America Panama A tanker paid a record $5,3 million for priority passage through the Panama Canal before the number of daily transits will be reduced due to the El Niño weather phenomenon; rainfall deficits and drought deplete water reserves needed to operate the canal
Europe Ireland Relatives of the 1972 victims marched Saturday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when British troops fired on unarmed civilians, leaving 14 dea, in the protest organized by NICRA against internment without trial
Europe Hungary The teachers, represented by the Teachers' Union (PSZ) and the Democratic Teachers' Union (PDSZ), are demanding a pay rise from the government and an end to the policy of sending unvaccinated teachers on unpaid leave
Africa Nigeria 7 UN agencies have been indicted for tax evasion by the local revenue agency of Borno State; although international laws exempt them from paying taxes as an entity, this principle cannot apply to their employees and contractors in Nigeria
Africa Angola President Lourenço presented the key policies he would implement if elected in August 2022, among which the diversification of the market economy, the fight against corruption and greater supply of health public services
America Haiti According to Transparency International's 2021 corruption rankings, the country, ranking 164/180, is the most corrupt in the Caribbean area
Africa Burundi The local government has signed an agreement with the Tanzanian government to build a 282-kilometre railway linking the towns of Gitega (Burundi) band Uvinza (Tanzania)
Asia Malaysia The city of Kuala Lumpur is today celebrating its Golden Jubilee (1972-2022) to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Kuala Lumpur's declaration as Malaysia's first city in 1972
Asia Mongolia Given the declining interest in the sport in Japan, there are more and more sumo champions coming from the country; the three yokozuna (considered to be the pinnacle of sumo culture) active between 2007 and 2017 were all Mongolians
Africa Kenya In the Samburu reserve in the north of the country, an elephant has given birth to twins; twin births account for only 1% of the elephant population
Africa Ethiopia To give teachers the tools to reach isolated kids, Unesco and Huawei organized three two-day pilot seminars to train in distance learning methodologies 117 teachers from all levels of education; over half of them are women
Africa Namibia Although a judge on 20 January refused to recognise the marriages of two gay couples because of a 20-year-old Supreme Court ruling to the contrary, he declared this unconstitutional, giving great hope to the country's LGBT movement
America United States IAVI, a nonprofit scientific research organization, and biotech company Moderna announced that a clinical trial of experimental HIV RNA-based vaccine has started at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C.
Africa Zimbabwe Numerous migrants, including a good number of women, are making their fortunes as entrepreneurs, doing economic progress in the country which is struggling with more than 90% unemployment, according to the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions