2023-07-22 08:00:44
In a step that carries great advantages for smart watches running the Wear OS operating system, and marks a precedent for Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the company, announced the launch of a version of its WhatsApp application without the need to be linked to the phone. This version will be a trial for several months before it is permanently launched, according to Techcrunch, which specializes in technology and information technology news, and it will be a trial for several months before it is permanently launched, and the advantages it offers: the watch wearer can conduct conversations and respond to text and voice messages, with the use of emojis, and receive calls for the application. The application will provide quick replies to messages, without the smartphone being close to the watch. “Meta” precedes “Apple” technology and information expert, Islam Ghanem. The new release is an expected step from the “Meta” company run by Mark Zuckerberg. This is due to Zuckerberg’s desire to compete with the “Apple” smart watches that work with the “WatchOS” system, to make people go to buy watches for the “Wear OS 3” system. But for Zuckerberg to succeed in this step, he must provide users with many advantages that make them independent of the “Apple” smart watches, and attract them to the new version. In this regard, he considered that the aforementioned advantages provided by the “Meta” watches, which operate on the “Wear OS 3” system, such as making conversations, responding to messages, etc., will make it “possible for many to buy these watches.” “Apple” smart watches that run on the “WatchOS” system do not have a separate “WhatsApp” application, and therefore they do not offer the advantages of sending messages and making calls through the application, although they provide viewing and responding to incoming messages by activating settings in the associated “iPhone”.
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July 22, 2023
Russian war of aggression overshadows G20 meeting | SN.at
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2023-07-22 08:56:43
The Russian war of aggression in Ukraine overshadowed the meeting of G20 energy ministers in India. Due to a blockade by Russia, among others, the G20 of the leading industrialized and emerging countries failed to reach a consensus on Saturday in Goa, India, on speeding up the expansion of renewable energies. There was no joint final declaration.
According to information from delegation circles, the German Economics and Climate Protection Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) said in his statement at the meeting that renewable energies are much more than a question of climate protection. They are a question of energy security.
Habeck had sharply condemned the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, it said. Russia is a member of the G20 of leading industrialized and emerging countries. India is currently chairing the G20. The main summit will be held in New Delhi in September. Russia was represented in Goa by a department head from the Ministry of Energy, it said. Deputy Russian Energy Minister Pavel Sorokin was connected via video.
Habeck said in his statement, according to the delegation circles, that in a war of aggression it must be clearly stated who is the perpetrator and who is the victim. This is his clear appeal to all states. Russia is clearly the culprit.
The German minister criticized in New Delhi on Thursday that India had not yet clearly and sharply condemned the war. China also did not condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) had urged China to exert more influence on Russia in order to end the war of aggression.
According to dpa information, Russian Deputy Energy Minister Sorokin spoke of “terrorist attacks” in his statement on Saturday with a view to the Nord Stream gas pipeline. In September 2022, several explosions were registered near the Danish Baltic Sea island of Bornholm and a little later four leaks were discovered in three of the four lines of the Nord Stream pipelines. Investigators assume sabotage. It is unclear who is responsible for the crime.
Nord Stream 1 has provided a significant portion of the gas imported into Europe since 2011. However, in the course of the confrontation with the West following its attack on Ukraine, Moscow had already curtailed supplies before the destruction and then stopped them altogether. The newer Nord Stream 2 pipeline was already filled with gas – the federal government had stopped the permitting process for this second pipeline in response to the war of aggression.
Habeck was not in the room during the statement by the Russian representative, it said. In his statement, he said that Europe in particular had to learn last year that Russia was using energy as a “weapon,” according to the delegation circles. Gas deliveries have been throttled and stopped in order to trigger a gas shortage in Germany and Europe. That didn’t work. Europe and Germany had felt what one-sided fossil dependencies meant.
Habeck had dampened expectations of the ministerial meeting in advance. Russia, China and Saudi Arabia are currently opposed to taking further steps – for more climate protection in the energy sector. According to delegation circles, Habeck pointed out on Saturday that the majority of the G20 wanted renewable energies to triple by 2030. The end of the fossil-fuel age had long since begun. The group of seven leading democratic industrial nations (G7), which also includes Germany, had agreed on fixed goals for the expansion of renewable energies.
Habeck has been on a visit to India since Thursday. India is increasingly turning to renewable energy – but also to more coal, on which the country is currently still dependent. China is also still building new coal-fired power plants.
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Catimini Clothing Brand Implements Recovery Plan, Closing 44 Stores in France by December
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2023-07-22 07:12:10
The children’s clothing brand Catimini announced on Tuesday that it plans to close 44 stores in France by December as part of a recovery plan proposed by its leaders to “reduce the losses suffered by the company”, already in difficulty when it joined the IDKIDS group in 2020.
“The management team presented this July 18 to the staff representatives a project for the recovery of the company”, indicated Catimini on Tuesday in a press release, which should “allow both to reduce the losses suffered by the company and to allow, tomorrow, to redeploy the brand ”, without layoffs.
