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Pakistan concerned over violence in Delhi: Shah Mehmood Qureshi

By: PTI | Published: March 5, 2020 10:03:56 pm Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi Qureshi made the remarks during a seminar in Islamabad which was organised by the Centre for Aerospace and Security Studies – a think-tank. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Thursday that…

bubmagMarch 5, 2020

Pope Francis

Pope Francis picks Savannah bishop to lead Atlanta archdiocese

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Thursday named Gregory Hartmayer, the Roman Catholic bishop of Savannah, to lead the Atlanta archdiocese, its 100 parishes and 1.2 million Catholics. Hartmayer, 68, an ordained priest of the Franciscan order, said on the Diocese of Savannah’s Facebook page that he was “grateful and…

bubmagMarch 5, 2020

Machine Learning

News Brief: February Updates from the Google News Initiative

During the GNI EMEA Summit, Debunk.eu showed us how they brought journalists, fact-checkers and AI specialists together to curb the spread of disinformation. Partners and Digital News Innovation Fund recipients shared insights about the latest products and innovations in news, the role of machine learning in publishing and new ways…

bubmagMarch 5, 2020

Star Wars

Scientists Chase Snowflakes During the Warmest Winter Ever

Inside a cavernous hangar at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility along the Virginia coast, a gleaming white P-3 Orion aircraft sits parked under harsh floodlights. It’s just after midnight and a group of scientists, technicians and graduate students cluster underneath a wing, peering at a 5-inch crack in one of the…

bubmagMarch 5, 2020

Obamacare

What Coronavirus Teaches Our Presidential Candidates About Health Care

It starts with a fever and a cough, sometimes coupled with wheezing and nausea. So far this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates 310,000 hospitalizations and 18,000 deaths in the U.S. alone, and the epidemic is worldwide. Don’t panic, I’m not talking about coronavirus. I’m referring…

bubmagMarch 5, 2020

Electric Car

Fiat’s first all-electric car goes up for pre-order

2007 marked the 50th anniversary of the now iconic Nuova Fiat 500, and the release of a new flavor – the Fiat 500 city car. There were some who thought that this little runabout would make a great around town electric, leading to builds by the likes of EV Adapt…

bubmagMarch 5, 2020

Air Pollution

Air Pollution “Pandemic” Worse Than Wars, Parasitic & Vector-Born Diseases, HIV/AIDS, And Smoking

Air Quality Published on March 5th, 2020 | by Cynthia Shahan March 5th, 2020 by Cynthia Shahan Air pollution is taking three years from your life, on average, worldwide. None of us are exempt — though, young children and the elderly are more vulnerable. Professors Jos Lelieveld and Thomas Münzel…

bubmagMarch 5, 2020

Unwelcome Refugees

Turkey threatens to let asylum-seekers flood into Europe

WHEN President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on February 28th that his government would no longer stop refugees from crossing into Greece, Nabila’s parents packed her and her five siblings onto a bus, left their house in the Turkish town of Tokat and headed west. The 12-year-old Afghan refugee had no…

bubmagMarch 5, 2020

Nukes

Politics this week

Joe Biden’s campaign bounced back after he won most of the 14 states that voted on Super Tuesday. Barack Obama’s vice-president racked up big victories in southern states, where black voters are a large part of the Democratic electorate. Mr Biden earlier scored a huge win in the South Carolina…

bubmagMarch 5, 2020

Chinese Economy

Business this week

Stockmarkets swung wildly following the worst sell-off over a week for more than a decade. The Federal Reserve made an emergency half-a-percentage-point cut to its benchmark interest rate, to a range of 1-1.25%. The Fed last cut rates by half a point in October 2008, the maelstrom of the financial…

bubmagMarch 5, 2020

Pakistan concerned over violence in Delhi: Shah Mehmood Qureshi

Pope Francis picks Savannah bishop to lead Atlanta archdiocese

News Brief: February Updates from the Google News Initiative

Scientists Chase Snowflakes During the Warmest Winter Ever

What Coronavirus Teaches Our Presidential Candidates About Health Care

Fiat’s first all-electric car goes up for pre-order

Air Pollution “Pandemic” Worse Than Wars, Parasitic & Vector-Born Diseases, HIV/AIDS, And Smoking

Turkey threatens to let asylum-seekers flood into Europe

Politics this week

Business this week

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