Day: July 7, 2021

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Falana & Falana Issues the Following Statement: Alex Saab Challenges Indictment in U.S. Court

WASHINGTON, July 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, the legal team of Baker Hostetler, representing Mr. Alex Saab, filed their Opening Brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, challenging a decision by U.S. District Judge in Miami refusing to consider Mr. Saab’s status as a diplomat immune from U.S. proceedings unless and until he personally appears in the United States.

Mr. Saab was unlawfully detained, at the request of U.S. law enforcement authorities, in Cabo Verde, where his aircraft had stopped to refuel. He was, in fact, traveling from Venezuela to Iran on a diplomatic mission, seeking humanitarian assistance in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a well established rule of international law that diplomats, traveling from their country of origin to an overseas post, whether as a special envoy like Mr. Saab or as part of a permanent mission, are entitled to diplomatic immunity from arrest or detention. Accordingly, at the instruction of his own government, he has vigorously opposed his extradition to the United States.

Mr. Saab, the subject of a U.S. indictment for alleged wrongdoing in Venezuela and neighboring countries, sought to raise this point with the Miami district judge, who refused to consider his immunity until he agreed to personally appear before the judge in the United States. The judge grounded his decision in the “fugitive disentitlement” doctrine, which is a judge-made rule stating that individuals who have fled the court’s authority cannot raise legal arguments until they have been physically brought before the court.

However, this doctrine does not apply in Mr. Saab’s case because he has never fled the United States or U.S. law enforcement authorities, and has opposed his extradition to the United States because he is a diplomat on mission entitled to immunity. Accordingly, Mr. Saab has appealed the District Judge’s ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. In his Opening Brief, Mr. Saab has made plain that he is not a fugitive from the United States and that, as Venezuela’s Special Envoy to Iran, he is a diplomatic Head of Mission under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the United States Diplomatic Relations Act, which implements U.S. treaty obligations under that Convention. In fact, the Eleventh Circuit concluded that Special Envoy’s like Mr. Saab are entitled to immunity in a case decided in 1984, Abdulaziz v. Meto. Dade County, 741 F.2d 1328 (11th Cir. 1984). This case constitutes binding precedent on both the District Judge and the Court of Appeals.

Accordingly, Mr. Saab has asked the Court of Appeals to reject the District Court’s application of the Fugitive Disentitlement Doctrine and to rule that he is entitled to immunity from arrest, detention, and extradition to the United States, dismissing the case against him.

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Falana & Falana Chambers

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Hatch raises C$1 million for COVAX and UNICEF

Mississauga, Canada, July 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Mississauga, Canada— Hatch employees came together in an eight-week-long campaign to raise funds in support of COVAX, helping them progress towards their goal of procuring and delivering 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines globally. Through the employees’ generous donations and a corporate match, $C1 million was raised!

COVAX is co-led by Gavi, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the World Health Organization, alongside key delivery partner, UNICEF. Its aim is to accelerate the development and manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines, and to guarantee fair and equitable access for every country in the world.

Unfortunately, many countries do not have the ability to maintain progress or even start. It is clear the pandemic will not truly end until all countries have equitable access to vaccines. UNICEF is working with manufacturers and partners on the procurement and delivery of vaccine doses, as well as freight, logistics, and storage for countries around the world. With Hatch’s donation, UNICEF will be able to fully vaccinate (two doses) more than 187,000 people worldwide.

“To end this pandemic, we need to think globally and act locally to make a difference beyond our families and our company—this is the basis of real positive change around the world. As a global company, we are engaging great people who make a difference every day in their communities, with our clients, and with each other. Together, we saw the imperative to support the world’s largest mass health campaign to stop the COVID-19 virus and move forward into a better future,” shared John Bianchini, Hatch’s Chairman and CEO.

“On behalf of UNICEF, I would like to thank Hatch for its support in ensuring widespread and equitable delivery of COVID-19 vaccines. They stepped up to help UNICEF in its efforts to deliver the largest fastest immunization campaign in history. We are grateful to Hatch employees for their contributions and to Hatch for increasing the impact by matching every dollar raised,” shared David Morley, UNICEF Canada’s President and CEO.

Hatch is committed to doing its part to support efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic. Hatch also recently sponsored the “This is our Shot” movement, a consortium of grassroots organizations, Canadian businesses, associations, healthcare professionals, community leaders, and influencers focused on educating and inspiring Canadians so that vaccine hesitancy is replaced with confidence.

To learn more about how Hatch continues to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, visit our COVID-19 Information Center.

To learn more about the UNICEF COVAX campaign, click here.

