30/12/2019 | Economia y Finanzas
Russia: Last Of Four Kola Units Gets Extended Operation Licence
Russian regulator Rostechnadzor has issued a 15-year operating licence extension for unit 2 of the Kola nuclear power plant to 2034. Kola NPP is located 200 km south of Murmansk, on the shore of Lake Imandra. It produces about 60% of the electricity of the Murmansk region.
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12/07/2019 | Frente Externo
How To Conduct Relations With China – Analysis
Relations with China have become a major foreign policy objective of many countries. The dazzling economic performance of the Communist state in the last few decades has lifted it to a top position on the world stage. It is now engaged with the American superpower in a desperate trade war that only emphasizes its importance to middle powers and developing countries.
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15/02/2019 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US Delivers Laser-Guided Rockets Worth $16 Million To Lebanon
The US Embassy in Lebanon says Washington has delivered laser-guided rockets valued at more than $16 million to the Lebanese army, RT reports.
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10/12/2018 | Economia y Finanzas
Gazprom Kicks Major Arctic Gas Field Into Maximum Overdrive
Russian gas major Gazprom has launched the final unit of a major national gas field in the Arctic that is projected to produce for more than 100 years.
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09/12/2018 | High Tech
Technology - Supercomputers Without Waste Heat
Generally speaking, magnetism and the lossless flow of electrical current (“superconductivity”) are competing phenomena that cannot coexist in the same sample. However, for building supercomputers, synergetically combining both states comes with major advantages as compared to today’s semiconductor technology, which has come under pressure due to its high power consumption and resulting heat production.
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30/10/2018 | Frente Externo
Brazil: Bolsonaro Elected New President
Far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, of the Social Liberal Party (PSL) was elected Brazil’s new president with 55.14% percent of the valid votes.
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22/01/2018 | High Tech
Could AI Compromise Better Than Humans?
Computers can play a pretty mean round of chess and keep up with the best of their human counterparts in other zero-sum games. But teaching them to cooperate and compromise instead of compete?
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26/11/2017 | High Tech
High-Speed Quantum Encryption May Help Secure Future Internet
Recent advances in quantum computers may soon give hackers access to machines powerful enough to crack even the toughest of standard internet security codes. With these codes broken, all of our online data — from medical records to bank transactions — could be vulnerable to attack.
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12/11/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
North Korea Accuses Trump Of ‘Begging’ For Nuclear War
Pyongyang has accused “dotard” Donald Trump of “begging” for a nuclear war during his trip across Asia. The charge comes as Washington launched rare naval drills in the Pacific with Seoul and Tokyo, which simultaneously involves three US aircraft carrier strike groups.
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05/06/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Hackers Threaten To Leak Emails Exposing UAE’s Ties To Israel
A group of hackers stole e-mails from the UAE’s Ambassador to the United States account and threatened to release them in full on Saturday, exposing the UAE’s ties to Israel and its incitement of anti-democratic movements within the Middle East.
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13/03/2017 | Frente Externo
Abkhazia Holds Parliamentary Elections
Voters in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia cast their ballots on March 12 to elect the 35-member National Assembly.
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14/02/2017 | Frente Externo
EU Says Brexit Impact Not As Bad As Feared
The EU on Monday sharply improved its gloomy predictions for the British economy next year, admitting that the Brexit vote would have less impact than earlier thought, AFP says.
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21/01/2017 | Economia y Finanzas
Trade Best Tool To Fight Poverty And Promote Growth – Davos
Leaders from business and policy-making are not expecting a return to 1930s-style trade war, despite the populist backlash in parts of the world against globalization and free trade. Nevertheless, the reality is that nationalism and protectionism are on the rise globally and the case for globalization needs to be made, agreed panelists in a session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting.
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21/01/2017 | Frente Externo
May Says Britain Will Become Even More Global And Internationalist
Theresa May, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, said Thursday that Britain would stand up for free markets, free trade and globalization, and will work to ensure that they work for everyone.
