Europe Austria Austria has opened a police station in the house where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889, the renovated building in Braunau am Inn accommodates 50 officers; the house has been a destination for neo-Nazis and far-right extremists
Europe Latvia After the attack on the Occupation Museum, plans are being made to speed up the creation of a comprehensive video surveillance network throughout Latvia; the Interior Minister will have a month to identify what is already in place and what can be used
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 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
Africa Burkina Faso Fespaco, Ouagadougou's African Film Festival, will charge a submission fee this year for films wishing to enter the competition for the first time in its history
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
Africa eSwatini Eswatini denied reports that it had offered nationality to citizens of other southern African countries to make up for the population crisis
Europe Croatia The Croatian parliament, the Sabor, will be dissolved on 14 March, and parliamentary elections will be held in April or May, as by law they must be held within 30 to 60 days from the date of dissolution of parliament
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
Africa Rwanda Paul Kagame is again a candidate in Rwanda's presidential election, to be held next July 15, in a choice made "uncontested" by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, the party always led by Kagame, who is thus running for a fourth consecutive term
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
Africa Uganda The Parliament has to decide on a bill to restrict the use of surrogacy to women who are infertile or have health problems that prevent them from having children; the law provides for penalties of up to five years for doctors who oppose the new provisions
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
Africa Comoros Retired people have asked for an increase in their pensions, also considering the growing inflation