World news digest: January 31, 2022

Some news around the world that didn’t make global headlines, in short:

• Belgium launches its reform plan on hospitals. It aims at financing hospitals based on flat fees for therapy rather than a volume of medical interventions.
• A court of the Democratic Republic of the Congo sentenced 51 people to death for the murders of two United Nations experts in the Kasaï province in 2017.
• Bulgaria Prime Minister launched a review of allegations of public corruption in street lighting contracts in Sofia.
• The United Kingdom wants to ease the process for repealing legacy European Union laws. It hopes to save 1 billion pounds by bringing more flexibility to business.
• Twitter filed a lawsuit in Germany against a provision in the anti-hate speech regulation claiming it asks to provide personal data before a crime is committed.
• Air pollution improved in 339 Chinese cities in 2021 according to official data.
• According to the United Nations, the Taliban may have killed more than a hundred local workers and former Afghan officials since August.
• The African Union suspended Burkina Faso after military coup.