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[ad_1] Nestlé said it has partnered with local sustainability consultant TS Environment to establish a plastic waste recovery program in Ethiopia. The goal of the program is to achieve plastics neutrality in the next 12 months. This means that Nestlé has collected and co-processed the equivalent amount of plastic contained …

[ad_1] Bitcoin rose to a record high on Thursday, just one day after breaking the $ 20,000 milestone (roughly Rs. 14.7 lakhs) for the first time, amid growing interest from larger investors. The world’s highest-profile cryptocurrency jumped 10.5 percent to $ 23,655 (roughly Rs 17.4 lakhs), pushing its gains this …

[ad_1] © Reuters. Man dressed in protective suit disinfects an area outside a future temporary COVID-19 vaccination unit in Sofia SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria extended its soft lockdown until the end of January to contain the spread of coronavirus infections that soared in the autumn and affected the Balkan country’s …

[ad_1] Apple’s TV app and Apple TV + paid streaming service will be available on Google’s latest Chromecast device early next year, the search giant said on Wednesday. In the past, Apple has sometimes reserved access to its services for its own ecosystem of hardware devices, but recently it softened …

[ad_1] In the period from January to August, Africa’s merchandise trade contracted by 12 percent compared to the same period last year. By Our correspondent December 17, 2020: Afreximbank’s Annual African Trade Report (ATR) examined trade and economic developments in Africa in 2019, a year dominated by trade wars and …

[ad_1] David Carnoy / CNET Last week, 2020 took another turn for the worse, with Apple’s launch of the AirPods Max, a $ 549 set of headphones. Sure sounds good: CNET’s own audio expert David Carnoy was impressed by its sound quality and noise cancellation. But they are priced well …

[ad_1] Canada plans to send two astronauts on missions to the moon. The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced on Wednesday, December 16, that a Canadian astronaut will fly around the moon in 2023 on the Artemis 2 mission, the first manned mission in NASA’s Artemis program, which will test NASA’s …

[ad_1] The total conflict between the federal government and the regional state administration of Tigray has given us the opportunity to reflect on the prejudices and blinders that emerge in the practice of journalism. The military campaign that began on November 4 after forces from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front …

[ad_1] Rebecca Haile, Co-Founder and CEO of the U.S.-based nonprofit Ethiopia Education Initiatives, Inc., has been elected Chairperson of the Board of Directors of EMILY’s List, one of the largest women’s associations in the United States. (Photo: Rebecca Haile speaking at the opening ceremony and luncheon of the Haile-Manas Academy …

[ad_1] This story was co-reported by a journalist in Addis Ababa whose name is withheld for security reasons. The fighting between the Ethiopian federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) came as no surprise to the Tigrayans living in Addis Ababa – they had seen it coming for …