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Scottish National Party

Jurors retire in sex-crimes trial of former Scottish leader

LONDON (AP) — Jurors at the High Court in Edinburgh were sent home for the weekend after briefly commencing their deliberations Friday in the trial for alleged sex crimes of Scotland’s former first minister, Alex Salmond.After Salmond’s defense lawyer wrapped up by saying there was something “strange” about the allegations,…

bubmagMarch 20, 2020

Tayyip Erdogan

Erdogan orders to postpone events in Turkey until end-April

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a decree on Friday postponing all events related to science, culture and the arts, as the country seeks to contain a surge in coronavirus cases.Turkey’s Covid-19 death toll has reached four, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Thursday. The number of confirmed cases in…

bubmagMarch 20, 2020

Korean Peace Talks

COVID reshapes Iran policy; Taliban press attacks; Hospitals brace for shortages; Navy battens down; And a bit more.

President Trump cancelled a U.S. military response to Iranian-backed attacks in Iraq because of the coronavirus, NBC News reported Thursday. At a meeting last week to choose among options for responding to attacks by Kataib Hezbollah and other Iran-backed proxy militia groups inside Iraq, the president “expressed concern that hitting back…

bubmagMarch 20, 2020

eSports

The DeanBeat: Esports pivots to digital because of the coronavirus

As the coronavirus epidemic accelerated, esports had to change. The first sign was when Blizzard canceled its events in China on January 29, to protect the safety of people who gathered at live events at stadiums in China to cheer on their favorite esports stars. And now, all of the…

bubmagMarch 20, 2020

Hiroshima

How Russia, And Not America, Forced Imperial Japan’s Surrender In World War II

Key point: The Soviets’ Manchurian Campaign, August Storm, destroyed the last vestige of Japanese military power outside Japan, and put the final nail in the coffin of those Japanese militarists who, even after suffering two atomic attacks, intended to continue the war to the death. To the Soviet military, it is…

bubmagMarch 20, 2020

Panda

Watch bears, puppies, otters and more animals frolic on these 10 live cams

Naturalist and author Richard Mabey once said, "The natural world is like a theatre, a stage beyond our own, in which the dramas that are an irreducible part of being alive are played out without hatred or envy or hypocrisy. Watching wildlife can tell us much about ourselves and our…

bubmagMarch 20, 2020

Air Pollution

COVID-19: Nitrogen dioxide over China

This image, using data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, shows the nitrogen dioxide emissions over China from 7 to 16 March 2020. Credit: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2020), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Recent data have shown a decline of air pollution over northern Italy coinciding with…

bubmagMarch 20, 2020

Black Swan

Will a US airline bailout come with serious strings attached?

The coronavirus outbreak is rampaging across the balance sheets of airlines around the world, as countries close borders, people shelter in place, and travel grinds to a halt. In the United States, carriers are looking to the federal government for immediate assistance to help cushion the blow that the pandemic…

bubmagMarch 20, 2020

Antarctica

Greenland shed enormous 600B tons of ice last year, scientists warn

A disturbing new study notes that Greeland lost 600 billion tons of ice by the end of last summer, enough to raise global sea levels 2.2 millimeters in just two months by itself.The research, published in Geophysical Research Letters, notes that the exceptionally warm temperatures at the North Pole last…

bubmagMarch 20, 2020

Stalingrad

Revisit these 5 Curbed Detroit stories that have nothing to do with coronavirus

Whether you’ve gotten sick, lost your job, or simply avoided contact with friends and family, coronavirus has been an all-consuming phenomenon that’s disrupted almost everyone’s lives. If nothing else, it’s been challenging psychologically, as we preoccupy ourselves with the latest news and find it difficult to read about anything else.…

bubmagMarch 20, 2020

Jurors retire in sex-crimes trial of former Scottish leader

Erdogan orders to postpone events in Turkey until end-April

COVID reshapes Iran policy; Taliban press attacks; Hospitals brace for shortages; Navy battens down; And a bit more.

The DeanBeat: Esports pivots to digital because of the coronavirus

How Russia, And Not America, Forced Imperial Japan’s Surrender In World War II

Watch bears, puppies, otters and more animals frolic on these 10 live cams

COVID-19: Nitrogen dioxide over China

Will a US airline bailout come with serious strings attached?

Greenland shed enormous 600B tons of ice last year, scientists warn

Revisit these 5 Curbed Detroit stories that have nothing to do with coronavirus

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