakry as potential predictors of favourable stroke outcome in a sample of 108 patients
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
Oceania Kiribati Banaba Island, whose phosphate-rich soil has boosted agriculture in Australia and New Zealand, is now facing its own food crisis due to a severe drought and the quarantine of new supplies such as rice
America Chile The country declared a state of emergency in its northern region due to the heavy ongoing protests against migrants
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
Europe Serbia Hundreds of protesters opposing lithium mining blocked roads near a government building where the president was handing out state decorations yesterday, which was a national holiday
Europe Finland Finland's Climate Change Expert Group has published its assessment of the sufficiency of the government's climate actions, calling for more drastic measures to ensure the targets are met
Africa Kenya The Kenya National Farmers Federation has launched its strategic plan for 2022-2026 with which they will support farmers' issues and requests; an important theme among others is sustainable agri-food system
Oceania Marshall Islands Laura village resident Nicky Komanta went house to house monitoring salinity levels in private groundwater wells for 7 months, ending in November, with data on 240 wells to study future impacts of sea level rise
America Saint Vincent and the Grenadines A new community at Lowmans Leeward that consists of 47 units will soon become home to some residents of Rose Place, Kingstown who will be relocated there
Africa Angola Sino-Ord, the largest mosaic and tile factory, is looking for suppliers of recycled paper for its industry; currently sourced from far-away China and India, the company prefers to install raw material production lines in the country, thus reducing imports
Asia Nepal Drop in remittances for the 3rd consecutive month, lack of tourists, crops destroyed by rains in October and rising inflation have brought a troublesome economic situation, while a severe shortage of chemical fertilizers is pushing up the price of food