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Fedor Bondarchuk Helms First Doc, TV Series for Shingle Art Pictures Studio’s Growing Slate Stalingrad

Fedor Bondarchuk Helms First Doc, TV Series for Shingle Art Pictures Studio’s Growing Slate

Russian multi-hyphenate Fedor Bondarchuk was riding high after a series of blockbuster hits when Hollywood came calling in 2014. Fresh off the domestic success of his alien invasion movie “Attraction,” and the World War II epic “Stalingrad,” Warner Bros. tapped him to direct a big-budget movie based on Homer’s epic…
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June 8, 2020
Factbox: Who’s bidding to be next World Trade Organization chief? Protectionism

Factbox: Who’s bidding to be next World Trade Organization chief?

World Trade Organization (WTO) in GenevaGENEVA/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The World Trade Organization (WTO) began the process on Monday of selecting a new director-general to replace Brazil's Roberto Azevedo, who is stepping down a year early at the end of August.Azevedo's successor will need to steer reforms and negotiations in the…
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June 8, 2020
Factbox: Who’s bidding to be next World Trade Organization chief? Protectionism

Factbox: Who’s bidding to be next World Trade Organization chief?

View photosWorld Trade Organization (WTO) in GenevaGENEVA/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The World Trade Organization (WTO) began the process on Monday of selecting a new director-general to replace Brazil's Roberto Azevedo, who is stepping down a year early at the end of August.Azevedo's successor will need to steer reforms and negotiations in…
bubmag
June 8, 2020
World Oceans Day 2020: Underwater videos shared across social media to celebrate occasion, warn against plastic pollution Plastic Pollution

World Oceans Day 2020: Underwater videos shared across social media to celebrate occasion, warn against plastic pollution

The ocean is one of the most diverse places on the Earth. It plays an important role in driving global systems that make Earth habitable for life. From drinking water, to climate, food and even oxygen is some way or the other connected to the ocean. Managing the resource, thus,…
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June 8, 2020
Turkey orders 149 people detained for suspected Gulen links: Anadolu Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey orders 149 people detained for suspected Gulen links: Anadolu

FILE PHOTO: U.S.-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen at his home in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 10, 2017. REUTERS/Charles MostollerISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey on Monday ordered the detention of 149 people, mainly from the security forces, over suspected links to the network Ankara says orchestrated a failed coup in 2016, state-owned…
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June 8, 2020
There’s a Much Better Way to Create Forest Jobs Than Ron Wyden’s Big Timber Welfare Act, Pass NREPA Instead Trickle-Down

There’s a Much Better Way to Create Forest Jobs Than Ron Wyden’s Big Timber Welfare Act, Pass NREPA Instead

Oregon’s Democratic Senator Ron Wyden recently introduced a bill (S.3684) that uses the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to throw another $10.6 billion into the Forest Service budget.  That’s on top of the $5.7 billion Congress already appropriated to the agency this year and comes out to a whopping $45 million a day,…
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June 8, 2020