Day: April 24, 2022

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أخضر ومنخفض الكربون – تحديد ميزات معرض كانتون

قوانتشو، الصين، 23 أبريل/نيسان 2022 / PRNewswire / — ” أصدرت شركات تيانجين Tianjin في هذه الدورة من معرض كانتون، مجموعة واسعة من المنتجات الجديدة التي تتميز بمواد خضراء وصديقة للبيئة، وتصنيع منخفض الطاقة. أصبح بناء العلامة التجارية، الذي يعتبر كمفتاح لترويج المنتج، سلاحا قويا للتصدير المتسق وتوسيع الأعمال “. يوافق يوم الأرض لهذا العام 22 أبريل/نيسان، وهو التاريخ الذي يقام فيه معرض كانتون 131 على الإنترنت. قال ممثلون من وفد تيانجين Tianjin في معرض كانتون، إنه مع تنفيذ استراتيجيات ذروة الكربون وحياد الكربون في البلاد بالكامل، تم الاعتراف بالتنمية الخضراء والمنخفضة الكربون للحدث على نطاق واسع من قبل العارضين والمشترين.

يصل عدد المعروضات صديقة البيئة ومنخفضة الكربون إلى مستوى جديد

وفقا لمركز التجارة الخارجية الصيني، فإن أكثر من 480.000 من المعروضات البالغ عددها 2.9 مليون في معرض كانتون 131 هي منتجات صديقة للبيئة ومنخفضة الكربون، مما يمثل مستوى جديد. يتم تمييز المنتجات صديقة البيئة والمنخفضة الكربون بعلامة محددة على الموقع الرسمي لمعرض كانتون، كما تم إطلاق واحدة من الفئات الخمس من اختيارات الحدث لأول مرة، بهدف دعم توسع المنتجات الخضراء في الصين في كل من الأسواق المحلية والدولية .

يقود معرض كانتون التنمية الخضراء بصناعة المعارض في البلاد

في وقت مبكر من سنة 2012، حدد معرض كانتون 111 أهداف التنمية المتمثلة في “الدعوة إلى معرض منخفض الكربون وصديق للبيئة وبناء حدث أخضر على مستوى عالمي”، كما دعا مقدمي خدمات المعارض للتنافس على بناء كشك منخفض الطاقة وصديق للبيئة. يعتمد مشروع معرض كانتون في مرحلته الرابعة، الذي يجري تنفيذه الآن، على تقنيات منخفضة الكربون وصديقة للبيئة وأفكار تشغيل منخفضة الطاقة، مما يمثل نموذجا جديدا لمكان الحدث الخالي من الكربون. وفقا للتقارير، من المتوقع أن تستهلك قاعات معرض المرحلة الرابعة، التي من المقرر افتتاحها في الدورة الخريفية لسنة 2022، طاقة أقل بنسبة 10٪ من الأماكن التقليدية.

قال آلان ليو، نائب المدير العام لمكتب الشؤون الخارجية لمعرض كانتون، أن معرض كانتون كان يدعم بنشاط استراتيجيات ذروة الكربون وحياد الكربون في البلاد بصفته منصة تجارة استيراد وتصدير بين الشركات B2B مهمة في الصين. كما أضاف أن الحدث سيستمر في تعزيز وقيادة الشركات نحو التنمية الخضراء، فضلا عن تزويد العالم بمزيد من المنتجات الخضراء والمنخفضة الكربون وفرص الأعمال القائمة على التنمية الخضراء.

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Tatum, Brown lead Celtics to 109-103 win, 3-0 lead over Nets

New York, Jayson Tatum scored 39 points, Jaylen Brown had 23 and the Boston Celtics took a 3-0 lead over the Brooklyn Nets with a 109-103 victory Saturday night.

Again making things difficult on Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving with their suffocating defense, the Celtics put themselves in position to sweep their way into the second round with a victory Monday night in Brooklyn, AP reports.

A loud “Let’s Go Celtics! Let’s Go Celtics!” chant broke out in the final minutes from the many fans in green who had seats in Barclays Center.

There wasn’t much for the home fans to cheer about as the Nets face a team that just won’t let them get anything going.

Durant took only 11 shots, finishing with 16 points, eight rebounds and eight assists. Irving was 6 for 17 and also had 16 points for the Nets, who have to decide if they will give Ben Simmons his debut Monday in an elimination game.

