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Impeachment

Trump isn’t pleased a South Korean film won best-picture Oscar

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump bemoaned this year's Academy Award winner for best picture, "Parasite," on Thursday because it's a South Korean film."How bad were the Academy Awards this year, did you see? 'And the winner is ... a movie from South Korea,' " Trump said, impersonating an announcer, at a…

bubmagFebruary 21, 2020

Brasilia

Brazil’s Vale knew Brumadinho dam was unsafe as early as 2003: internal report

BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - An independent investigation requested by Brazilian iron ore miner Vale SA into the causes of the Brumadinho tailings dam disaster that killed 270 people a year ago found the company knew about the problem but failed to deal with it. FILE PHOTO: A view of…

bubmagFebruary 21, 2020

eSports

Gaming-focused investment firm Bitkraft closes in on at least $140 million for its second fund

Esports, video games and the innovations that enable them now occupy a central space in the cultural and commercial fabric of the tech world. For the investment firm Bitkraft Esports Ventures, the surge in interest means a vast opportunity to invest in the businesses that continue to reshape entertainment and…

bubmagFebruary 21, 2020

Jean-Claude Juncker

Stephen Collins: Reluctance of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil to govern understandable

The professed desire of many Fine Gael TDs, and some in Fianna Fáil as well, to go into opposition rather than government has turned the normal order of politics on its head but is an understandable response to the mood of the electorate. Attempting to hold a seat as a…

bubmagFebruary 21, 2020

Vietnam

Vietnam police charge seven over Britain truck deaths

HANOI (Reuters) - Police in Vietnam have charged seven people in connection with the deaths of 39 migrants whose bodies were discovered in the back of a truck near London last year, authorities said late on Thursday.The victims, who included two 15-year-old boys, were mostly from two provinces in north-central…

bubmagFebruary 21, 2020

Volodymyr Zelensky

Coronavirus: Ukraine protesters attack buses carrying China evacuees

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWatch clashes between protesters and police in UkraineDozens of protesters in a Ukrainian town have attacked buses carrying evacuees from coronavirus-hit China.The evacuees were brought to a health spa in Novi Sanzhary, in the central Poltava region, where they will be held…

bubmagFebruary 21, 2020

Recycling

Recyclable Concrete Is Coming & It May Be Better Than The Original

February 21, 2020 — 0:41 AM Apparently, the concrete industry is going green. First, scientists brought the material to life (seriously) as a part of efforts to make it more sustainable. And now, researchers at The University of Tokyo are working on making concrete recyclable.One of the most common materials…

bubmagFebruary 21, 2020

Machine Learning

Google exiles 600 apps from Play Store for ‘disruptive advertising’ amid push to clean up Android souk’s image

Purge is the latest in a series of similar store scourings On Thursday Google confirmed it has removed nearly 600 Android apps from the Google Play Store and banned them from its ad services for violating its policies on disruptive advertising and interstitials. "We define disruptive ads as ads that…

bubmagFebruary 21, 2020

Scotland

Plans for major expansion of dormant assets scheme to benefit good causes

New plans to expand dormant assets scheme could free up hundreds of millions of pounds The money will be redistributed to benefit communities across the UK To date over £600 million from dormant bank and building society accounts has gone to good causes The Government has today signalled its intention…

bubmagFebruary 21, 2020

Sky-Diving

The 15 best superhero movies of all time

There are a few reasons why superheroes and comic books go hand in hand, and maybe the most obvious is that the comparatively inexpensive production costs mean the imaginations of comic book creators face fewer boundaries. When Superman lifted that car over his head for the iconic cover of 1938’s…

bubmagFebruary 21, 2020

Trump isn’t pleased a South Korean film won best-picture Oscar

Brazil’s Vale knew Brumadinho dam was unsafe as early as 2003: internal report

Gaming-focused investment firm Bitkraft closes in on at least $140 million for its second fund

Stephen Collins: Reluctance of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil to govern understandable

Vietnam police charge seven over Britain truck deaths

Coronavirus: Ukraine protesters attack buses carrying China evacuees

Recyclable Concrete Is Coming & It May Be Better Than The Original

Google exiles 600 apps from Play Store for ‘disruptive advertising’ amid push to clean up Android souk’s image

Plans for major expansion of dormant assets scheme to benefit good causes

The 15 best superhero movies of all time

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