Director Pawo Choyning is yet to get over his amazement at the astonishing success of his debut film “Lunana: A Yak in Classroom” that offers a glimpse into life at a far-flung Bhutanese village and has become the first movie from the Himalayan country to be nominated for the Academy Awards.
“We are a very, very small film that was made in the world’s most remote classroom. We had so many logistical challenges that we almost felt like we wouldn’t be able to complete this film,” the 38-year-old director, whose film is competing in the Best International Feature category, told EFE.
“Being nominated for the Oscars is the last thing we expected. But, you know, magical things happen.”
Being put through to a call center conjures feelings of dread and a hopeless acceptance that you will spend a good chunk of your day on hold listening to elevator music but imagine, instead, you were greeted by your favorite Bollywood star or the avatar of a deity – it is not as far-fetched as it sounds.
Radisys, a global leader in telecoms solutions, is using artificial intelligence technology and pre-recorded video to revolutionize and humanize the call center experience with its tool Engage Video Assistant.
“We use human experts, celebrities or an avatar to provide customers what they are looking for,” the firm’s senior director of business development, Shankar Krishnamurthy, told Efe at the Mobile World Congress taking place in Barcelona.
Schools in Indian-administered Kashmir, closed in 2019 due to security reasons and in the subsequent year on account of the Covid-19 pandemic, re-opened on Wednesday after 31 months.
“The J&K (Jammu and Kashmir) government has decided to reopen all the schools for routine class work (offline) from March 2,” an official statement issued a couple of days earlier said.
The statement directed the heads of schools to strictly follow Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOPs) in order to protect the students.
The semi-humanoid robot Pepper is being used by police in the United Arab Emirates to uncover crimes against children such as abuse and exploitation, a sensitive area where a friendly android face could prove more approachable and less traumatic for those involved.
The project from the multinational IT company Inetum uses Pepper’s artificial intelligence-driven ability to read emotions and understand human behavior to interact with the children and assess their responses to questioning when faced with a potentially distressing or even life threatening situation.
“It is one of our most beautiful and resilient projects,” head of innovation at Inetum Spain, Jesus Otero, told Efe at the Mobile World Congress taking place in Barcelona.
“The presence of the robot helps the children to open up and be more expressive in therapy despite the fear they are experiencing,” Otero said.
The chairman of the United States Federal Reserve said Wednesday he will support an interest rate hike of 25 basis points at this month’s meeting of the central bank’s monetary policy-making body.
Jerome Powell made those remarks to the US House of Representatives’ Committee on Financial Services, saying he continues to support tighter credit conditions despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
That’s how Robert Pattinson describes his embodiment of Gotham City’s most famous superhero in “The Batman,” a film with the air of a noir thriller that is set to debut in the United States on Friday.
“(My Batman) would be listening to Norwegian black metal or maybe drone techno. That definitely seems like (what) would reflect his mental state,” the actor joked in an interview with Efe when imagining what musical tastes his dark take on Bruce Wayne (Batman’s real identity) might have.
Warner Bros. Pictures is counting on Matt Reeves’ direction and the charisma of Pattinson to help ensure the success of this reboot of the DC Comics franchise, a picture that entertainment magazine Variety says has a whopping $200 million budget.
Spain’s Popular Party leader Pablo Casado, once tipped as a rejuvenating force in Spanish conservatism, confirmed Tuesday that he was stepping down in the wake of an internal clash with the regional leader of Madrid, one of the party’s new rising stars.
Married, 41, announced he would not run in a leadership vote expected at a snap party congress called in the wake of the crisis at the heart of the PP, a bastion of Spanish conservatism currently leading the national opposition.
“I have a clear conscience, full of thanks and without anger or frustration. You have allowed me to be a part of Spanish history,” he said.
“The Popular Party belongs to its members but also to all Spanish citizens. That is why I am sorry for everything I did
The price of Brent crude on Wednesday exceeded $110, its highest price since 2014 as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine raged on and international sanctions against Moscow began to bite.
Fears of a global oil supply crisis following Russia’s military assault on Ukraine prompted Ryanair director Michael O’Leary to urge western nations to ramp up the production of oil at tame soaring prices.
