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Korean Peace Talks

China says North Korea is suffering `negatively’ from virus

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China’s U.N. ambassador said Monday that North Korea is suffering “negatively” from the coronavirus and called for greater flexibility from the United States and other countries on lifting sanctions against the country.Zhang Jun told a news conference a draft resolution proposed by Russia and China in…

bubmagMarch 3, 2020

Super Komachi

Rail and the future of transport

Sir, – Joe Lynam (“How to solve housing and transport mess in one go”, Opinion & Analysis, February 29th) asks why can’t Ireland build a new high-speed railway line from Belfast to Cork via Dublin similar to Japan’s Shinkansen network, which moves millions of people every day at speeds of…

bubmagMarch 3, 2020

Geely

Report: Apple, Microsoft, and others benefit from forced labor in China

The Chinese government has facilitated the mass transfer of Uyghur and other ethnic minority citizens from the far west region of Xinjiang to factories across the country. Under conditions that strongly suggest forced labor, Uyghurs are working in factories that are in the supply chains of at least 83 well-known…

bubmagMarch 3, 2020

Obamacare

U.S. Supreme Court takes up Democratic bid to defend Obamacare

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a politically explosive case on whether Obamacare is lawful, taking up a bid by 20 Democratic-led states including California and New York to preserve the landmark healthcare law. The impetus for the Supreme Court case…

bubmagMarch 3, 2020

Christianity

Pete Buttigieg’s Christianity

Pete Buttigieg attends a church service at First Baptist Church of James Island in Charleston, S.C., February 23, 2020. (Eric Thayer/Reuters) At the start of the Pete Buttigieg moment — which recently came to a merciful end — The Atlantic‘s Peter Wehner wrote that the former mayor’s Episcopalian bona fides…

bubmagMarch 3, 2020

Volodymyr Zelensky

Republicans Are Suddenly Interested In Hunter Biden Again

Save for a New York Times profile on Hunter Biden’s newfound passion for psychedelic floral art, Joe Biden’s son has mostly avoided the media spotlight since spending months under the right-wing microscope during Donald Trump’s impeachment proceedings and trial. But less than 24 hours after his father reignited his presidential…

bubmagMarch 3, 2020

Nukes

Exclusive: U.N. nuclear watchdog plans alert on Iranian stonewalling

VIENNA/PARIS (Reuters) - The U.N. atomic watchdog policing Iran’s nuclear deal with major powers plans to issue an imminent rebuke to Tehran for failing to provide access to one or more sites that are of interest to it, several diplomats who follow the agency said on Monday. An Iranian flag…

bubmagMarch 3, 2020

Obamacare

The Supreme Court did not grant certiorari on the House of Representative’s Obamacare Cert Petition

This morning, the Supreme Court granted California's petition (19-840), as well as Texas's cross-petition (19-1019).However, the Court did not grant the House of Representative's petition (19-841).Why? Bethune-Hill v. Virginia State Board of Elections killed legislative standing–especially where only a single House brings the suit. There were not even four votes to…

bubmagMarch 3, 2020

Tories and Labour

HENRY DEEDES: Michael Gove did one of his ‘there’s nothing to see here’ turns

HENRY DEEDES: Michael Gove did one of his 'there's nothing to see here' turns as he threw a blanket over the fire of the Priti Patel 'bullying' claimsBy Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:51 GMT, 2 March 2020 | Updated: 01:05 GMT, 3 March 2020 For 45 minutes…

bubmagMarch 3, 2020

Hongkong

Hong Kong’s Property Insiders Are in Buy Mode

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- A deadly virus outbreak following months of anti-government protests might seem like a toxic cocktail for the world’s least affordable property market. Yet Hong Kong’s real estate insiders are in buy mode.The plan by the family of Peter Woo to take Wheelock & Co. private suggests that those with…

bubmagMarch 3, 2020

China says North Korea is suffering `negatively’ from virus

Rail and the future of transport

Report: Apple, Microsoft, and others benefit from forced labor in China

U.S. Supreme Court takes up Democratic bid to defend Obamacare

Pete Buttigieg’s Christianity

Republicans Are Suddenly Interested In Hunter Biden Again

Exclusive: U.N. nuclear watchdog plans alert on Iranian stonewalling

The Supreme Court did not grant certiorari on the House of Representative’s Obamacare Cert Petition

HENRY DEEDES: Michael Gove did one of his ‘there’s nothing to see here’ turns

Hong Kong’s Property Insiders Are in Buy Mode

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