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Belt and Road

Digital stability: How technology can empower future generations in the Middle East

Summary The growth of the digital economy in the Middle East and North Africa could become one of the key solutions to the region’s youth unemployment crisis. Governments in the region have taken steps to create an environment in which technology startups can thrive. However, they need to overcome challenges…

bubmagMarch 24, 2020

Bushfire

To get out of this, we are going to have to think like central planners

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Within the space of weeks, Australia has been transformed into a command economy. Businesses are being told whether they can or cannot open and how they must operate, consumers are subject to formal and informal rationing, workers are directed to stay home, or, in the case…

bubmagMarch 24, 2020

Peace

Check Out Our Exclusive Peek at Jim Butcher’s New Dresden Files Entry, Peace Talks

A crop of the cover of Peace Talks by Jim ButcherImage: AceChicago wizard Harry Dresden returns for more magical mayhem in Peace Talks, the latest in fantasy author Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series, which marks its 20th anniversary this year. At long last there’s some hope that the supernatural conflicts…

bubmagMarch 24, 2020

Gundam

Gundam: Hathaway Anime Film Casts Kensho Ono, Rena Ueda, Junichi Suwabe

A Gundam livestream presentation revealed a promotional video and the main cast for the Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway (Kidō Senshi Gundam: Senkō no Hathaway) anime film project on Tuesday. The cast includes Kensho Ono as Hathaway Noa, Rena Ueda as Gigi Andalucia, and Junichi Suwabe as Kenneth Sleg. The film…

bubmagMarch 24, 2020

Palestine

UNRWA urges Trump admin to restore funding as it stands at the frontline of Palestine’s COVID-19 crisis

In 2018, the Trump administration cut all funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Over five million people in the region rely on the organization for social services, but now their work has become even more crucial in the wake…

bubmagMarch 24, 2020

Body Shaming

Stop Body Shaming During the Outbreak

Source: Eric Antunes/Pexels With people around the world hunkering down at home in hopes of flattening the curve of this pandemic, COVID-themed memes and jokes have been proliferating. From hilarious threads about what one’s co-workers (i.e., kids and pets) are doing to virus-themed songs, it’s clear we are all looking for a…

bubmagMarch 24, 2020

Boeing 737max

Boeing to temporarily suspend operations in Seattle area

Due to the accelerating spread of COVID-19, Boeing will temporarily suspend production at their Puget Area facilities. The suspension of production operations will last for 14 days starting tomorrow. Washington is in a state of emergency due to the accelerating spread of COVID-19. Until a week ago, the Seattle area…

bubmagMarch 24, 2020

Cold War

Luxury Communal End-of-the-World Shelters

Disaster preppers are often thought of as DIY blue-collar folk, steadily stacking cans inside their self-modified underground shipping containers. But Robert Vicino, founder of the Vivos Group, is betting that there are plenty of moneyed families who also believe in impending global doom, are not interested in learning to build…

bubmagMarch 24, 2020

Cold War

Globalisation is no longer business as usual. Coronavirus has changed how the world works ǀ View

COVID-19 is the new guy in town, or rather the whole world. It is not even an electronic virus that would devastate computer servers wreaking havoc on social media and financial networks, defence systems and telecommunications. It is a “traditional” virus, which apparently originated in animals and is now spreading…

bubmagMarch 24, 2020

BUK-Missile

MH17 Trial Resumes Briefly Amid Coronavirus Restrictions

The trial in absentia of three Russians and a Ukrainian charged with multiple counts of murder over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014 resumed briefly at The Hague on Tuesday amid coronavirus restrictions. The Dutch judges in the trial read out several preliminary decisions…

bubmagMarch 24, 2020

Digital stability: How technology can empower future generations in the Middle East

To get out of this, we are going to have to think like central planners

Check Out Our Exclusive Peek at Jim Butcher’s New Dresden Files Entry, Peace Talks

Gundam: Hathaway Anime Film Casts Kensho Ono, Rena Ueda, Junichi Suwabe

UNRWA urges Trump admin to restore funding as it stands at the frontline of Palestine’s COVID-19 crisis

Stop Body Shaming During the Outbreak

Boeing to temporarily suspend operations in Seattle area

Luxury Communal End-of-the-World Shelters

Globalisation is no longer business as usual. Coronavirus has changed how the world works ǀ View

MH17 Trial Resumes Briefly Amid Coronavirus Restrictions

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