America Uruguay To restore police presence on the streets is priority for Montevideo's new police chief, who rejects the idea of heavy hand, defends use of armored vehicles to protect officers, maintains that Uruguay is far from falling into violence as Central America
Europe Luxembourg People travelled around 30% more on trains in the Grand Duchy in 2023, putting it at the top of the list of EU countries where trains were most used last year
Europe North Macedonia A mobile application was launched that will host the country's digital identity wallet, allowing citizens to store an electronic version of their identity cards and driving licences
Europe Montenegro Montenegrin startup Buddy.ai, a conversational AI tutor for children, announced that it has closed a EUR 10,2 million seed funding round, bringing the total venture funding raised since launch to EUR 12 million
Europe Monaco On the occasion of the 2024 edition of Mois Sans Tabac - No Tobacco Month - in November, the government announced a national lung cancer screening campaign for all social security beneficiaries over the age of 50 in the Principality
Europe Norway The state police put an end to 13 years of sending out operational announcements, often with a dose of humour, via the social media channel Twitter and later version 'X' and will now use their own app, Politiloggen, for security and operational reasons
Europe Netherlands At least 3.000 domestic animals are better protected from wolves thanks to the allocation of €95.000 by the Province of Zeeland for the purchase of fences and other protective measures against wolves
Oceania Marshall Islands Rhea Moss-Christian, from the Marshall Islands, told an Australian television and radio network that within the nuclear tests conducted by the United States in her country, the Marshallese people were victims and suffered collateral damage
Oceania Palau Surangel and Sons Company filed a civil lawsuit against Palau's Island Times newspaper, its publisher and editor Leilani Reklai, accusing them of negligence and defamation
America Canada Mounties in B.C. have discovered and raided the "largest and most sophisticated" drug-production laboratory in Canadian history, federal investigators announced, describing the facility as a "super lab" operated by international organized criminals
Africa Republic of the Congo Russian Language Week in Brazzaville closes today; promoted by Russian House, the initiative aims to promote the Russian language and strengthen cultural cooperation ties with Russia through various activities such as slam, singing, reading and writing
Europe Romania DropCoal, an experiment entirely developed in Romania by the Romanian InSpace Engineering with the support of the European Space Agency, will be launched to the International Space Station and will study how two drops merge and mix in microgravity
America Saint Lucia Calls for slavery reparations have intensified in Saint Lucia as leaders of 56 Commonwealth nations ended a week-long summit in Samoa
Africa Botswana Supporters of the Union for Democratic Change gathered outside the polling stations to celebrate victory; on 30 october, in the biggest upset in Botswana's electoral history, have ended 58 years of single-party governance following independence in 1966