The protocol, which covers 53 countries, explicitly bans the export of waste or other matter to other countries for dumping or incineration at sea. However, the 2009 amendment exempts CO2 for storage in sub-sea geological formations from this general export restriction. “By approving this amendment, the Federal Council is facilitating the export of CO2 for […]
tests 90 percent less Another Covid subvariant called EG.5 has already put some people in the US on high alert Pharmacy chains CVS CVS.N, Walgreens WBA.N and Rite Aid RAD.N told Reuters that sales of on-site molecular testing and home tests have increased in recent weeks. How much surveillance is needed to track the virus […]
Once the feasibility study is complete, CERN’s member states – 22 European countries and Israel – will decide over the next five to six years whether to build the FCC. The FCC will accelerate electrons and positrons by 2060, and then hadrons by 2090, as it seeks answers to many remaining questions in fundamental physics, […]
Those vegetables were sold at the shops of Bangladeshi traders living in Zurich, Switzerland. Actually these vegetables were also bought by Bangladeshis. At that time various media, including Prothom Aloe, published the news of Zazeera’s vegetables being sold in Switzerland. The news caught the attention of Alamgir Kabir, commercial councilor at the Bangladesh High Commission […]
Ermotti began his career as a teenage intern at the family-owned Corner Bank, a Swiss capital markets operation started from scratch, before working in the securities department and making his big break in 1987 at Merrill Lynch. During the financial crash of 2008 it was UBS, not Credit Suisse, that took the bulk of the […]
Credit Suisse’s ‘Coco’ bonds: how $17b went missing
Nestle NESN.S will pay 2 million Swiss francs ($2.2 million) in compensation to a former manager after a Swiss court upheld her claim of bullying while working at the company, newspaper Tages-Anzeiger reported. After a 12-year legal battle, Yasmine Motarjemi was awarded compensation by a court in Vaud in southern Switzerland, the newspaper said on […]
Nine countries, including the United States, will monitor press freedom in Bangladesh. Senior diplomats in Dhaka from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland hold regular meetings to discuss whether journalism is carried out freely in the country.
Government is preparing to conduct free, fair elections: PM
Temperatures hit 25.1C at Bilbao airport in Spain’s Basque Country. People enjoy the sunshine while sitting outside the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao or strolling along the Nervion River. “It always rains a lot here, it’s very cold and it’s January and it feels like summer,” said 81-year-old Bilbao resident Eusebio Folgueira. French tourist Joanna Hoste […]
Hydrogen created by splitting water with an electrical process called electrolysis can be used as a fuel. If the devices that do this, electrolyzers, are powered by renewable energy, the product is called green hydrogen. Thakur said India is also planning to build an electrolyser capacity of 60 GW to 100 GW to help produce […]
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday that he is “hopeful” that the COVID-19 pandemic will no longer be considered a global emergency sometime next year. His comments at a briefing with the media came at a time when China is ending its draconian “zero-covid” policy and allowing people to live with […]