Brent crude on Wednesday was trading at $111.59 on the London futures market, a 6.3% increase on Tuesday figures.
On January 19, a car bomb exploded a few meters from a building in the city of Saravena, in the Colombian municipality of Arauca, where some 60 community leaders had gathered.
The activists survived the bombing because hours before the attack, they had erected makeshift barricades with plastic barrels they filled with stones as FARC dissidents, with Antonio Medina at the helm, were attempting on assassinating them.
The attack claimed one life, Simeón Delgado, who was a security guard at the Colombian Agricultural Institute headquarters where the van exploded causing extensive damage to several buildings, including the Héctor Alirio Martínez building which is used by community-led organizations and was the target of the attack.
Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially the Sahel, recorded 48 percent of all extremist deaths globally in 2021, attributed to groups affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) terror group, while attacks declined by 68 percent in Western countries, where they were motivated more by political views than religious reasons.
The ninth edition of the Global Terrorism Index, released on Wednesday, indicates that deaths from terrorism fell 1.2 percent last year, to 7,142, while attacks increased 17 percent to 5,226, which shows that “attacks became less deadly in 2021.”
According to the report prepared by the Australian Institute for Economics and Peace, extremism is increasingly concentrated in conflict zones – where 97.6 percent of deaths from terrorism occurred -, with Afghanistan as the country with the highest impact from extremism, followed by Iraq, Somalia, Burkina Faso, Syria, Nigeria, Mali, Niger, Myanmar and Pakistan, out of the 163 countries included in the analysis.
New Zealand Police on Wednesday evicted anti-vaccine mandate protesters who had occupied the grounds of parliament for 23 days, resulting in riots, fires and dozens of arrests.
Photographs and videos circulating on social media as well as local media livestreams of the operation, which began at 6am and was still going more than 12 hours later, showed protesters setting tents, a playground and various objects on fire, and throwing projectiles, including bricks ripped up from the pavement, at police.
Officers used pepper spray, sponge bullets and fire hoses as clashes and chaos spilled out of parliament grounds onto surrounding city streets.
At least 65 people were arrested for a range of offenses including trespass, willful damage and possession of restricted weapons, police said.
United States President Joe Biden promised Tuesday that he will “save democracy” from the challenges faced inside and outside the country, and that his Russian counterpart will “pay” for his invasion of Ukraine.
The war in Ukraine was the focus of part of Biden’s first State of the Union address, in which he announced his decision to close US airspace to Russian flights, as Canada and the European Union have done.
“[Russian president Vladimir] Putin is now isolated from the world more than he has ever been,” the president said before lawmakers from both houses of US Congress.
“[He] has unleashed violence and chaos. But while he may make gains on the battlefield, he will pay a continuing high price over the long run.”
The Spanish supreme court prosecutor’s office on Wednesday archived a three-pronged probe into the finances of former King Juan Carlos I.
The ex-monarch was under investigation for allegations that he accepted illegal kick-backs worth 65 million euros ($100 million) related to a high-speed rail project in Saudi Arabia, as well as for claims he used credit cards linked to foreign accounts not registered in his name and for his alleged murky links to offshore funds.
The King of Spain International Journalism Prizes on Wednesday recognized the work of Spanish and Portuguese journalists across Latin America and their important coverage of social movements, the environment and humanitarian work.
The report “The broken promise: the collapse of social security in Venezuela” published on the Prodavinci news site won the prize for International Cooperation and Humanitarian Action Journalism.
Photographer César Luis Melgarejo Aponte scooped the International Photography Journalism award for his photograph “Resistir” (“Resist”) published in Colombia’s El Tiempo newspaper.
The report “The Assassination of the president of Haiti” broadcast on Colombian TV program Noticias Caracol won the Narrative Journalism Award “for sharing exclusive information about the assassination of Jovenel Moise in 2021”.
Spanish non-profit organization Civio was awarded with the Ibero-American Media award for its work based on “transparency, data veracity and accountability”.