About Hatch

Whatever our clients envision, our professional teams can design and build. With over six decades of business and technical experience in the mining, energy, and infrastructure sectors, we know your business and understand that your challenges are changing rapidly. We respond quickly with solutions that are smarter, more efficient, and innovative. We draw upon our 9,500 staff with experience in over 150 countries to challenge the status quo and create positive change for our clients, our employees, and the communities we serve.

Find out more on www.hatch.com.

Lindsay Janca
Hatch
19054034199
media@hatch.com
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Huawei Accelerates the Digital Journey of Education, Creating New Value Together

SHENZHEN, China, July 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The Huawei Global Intelligent Education Summit 2021 — themed Accelerate the Digital Journey of Education: New Value Together — has commenced today online. Huawei proposed the “3/3/9” principle as the foundation of the all-scenario education solution that aims to speed up the digital upgrade of the education industry. Together with partners, Huawei aims to create new shared value by enabling innovative teaching methodologies, inclusive educational resources, improved research capabilities, and optimized management approaches.

“The education industry sees the inevitable deep integration of teaching and technology. The pandemic has made us realize that intelligent education has never been a more urgent demand. In the future, teaching, management, and research will become fully aware, fully connected, and fully intelligent. Joined by solution partners in the education industry, Huawei will help our customers transform faster towards all-scenario intelligent education,” said Thomas Xu, President of the Global Government Sales of Huawei Enterprise BG.

“New ICT technologies are actively driving the innovative practice of higher education. Designing and organizing training based on capacity building can effectively help partner universities solve the problem of insufficient ICT application capabilities of teachers. Enterprises play a vital role of pushing and promoting the application of ICT technologies in higher education within the ICT-driven higher education innovation model. “said Prof. Zhao Jianhua, senior expert at the International Centre for Higher Education Innovation under the Auspices of UNESCO (UNESCO-ICHEI).

By building an intelligent education platform, Huawei’s Intelligent Education Solution aims to meet the requirements of various campus service scenarios, support a variety of teaching applications, and integrate intelligence in all aspects of teaching, learning, management, and research.” Said Frank Huang, Director of the Global Education and Healthcare Industry of Huawei Enterprise BG.

3/3/9 principle: Accelerating Digital Upgrades with All-Scenario Intelligence

Huawei introduced the “3/3/9” principle of the all-scenario education solution. It targets “three” key customer groups: basic education, higher education, and NREN. The “three” major scenarios are: smart classroom, smart campus, and research innovation. The solution offers “nine” customizable solutions: hybrid learning, collaborative classroom, digital classroom, intelligent collaboration, safe campus, school connectivity, smart campus network, NREN, and HPC.

  • Smart Classroom: It features hybrid learning, collaborative classroom, and digital classroom. Huawei integrates the smart devices such as the IdeaHub Board, efficient network connections, and cloud services to support teaching that uses a variety of media. Huawei currently serves more than 2600 universities and research institutions worldwide.
  • Smart Campus: Technologies like IoT and Wi-Fi 6 enable a smart campus network with all-wireless coverage and network-wide automation, which builds an intelligent and open education environment, improves the interaction between students and teachers. Cloud-based Soochow University is a smart campus project that goes beyond the traditional campuses, exploring the new form of future universities.
  • Research Innovation: Huawei is actively working to meet the future requirements of online and cloud-based research, and promoting the sharing of educational and research resources. Huawei also helps researchers obtain information through shared research network resources by providing cloud-based research services. For example, Huawei worked with RNP (Brazil) build its first education OTN backbone network, with, a multi-service and block-free network beyond 100G.

Diversified Talent Development: Huawei Helps Deliver Inclusive Education Resources and Improve Research Capabilities

Huawei offers student-centered hybrid learning and digital classroom solutions, to deliver quality education resources to all.

N’dja Kole Jean-Baptiste, Headmaster of Lycée Classique Abidjan in Cote d’Ivoire, says “I experienced the live lesson function in two different classes. Teachers are now able to teach and reach more students online, meaning that the shortage of teachers can be overcome.”

Huawei is actively working on cultivating qualified talent in the field of higher education. For vocational education, Huawei promotes the integration of education with hands-on industry practice by encouraging students’ practical learning that will prepare for the markets.

Xu Lei, Associate Professor PhD at Guangdong Polytechnic of Science and Technology, said, “Cultivating talent in vocational schools requires  the transformation of traditional teaching models and the binding between school and professional practice. We must focus on cultivating students’ professional capabilities to provide market-ready talent.”

