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Portuguese Council presidency: what MEPs expect
Portugal took over the rotating Council Presidency on 1 January 2021, amidst a health and economic crisis. But what are the Portuguese MEPs’ expectations? As Europeans continue to face the...
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Women associations leader calls for religion tolerance for national development
The President, Federation of Muslim Women Associations in Nigeria, Mrs Halima Jibril, on Saturday charged religious leaders to promote religion tolerance to engender national development. Jibril gave the charge in...
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‘Generation disrupted’ lays out plan to take on coronavirus through major youth mobilization
A new ground-breaking global youth initiative was launched on Monday to invest in and scale up youth-led solutions and engagement, in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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Mount Everest is now 8,848.86 metres tall after measurement
By — Shyamal Sinha Mount Everest Nepali: Sagarmāthā; Tibetan: Chomolungma Chinese:Zhūmùlǎngmǎ is Earth’s highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point. Its elevation (snow height) of 8,848.86 m (29,032 ft) was most recently established...
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€10 million to develop next-generation industrial monitoring solution
EIB finances Worldsensing ©Worldsensing The EU bank supports the start-up’s R&D strategy, focused on innovative growth and market expansion. The company's product Loadsensing increases reliability, efficiency and safety of critical...
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€20 million venture loan for Spire Global
EIB Announces First Direct financing for a start-up in the European “New Space” sector @SPIRE"> ©SPIRE The financing supports Spire Global’s nanosatellite development and launches, space infrastructure, data analytics, and...
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EIB Group provides €150 million to support artificial intelligence companies
©Getty Today at the Web Summit 2020, the European Investment Bank Group (EIB Group) launched a new financing instrument to support artificial intelligence companies across Europe. The co-investment facility of...
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COVID-19 can spark new generation of social protection measures: UN chief
While COVID-19 has wiped out important development gains in mere months, with extreme poverty rising for the first time in decades, the pandemic could spark the transformations needed to achieve…
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Pope Francis prays for late Diego Maradona – Vatican News
Pope Francis recalls Diego Armando Maradona in prayer following the Argentine soccer champion's death at the age of 60 on Wednesday.
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‘Foundational and necessary change’ needed to heal post-COVID world
With the COVID-19 pandemic precipitating one of the world’s worst health, socioeconomic and humanitarian crises in over a century, the UN chief told a high-level discussion on Tuesday to seize…