Boston led most of the way before the Nets cut it to three with just over a minute remaining in the third quarter. But Marcus Smart scored on a follow shot, made a jumper in transition before Brown got a steal and dunk to make it 81-72 going to the fourth.

Brown kept the Nets at bay from there, repeatedly finding a 1-on-1 matchup and driving to the basket. He set up Tatum for a 3-pointer in the corner after the Nets had gotten back within four, then made a jumper before Tatum converted a three-point play that made it 96-84 with 6:25 to play.

The Celtics got center Robert Williams back after missing nearly a month with torn cartilage in his left knee, making their defense even stronger.

Bruce Brown was the Nets player who could really solve it, scoring a career playoff-high 26 points.

Durant was only 13 for 41 (31.7%) in the two games in Boston with 12 turnovers, and the Nets’ only real hope was if he could regain his form back home.

He made a 3-ponter on his first shot attempt after going 0 for 10 in the second half in Game 2, but he could never consistently find room to shoot while committing five more turnovers.

The Celtics limited Durant to just two shots and led 30-25 after one quarter, then got seven straight points by reserve guard Payton Pritchard to open the second and push the lead to 37-25. Boston was still ahead by eight with under 1 1/2 minutes left in the half, but the Nets scored seven straight and it was 53-50 at the break.

TIP-INS

Celtics: Smart scored 14 points. … Williams had two points and two rebounds in 16 minutes off the bench in his first game since March 27 after missing final seven games of the regular season.

Nets: Patty Mills was honored before the start for being voted the winner of the NBA’s Sportsmanship Award on Friday. … Blake Griffin played for the first time in the series, scoring eight points. … Director Spike Lee, a longtime Knicks fan, was at the game wearing a Brooklyn Dodgers jersey and hat.

SIMMONS STATUS

Coach Steve Nash said Simmons scrimmaged 3-on-3 Saturday morning and had no setbacks. He said it’s possible Simmons plays in Game 4 but cautioned that given his long layoff, with his herniated disk at the end of it, that there was more to consider than if Simmons felt good after his workouts.

“There’s a lot of bigger picture, bigger context to how he’s feeling, how able he would be to adapt to the environment,” Nash said. “It’s a little different than playing a game that’s stashed away in the middle of the regular season, so I think that there’s a few factors at play here to evaluate when he’s ready to play.”

Source: Bahrain News Agency

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Egypt’s Government Frees 41 Prisoners Ahead of Eid Holiday

Egypt released more than three dozen prisoners on Sunday, a week before the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which is typically a time of amnesty, a political party and state-run media said.

Political activists and family members confirmed several high-profile detainees were freed.

The Reform and Development Party said those freed had been political prisoners being held in pre-trial detention. The English edition of the state-run newspaper Al-Ahram said 41 prisoners in all were released.

The government’s human rights body said in a statement only that there had been a release of individuals held in pre-trial detention but gave no details.

The move came a week before the Eid holiday marking the end of Ramadan. It is typically a time when prisoners are released on presidential pardons, but the number of those freed was one of the largest in recent years. Thousands of political prisoners, however, are estimated to remain inside Egypt’s jails, many without trial.

Among the released was political activist Waleed Shawky, his wife, Heba Anees, said on social media. She posted a picture of the couple hugging.

Journalist Mohamed Salah was also released, activist Esraa Abdel Fattah said. And Nabeh Elganadi, a human rights lawyer, posted a picture with Radwa Mohamed, who was arrested after making videos posted on social media criticizing President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi.

Under broad counterterrorism laws, Egypt’s state prosecutors have often used vague charges to renew 15-day pretrial detention periods for months or years, often with little evidence.

On Sunday, Sanaa Seif, the sister of one of Egypt’s most high-profile detained activists, Alaa Abdel Fattah, said her brother had faced new ill-treatment in prison and he was on the 22th day of a hunger strike.

Meanwhile, new arrests are still taking place. On Saturday, the human rights lawyer Khaled Ali said several men in the country’s south had been arrested and accused of spreading lies after they sung a song about rising food prices in a video posted online.

The government of el-Sissi — a U.S. ally with deep economic ties to European countries — has been relentlessly silencing dissenters and clamping down on independent organizations for years with arrests, detentions and jail sentences, and other restrictions.

Many of the top activists involved in the 2011 uprising in Egypt are now in prison, most of them arrested under a draconian law passed in 2013 that effectively bans all street protests.

