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‘No Coherence’: Hawkish US Think Tank Blasts Pentagon’s Lack of Arctic Policy Silk Road

‘No Coherence’: Hawkish US Think Tank Blasts Pentagon’s Lack of Arctic Policy

Academics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a hawkish Washington, DC, think tank with heavy influence over US foreign policy, have criticized the paucity of the Pentagon’s Arctic policy, where it ostensibly aims to challenge growing Russian and Chinese presence as global warming opens the region’s icy…
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May 12, 2020
Gunmen storm Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kabul, killing two newborns Peace

Gunmen storm Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kabul, killing two newborns

KABUL, Afghanistan — Gunmen stormed a hospital in the west of Kabul on Tuesday, killing two newborns and at least 11 other people while triggering a battle with security forces, Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said.Another 15 were injured in the attack, officials said.Afghan special forces wrested control of the hospital, which…
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May 12, 2020
Ultra-Orthodox Jews turn to God and the web, looking for answers to coronavirus losses Jerusalem Controversy

Ultra-Orthodox Jews turn to God and the web, looking for answers to coronavirus losses

“I think our community needs to hold a true cheshbon nefesh ,” said Interior Minister Arye Dery, who is also the leader of the Sephardi ultra-Orthodox Shas party, with breathtaking candor this weekend. “Because to my regret, 70 percent of the patients in Israel are Haredim – and not just in…
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May 12, 2020
230 Protesters Arrested in Hong Kong as Pro-democracy Movement Shows Signs of Resurgence Hongkong

230 Protesters Arrested in Hong Kong as Pro-democracy Movement Shows Signs of Resurgence

Hong Kong authorities reported 230 arrests on Sunday as small pro-democracy protests broke out in several shopping districts in the city. Democratic lawmaker Roy Kwong was among those arrested, and was later hospitalized after being pushed to the ground and restrained by police. The demonstrations and arrests come after Hong…
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May 12, 2020
The Moon Mysteriously Disappeared 900 Years Ago, and Scientists Think They Know Why Greenland

The Moon Mysteriously Disappeared 900 Years Ago, and Scientists Think They Know Why

About 900 years ago, a skywatcher in England witnessed a total lunar eclipse that must have been baffling, even terrifying. Despite the fact that the night was clear and the stars shone bright, the Moon just...vanished. During the unusually dark ecliptic blackout, the Moon was “so completely extinguished withal, that…
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May 12, 2020