Wed 12 October 2022: The World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) says the tourism sector is highly vulnerable to climate change and at the same time contributes to the emission of greenhouse gases which cause global warming. Accelerating climate action in tourism is therefore of utmost importance for the resilience of the sector as well as strengthening […]
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Wed 12 October 2022: An asteroid was successfully deflected, according to NASA, in a historic test of humanity’s capacity to alter a cosmic object’s motion, Anadolu Agency reported. “Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test investigation team shows the spacecraft’s kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered […]
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Wed 12 October 2022: Several bodies wrapped in black plastic were pulled from a mass grave Tuesday in Ukraine’s devastated city of Lyman, part of an arduous effort to piece together evidence of what happened during more than four months of Russian occupation. Ten body bags lay beside a roughly 30-meter trench from which authorities […]
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Tue 11 October 2022: Russia’s financial monitoring agency, Rosfinmonitoring, has added US tech giant Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, to its list of “terrorists and extremists.” After authorities accused Meta of tolerating “Russophobia” during Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine, Russia banned Facebook and Instagram in late March for “carrying out […]
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Tue 11 October 2022: New Zealand intends to be the first country to charge farmers for the greenhouse gas emissions caused by their agricultural activities. The program was announced on Tuesday, October 11, by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her minister. According to the newly implemented scheme, farmers will be responsible for paying for all […]
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Mon 10 October 2022: Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian cities, US President Joe Biden said Monday, “demonstrate the utter brutality” of Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s “illegal war.” “The United States strongly condemns Russia’s missile strikes today across Ukraine,” Biden said in a statement. “These attacks killed and injured civilians and destroyed targets with no military purpose,” he […]
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Mon 10 October 2022: In the first nine months of 2022, the BMW Group sold more than 128,000 fully electric BMW and MINI cars, more than doubling the number of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sold year over year, the German automaker said in a press release on Monday. Pieter Nota, a member of the BMW […]
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Mon 10 October 2022: Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, has warned that the country will respond militarily strongly to any additional “terrorist” attacks from Ukraine on its soil. According to the media, he was speaking following the missile attack on Ukraine on Monday morning. Putin admitted that Russian forces had “massive strikes with long-range precision weapons […]
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Mon 10 October 2022: The 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics was given to Douglas W. Diamond, Philip H. Dybvig, and Ben S. Bernanke. The group’s study on banks and financial crises earned them the esteemed prize. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is the official name of the honor. […]
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Mon 10 October 2022: Russian forces launched at least 75 missiles at Ukraine during a flurry of attacks on several cities on Monday morning, the head of the Ukrainian military has said. “The terrorist country, Russia, has carried out massive missile and air strikes on the territory of Ukraine, also using attack drones. In the […]
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