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Monday, 08 March 2021 - 9:31 Ranitha Gnanarajah, a Sri Lankan lawyer and civil activist, has been included in this years list of 14 International Courageous Women award presented annually by the US State Department. On Monday, March 8, at 10:00 a.m., Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will host the annual International Women of Courage (IWOC) Awards virtual ceremony to honor a group of extraordinary women from around the world, including an honorary award for seven women leaders and activists...

Mandating masks was associated with a decrease in daily COVID-19 case and death growth rates within 20 days of implementation, according to a new study of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Daffodil™ as a Top-Level Project Open Source universal data interchange implementation of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL) standard in use at DARPA, GE Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Owl Cyber Defense, Perspecta Labs, and Raytheon BBN Technologies, among others. The Apache Software Foundation Wilmington, Delaware, UNITED STATES Wilmington, DE, March 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Apache S...

China's success in poverty eradication has given hope to the world as it tackles the coronavirus pandemic, and its fight against poverty has offered valuable lessons in achieving sustainable development, ambassadors and United Nations officials said during a conference on Tuesday.

(1) Montreal, Quebec--(Newsfile Corp. - March 4, 2021) - Peak Fintech Group Inc. (CSE: PKK) (OTCQX: PKKFF) ("Peak" or the "Company"), an innovative Fintech service provider to the Chinese commercial lending sector, today announced that it has reached an important step in the implementation of payment processing and fund transfer services on its Cubeler Lending Hub platform. Peak announced earlier this year that it had signed an agreement with China UnionPay subsidiary, Rongbang Technology Ltd....

MNCs know global best practices but dilly-dally as much as possible in India, they say Nutrition experts, public health advocates and civil society organisations on the World Obesity Day on Thursday urged the food regulator to expedite the law on front-of-pack (FoP) labelling with clear timelines for implementation for the industry. The appeal comes at a time the FSSAI is known to be holding consultations with stakeholders on the issue. In 2013, an expert committee set up to look into junk food...

ICHOM and LOGEX sign agreement to accelerate the implementation of value-based healthcare worldwide LONDON, March 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) signs a multi-year agreement with Dutch health analytics company LOGEX to launch the ICHOM Global Benchmarking Platform. The collaboration will provide the healthcare community the first ever platform to benchmark patient outcomes internationally, enabling faster learning and improvements o...

Politics 03 March 2021, 14:24 349 It is very important to fulfill the trilateral statements that act as the main guarantor of lasting peace amid the new situation that has arisen in the region thanks to the agreement on the cessation of hostilities [in the Nagorno-Karabakh region], Spokesperson for the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Leyla Abdullayeva said. Abdullayeva was answering the journalists’ question about the documents adopted by the parliaments of some Europe...

Faced with one crisis after another, Mississippi’s Governor and Legislature rise to the challenge with one consistent solution – cut budgets to cut taxes.

Peshawar February 24, 2021 PESHAWAR: The KP Assembly lawmakers here on Tuesday vowed to strengthen the implementation and oversight of the pro-women laws including those on domestic violence and reproductive health. They were speaking at a consultation jointly hosted by Blue Veins and Awaz-Centre for Development Services (CDS) Pakistan, non-governmental organizations. The event was arranged in collaboration with the Women Parliamentary Caucus (WPC) of the KP Assembly and Social Welfare and Wom...