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21/01/2017 | High Tech
Making Artificial Intelligence Systems That See World As Humans Do
A new computational model that performs at human levels on a standard intelligence test has been developed by a Northwestern University team. This work is an important step toward making artificial intelligence systems that see and understand the world as humans do.
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08/12/2016 | Economia y Finanzas
Spain - Government Raises Economic Growth Forecast, Job Creation
Spain’s Council of Ministers has agreed to an upward revision of the macro-economic forecasts both for this year and next year.
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20/09/2016 | Medio Ambiente
Did Melting Of Frozen Methane Cause Rapid Climate Change 56 Million Years Ago?
New research, led by the University of Southampton, suggests that the release of methane from the seafloor was much slower than previously thought during a rapid global warming event 56 million years ago.
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15/05/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
INTERPOL Border Operation In Southeast Asia Targets Terror Suspects
Enhancing counter-terrorism and law enforcement collaboration was the focus of an INTERPOL-facilitated border operation which targeted international fugitives attempting to travel across Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries.
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28/02/2016 | Medio Ambiente
Global Warming To Drive Vast, Unpredictable Shift In Natural Wealth
Many studies have shown that critical natural resources, including fish stocks, are moving poleward as the planet warms. A new Yale-led study suggests that these biophysical changes are also reallocating global wealth in unpredictable, and potentially destabilizing, ways.
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21/02/2016 | Medio Ambiente
Mapping The World For Climate Sensitivity
By using information gathered by satellites, a group of biologists have developed a new method for measuring ecosystem sensitivity to climate variability.
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09/01/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Al Qaeda Threatens To Attack Italy And Spain
The terrorist organization al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb issued Thursday a video, threatening to conduct terrorist attacks in Naples, Rome and Madrid, according to Agency Europa Press.
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14/11/2015 | Frente Externo
Sri Lanka: Sirisena Pledges To Introduce New System Of Governing
Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena pledged that he would do everything possible to introduce a new system of governance by abolishing the Executive Presidency as desired by late Venerable Maduluwave Sobitha Thero.
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14/08/2015 | En Profundidad
Central Asians’ View Of Democracy Not Same As Westerners?
As countries in Central Asia move toward more authoritarian governments and concerns over human rights abuses increase, a new book explores why the West’s efforts to promote democracy in the region have failed.
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14/08/2015 | High Tech
New ‘Arctic-Proof’ Drone To Track Effects Of Climate Change
Drones generally get a bad press but there’s far more to them than destruction and war – for example drone technology can help save lives in disaster zones reaching places that no humans can tread. Now researchers from Laval University in Canada have revealed another surprising and positive drone application – tracking the impact of climate change in the Arctic.
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11/12/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
UN Counter-Terrorism Task Force To Strengthen Cooperation With INTERPOL
Enhancing coordination between UN agencies and the world’s largest police organization to combat the threat of terrorism and foreign fighters was the focus of the recent 4th UN Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF) Retreat.
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08/09/2014 | High Tech
The Future Internet And Multimedia Services
MDEA Networks Institute announced Friday the completion of the MEDIANET research project, which it claims has accomplished remarkable scientific advances in the optimization of network and multimedia services that will enable the evolution towards a future internet geared towards video streaming.
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30/04/2014 | Economia y Finanzas
Ozone Levels Drop 20 Percent With Switch From Ethanol To Gasoline
A Northwestern University study by an economist and a chemist reports that when fuel prices drove residents of São Paulo, Brazil, to mostly switch from ethanol to gasoline in their flexible-fuel vehicles, local ozone levels dropped 20 percent. At the same time, nitric oxide and carbon monoxide concentrations tended to go up.
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16/12/2013 | En Parrilla
Effectively Monitoring The State Of Europe’s Marine Environment
An EU-funded project has just been launched that will help Member States to effectively and efficiently monitor the environmental status of oceans and seas. This will enable them to meet their obligations under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD).
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07/03/2013 | Sociedad
2013 World Press Freedom Index: Dashed Hopes Follow Spring
After the “Arab springs” and other protest movements that prompted many rises and falls in last year’s index, the 2013 Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index marks a return to a more usual configuration.
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