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Old-Age Poverty

War Is Hell: A World War II Tank Operator Remembers His Fight Against Germany

Here's What You Need To Remember: Private First Class Irving Bromberg saw a huge puff of smoke erupt from the German tank’s cannon muzzle as it headed straight for his M4 Sherman tank. The round streaked past and missed. Bromberg sat next to the driver in the bow gunner’s seat…

bubmagMay 22, 2020

Orangutan

As big cats go hungry, Indonesia zoo considers ‘worst-case’ deer cull

BANDUNG, Indonesia (Reuters) - A zoo in Indonesia may slaughter some of its animals to feed others, such as a Sumatran tiger and a Javan leopard, if it runs out of food in coming months after the coronavirus pandemic forced it to shut its doors. While its 850 animals are…

bubmagMay 22, 2020

Kim Jong Un

North Korea#39;s Kim Jong Un keeps low public profile in May: Analysts

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has made an unusually small number of public appearances in the past two months, once again going three weeks without state media reporting his attendance at a public event, according to analysts.Kim's low profile comes as North Korea imposes anti-coronavirus measures, although the country…

bubmagMay 22, 2020

Kashmir

India-Nepal ties cannot be left to the vagaries of miscommunication

It’s a battle of the maps now.The Nepalese government has released its new political map which shows Kalapani, Lipiyadhura and Lipulekh as its own territories. As these territories fall under the Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand, New Delhi was quick to react arguing that “such artificial enlargement of territorial claims will…

bubmagMay 22, 2020

Google

Google Maps Makes Wheelchair-Accessible Locations Easier to Spot

Graphic: GoogleIn honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Google’s adding a long-overdue feature to its Maps app that puts details about a location’s accessibility facilities front and center.With the “Accessible Places” feature enabled, business and points of interest with wheelchair-accessible entrances are marked with a wheelchair icon along with information…

bubmagMay 22, 2020

Jamal Khashoggi

Jamal Khashoggi: Saudi journalist’s family ‘forgives’ his killers

Image copyright AFP Image caption A UN report labelled Khashoggi's death a "deliberate, premeditated execution" Murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's fiancée has said "no-one has the right to pardon his killers" after his son said he forgave them. Hatice Cengiz, a Turkish citizen, tweeted that the "heinous murder does not…

bubmagMay 22, 2020

Venezuela

Fin24.com | DEEP DIVE | Who has the ‘freest’ market?

This is the third of a three-part series. Read part 1 and part 2. Given the current global turmoil, it is all the timelier to ask: "What will world politics and economics look like by 2030?"Will the dominant narratives still be the interlocking realms of free market capitalism and liberal democracy?Could 2030's…

bubmagMay 22, 2020

Greta Thunberg

The 1975 Share New Album Notes on a Conditional Form: Listen and Read the Full Credits

The 1975’s long-promised new album Notes on a Conditional Form has finally arrived. The new album features many songs they’ve shared in the lead-up to its release, including “The 1975,” “People,” “Guys,” “The Birthday Party,” “Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America,” “Me & You Together Song,” and more. FKA twigs, Phoebe…

bubmagMay 22, 2020

Antibiotics

Wherever You Are, Time Is Running out for Treating Gonorrhoea

— By Sophie Cousins Two-thirds of countries have reported gonorrhoea cases that resist all known antibiotics. Now scientists are trying to hold the line against the disease as they look for a new way to treat it.Mark King has had the clap so many times he’s renamed it ‘the applause’. The…

bubmagMay 22, 2020

Kim Jong Un

North Korean regime finally admits Kim Jong-un cannot magically bend time and space

The official newspaper of North Korea has denied that the regime's leaders can magically bend time and space, putting to bed a long tradition used to idolise the mystical powers of Kim Jong-un and former leader Kim Jong-il. In the latest sign that the secretive regime is turning away from…

bubmagMay 22, 2020

War Is Hell: A World War II Tank Operator Remembers His Fight Against Germany

As big cats go hungry, Indonesia zoo considers ‘worst-case’ deer cull

North Korea#39;s Kim Jong Un keeps low public profile in May: Analysts

India-Nepal ties cannot be left to the vagaries of miscommunication

Google Maps Makes Wheelchair-Accessible Locations Easier to Spot

Jamal Khashoggi: Saudi journalist’s family ‘forgives’ his killers

Fin24.com | DEEP DIVE | Who has the ‘freest’ market?

The 1975 Share New Album Notes on a Conditional Form: Listen and Read the Full Credits

Wherever You Are, Time Is Running out for Treating Gonorrhoea

North Korean regime finally admits Kim Jong-un cannot magically bend time and space

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