Europe Hungary Parliament has backed a change to the constitution that limits a prime minister's term in office to eight years, fulfilling a promise by Péter Magyar to prevent Viktor Orbán - who led the country for 16 years - to become prime minister again
Africa Senegal Incidents cast a shadow over the start of the election campaign in Senegal this weekend with violent clashes between supporters of presidential majority candidate Amadou Ba and those of opponent Bassirou Diomaye Faye
Europe Albania According to critics, the government is not doing enough to protect Albanian textile exporters from the rapidly strengthening lek currency; most of the industry's employees are women who risk slipping into poverty
Europe Portugal Democratic Alliance wins legislative elections with 29,49% of the votes, resulting in a slight victory for the centre-right coalition but falling short of an outright majority
Oceania Tuvalu New Prime Minister Feleti Teo has accepted an invitation to attend the inauguration of Taiwan President-elect Lai Ching-te and will then go to the presidential swearing-in ceremony on May 20 in Taipei City
America Paraguay Inflation in February scored +0% remaining flat on January 2024 figures; on an yearly basis, February showed a -2,90% inflation rate on 2023
Europe Hungary Ferenc Krausz, experimental physicist, has been named person of the year 2023 by public media; he is a 2023 Nobel laureate for his experimental methods in producing attosecond pulses of light to study the movement of electrons within atoms
Europe Iceland Asylum applications dropped by 56% in the first two months of 2024 compared to the same period last year, with only 410 applications, compared to 925 in the same months of 2023
America Uruguay The Americas Act, a bipartisan US legislative proposal for trade and investment expansion in Latin America and the Caribbean, was welcomed with optimism by Foreign Minister Omar Paganini, considering Uruguay as a potential "pilot case"
Europe Luxembourg VA BE A petition calling on Luxembourg's parliament to end the "constant exaggerated craze for new petitions" has been opened; it will remain open until April 19 and will require the support of 4.500 people to pass the threshold needed to force a debate
America Nicaragua Nicaragua has formally sued Germany at the International Court of Justice for funding Israel and cutting aid to the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA
America Jamaica Over 8.000 participants from 200 schools were trained in restorative justice and Justice Minister Hon. Delroy Chuck encouraged them to become advocates for the conflict resolution method in their schools and communities
Africa Ghana The 13th African Games are underway in Accra, concluding next March 23 and serving as the official qualifier for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games
Asia China In 2023, for the first time, the country built more ships in its shipyards than all the rest of the world combined, both for civilian and military use; the fact has worried a number of countries including the USA