Source: Voice of America

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Three Malian Army Bases Simultaneously Attacked

Six soldiers are dead and 20 wounded after Malian Army bases in the central cities of Sévaré, Niono, and Bapho were simultaneously attacked this morning by suspected terrorists. An army press release says that the bases in the cities of Sévaré, Niono, and Bapho were attacked by “terrorists” in “kamikaze vehicles packed with explosives,” and that in addition to the casualties, a helicopter was damaged.

Sévaré is a town in Mali’s Mopti Region and the site of the former headquarters of the G5 Sahel, an intergovernmental task force with member states Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger.

The headquarters were moved to Bamako in 2018 after an attack which killed several people.

The Bapho military base is less than 20 kilometers from Ségou, Mali, a large regional and cultural capital more than 200 kilometers north of Bamako.

After an Islamist takeover of northern Mali in 2012, French forces intervened and took back control of the north in 2013. In the years since, insecurity has moved south into Mali’s central regions.

In February, France announced that it would withdraw its troops from Mali after increasing tensions between France and Mali’s military government.

Several governments have accused Mali of working with Russian Wagner mercenaries, a claim the Malian government denies. There have been several reports of unidentified white soldiers working with the Malian army in the Ségou and Mopti regions since February.

Source: Voice of America

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Macron Wins France’s High-Stakes Presidential Election

President Emmanuel Macron was named the winner of France’s runoff election against far-right rival Marine Le Pen on Sunday.

The two candidates held sharply different views, not only on domestic issues, but also on France’s role in Europe, NATO and the rest of the world.

During his acceptance speech, Macron said, “Many in this country voted for me not because they support my ideas but to keep out those of the far-right. I want to thank them and know I owe them a debt in the years to come.”

With 97% of votes counted, Macron was on course for a solid 57.4% of the vote, interior ministry figures showed, Reuters reported.

U.S. President Joe Biden tweeted congratulations to Macron, saying he looked forward to “continued close cooperation” with the French leader.

Other European leaders sent good wishes, too, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy who tweeted in French, saying, “I’m convinced that we will advance together toward new joint victories. Toward a strong and united Europe!”

Sunday’s presidential election runoff may have been decided in towns like Pantin, which didn’t vote for either Macron or Le Pen in the first round. Nearly six in 10 voters instead backed far-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon, who didn’t endorse either finalist for this second round, although he told supporters not to vote for Le Pen.

“I think we have to save the country, so I went for Macron,” said 38-year-old marketing consultant Fatime.

Like many French, she was underwhelmed by the two finalists.

“I’m not especially happy about Macron and not so happy about Le Pen… if Marine do[es] pass, I’m scared it’s going to cause a civil war or something like that,” she said.

This was the second presidential runoff pitting Macron against Le Pen. But when he ran against the far-right candidate five years ago, Macron was a newcomer who promised change. Now, he’s a known quantity who has received mixed reviews from the electorate over his handling of issues like the environment and the economy.

Pantin resident Emmanuel Codjia says he voted for Le Pen. He says there are fundamental things he believes in — like French culture and heritage and the country’s future. Codjia says this is the first time he has voted far-right, and he doesn’t agree with all of Le Pen’s platform. He also says he doesn’t think she’ll be elected. It’s more a vote, he says, to make a point.

Codjia says since his family, coming from West Africa, fought hard to become French, he believes it’s important to vote rather than abstain.

This was Le Pen’s third presidential bid. She had softened her image, emphasizing cost-of-living issues and walking back on previous positions like a call to ban Muslim headscarves from public spaces.

Le Pen and Macron offered sharply different positions on domestic and foreign policy during their only debate last Wednesday. Le Pen wants to move away from renewable energy and reduce France’s participation in bodies like the European Union and NATO.

“I voted for our actual president, Mr. Macron,” said retiree Benedicte Tardivo. She said she was afraid of a Le Pen presidency, and she’s positive about Macron.

Pantin resident Jean-Emmanuel Sanchez said, “I’m not an expert, but in several aims he did a very good job for France having an important place in the world, among Europe. Our voice is listened to all over the world. And for France he has to do more than he did during five years. For all difference and inequalities between people… but… I’m confident he could improve and go further in his job he did until now.”

He won’t say whom he voted for — only that he made what he called a “strategic” choice. He describes Macron’s term in office, marked by crises like the yellow vest protests over economic issues, as a very violent period. He says Le Pen represents a danger. He feels he hadn’t been given much choice.

So, this election’s winner faces a tough road ahead. Even before the votes are counted, many French were already disappointed in the outcome.

Source: Voice of America