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Former European leaders say Trump’s Middle East peace plan akin to apartheid Palestine

Former European leaders say Trump’s Middle East peace plan akin to apartheid

LONDON (Reuters) - Fifty former European prime ministers and foreign ministers have condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan in an open letter, saying it would create an apartheid-like situation in occupied Palestinian territory. FILE PHOTO: A demonstrator holds a Palestinian flag and a placard during a protest…
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February 27, 2020
California’s self-driving car reports are public. Here’s what they don’t mean. Self-driving Vehicles

California’s self-driving car reports are public. Here’s what they don’t mean.

It's not the who-is-winning-the-race narrative that many might expect The California Department of Motor Vehicles released its annual cache of autonomous vehicle testing and disengagements data that, depending how one chooses to interpret the data, shows either stunning progress or stagnation. The data, which every company testing autonomous vehicles on…
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February 27, 2020
Nuclear arms control treaty set for review as divisions over non-proliferation mount Nuclear Disarmament

Nuclear arms control treaty set for review as divisions over non-proliferation mount

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in March, the United Nations is preparing to review the accord amid growing signs that divisions and distrust are rife among countries that possess nuclear arsenals. “Relationships between states – especially nuclear-weapon states –…
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February 27, 2020
An anti-Putin blogger fought off a hammer-wielding assassin in what looks like the latest in a string of bloody attacks on dissidents in Europe Anti-Putin Protests

An anti-Putin blogger fought off a hammer-wielding assassin in what looks like the latest in a string of bloody attacks on dissidents in Europe

Tumso Abdurakhmanov, a Chechen activist, posted a video after an apparent attack on him in Poland.He said a person with a hammer had been sent to kill him, in an Instagram Live video which also seemed to show the assailant.Abdurakhmanov is seeking asylum in Poland having left Chechnya, which is…
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February 27, 2020
Pope Francis ‘sick’ one day after meeting masked Ash Wednesday audience Pope Francis

Pope Francis ‘sick’ one day after meeting masked Ash Wednesday audience

Pontiff's illness comes amid outbreak of coronavirus which has infected 650 people in Italy Pope Francis has cancelled official audiences for a second day in succession after being taken ill. The Vatican said the 83-year-old had celebrated morning Mass as usual and greeted participants at the end. He planned to keep his…
bubmag
February 27, 2020
Pope Francis ‘sick’ one day after meeting masked Ash Wednesday audience Pope Francis

Pope Francis ‘sick’ one day after meeting masked Ash Wednesday audience

Pope Francis has cancelled official audiences for a second day in succession after being taken ill.The Vatican said the 83-year-old had celebrated morning Mass as usual and greeted participants at the end. He planned to keep his private meeting schedule as planned but decided to cancel official audiences.It did not reveal…
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February 27, 2020
‘Desecration’: Trump border wall causes sacred hundred-year-old cacti to be chopped down Mexico Border Wall

‘Desecration’: Trump border wall causes sacred hundred-year-old cacti to be chopped down

Cut down a saguaro cactus in Arizona and you can face years in prison. But over the past several weeks, work crews have been destroying dozens of the protected cactuses, which can live for 200 years, to build a new wall on the southwestern border. The remains of chopped-up saguaros…
bubmag
February 27, 2020