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Liam Napier: Why Mark Robinson faces a tougher job than Ian Foster

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bubmagMarch 14, 2020

Hiroshima

‘Heiwa no Chikai’ (‘Oath of Peace’) in Tokyo, Japan

In front of Tokyo’s Ōimachi Station stands a bronze statue of a woman, with one arm holding a little boy’s hand and the other raising toward the sky. On her raised hand, a bird perches with what seems to be a sprouting plant between its beak. Most passersby are likely to…

bubmagMarch 14, 2020

Syria

Syria war: Idlib residents struggle with daily life

The Russian-Turkish ceasefire is largely holding in Idlib, Syria's last remaining rebel-held area. But for the nearly one million people displaced by the latest fighting, finding refuge is a daily struggle. Some have even been forced to live in graveyards. Al Jazeera's Osama Bin Javaid reports from Hatay near the…

bubmagMarch 14, 2020

Bolsonaro

Trump Says He’s Been Tested for Coronavirus After Exposure

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said he took a test to determine whether he has coronavirus, after learning that he’d recently come in contact with people who were infected or are concerned they may have the virus.At a White House news conference on Saturday, Trump said he doesn’t have a…

bubmagMarch 14, 2020

Alibaba

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma says he will donate one million face masks and 500,000 coronavirus testing kits to the US

New York (CNN Business)Chinese billionaire and Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma said he will donate 500,000 coronavirus testing kits and one million face masks to the United States.The kits and masks have been sourced and are ready to be delivered, he said Friday on Twitter and Weibo, China's micro-blogging platform. "Drawing…

bubmagMarch 14, 2020

Belt and Road

The EU Is Abandoning Italy in Its Hour of Need

Italy is in lockdown. Schools and universities are closed, soccer games suspended, and restaurant visits banned amid a rapid spread of the novel coronavirus in the country. Just grocery stores and pharmacies are allowed to stay open, and only absolutely necessary travel is permitted. One might think that fellow European…

bubmagMarch 14, 2020

Star Wars

An NPC Protocol Droid In Battlefront II Has Had Enough And Fights Back

Look, everyone has a breaking point. One Battlefront II player pushed an innocent NPC droid to this point after shocking it. So the droid pulled out a blaster and fought back.Droids in the Star Wars universe are often treated like crap. Many folks think of them as things, even though…

bubmagMarch 14, 2020

Google

White House now says pilot of coronavirus screening site will roll out Monday for Bay Area

After President Trump announced that the government was working with Google to build a coronavirus screening site that was at the core of the administration testing process, Google quickly corrected this and said that it was actually Verily, Alphabet’s health division, that was working on this and that the site…

bubmagMarch 14, 2020

Greenland

6 monsters of mythology that haunt our dreams (10 Photos)

1Bryan Alexander/Flickr Kraken There is no shortage of sea-dwelling monsters when it comes to mythology. The Kraken, however, just might be the most notorious. Originating as a giant fish known as ‘hafgufa’ in Norse mythology, the Kraken eventually came to be known as a giant octopus or squid that terrorized…

bubmagMarch 14, 2020

Black Thursday

Coronavirus: How the longest bull run in history ended in pandemic panic

The shock had turned worry about the coronavirus to full-blown panic, wiped trillions of dollars from Asian stocks and sent futures for European and US markets plunging. As a collapse in the oil price unleashed chaos in financial markets, Madrid money manager Diego Parrilla phoned a colleague who agreed: they…

bubmagMarch 14, 2020

Liam Napier: Why Mark Robinson faces a tougher job than Ian Foster

‘Heiwa no Chikai’ (‘Oath of Peace’) in Tokyo, Japan

Syria war: Idlib residents struggle with daily life

Trump Says He’s Been Tested for Coronavirus After Exposure

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma says he will donate one million face masks and 500,000 coronavirus testing kits to the US

The EU Is Abandoning Italy in Its Hour of Need

An NPC Protocol Droid In Battlefront II Has Had Enough And Fights Back

White House now says pilot of coronavirus screening site will roll out Monday for Bay Area

6 monsters of mythology that haunt our dreams (10 Photos)

Coronavirus: How the longest bull run in history ended in pandemic panic

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