The report “Daughter of Cotton: A Profile of Cristina Rivera Garza”, published in the Mexican magazine Gatopardo, was awarded with the Cultural Journalism prize “for its ability to reflect on the contribution of Hispanics to the creation of the culture of the United States .”
Finally, the Environmental Journalism award was given to the report “Engolindo Fumaça” (“Swallowing Smoke”) on the health effects of forest fires published in InfoAmazonia of Brazil.
Created by Spain’s news agency EFE and the country’s agency for international cooperation and development (AECID) in 1983, the annual media awards recognize some of the leading work done by Spanish and Portuguese-speaking journalists.
The jury for this 39th edition of the prize ceremony selected media outlets and reporters from 17 Ibero-American countries spanning topics ranging from humanitarian, social, cultural and environmental. EFE
Russian paratroopers have landed in Kharkiv where deadly street battles erupted, while Russian troops made advances in the south on the seventh day of an invasion that Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday aimed to erase his country’s history.
Russian military attacks on Ukraine’s second-largest city, near the Russian border, killed 21 civilians and injured 112 others overnight, the regional governor Oleh Synyehubov said in a Telegram post, adding that Russian forces had attacked a military hospital.
Renewed Russian shelling on Wednesday morning struck several buildings, including a university, and killed four people, emergency services said.
Kharkiv, a largely Russian-speaking city, has a population of around 1.4 million.
Suffice it to remember that in 2020, 119,853 people died from cardiovascular problems, which represented 24.3% of total deaths, a percentage that represents the first cause of death, above cancer.
In his opinion, this data should make the whole of society reflect and a greater effort and investment of public resources is needed in prevention and especially in promoting cardiovascular health, starting with children and in schools.
“You have to carry out activities from childhood, because you cannot wait or focus on risk factors when they have already appeared but have been dragging on for years (cholesterol, high blood pressure…)”, he declared in an interview with EFEsalud.
For this reason, it defends that healthy cardiovascular habits (exercise, nutrition) must be promoted from childhood with early actions and insist that toxic habits (tobacco, alcohol…) must be avoided to reduce the load and the appearance of ailments that affect to the heart.
FEC President, Andres Iñiguez Romo
Only when we have created sufficient awareness in civil society of the relevance of cardiovascular health will we be able to have a population that not only self-manages its health, but also makes possible a healthier society, more involved and with more years in quantity and quality of life. ”.
Cardiovascular health: Covid impact
Regarding the imprint of Covid on cardiovascular ailments, he has referred that it has affected very negatively, especially in the toughest months of the pandemic.
The data “shows that the activity in interventions and consultations fell between 30 and 40 percent in those months”, because the patients did not go to the hospital out of fear and there was a higher mortality rate in that phase, “but we have already recovered the activity normal”.
Íñiguez, who was president of the Spanish Society of Cardiology (SEC) between 2015 and 2017, He has been in favor of scientific societies having the same legal status as medical colleges.
Because at an institutional level, he explains, the medical associations represent the professionals from the labor and corporate point of view, but the societies represent them from the field of knowledge and “if one wants to ensure quality care, based on scientific criteria, no one more qualified than scientific societies.
On a separate note, and in line with the controversy raised by the labeling of wine in the European Union, the president of the FEC has not hesitated to state that it has been shown that excessive alcohol consumption is very harmful not only for the heart but also for other organs, “But no one has shown and there is no study to support that a reasonable amount of wine, such as a glass at mealtime, is detrimental to health.”
Thus, he has remarked that one drink a day, therefore, is not harmful, as long as it is low-grade alcohol.
Cardiovascular health: give life to the heart
On its website the Spanish Heart Foundation explains seven strategies “to give life” to our hearts in 2022.
– Control risk factors
Almost 60% of Spaniards have two or more cardiovascular risk factors, which exponentially multiplies the chances of suffering from heart disease. Lack of sleep, which affects 36.2% of the population, and overweight, which affects 33.8%, are the most frequent, but not the only ones.
Hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, obesity, a sedentary lifestyle, stress and smoking also occur in high percentages, and controlling them is key to preventing heart disease from appearing.
