Makers@ RAISE YOUR VOICE Pledges | 2018 MAKERS Conference
More than 40 MAKERS@ Board of Directors announced their #RAISEYOURVOICE pledges and declared how they will push their companies to gender equity this year.
More than 40 MAKERS@ Board of Directors announced their #RAISEYOURVOICE pledges and declared how they will push their companies to gender equity this year.
China has decided to cancel the 2021 spring climbing season from the Tibetan side of Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak, because of coronavirus concerns, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. It cited a notice on Friday from the General Administration of Sport, following a severe pandemic situation. In contrast, a total of 21 Chinese climbers had secured approval for climbs in spring, Xinhua added.
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Doctors are predicting that Netherlands defender Daley Blind will recover from injury and be ready for the European Championship, coach Frank de Boer said. The 31-year-old was included on Friday in a provisional squad that De Boer named for the tournament despite not playing since March, when he hurt both his ankle and knee in a World Cup qualifying win over Gibraltar. Blind had surgery to repair torn ankle ligaments, ruling him out of the rest of the Dutch league season, but is in line for a return next month.
The island of Taiwan, which has had enviable success in containing COVID-19, imposed new restrictions in its capital city on Saturday as it battled its worst outbreak since the pandemic began. Authorities raised the alert level for Taipei, the capital, and the surrounding area of New Taipei city. The level 3 alert, which remains in effect for two weeks, requires people to wear a mask outdoors and limits indoor gatherings to five people and outdoor gatherings to 10 people.
On Thursday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said fully vaccinated Americans do not need to wear masks outdoors and can avoid wearing them indoors in most places. People are considered "fully vaccinated" if fourteen days have passed since their second dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or their single dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine, the NFL said. "Effective immediately, fully vaccinated ... staff and players will not be required to wear masks anywhere in the club facility, either indoors or outdoors," the NFL said https://www.nfl.com/news/fully-vaccinated-players-staff-no-longer-required-to-wear-masks-at-nfl-team-faci in a statement.
Pro-Palestine protesters gathered at Sydney’s Town Hall on May 15, waving flags and chanting amid escalating violence in Israel and Gaza.Footage provided by Facebook user Monica McNaught-Lee shows the large crowd waving Palestinian flags and shouting “Palestine will never die” and “free, free Palestine”.According to local media citing government sources, at least 139 people have been killed in Gaza, including 39 children and 22 women, since the start of recent bombardments. At least eight people have been reported killed in Israel. Credit: Monica McNaught-Lee via Storyful
A strong performance in the 10 kilometre run phase of the three-discipline event saw Blummenfelt open up a decisive gap over Belgium's Jelle Geens while Morgan Pearson of the United States finished third. The race was the first to be held in the World Triathlon Championship series this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Vincent Luis led the athletes out of the 1.5 kilometre swim leg and onto the cycling phase of the race, with the Frenchman joined by a large pack of riders during the 40 kilometres on the bicycle.
A barrage of rockets fired from Gaza towards the Israeli city of Ashkelon was captured on video on May 15.This footage, taken shortly after 3 am, shows several missiles rising from the ground before some exploded midair. It wasn’t clear if they were intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome missile-defense system. The Israel Defense Force reported that “barrages of rockets” were fired from Gaza, with one reportedly hitting the nearby city of Ashdod.As of Friday morning, the ministry of health in Gaza reported at least 119 deaths since the start of Israeli bombardment, and said that at least 830 people had been injured. In Israel, at least eight deaths have been reported due to rocket attacks by groups in Gaza. Credit: @mypcashqelon via Storyful
Taiwan raised its coronavirus alert level on Saturday in the capital, Taipei, and the city around it, bringing curbs for a period of two weeks that will shut many venues and restrict gatherings in the wake of 180 new domestic infections. Taipei's government has already ordered bars, nightclubs and similar venues to shut. Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said a "level of risk" in certain hot spots, such as Taipei's gritty Wanhua district, had spurred the decision to raise the alert level.
