October 3, 2023
TWENTY Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) officers will benefit from higher education yearly as the organization signed an agreement with the Philippine Merchant Marine Academy (PMMA) on Sept. 22, 2023, for a subsidized master’s program. The agreement signed between the PCG and PMMA allows the Coast Guard Education, Training and Doctrine Command (CGETDC) to recommend 20
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Receive free Americas economy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Americas economy news every morning. The EU must finalise a long-delayed trade treaty with the Mercosur bloc of South American nations by December 6 or the Latin Americans will walk away and negotiate with Asian countries instead, Paraguay’s
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Receive free Geopolitics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Geopolitics news every morning. The US has launched a co-operation pact with dozens of countries touching the Atlantic Ocean in Europe, Africa and the Americas, as Washington seeks to ramp up economic, environmental and scientific ties across the region.
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Receive free Italian politics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Italian politics news every morning. Italy’s rightwing government has agreed an “anti-inflation pact” with producers and retailers to hold down prices for pasta and other consumer staples, as Rome attempts to ease the pressure on households reeling from
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The pact would include doing more to streamline notoriously lengthy planning processes, move forward the country’s famously slow digitisation and speed up the building of new homes. Chancellor Olaf Scholz has urged Germany’s opposition and regional governments to help slash a “thicket of bureaucracy” that slows down Europe’s biggest economy, as his government grapples with
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Apple-backed satellite network operator Globalstar has bought launches from Elon Musk-run SpaceX worth $64 million. Apple is reimbursing Globalstar for 95 per cent of the capital expenditures related to the satellites, including the launch costs, reports TechCrunch, citing regulatory filings. Elevate Your Tech Process with High-Value Skill Courses Offering College Course Website Indian School of
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MADRID – Spanish society must break a “pact of silence” and stop normalizing sexist behaviour and support women brave enough to speak out when it happens, acting Equality Minister Irene Montero said on Wednesday. Montero said in an interview she hoped the backlash created by Spanish Football Association chief Luis Rubiales’ kiss on the mouth
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To broker a new diplomatic pact between Israel and Saudi Arabia, the White House would need to persuade two historic adversaries to find common ground on thorny issues like nuclear enrichment, weapons sales and the territorial rights of Palestinians. Then, the administration would face what could be an even more daunting challenge: getting 67 senators
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The new three-way security pact sealed by President Biden and the leaders of Japan and South Korea at Camp David on Friday was forged with threats by China and North Korea in mind. But there was one other possible factor driving the diplomatic breakthrough: Donald J. Trump. While the former president’s name appeared nowhere in
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Ever since members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization sprang into action to help Ukraine try to thwart Russia’s invasion last year, China has warned about a similar U.S.-led security alliance forming in Asia that would seek to hobble Beijing’s ambitions and provoke a confrontation. President Biden’s Camp David summit on Friday with the leaders
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