Tag: efforts

Two years into Russia’s war in Ukraine, European efforts face decisive phase – Euractiv

admin

As Russia’s war on Ukraine enters its third year, Europeans face difficult questions about how to approach the next twelve months and sustain their support to give Kyiv the tools it needs to drive back Russian forces. 

“The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride,” Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said two years ago in response when asked to evacuate Kyiv at the behest of Washington.

As Russia’s war against the country enters its third year, Ukraine’s request remains

… Read more

House China committee zeros in on latest CCP efforts to steal American agriculture IP

admin

Top leaders from both parties on the House Select Committee on the Communist Party of China are zeroing-in on CCP attempts to steal U.S. agriculture intellectual property, like seed engineering technology.

Last week, committee chairman Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and ranking member Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., traveled to Dysart, Iowa, along with Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, to speak to farmers about agricultural technology theft and the impacts of CCP’s malign tactics to undermine American agriculture.

“Our country is filled with invisible

… Read more

France backs efforts to quash Niger coup ahead of Sunday deadline – POLITICO

admin

French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna on Saturday backed efforts to reverse a military coup in Niger, following a meeting in Paris with the African country’s Prime Minister Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou and Niger’s Ambassador to France, Aïchatou Boulama Kané.

France “firmly and resolutely supports the efforts of ECOWAS to thwart this attempted putsch,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement, referring to a group of 15 West African countries that has given the putschists in Niger until Sunday to step down 

… Read more

Trump faces federal charges for efforts to overturn 2020 election – EURACTIV.com

admin

Donald Trump was indicted on Tuesday (1 August) for his wide-ranging attempts to overturn the 2020 election, the third time in four months that the former US president has been criminally charged even as he campaigns to regain the presidency next year.

The four-count, 45-page indictment charges Republican Trump with conspiring to defraud the US by preventing Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden’s victory and to deprive voters of their right to a fair election.

Then-President Trump pushed fraud claims

… Read more

Big Business Is Fighting Efforts to Protect Workers From Heat – Mother Jones

admin

Jon G. Fuller/Zuma

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Big-business lobbyists, including big agricultural and construction groups, are pushing to water down or stymie efforts at the federal and state levels to implement workplace heat protection standards.

This summer, millions in the United States have been exposed to some of the hottest days on record, inciting renewed urgency for federal protections from heat exposure for US

… Read more

Toyota’s latest car safety research efforts in Michigan, Massachusetts

admin

Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center said it is launching three projects as part of a research initiative dedicated to advancing safety in mobility technologies.

The projects are:

  • An investigation on driver support features for vehicle lane centering.
  • The creation of an in-vehicle intervention prototype to promote safe driving.
  • The use of data to help improve technology to aid driver decision making to encourage safer driving behavior.

Toyota’s research arm will pursue establishing metrics and evaluating the benefits of automated lane

… Read more

Coup attempt in Niger could shape US counterterrorism efforts in Africa, empower Russian interests: report

admin

The ongoing political instability in Niger presents a threat to U.S. counterterrorism operations as the ultimate outcome of a coup attempt could dictate the future of Washington’s involvement in the region. 

U.S. officials have urged the rebel forces to release Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum, with Vice President Kamala Harris stressing that Washington’s “substantial cooperation with the government of Niger is contingent on Niger’s continued commitment to democratic standards.”

Bazoum remains detained inside his palace in Niamey in the possession of

… Read more

Sierra Leone vows to ramp up anti-piracy efforts after Chinese ship hijacked

admin

  • Sierra Leone on Thursday declared its commitment to working alongside other West African nations to more effectively fight against piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.
  • The renewed anti-piracy push follows the hijacking of the Shenghai-2, a Chinese fishing vessel from which 23 hostages had to be rescued.
  • The Gulf of Guinea, a notorious hub for piracy, is often referred to as one of the world’s most dangerous bodies of water.

Sierra Leone said Thursday it is working with neighboring countries

… Read more

Companies Keep Raising Food Prices, Affecting Fed’s Efforts to Tame Inflation

admin

Some of the largest consumer brands in the country have continued to raise prices aggressively this year while raking in large profits, posing a tough problem for the Federal Reserve as it aims to tame inflation.

Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Unilever have each reported raising prices significantly in the second quarter, from about 8 percent at Unilever to 15 percent at Pepsi. The price increases powered sales growth last quarter, keeping earnings strong even as the volume of products they sold

… Read more

Unredacted NIH E-mails Show Efforts to Rule Out a Lab Origin of Covid

admin

As Covid-19 was spreading fear and spurring lockdowns across the United States in March 2020, the scientific journal Nature Medicine published a paper titled “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2.” Written by five renowned academic scientists, it played an important early role in shaping the debate about a fiercely controversial topic: the origin of the virus that has killed millions since it emerged in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. Did it spill from animals to humans in

… Read more