Category: Government
WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) – The White House announced on Friday that Australia, Denmark and Norway would join it in an effort to curb technology exports to governments that use the products for repression. The White House said last week it was forming the group to address “the misuse of certain dual-use technologies that can […]
Source: Reuters
Category: Airline / Travel
ORLANDO, Fla. — Lockheed Martin has developed an F-35 trainer with less hardware that could see the U.S. and partner countries expand their training capacity for less cost. The company unveiled the F-35 Mission Rehearsal Trainer Lightning Integrated Training Environment, or MRT LITE, simulator at the annual Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference. The reveal follows about 18 […]
Source: Defense News
Category: Automobile / Transport
Tesla’s Model Y and Model 3 were the most sold new cars in Norway last month, with the Volkswagen ID.4 rounding out the top three, according to the Information Council for Road Traffic. Electric vehicles made up about 74% of cars registered for the first time in November, while 17% were plug-in hybrids, the group said. 64% […]
Source: Bloomberg
Category: Accounting / Financial
Norway’s $1.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund will ask many of the companies in its portfolio to take more specific action on climate change, its head of governance and compliance said. Companies faced calls at the United Nations COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland this month to lay out plans to achieve net zero carbon emissions to help […]
Source: Reuters
Category: Business News
USA arrangerer et internasjonalt digitalt toppmøte om demokrati 9. og 10. desember. Styrking av demokratiet og menneskerettighetene, beskyttelse mot autoritær utvikling og kampen mot korrupsjon er blant temaene som blir diskutert. President Joe Biden har invitert 110 land til det digitale toppmøtet om demokrati. Biden har vært tydelig på at han vil bidra til å […]
Source: Regjeringen