In the research field, Huawei has launched the NREN solution, whose IP + optical hybrid model provides high bandwidth, deliver reliable and low-latency services, and overcome distance limitations to improve research efficiency.

“Huawei has enabled us to deliver a great variety of quality cloud services to our partners across the UAE — which has boosted efficiency, reduced costs, and facilitated collaboration across the education industry,” said Fahem Al Nuaimi, CEO of Ankabut.

Work with Partners to Build an ICT Talent Ecosystem

Huawei reiterated its three strategic initiatives regarding ecosystem: (1) Gaining in-depth insights into industry scenarios for  inclusive and quality education; (2) Striving for mutual benefit, by enabling partners to reduce costs and increase efficiency; (3) Working together with partners to build a foundation for ICT talent and a new “industry-university-research” ecosystem.

Huawei has set up 1,500 Huawei ICT academies worldwide, More than 3,000 teachers have been certified as lecturers training over 60,000 students each year. Huawei has more than 60 partners in the education industry and has established OpenLabs in multiple countries to incubate joint solutions developed by Huawei and ISVs.

Huawei has upgraded the ISV partner system and the planning and consulting partner certification system. In addition, it has added technical support to provide solutions based on consulting. Huawei has upgraded the rights and interests of HUAWEI CLOUD strategic technology partners.

“By converging technological innovation with high-quality professional ICT education resources, Tech Education empowers universities, enterprises, training institutions, and governments to cultivate ICT talent at scale. We wish to cooperate with Huawei global partners to create a prosperous talent ecosystem.” said Lily Chen, Co-Founder and Vice President of Tech Education.

For more information about Huawei Global Intelligent Education Summit 2021, please click https://e.huawei.com/topic/2021-event-education-summit/en/index.html.

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40 Million People Relied on GFN Food Banks for Meals amid COVID-19 Crisis in 2020

Food banks increased their reach by 132 percent over the previous year due to increased demand for food caused by pandemic and faltering economic conditions

Chicago, IL, July 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) announced that food banks in 44 countries served 40 million people in 2020, a 132 percent increase over service in 2019. The data is part of GFN’s annual Network survey, which this year includes information about how GFN-supported food banks around the world responded to COVID-19.

The significant increase in people accessing food banks reflects the toll of the pandemic. As food requests rose from cut-off or quarantined communities, food banks rapidly deployed their transport, inventory, and logistics infrastructures to assist people who were isolated due to closed schools and public support agencies or overwhelmed health systems.

“Food banks have served as a lifeline for millions of people during the health crisis,” said Lisa Moon, president and CEO of The Global FoodBanking Network. “When the pandemic rattled economies and prevented access to food, food banks responded where existing infrastructure failed. They proved agile and resourceful, providing emergency relief and hope to their communities.”

African food banks, which served 169 percent more people than the year before, reported the highest increase in people served globally, followed by food banks in Latin America, which served 157 percent more people than in 2019.

Many food banks embraced mass distribution through congregate feeding sites and meal kit deliveries as they sought to reach the most people possible. More than half of the people served by GFN partner food banks in 2020 were women and girls.

Children were especially vulnerable during lockdowns and movement restrictions. In response to widespread school closures, the majority of GFN partner food banks that operated or supported feeding programs for school-age children (including school lunches, after-school snacks, and backpack programs) quickly pivoted to alternative models, such as providing food directly to families or organizing distribution events at schools and daycare centers.

As COVID-19 disrupted the global food supply chain, food banks saw a shift in the sources of donated products. According to the survey, food banks experienced a tremendous drop in donations from food services, restaurants, hotels, grocers, and markets. At the same time, food donations from the agricultural sector nearly doubled in 2020, partly because farms did not have the informal labor force needed for harvest.

This year promises to be another challenging year for food banks. In the GFN survey, food banks in many countries reported deep concern over slow vaccine rollouts, additional waves of infections, economic recovery and recession, and staff and volunteer burnout.

“COVID-19 has made the hunger crisis even more urgent,” said Moon. “Now more than ever, it is important that governments, businesses, and other community leaders partner with food banks, which are community assets that work to ensure all people have access to food.”

About The Global FoodBanking Network:

The Global FoodBanking Network supports community-driven solutions to alleviate hunger in more than 40 countries. While millions struggle to access enough safe and nutritious food, nearly a third of all food produced is lost or wasted. We’re changing that. We believe food banks directed by local leaders are key to achieving Zero Hunger and building resilient food systems. For more information, visit foodbanking.org.