– Give up smoking
According to the WHO, around 8 million people die each year from tobacco. Therefore, quitting smoking is an essential decision to gain health.
The body enjoys some of the benefits of quitting even shortly after putting out the last cigarette: Within 12 hours after smoking a cigarette, carbon monoxide and nicotine levels drop, and the lungs and heart begin to burn. repair smoke damage.
– Exercise and more exercise
Physical exercise is, together with a healthy diet, the best way to keep our cardiovascular health in shape. Not only to prevent heart disease, but also to improve the quality of life of those who already suffer from it.
At the cardiac level, both the force with which the heart contracts and the heart rate increase and this, together with the increase in heart rate, serves to increase the volume of blood that circulates through the body in one minute.
The WHO recommends moderate aerobic physical activity for at least 150 to 300 minutes per week, or vigorous aerobic physical activity for at least 75 to 150 minutes per week.
– Mediterranean diet
A diet that consists of the consumption of fruits, vegetables, legumes and whole grains, avoiding as much as possible both free sugars and trans fats and limiting the intake of saturated fats in favor of unsaturated fats, present in fish, avocados, nuts and olive oil, is a gift for the heart.
It is the basis of the Mediterranean diet, which helps control hypertension, diabetes mellitus, obesity and high cholesterol levels.
– The importance of rest
Getting the sleep we need is essential. This was revealed by a study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology , where it is concluded that those people who, in addition to leading healthy lifestyle habits such as regular physical activity, maintaining a balanced diet, moderate alcohol consumption and not smoking , sleeping a minimum of seven hours a day, reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease by up to 65 percent.
The same study estimated that in these people the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease is reduced by 83% compared to those who do not follow any healthy lifestyle.
– Sugar in balance
Diabetes is an important cardiovascular risk factor that continues to grow. To prevent it, it is essential to control blood glucose levels.
Obesity and a sedentary lifestyle are the main causes of diabetes: between 50 and 80% of diabetics are obese, and the reason is that, by accumulating fat that is distributed around the organs, it reduces the secretion of insulin in the liver and make the tissues more resistant to it.
– Reduce the consumption of trans fats
If trans fats, which are mainly found in processed products such as cookies, industrial pastries, precooked foods, snacks, ice creams, creams and shakes, are consumed in large quantities, they can negatively affect our body, especially cardiovascular health.
The reason is that they increase total cholesterol levels, blood triglyceride levels, and inflammation.
BOGOTA COLOMBIA). Friday, February 18, 2022 (RPTV NEWS AGENCY). To eradicate the power of this criminal group, a rigorous international work team was created led by the Civil Guard, in which the US agency DEA, EUROPOL, the Brazilian Federal Police and the Belgian Federal Police have participated, all under the direction of the Central Court of Instruction No. 1 of the National High Court
They are held responsible for the introduction into our country of more than 4 tons of cocaine, all of them intervened by the Civil Guard in Spain, coming from countries such as Colombia, Brazil and Ecuador.
Overall, in all the actions carried out in the different countries involved, 28 people have been arrested, several of them High Value Targets (HVT) for EUROPOL, as well as the apprehension of more than 8 tons of cocaine
Dismantled an international criminal organization responsible for the introduction of tons of cocaine into Europe through different Spanish ports
The Civil Guard, within the framework of the TURIA operation, has managed to dismantle one of the most active criminal organizations with regard to the introduction of large consignments of narcotics through the main Spanish seaports destined for Europe.
The investigation began more than a year ago, when the Civil Guard, through its Central Operational Unit (UCO), focused its efforts on the criminal activity of the main ports of our country, given the proliferation of different seizures of cocaine, Many of them follow the same criminal pattern.
In this way, already in April of last year, the Organized Crime Teams (ECOs) of the Central Operational Unit based in Alicante and Pontevedra, prevented the departure of 300 kilograms of cocaine from the Port of Valencia, proceeding to the arrest of 3 people, who, using a vehicle authorized to operate in that port, extracted the described substance from a container, hidden in a container coming from Brazil by the well-known method of “blind hook” or “lost hook”.
Ambitious international police operation.
