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IKE’s on-device age assurance for vapes gets FDA approval to proceed
Biometric Update
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June 5, 2025
IKE Tech LLC has received an Acceptance Review letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) relating to a blockchain and Bluetooth-based tokenized age assurance system built into...
FaceTec advances 2 patents for its 3D face biometric liveness to protect IP
Biometric Update
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June 5, 2025
FaceTec has strengthened its intellectual property protections for the company’s biometric identity verification technology, with one patent granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Organization and another allowed. The total number of issued...
PALOPs should take advantage of the advantages and think regionally, argues Sérgio Pimenta
Ver Angola
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In an interview with Lusa on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the independence of the former Portuguese colonies in Africa, which is being celebrated this year, Sérgio Pimenta said that the Portuguese-speaking African countries (PALOP)...
Israel Vows to Strike ‘Everywhere’ Against Iranian Regime
Foreign Policy
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Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at deadly strikes between Israel and Iran, day one of meetings at the G-7 summit, and a U.S. immigration crackdown. Attacks on Tehran Airstrikes lit up the Israeli and Iranian skies on Monday,...
Europe Unleashes Long-Forgotten Ocean Energy Source as 200-Year-Old Legend Sparks a New Green Power Revolution
Sustainability Times
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June 13, 2025
IN A NUTSHELL 🌊 Europe is at the forefront of turning the ocean’s thermal energy into a viable power source. 💡 The concept of ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) was first proposed in 1881 by French physicist Jacques-Arsène d’Arsonval. 🌍 OTEC...
Focus Biodiversity Forum: An Opportunity to Scale Up Conservation Efforts
Liberian Observer
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Often referred to as 'the Galapagos of Africa', the Island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe (STP) is big on biodiversity, with an incredible number of flora and fauna found nowhere else. Despite being the continent’s second smallest country...
Biometric identity verification gets caught up in great expectations and politics
Biometric Update
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June 14, 2025
The next generation of biometric identity verification collides with the politics of digital identity in the most-read articles of the week on Biometric Update. More evidence rolls in that remote ID verification will mostly be carried out with...
At UN conference, countries inch towards ocean protection goal
The Straits Times
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June 15, 2025
NICE, France – Remote coral atolls in the Caribbean. Habitat for threatened sharks and rays around a Tanzanian island in the Indian Ocean. And 900,000 sq km of the Pacific Ocean around French Polynesia. These are some of the stretches of water now...
US considers imposing visa ban on Nigeria, 24 other African countries
Premium Times
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June 14, 2025
About one week after imposing a travel ban on seven African countries, the Donald Trump-led US administration is considering imposing a visa ban and other travel restrictions on citizens of Nigeria and 24 other African countries. The Washington...
Portugal and Colombia detail major marine protection plans
Oceanographic Magazine
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June 12, 2025
Colombia is one of the world’s ‘megadiverse’ countries, with a coastline 2,900km long. The country ranks first in bird and orchid species diversity and second in butterflies, freshwater fishes, and amphibians. “This new reserve will strengthen our...
Bottom trawling bans and the High Seas Treaty: 8 of the biggest announcements from the UN Ocean Conference
Edie
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The UN Ocean Conference is hosted every three years and, for the third iteration this June in Nice, it was the turn of the French and Costa Rican Governments to co-host more than 170 other nations. Around 60 heads of state attended, and more than...
UN Ocean Conference puts ‘wind in the sails’ of ocean action
WWF International
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Posted on June, 13 2025 As the third UN Ocean Conference draws to a close, WWF is encouraged by the commitments made in a number of areas, but warns that the measure of success will be in delivery NICE, France (13 June 2025): The third UN Ocean...
Int’l infrastructure forum concludes with USD 10 bln in cooperation agreements
Macau Business
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June 13, 2025
Thirty-one cooperation agreements worth USD 10.1 billion were signed during an infrastructure forum in Macau, with one-third involving companies from Portuguese-speaking countries and the Special Administrative Region, it was announced on Friday....
These Are The 50 Richest Countries By GDP Per Capita
Zero Hedge
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GDP per capita is a rough proxy for a country’s average living standards. A higher GDP per capita usually reflects more economic resources available per person, a signal for prosperity. However, like all statistical measures there are caveats: it...
Ranked: The 50 Richest Countries by GDP Per Capita in 2025
Visual Capitalist
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June 13, 2025
See this visualization first on the Voronoi app. Use This Visualization Ranked: The 50 Richest Countries by GDP Per Capita in 2025 This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible...
Maintenance Facility Part Of Aviation Masterplan For Cross River – Commissioner
Daily Independent
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June 10, 2025
15 Capt. Eno Inah (rtd), the Commissioner for Aviation, Cross River State, in this interview with OLUSEGUN KOIKI, speaks on the plan of the State Government to construct an additional airport in the state, development of aviation industry,...
Protecting Tenerife's Marine Marvels
Living on Earth
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Port construction can have major environmental impacts on the ocean such as damaging the seabed and creating coastal runoff. (Photo: Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain) One of the recipients of this year’s...
Taiwan’s Africa gambit
The Interpreter
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June 11, 2025
In the ongoing struggle for global recognition, Taiwan has long been the underdog. Diplomatic isolation, driven by Beijing’s “One China” policy, has pushed Taipei out of most international organisations and bilateral relationships. Nowhere is this...
IUCN hosts IslandPlas workshop in Mauritius to help tackle…
IUCN
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Ébène, Mauritius, 09 June 2025 – The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) hosted the national IslandPlas inception workshop on April 24, 2025, in Ebène, Mauritius. The event gathered key stakeholders from Mauritius to help address...
How the C-390 is charging ahead with Portugal’s Rhinos squadron
FlightGlobal
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When Portugal signed an almost €830 million ($1.1 billion) contract for five Embraer C/KC-390 tactical transports in July 2019, it was taking something of a gamble by becoming the first export buyer for the Brazilian-built type. But now close to...