Africa Uganda Uber has ended its operations in Uganda after having been a commodity in the local urban transport for over a decade; the exit takes immediate effect and follows extensive review of Uber's business priorities across Africa
Asia Philippines Google said it will ban political advertising ahead of the Philippine elections next May; the decision came after criticism of how social media handled political advertising during the US presidential election in 2020
Asia Turkey Ilhami Isik, a Kurdish intellectual and writer from the southeastern province of Batman, has covered a total of 40.000 bills for the needs of 14.000 poor families
Africa Somalia The UN Security Council has voted to extend a program allowing international naval forces to fight piracy off the Somali coast, but only for a limited period of three months
Africa Chad The country has planned to deploy an additional 1.000 UN blue helmets to Mali to reinforce its troops fighting armed groups there
Europe Austria Parliament has passed a law allowing assisted suicide for people with very serious or incurable illnesses, joining a wave of other EU countries moving towards legalisation
Europe Switzerland A recent report by the public prosecutor's office of the Italian region of Tuscany has revealed how 'ndrangheta - a criminal organization - phenomena also exist in the country; the Federal Police admits the issue has long been underestimated
America Chile Gabriel Boric is the new president elected, at 35 the youngest in the country’s history; he got over 55% of the votes in elections that recorded a turnout of nearly 56%, the highest since voting stopped being mandatory in 2012
Europe San Marino The San Marino Statistics Office reports that from October 2020 to October 2021, there was an overall 6,4% increase in frontier work
Asia Cyprus €5 million have been allocated for a one year subsidy scheme for the replacement, by vulnerable groups, of old home appliances with energy efficient ones; it is expected to significantly reduce the electricity bills of the households who benefit from it
Oceania Australia The first true millipede was discovered in Western Australia, 60m underground; it has the most legs of any living animal -1306-, as the largest number of legs found so far is 750
Europe Bosnia and Herzegovina Investigators in Nevesinje, a town in the Herzegovina region, are still looking for 20 children who disappeared during the 1992-95 war
Asia Syria Damascus' parliament recently approved the budget law for 2022, with a total amount of $5,3 billion; the figure is lower than 2020 and 2019, a symptom of the deep crisis the country is going through
Oceania Samoa The government has begun to address the issue of the tax on church ministers, considered one of the key reasons why the FAST party won the election