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• Rite Aid (NYSE: RAD) announced today that NARCAN® Nasal Spray, a medication used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, is available at all locations nationwide, including Bartell Drugs in the Pacific Northwest.
• It is now FDA-approved for OTC use and is available for purchase at Rite Aid stores nationwide and online at RiteAid.com.
• “By making NARCAN® Nasal Spray easily accessible over the counter to Rite Aid customers, more people will have the ability to save a life,” said Summer Kerley, Vice President, Clinical Services and Market Access Solutions for Rite Aid.
• “We encourage customers to ask their local Rite Aid pharmacist how they can be prepared to reverse an opioid emergency.”
  Each carton of NARCAN® Nasal Spray contains two single-dose devices.

• How and how often that suffering is reported on in the U.S., however, is not evenhanded.
• Take, for example, the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen in March 2015 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
• In Yemen, the U.S. is arming and supporting the Saudi-led coalition, whose airstrikes and blockades have caused immense human suffering.
• These biases lead to reporting that highlights or downplays human suffering in the two conflicts in a way that seemingly coincides with U.S. foreign policy objectives.

Ukraine in spotlight

• War in Ukraine is clearly seen as more newsworthy to U.S. readers.
• Headlines on Ukraine passed that mark in under three months and then doubled it within nine months.
• Front-page stories on Ukraine have been commonplace ever since the Russian invasion began in February 2022.

More context on Ukraine

• When we analyzed headlines on Yemen and Ukraine, we classified them as either “episodic,” meaning focused on specific events, or “thematic,” meaning more contextual.
• In contrast, headlines on Ukraine involved a greater emphasis on context, accounting for 73% of total articles.
• Meanwhile, contextual articles on Ukraine trace the broader implications of the conflict and reflect stories of continual Russian responsibility and accountability.

Differences in assigning blame

• We found 50 headlines on Yemen that reported on specific attacks carried out by the Saudi-led coalition.
• Of them, 18 – just 36% – attributed responsibility to Saudi Arabia or the coalition.
• Here, of the 50 headlines about Russian attacks, 44 of them – or 88% – explicitly attributed responsibility to Russia.

A tale of two humanitarian crises

• Both invasions have led to situations of food insecurity – in Yemen creating a national risk of famine, and in Ukraine compromising global grain supply.
• However, the way the news stories speak about hunger in both countries has little in common.

Moral outrage vs. neutrality

• Headlines on Ukraine tend to invoke moral judgments, we found, compared with a more neutral tone on Yemen.
• This Is Their Story.” This moral positioning on the conflict in Ukraine is not necessarily a problem.
• However, it is noteworthy that New York Times headlines on Yemen fail to employ similarly condemnatory narratives toward the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.

Journalism of deference

• What’s different is that the U.S. is essentially on opposite sides in these conflicts when it comes to its relationship to those inflicting the most civilian casualties.
• Washington officials have made open and direct declarations about the inhumanity of atrocities in Ukraine while avoiding inquiry and condemnation of those in Yemen.
• Our research suggests that such messaging may be supported by the news media.

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  Iteris Chosen to Support Intelligent Transportation Systems Project in Mérida, Mexico (Photo: Business Wire)
  This technical assistance activity provided by USTDA to the grantee, Instituto de Movilidad y Desarrollo Urbano Territorial (IMDUT), is intended to update the bus control and monitoring center, and advance the transition to electric buses for Mérida’s public transportation fleet.
• In this phase of the project, Iteris will support the selection and deployment of ITS technologies that will be critical to achieve the project’s objectives.
• Iteris is a subconsultant to Nathan Associates, LLC , a trusted global partner for providing analytic and economic solutions worldwide, who was awarded the USTDA Mérida ITS Modernization project.
• “We are thrilled to have been chosen to support this important international initiative,” said Moe Zarean, general manager of mobility operations services at Iteris.

Côte d’Ivoire has announced plans to launch its first satellite within the next two years. A team of scientists in the fields of astrophysics and geology tell The Conversation Africa about the potential benefits of this development and how the country plans to realise its space industry ambitions.

What kind of satellite does Côte d'Ivoire plan to launch?

• A nanosatellite is a small satellite, weighing from 1kg to 10kg.
• It will be equipped with a camera which can provide images of the coast, forests, natural parks and urban areas of the country.
• In Côte d’Ivoire, such a satellite could assist the government’s efforts to regulate artisanal mining and combat illegal activities and destruction of the environment.

What are the other potential benefits and spinoffs?

• The satellite supports various applications, including monitoring vegetation health, mapping water resources, and analysing urban growth patterns.
• Aside from the technology’s direct benefits, it serves the scientific and economic development of the nation.
• It involves engineers and scientists to develop sensors and the ground segment to track and communicate with the satellite.

Who will be involved in this project?

• The academic and private sectors all have a role to play in this scientific, technical and political adventure.
• The Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouet-Boigny has already planned to set up new curricula in the domain of space and aeronautics.
• Its outreach activities to promote astronomy and space science to the wider public will increase the scientific literacy of the population.

What are other African countries doing in space technology?

• The report indicates that African nations allocated US$534.9 million to space programmes in 2022 compared to US$523.2 million in 2021.
• These investments indicate that African countries are preparing for wider use of space technology in handling challenges affecting the continent.
• Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa are the most advanced African countries on space issues.
• For instance, ZACube, launched in December 2018, is a nanosatellite developed by the South African National Space Agency and local universities.
• We need to create space-related training courses and promote space science in African countries.