As a result of this intervention and all the information obtained from it and other previous ones, an ambitious international police operation was launched, with the full involvement of the Civil Guard together with the Brazilian, North American and Belgian authorities, as well as EUROPOL.
During this time, all the participating Bodies and Agencies have managed to create a rigorous work team through several coordination meetings in different countries, which has allowed them to meet and identify the main leaders of this important criminal network, from Dubai ( UAE) to Brazil, as well as the seizure, in different interventions, of more than 3,900 kilograms of cocaine in Spain alone, all of them carried out by the Civil Guard within this work team.
TURIA-TURFE operation; Simultaneous performances in Spain and Brazil
In this way, this very week the final phase of this important operation has been carried out, acting simultaneously and in a coordinated manner in Spain and Brazil, for which UCO agents have been transferred to that country, as well as Brazilian agents and EUROPOL have done it to Spain, achieving the total dismantling of the investigated organization.
As far as Spain is concerned, 7 people related to these events have been arrested, 4 of them in the province of Barcelona in 5 searches carried out, 400 kilograms of cocaine having been seized in an industrial warehouse inside a maritime container coming from Brazil and arriving at the port of Barcelona. In addition, as a result of one of the searches, an indoor marijuana plantation with more than 300 plants has been intervened, as well as several high-end vehicles, encrypted mobile phone devices of great interest for research, jewelry and the blocking of more than 20 bank accounts of different companies linked to this criminal group, created to facilitate the importation of drugs and the transfer of money.
High Value Targets for Europol (HVT)
Simultaneously, the Brazilian Federal Police, in what they have called operation TURFE and in which agents from the Central Operational Unit transferred to that country for that purpose have participated, have proceeded to carry out 30 house searches, producing in some of them intense exchanges of fire with the police, as well as the arrest of 20 people, among which are several High Value Targets (HVT) for the European agency.
The operation has been carried out by the Civil Guard through its Organized Crime Teams (ECO’s) and the Central Anti-Drug Group, both belonging to the Central Operational Unit, together with the US DEA, the Brazilian Federal Police and from Belgium also EUROPOL, all directed by the Central Investigating Court number 1 and the Special Anti-Drug Prosecutor’s Office, both of the National High Court.
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Different German organizations They require people who speak Spanish to fill various jobs. Here we tell you what they are.
For example, Gabarró, a company in the metallurgical sector with offices in Spain and Germany, offers positions as a production operator with at least one year of experience and who is fluent in Spanish.
Similarly, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical company that manufactures, markets and distributes specialized pharmaceutical products requires a clinical specialist at its Frankfurt location who speaks Spanish.
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N26 SL, a company founded in 2013, has a vacancy available in Berlin for the position of Spanish-speaking AFC Operations Investigator.
Also, Delivery Hero, a major food ordering network in the world, is looking for a Senior Manager in Internal Strategy Consulting with communication skills in Spanish.
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Other companies in which they also look for people who handle the Spanish language are Chrono 24, Crowe Kleeberg, Fidelity Investments, Globalg.AP, ODDO BHF and the German Made Institute GmbH.
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The Spanish Fernando Verdasco, the Argentines Federico Coria and Francisco Cerúndolo and the Serbs Miomir Kecmanovic and Dusan Lajovic qualified this Monday for the round of 16 of the Argentine Open, the ATP 250 that is played in Buenos Aires and ends on Sunday.
Verdasco beat Bolivian Hugo Dellien 6-4, 3-6, 6-1.
The European Commission will present a plan tomorrow with which it plans to mobilize up to 48,000 million euros so that the European Union quadruples its production of semiconductors until 2030 and can ensure the supply of some components for which it now depends on Asian manufacturers.
“Today 50% of semiconductors are produced in Taiwan. If for one reason or another Taiwan couldn’t export them, it would only take three weeks for almost all the factories we have – automobiles, meat, electrical appliances – to stop working, because they would not have semiconductors. This is not acceptable, we have to equip ourselves with the capacity to respond to this eventuality,” the European Commissioner for the Single Market, Thierry Breton, told Efe on Monday.
