Africa Sierra Leone A ship departed from Freetown was intercepted and diverted to Canary Islands, in a crackdown on international drug trafficking; Spanish police found aboard 35-40 tonnes of cocaine in what has been called “record-breaking cocaine seizure in the Atlantic”
Asia Kuwait Implementing fingerprinting for teaching staff in the Ministry of Education to control malpractice has been proposed by former Education Minister Dr. Badr Al-Issa, sparking a parliamentary and media storm
Asia Sri Lanka FAO Director-General, Dr QU Dongyu, arrived to the country for a three-day visit to participate in the 37th Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific
Africa Tunisia Ashraf Dhahbi, a Tunisian astronomical physics and mathematics researcher, has just joined the EMAC research team at NASA's Goddard Space Travel Center
Asia Yemen The Houthi group in Yemen claimed responsibility for the missile attack on what it described as a 'British ship' on Sunday in the Gulf of Aden
America Paraguay Students and protesters mobilized in Asunción demanding the restoration of democratic order following the expulsion of Senator Kattya González, denouncing both arbitrariness and the establishment of an authoritarian government
Africa Mauritania Mauritania President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani officially assumed the rotating presidency of the African Union for 2024
Africa South Africa The country must begin the transition to a cashless system to curb currency theft, crime experts advise, even though the latest crime statistics show a decline in cash theft
Europe Sweden Consumer price inflation in Sweden rose to 5,4% for the first time in almost a year in January, after falling to a 22-month low in December, according to data from Statistics Sweden
Asia Syria €10 million of EU funds to UNICEF will support 9.000 vulnerable children and young people living in Syrian refugee camps to improve the education, integration and welfare throughout Jordan, including those attending schools in refugee camps
Asia East Timor The President of the Republic, José Ramos-Horta, swore in Sérgio de Jesus Fernandes da Costa Hornai as the new Minister of Justice of the 9th Constitutional Government at a ceremony held at the Nicolau Lobato Presidential Palace in Dili
Oceania Solomon Islands Elections are intensifying in the Solomon Islands, with political parties presenting their pledges and some forming alliances
America Peru After over two decades, Peru reported its first case of locally transmitted measles, marking a departure from the country's trend of only imported cases since 2000 and prompting a nationwide alert to complete vaccination schedules
Asia Thailand Transport Minister Suriya Juangruangreangkit has instructed the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand to try to persuade airlines to lower fares on domestic flights, in response to complaints from travellers