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Holocaust

Roma and Sinti community commemorate Memorial Day at Auschwitz

Historians estimate that up to 500,000 Roma and Sinti were sent to death camps and murdered in the Holocaust, alongside Jews and others deemed subhuman by the Nazi regime. Croatian Sinti and Roma women and children, 1941 (photo credit: BUND ARCHIVES) Representatives of the Roma and Sinti community marked European…

bubmagAugust 3, 2020

Bolsonaro

Chief of staff to Brazil’s Bolsonaro tests positive for COVID-19

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s chief of staff, Army General Walter Souza Braga Netto, has tested positive for COVID-19, his office said on Monday, becoming the seventh Brazilian minister to have contracted the disease. Braga Netto is doing well and has no symptoms, the office said in a…

bubmagAugust 3, 2020

Bolsonaro

Chief of staff to Brazil’s Bolsonaro tests positive for COVID-19

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s chief of staff, Army General Walter Souza Braga Netto, has tested positive for COVID-19, his office said on Monday, becoming the seventh Brazilian minister to have contracted the disease. Braga Netto is doing well and has no symptoms, the office said in a…

bubmagAugust 3, 2020

Elon Musk

Elon Musk: ‘China Rocks,’ America Is Full of ‘Complacency and Entitlement’

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk stated in a recent interview that people in the United States are “entitled” and “complacent” while Chinese citizens are “smart” and “hard-working people.” CNBC reports that in a recent interview with Automotive News’ “Daily Drive” podcast, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk complained of…

bubmagAugust 3, 2020

Pre-Crime

Beyond TikTok: Who else might President Trump ban?

By Chris Baraniuk & Leo KelionTechnology reportersPublishedduration3 Augustimage copyrightGetty ImagesTikTok's time in the US may be running out, with President Trump and other senior officials talking of an imminent ban.But other Chinese-owned apps and software-based services could also be targeted.On Sunday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo alleged that some…

bubmagAugust 3, 2020

Syria

Is IED incident a dangerous escalation on Israel, Syria border?

Israel says it holds the Syrian regime responsible. This forms part of a wider context of two years of tensions along the Golan. IDF troops scour area in southern Golan Heights following IAF airstrike on armed Islamic State militants who approached Israel’s border (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT) The apparent…

bubmagAugust 3, 2020

Donald Trump

Nolte: While Donald Trump Leads, Joe Biden Panders

Joe Biden’s strategy of hiding out, sitting on his lead, and running out the clock only works if the public fails to notice what he’s doing. I think they’re starting to notice. Over the past three months, I’ve made no secret of my disgust with the way President Trump has…

bubmagAugust 3, 2020

Paris

France won’t ratify Hong Kong’s extradition agreement

PARIS (AP) — France has decided not to ratify an extradition agreement with Hong Kong after China’s central government in Beijing imposed a new national security law on the city.The French Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson said in a written statement on Monday that “in light of the latest developments, France won’t…

bubmagAugust 3, 2020

Recycling

News24.com | OPINION | The awkward intersection of planetary and human health: choking on plastic

Every effort needs to be made to to save the country's recycling sector as an increase of plastic waste as a result of Covid-19 threatens nature, writes Zaynab Sadan and Lethabo Pholotho.One of the awkward realities of the Covid-19 crisis has been the collision of nature and humanity.This has been the…

bubmagAugust 3, 2020

Elon Musk

‘I prayed for this one,’ SpaceX’s Elon Musk says after NASA astronauts’ splashdown success

Home News A relieved SpaceX CEO Elon Musk welcomed home the first NASA astronauts to fly to space on his company's Crew Dragon vehicle.Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken returned to Earth after two months in orbit and safely splashed down in the Gulf Coast waters off Florida on Sunday (Aug.…

bubmagAugust 3, 2020

Roma and Sinti community commemorate Memorial Day at Auschwitz

Chief of staff to Brazil’s Bolsonaro tests positive for COVID-19

Chief of staff to Brazil’s Bolsonaro tests positive for COVID-19

Elon Musk: ‘China Rocks,’ America Is Full of ‘Complacency and Entitlement’

Beyond TikTok: Who else might President Trump ban?

Is IED incident a dangerous escalation on Israel, Syria border?

Nolte: While Donald Trump Leads, Joe Biden Panders

France won’t ratify Hong Kong’s extradition agreement

News24.com | OPINION | The awkward intersection of planetary and human health: choking on plastic

‘I prayed for this one,’ SpaceX’s Elon Musk says after NASA astronauts’ splashdown success

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