DIRS.INFO The most relevant business & tech news

☆ Paraguay's women battle to break political glass ceiling
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Lucinda Elliott | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

But there are signs of change, with seven female candidates out of 26 this time around. Nunez is the vice presidential candidate for the main opposition coalition, hoping to unseat the ruling Colorado Party. The more right-wing Colorado party has also approved gender parity plans for the cabinet, though two men are on its ticket. Some women are worried that may work against female candidates, who often contend with having less political apparatus and campaign funding. "By insisting on gender parity, it opens up the debate further," Martinez said.

Uwe Oppitz of Rhenus Ports, who speaks for Energy Hub Port Wilhelmshaven, said that Wintershall Dea (WINT.UL) (BASFn.DE), Uniper (UN01.DE) and Tree Energy Solutions (TES) plan to spend a total of more than 5 billion euros at Wilhelmshaven. Energy Hub Port Wilhelmshaven comprises 30 companies, which include E.ON (EONGn.DE), RWE (RWEG.DE) and Orsted (ORSTED.CO), as well as Wilhelmshaven's home state of Lower Saxony. "Wintershall Dea plans to invest around 1 billion euros in the Wilhelmshaven site together with its partners," it said. And steelmaker Salzgitter (SZGG.DE) has already struck a deal with Uniper to receive green hydrogen for its steel mill processes, replacing essential fossil-fuel produced hydrogen. "We don't want to push green hydrogen to the side.

☆ Wayne Shorter, master composer of jazz, dies aged 89
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( William Schomberg | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] U.S. Jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter performs onstage during a 'tribute to Miles Davis evening' at the 45th Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux July 13, 2011. REUTERS/Valentin FlauraudMarch 2 (Reuters) - American saxophonist Wayne Shorter, who wrote some of jazz's most acclaimed compositions and whose often plaintive playing changed the sound of jazz in the 1960s before he explored rock-fusion, died on Thursday aged 89. "The master writer to me, in that group, was Wayne Shorter," the keyboardist said. "Wayne was one of the few people who brought music to Miles that didn't get changed." Other hit records included "Native Dancer" featuring Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento which mixed jazz, rock and funk with Brazilian rhythms.

☆ El Salvador opens 40,000-person prison as arrests soar in gang crackdown
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] A general view shows the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador in a handout distributed to Reuters on February 1, 2023. The 40,000-capacity Terrorism Confinement Center was inaugurated on Tuesday to help relieve some of the overpopulation in the country's prison system. With nearly two percent of its adult population behind bars, El Salvador has the highest incarceration rate in the world. El Salvador's largest prison, La Esperanza, currently holds 33,000 people despite having a capacity of 10,000. By 2021, El Salvador's prison system had 20 penal centers with a capacity for 30,000 holding 35,976 prisoners.

The aim is to shield European households and businesses from the kind of gas price spikes experienced since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. WHY CAP GAS PRICES? Gas prices have eased in recent months as the EU agreed some emergency measures, including obligations to fill gas storage, but they remain high. The EU price cap would not drop below 180 eur/MWh, even if the LNG price fell to far lower levels. The EU price cap is designed to be a temporary fix that would apply for one year.

The 90 kilotonne Hoegh Esperanza, a shipborne regasification terminal, will in future be able to supply enough gas for 50,000 households for a year. Further floating liquid natural gas terminals will follow. Germany hopes to have 30 billion cubic metres of import capacity by the end of next year. Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February left Germany, which for decades prospered from plentiful piped Russian gas, looking for alternative sources of energy once it had decided it did not wish to help finance Moscow's war. "The speed with which we built this should be a model for future infrastructure build-outs," Scholz said.

Workers with Luma Energy attempt to restore power on a flooded street in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 24. Since the hurricane, fuel and diesel have become essential to daily life in Puerto Rico, mainly to power the generators. People play pool in a bar on Sept. 20, in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. 'Puerto Rico is completely devastated'When asked what she would want to see from the federal response and from President Joe Biden, she said she wanted Biden to come to Puerto Rico and see the extent of the damage. A house that was washed away by Hurricane Fiona at Villa Esperanza in Salinas, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 21.

☆ Temperatura record a Antarcticii de 18,3 grade Celsius, confirmată oficial de OMM
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-07 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +3 min

În 6 februarie 2020, la stația Esperanza din Peninsula Antarctică, a fost înregistrată o temperatură de 18,3 grade Celsius, reprezentând o nouă dovadă a intenstificării crizei climatice care acaparează din ce în ce mai mult globul, informează Descopera.ro. „Peninsula Antarctică (vârful de nord – vest, aproape de America de Sud) se numără printre regiunile de pe planetă cu cea mai rapidă încălzire, cu aproape 3 grade Celsius în ultimii 50 de ani. În baza acestor verificări, OMM a respins, de asemenea, o înregistrare de temperatură și mai ridicată, de 20,75 grade Celsius, raportată în 9 februarie 2020 pe insula Seymour. Recordul de temperatură oficial stabilit anterior pentru această parte a Antarcticii a fost de 17,5 ° C, fiind înregistrat în 24 martie 2015, tot la Stația de Cercetare Esperanza. Recordul pentru regiunea Antarcticii, care include toată gheața și pământul la 60 de grade latitudine sudică, este de 19,8 grade Celsius, fiind înregistrat pe Insula Signy în ianuarie 1982.

Persons: OMM, Seymour Organizations: Mondială, Science, Polar Locations: Antarctica, Peninsula Antarctică, America de Sud, Argentina, Golful Hope, Verkhoyansk

☆ At 17, this sexual abuse survivor set out to fix a broken system
▼ + stars: | 2018-04-19 | by ( Laura Klairmont | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

When she finally gained the courage to tell her parents about the abuse, they reported it to the police and took the case to court. CNN: Sexual violence has long been prevalent in Bolivia. CNN: The country now has an annual Walk Against Sexual Violence. I started telling my story and asking people if they would join me on a walk against sexual violence and use a blue ribbon, meaning that you were against sexual violence. August 9 was later declared the National Day Against Sexual Violence in Bolivia.

Search resuls for: "Esperanza"

9 mentions found