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Taiwan ordered stricter social distancing measures for its capital and surrounding areas on Saturday after a sudden spike in coronavirus cases in a place that has so far weathered the pandemic comparatively unscathed.
A MORNING fire totally burned 10 houses in Sitio Pilit, Barangay Cabancalan around the boundary of Talamban, Cebu at 6:11 a.m. Saturday, May 15, 2021.Senior Fire Officer 1 Antonio Montajes, fire investigator
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Macron and Ardern established the Christchurch call in 2019, as a response to a violent attack in Christchurch, urging world leaders and tech companies to take greater action against terrorism and online extremism.This year's summit comes following the death of French teacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded outside his school in a Paris suburb in October 2020."This cannot and should not happen again," Macron said, attending the summit virtually, from the presidential residence in Bregancon Fort in southern France.On March 15, 2019, New Zealand was left reeling after a lone gunman targeted two mosques in Christchurch, killing 51 people while streaming the massacre live on Facebook."The existence of algorithms themselves is not necessarily the problem, it's whether or not they are ethically used. That is one of the biggest focus for the community over the next year alongside expanding the network itself," Ardern said at a news conference after the forum.Facebook, the world's largest social network with 2.7 billion users, consequently came under fire for failing to react quickly enough to the livestream which lasted approximately 17 minutes, and for not doing enough to tackle extremism.
India’s COVID-19 infections crossed 24 million on Friday, as the country's outbreak stretches into neighboring Nepal.A highly transmissible variant of the virus has wreaked havoc across India's rural areas, where two-thirds of the country's population have limited access to healthcare.Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his government was “on a war footing” to contain the infections.On Friday Eid celebrations marking the end of Ramadan were subdued, as most states imposed lockdowns and closed down mosques.Modi has come under increasing pressure to impose a national lockdown as the variant first detected within its borders spreads around the globe.Its northern neighbor Nepal has seen 57 times more COVID-19 infections compared to a month ago.As the death toll surges, officials in Kathmandu are scrambling to cremate bodies and create space near riverbanks for funerals.The fresh outbreak there has also led to a shortage of hospital beds and medical supplies. Nearly half of the COVID tests in Nepal last week came back positive, according to the Red Cross, but only 1% of the population has been fully vaccinated.The country's Prime Minister has been forced to step down over his response to the crisis.Several countries have extended their travel bans on India to include Nepal, as well as Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
Seth Curry scored 20 points, Shake Milton added 15 and the host Philadelphia 76ers clinched the top seed in the Eastern Conference playoff race with a 122-97 victory over the undermanned Orlando Magic on Friday. Joel Embiid contributed 13 points and 11 rebounds while Ben Simmons had 13 points and nine assists for the Sixers, who will complete the 72-game regular season with another game against the Magic on Sunday. The Sixers played without key reserve Dwight Howard, who was suspended after being assessed his league-high 16th technical foul on Thursday.
Iran's former parliament speaker Ali Larijani, a moderate conservative and a supporter of Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers, submitted his candidacy Saturday for next month's presidential election.
Ronaldo, 36, has one year remaining on his contract at Juventus but has been linked with a departure this summer to Sporting, the club where he began his senior career. After Sporting clinched the Portuguese title for the first time since 2002 on Tuesday, Ronaldo's mother Aveiro said "next year he (Ronaldo) will play in Alvalade (Sporting's stadium)."
An Israeli air raid in Gaza City killed at least 10 Palestinians, mostly children, early Saturday in the deadliest single strike since the battle with Gaza's militant Hamas rulers erupted earlier this week. The latest outburst of violence began in Jerusalem and has spread across the region, with Jewish-Arab clashes and rioting in mixed cities of Israel. There were also widespread Palestinian protests Friday in the occupied West Bank, where Israeli forces shot and killed 11 people.