Nina Rabinovitch Blecker
The Global FoodBanking Network
+1-617-823-4107
nblecker@foodbanking.org
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ISW Holdings clôture sa première phase de plus de 100 MW pour le minage de crypto-monnaies en Géorgie, capable de générer plus de 100 millions de dollars de revenus bruts annuels

LAS VEGAS, 07 juill. 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — via InvestorWire — ISW Holdings, Inc. (OTC : ISWH) (« ISW Holdings » ou la « Société »), une entreprise mondiale de gestion de marques, a le plaisir d’annoncer qu’elle a finalisé son accord de location de terrains, qui autorise la Société à utiliser pleinement un lot de 7 acres de première phase en Géorgie adapté aux opérations d’extraction de cryptomonnaies, avec un accès à des ressources énergétiques pouvant alimenter plus de 100 MW de capacité d’extraction de cryptomonnaies.

« Cet accord nous met dans une excellente position pour nous classer parmi les cinq premiers site de minage de cryptomonnaies au monde en termes de volume », a déclaré Alonzo Pierce, président et directeur général d’ISW Holdings. « Nous contrôlons une parcelle de terre idéale, afin de lancer la première phase offrant un accès supplémentaire à plus de 100 mégawatts d’énergie pour une utilisation à des fins de minage de cryptomonnaies. Nous pouvons également compter sur notre partenaire proche Bit5ive, LLC, le plus grand fournisseur d’équipements de minage et de services d’énergie propre et renouvelable en Amérique du Nord, directement sur le site pour y gérer et développer les opérations minières. La Chine s’effondre et met un terme à son industrie nationale de minage de cryptomonnaies. Cela a d’énormes conséquences car plus de la moitié du minage mondial de cryptomonnaies a eu lieu en Chine. En conséquence, nous recevons déjà de nombreux appels de sociétés minières à la recherche d’une nouvelle terre d’accueil. Nous sommes désormais équipés pour traiter ce problème à grande échelle. Nous en avons le pouvoir ! »

Pour plus de détails et accéder aux énoncés prospectifs, consultez l’annonce dans son intégralité à l’adresse : https://ibn.fm/ISW100MWAnnouncement

« Notre plan consiste à exécuter un accord supplémentaire avec certaines des sociétés minières les plus importantes et les plus connues au monde à la recherche d’hébergements supplémentaires pour des opérations minières étendues », a ajouté M. Pierce. « Nous commençons déjà à concevoir et à planifier cette évolutivité supplémentaire. Une fois que nous aurons déployé l’intégralité des 100 MW, nous constaterons un taux d’exécution du chiffre d’affaires brut total supérieur à 100 millions de dollars sur une base annualisée. »

À propos d’ISW Holdings
ISW Holdings, Inc. (ISWH), basée dans le Nevada, est une société de portefeuille diversifiée, composée d’unités commerciales essentielles qui répondent aux demandes de produits de consommation. Notre expertise réside dans le développement stratégique des marques, la facilitation précoce de la croissance, ainsi que l’identité des marques grâce à notre processus exclusif de passation de marchés. Aux côtés de nos partenaires, nous cherchons à fournir une structure répondant aux demandes de grande évolutivité, ainsi qu’aux besoins anticipés du marché. Nous sommes capables de répondre à ces besoins par le biais d’une diversité de processus stratégiques innovants. ISWH crée et gère des marques dans un large éventail de secteurs révolutionnaires. Elle gère ses sociétés propriétaires à travers les étapes critiques du développement de marché, qui comprennent la conceptualisation, les stratégies de commercialisation, l’ingénierie, l’intégration de produits et l’efficacité de la distribution. La Société s’est également associée à une entreprise de conseil et de développement de logiciels bien connue, Bengala Technologies LLC, qui développe des améliorations significatives dans le domaine de la gestion de chaîne d’approvisionnement. Ce partenariat est en instance d’obtention d’un brevet crucial.

Le segment dédié au minage de cryptomonnaies de la Société, établi en partenariat avec le leader du secteur, Bit5ive LLC, est motivé par une mission visant à miner les cryptomonnaies avec une empreinte carbone nulle. Pour en savoir plus, rendez-vous sur www.iswholdings.com.

À propos de Bit5ive

Bit5ive est un leader en centres de données de minage de cryptomonnaies dont plusieurs projets sont en cours de développement aux États-Unis. Le succès de Bit5ive réside dans son engagement envers ses clients, aux industries et professions variées. Le siège social de Bit5ive est situé à Miami, en Floride, d’où il opère en tant que centre de gestion de ses centres de données, de ses ventes et de son service à la clientèle. Pour en savoir plus, rendez-vous sur www.Bit5ive.com.

Contact auprès de la Société :
info@ISWHoldings.com

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