LONDON: Britain is in talks with AstraZeneca for additional doses of its COVID-19 vaccine that will have been modified to better target Beta coronavirus, health minister Matt Hancock said Wednesday. The Beta coronavirus variant was first identified in South Africa. Britain has previously secured 100 million doses of the vaccine, developed at the University of Oxford and
AMMAN: Jordan has referred the cases of two former officials accused of taking part in a plot to undermine the kingdom’s security and stability to the state security court.
The court’s public prosecutor “issued an indictment against” Bassem Awadallah and Sharif Hassan bin Zaid, Petra News Agency reported on Wednesday.
The government accused them in April of being part of a foreign plot to undermine the stability of Jordan that was linked to King Abdullah II’s half brother Prince Hamzah.
Prince Hamzah, a former crown prince, was placed under house arrest at his palace and was later set free after the matter was resolved through mediation within the royal family.
DUBAI: SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks to invest in Dubai “cloud kitchen” Kitopi’s latest funding round through its second technology fund, sources familiar with the matter said.
The Japanese company’s Vision Fund 2 has put forward a proposal to lead an investment of about $400 million in Kitopi, said the sources, who declined to be named as the matter is not public.
SoftBank declined to comment. Kitopi also declined to comment.
So-called cloud kitchens are facilities built to prepare food specifically for delivery and they have benefited from the shift to online services during the coronavirus crisis.
These “dark”, “cloud” or “ghost” kitchens have no physical presence as a restaurant, and offer delivery-only services from a centralized location through a mobile app.
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Summary ENTSOG s role is changing with the commercial introduction of hydrogen into the European gas grid and with co-operation with its electricity counterpart.
by: William Powell
The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG) has co-ordinated its members s activities and negotiated terms and assessed the need for public funding for possible infrastructure projects with the European Commission (EC).
The result is a competitive gas market with a transparent, regulated third-party access regime governed by a set of network codes covering congestion management, capacity allocation, tariff-setting and so on. This in turn has helped make the EU an ideal market for LNG: one that is deep, liquid and open to all participants. This also furthers the objective of the EU: security of supply.