United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi speaks to the media prior to the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award ceremony, in Geneva on Oct 10, 2022. (STEFAN WERMUTH / POOL / AFP) GENEVA – The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Thursday called on the European Union (EU) to put safety […]
A photograph shows the European spacecraft JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) in a clean room at the ESA (European Space Agency) headquarters in Toulouse, southwestern France, on 5 April, 2022. (LIONEL BONAVENTURE / AFP) PARIS – European ministers are meeting in Paris to negotiate a more than 25 percent funding boost for space over the […]
Luxembourg and Zurich, Nov 13, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – European Depositary Bank (“EDB”), the Luxembourg- based provider of banking, paying agency, depositary and custody solutions, and innovative securitization specialist GenTwo, announce their partnership to provide GenTwo with paying agent and banking services for third party investors globally. Zurich-based GenTwo creates securitization platforms […]
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi listens during the opening session of the fifth IAEA Nuclear Power Ministerial Conference at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, on Oct 26, 2022. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP) KIEV – The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Thursday it did not […]
Malang, East Java, Indonesia, Oct 25, 2022 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The National Food Agency (NFA) has started a campaign to promote eating healthy and delicious food by providing recommendations for the composition of foods on the plate in order to reduce waste. Head of the National Food Agency (NFA), Arief Prasetyo (ANTARA/HO-NFA) […]
The silhouette of US engineer and NASA astronaut Megan McArthur is seen past the NASA logo in the Webb Auditorium at NASA headquarters in Washington, DC, on June 7, 2022. (STEFANI REYNOLDS / AFP) LOS ANGELES – For the first time, astronomers have measured and mapped polarized X-rays from the remains of an exploded star, […]
Photo taken on Jan 22, 2020 shows an exterior view of the headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland. (LIU QU/XINHUA) FRANKFURT/ LONDON / LISBON -The world has never been in a better position to end the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, his most optimistic […]
NEW YORK, NY, August 29, 2022 – (SEAPRWire) – The Arrows Agency, a digital marketing and advertising agency, has launched a global expansion of its award-winning client services. Headquartered in New York City, the agency now covers North America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia. To learn more about The Arrows Agency, visit https://arrowsagency.com/ Founded by former executives in […]
This handout video grab taken and released on Aug 9, 2022 by the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos shows the Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the Khayyam satellite blasting off from a launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. (YURI KADOBNOV / AFP) MOSCOW – Russia launched an Iranian satellite into orbit on Tuesday from southern Kazakhstan, just three weeks […]
This handout photograph taken on July 29, 2021 and released by the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos on July 30, 2021, shows the Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module "Nauka" (Science) being docked next to the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft on the International Space Station (ISS). (OLEG NOVITSKY / RUSSIAN SPACE AGENCY ROSCOSMOS / AFP) WASHINGTON – Russian space […]
Handout photo released by the Ecuadorean Police of a police operation at the Bellavista prison in Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Ecuador, on May 11, 2022. (STAFF / AFP) QUITO – Thirteen prisoners were killed at a prison in the Ecuadorean city of on Monday, Ecuador's prison agency said, the latest incident of deadly jail […]
In this file photo taken on Nov 16, 2020, an Ethiopian refugee child who fled fighting in Tigray province, sleeps in a hut at the Um Raquba camp in Sudan's eastern Gedaref state. (EBRAHIM HAMID / AFP) NAIROBI – The World Health Organization said Thursday it's intensifying its operations to the looming health crisis in […]