This recovery plan “provides for the closure of 44 stores mainly in France, Belgium and Luxembourg”. In our country, Catimini has two stores and a presence in 3 INNO stores. According to our colleagues from Echo, the Liège store will close its doors this weekend, and the Charleroi store (4 jobs) is targeted by the recovery project, and therefore condemned. Catimini is also present in the three INNO stores. The presence of the chain within the fashion giant will end in the fall.
“Significant difficulties”
The Catimini brand was already experiencing “significant difficulties” when it joined IDKIDS in 2020, a group that brings together an ecosystem of 18 brands of products and services for children aged 0 to 12.
Despite two recovery plans – which “require a long time and means that IDKIDS does not currently have” – and in the face of “the requirement of the global economic context (rising costs of materials, energy, inflation, new consumption habits, etc.), IDKIDS must now “focus its investments on shorter-term developments and projects”, specifies the press release.
Catimini will therefore now focus “its offer on its iconic products”. Concretely, the brand will be “offered in capsule format” and distributed in the group’s multi-brand networks (IDKIDS and idkids.fr stores)“, as well as wholesale.
“A major mobility plan within the other brands of the IDKIDS group should make it possible to greatly limit the social impact of this project”, via a “job safeguard plan” to support the 89 employees of Catimini, promises the brand in its press release.
“With a large network of 484 stores”, the IDKIDS group, which has a total of 6,000 employees and 1,300 stores in 65 countries, “can offer each Catimini employee opportunities for intra-group mobility”, it is specified.
The ready-to-wear sector in France has been shaken for several months by a violent crisis, which resulted in particular in the liquidation of Camaïeu in September 2022 and the placements in receivership of Go Sport, Gap France and Kookaï in early 2023.
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Global Pressure on Russia to Resume Grain Agreement: Impact on International Food Security
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2023-07-22 08:22:13
Status: 07/22/2023 10:22 a.m
In the UN Security Council, several countries – including China – have urged Russia to return to the grain agreement. The US warned of a possible attack on civilian ships in the Black Sea.
In the United Nations Security Council, Russia has been put under pressure by its ally China, developing countries and Western countries to avert a global food crisis. The Ukrainian grain deliveries must be made possible once more quickly, it said. China’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Geng Shuang called for grain and fertilizer exports from Russia and Ukraine to resume soon.
The government in Beijing hopes that those affected will work with the relevant UN bodies to find a balanced solution to the legitimate concerns of all parties, Geng said at the meeting in New York, according to a report by Chinese state television. This is necessary to ensure international food security. Geng referred to UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ pledge to do everything possible to ensure that both Ukrainian grain and Russian food and fertilizers reach world markets.
Russia let the international grain agreement expire on Monday despite many international appeals. Since then, there have been repeated Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities on the Black Sea. The United Nations has also repeatedly campaigned for the agreement to be reinstated. It is feared that famines in poorer countries will otherwise become even greater.
Humanitarian crisis should be prevented
Several developing countries have warned of the impact of the halt to Ukrainian grain supplies, which has already caused wheat prices to spike. Gabonese Ambassador to the UN Michel Biang said the grain deal has prevented grain prices from rising and alleviated the risk of food insecurity in the drought-hit Horn of Africa and other regions. He called for talks to avoid a humanitarian crisis.
Mozambique’s ambassador to the UN, Pedro Afonso, said Russia’s actions will “certainly increase global socio-economic tensions in a world already grappling with a perfect storm of conflict, climate change” and a loss of confidence in multilateral solutions.
US warns of attack by civilian ships
Russia has also been criticized by the United Nations and Council members for attacking Ukrainian ports and destroying port infrastructure following withdrawing from the grain deal signed a year ago – in violation of international law, which bans attacks on civilian infrastructure. In response to Russia declaring large areas of the Black Sea dangerous for shipping, the UN warned that a military incident at sea might have “catastrophic consequences”.
US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the Council that the US had information that Russia had laid additional sea mines in the approaches to Ukrainian ports and that the Russian military might attack civilian ships in the Black Sea “and blame Ukraine for these attacks”.
Erdogan wants to convince Putin once more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke by phone with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday evening regarding a possible return to the agreement to ship grain across the Black Sea. “The opening of the grain corridor has absolute priority,” said Zelenskyj following the phone call. “Together we must prevent a global food crisis.”
After the agreement expired on Monday, there was effectively a new naval blockade. Russia has stripped grain carriers of safety guarantees in the Black Sea regions under its control. “Because of Russia’s actions, the world is once more on the brink of a food crisis,” Zelenskyy said. “A total of 400 million people in many countries in Africa and Asia are at risk of starvation.”
Erdogan expressed confidence in being able to convince Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin to resume the grain agreement. According to the Anadolu news agency, Erdogan said that he thinks that he can continue grain exports in “detailed” talks with Putin.
Russia sees the UN’s turn
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Werschinin sees the United Nations as having a say in a possible new grain agreement. “The ball is – as is sometimes said now – on the side of our partners with whom we worked. We are now waiting for a reaction from them,” said Vershinin.
The deputy minister stressed that as part of the grain deal, a memorandum with a validity of three years was signed, which contains Russia’s conditions for the deal. Russia is asking the West to relax sanctions so that it can sell its own grain and fertilizer more easily on the world market.
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