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South Korea says detected North Korea missile fire ‘inapproriate’ amid coronavirus

By Joyce LeeSEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired two projectiles that appeared to be short-range ballistic missiles on Saturday, South Korea's military said, calling the action "highly inappropriate" given the global coronavirus pandemic.The suspected missiles were fired around 6:45-50 a.m. KST into the sea off the east coast of the…

bubmagMarch 20, 2020

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Dow Drops More Than 900 Points, Ending Worst Week Since 2008

(AP) – Wall Street ended the week the same way it began: in full retreat from the coronavirus. Stocks fell sharply and the price of oil sank Friday as federal and state governments moved to shut down bigger and bigger swaths of the nation’s economy in the hope of limiting…

bubmagMarch 20, 2020

Boris Johnson

Coronavirus: Young people are not ‘invincible’, WHO warns

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionUS students on spring break defy Covid-19 warningsYoung people are not immune from coronavirus and must avoid socialising and communicating it to older, more vulnerable people, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned.The choices made by the young can be "the difference…

bubmagMarch 20, 2020

Iran Liberalism

The Criterion Channel Announces One-Year Anniversary Lineup

The Criterion Channel announces one-year anniversary lineupTo celebrate the one-year anniversary of the launch of The Criterion Channel, the network has unveiled its lineup of programming set to debut in April, which will include the 1978 animated adaptation of the Richard Adams novel Watership Down and an expansion of the Columbia Noir…

bubmagMarch 20, 2020

Giphy

This week in WWE GIFs: The Rated-R Superstar strikes and more

This week in WWE GIFs: The Rated-R Superstar strikes and more March 20, 2020 As WrestleMania inches closer, there’s no better way to get ready for The Show of Shows than with all-new WWE GIFs on GIPHY. We captured the best moments and reactions from Raw, SmackDown and NXT and…

bubmagMarch 20, 2020

Monsanto

EPA sued over reapproval of key Roundup chemical

Multiple groups on Friday sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its decision to re-approve a chemical used in Bayer's Roundup weed killer.The agency re-approved the chemical, known as glyphosate, in January, claiming that it doesn’t pose a danger to humans. Thousands of lawsuits, however, have attributed cancer to Roundup.One lawsuit against the EPA was…

bubmagMarch 20, 2020

Brasilia

Inside the efforts to keep UFC’s March 21 fight card

Gilbert Burns stopped Demian Maia via TKO on Saturday in the co-main event of UFC Brasilia in front of no fans. In his postfight speech in an empty arena, Burns called out Colby Covington, the most polarizing figure in the UFC's welterweight division.Little did Burns know that 18 hours later…

bubmagMarch 20, 2020

Climate Change

AWS, IBM launch programs to encourage developers solving COVID-19 problems

As society comes to grips with the growing worldwide crisis related to the COVID-19 virus, many companies are stepping up in different ways. Today, two major tech companies — Amazon and IBM — each announced programs to encourage developers to find solutions to a variety of problems related to the…

bubmagMarch 20, 2020

Lithium

New Filtering Process Could Speed Up Lithium Production

Batteries Published on March 20th, 2020 | by Steve Hanley March 20th, 2020 by Steve Hanley Lithium is fairly abundant in nature, but getting large quantities suitable for use in battery cells is a slow and expensive process. Researchers at Monash University, CSIRO, the University of Melbourne, and the University…

bubmagMarch 20, 2020

Bolsonaro

Trump forced to shut down Mar-a-Lago as the coronavirus continues sweeping across the US

President Donald Trump reacts angrily to a question asking what he would say to Americans who are scared during his administration's daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House in Washington, March 20, 2020.Jonathan Ernst/ReutersThe Trump Organization has been forced to shut down the Mar-a-Lago golf resort and several…

bubmagMarch 20, 2020

South Korea says detected North Korea missile fire ‘inapproriate’ amid coronavirus

Dow Drops More Than 900 Points, Ending Worst Week Since 2008

Coronavirus: Young people are not ‘invincible’, WHO warns

The Criterion Channel Announces One-Year Anniversary Lineup

This week in WWE GIFs: The Rated-R Superstar strikes and more

EPA sued over reapproval of key Roundup chemical

Inside the efforts to keep UFC’s March 21 fight card

AWS, IBM launch programs to encourage developers solving COVID-19 problems

New Filtering Process Could Speed Up Lithium Production

Trump forced to shut down Mar-a-Lago as the coronavirus continues sweeping across the US

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