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news How street art influenced Arab spring protests in Egypt dw.com 23/01/2021 Manasi Gopalakrishnan In 2011, street artists used their creativity to voice dissent in Egypt as thousands of protesters clamored for a regime change in Cairos Tahrir Square. © Ganzeer Provided by Deutsche Welle The Arab Spring began over ten years ago in Tunisia, when a young man set himself alight to protest rampant police corruption and unemployment. Soon, mass protests had spread across to ne...

Denmark is sequencing all coronavirus samples and has an alarming view of the U.K. variant Michael Birnbaum, Martin Selsoe Sorensen © Henning Bagger/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP/Getty Images A researcher at Aalborg University analyzes Danish coronavirus samples for the U.K. variant. Like a speeding car whose brake lines have been cut, the coronavirus variant first spotted in Britain is spreading at an alarming rate and isn’t responding to established ways of slowing the pandemic, a...

This project will combine Mozambique’s largest digital job platform for informal workers with an AIpowered virtual assistant, and apply algorithms to provide workers with targeted insights into the labor market to improve job opportunities and financial outcomes. Over 54% of Mozambique’s adult workforce is in the informal sector, and information gaps on demand trends mean that opportunities for workers to improve their livelihoods are limited. GiveDirectly & CEGA - USA, Togo GiveDirectly a...

Posted: Jan 20, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 20 A woman in Manaus, Brazil, stands among relatives of patients hospitalized or receiving health care at home — most suffering from COVID-19 — as they gather to buy oxygen on Monday. New variants of concern of the coronavirus have been found in Manaus, as well as in Britain and South Africa. (Bruno Kelly/Reuters)

Asetek Receives Orders from Existing Global Data Center OEM and Existing Global Data Center Partner News provided by Share this article Share this article AALBORG, Denmark, Jan. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Asetek today announced two new orders, one from a current Global HPC OEM and the other from an existing Global Data Center Partner. The combined order value is approximately USD 450,000 depending on final order details, with delivery for both in 1H 2021. About Asetek Asetek, the creator of the a...

Germany has extended and tightened its national lockdown despite slowly declining case numbers and the Netherlands and Denmark are expected to follow suit as concern mounts about new, more contagious variants of Covid-19. The chancellor, Angela Merkel, and leaders of Germany’s 16 states agreed to extend the country’s lockdown on Tuesday until 14 February, with new rules also making it mandatory to wear medical masks in shops and on public...

Lost in translation? Pixars Soul faces backlash over whitewashed dubbing practice in Europe The Danish-language version of Pixar’s Soul has been dubbed primarily by white actors, fueling a debate about structural racism in European-language voice-overs, even when films have key characters of colour. Still from Soul Like most of their counterparts around the world, Danish film critics initially greeted Soul, Pixar’s first anima...

Around 2.24 lakh healthcare and frontline workers were inoculated in the first two days of the inoculation drive.At least 17,072 beneficiaries received COVID-19 vaccine on the second day of nationwide inoculation drive

UK steps up mass vaccination drive, 140 people inoculated per minute on average, says minister A researcher at Aalborg University uses a pipette device to screen and analyze all positive Danish coronavirus samples for the virus variant cluster B117 from the United Kingdom. (AFP)Premium . Updated: 18 Jan 2021, 01:19 PM IST Agencies UK Vaccine Deployment Minister Nadhim Zahawi has said that the 24-hour vaccine offering would begin to be piloted in London by the end of the month Share Via Read ...

Michigan readies for impact of new COVID-19 strain that could dominate the US by March Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press Colorado confirms first known US case of new COVID-19 strain Replay Video UP NEXT They are like the sentinels of the coronavirus pandemic, standing watch with eyes fixed on the horizon, searching for invaders.  These infectious disease guardians — scientists at the Michigan Bureau of Laboratories who do whole genome sequencing of COVID-19 tes...