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Bees

Africa: Africa Must Act On Pesticide ‘Double Standards’

Toxic farming chemicals banned in Europe are still used widely in Africa despite growing evidence that they harm the environment, food security and possibly human health. Humanity has long recognised the essential role of pollinating bees and insects in sustaining life and health, so much so that generations of parents…

bubmagMarch 3, 2020

Be Evil

Letter From New Hampshire: The Dangers of Disinformation

Mar 3, 2020 at 12:00 UTCUpdated Mar 10, 2020 at 20:18 UTCPostTrustElectionA few days before the New Hampshire primary vote, midway through a speech at a packed town hall in Nashua, Andrew Yang began to talk about data. Specifically, the industrial-scale harvesting of private data that is at the heart…

bubmagMarch 3, 2020

Skateboard

A ‘Netflix for the 99 Percent’ Enters the Streaming Wars

Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood gets its name from the Gowanus Canal, the notoriously polluted waterway snaking through it. Intensive cleanup efforts began over a decade ago, after the Environmental Protection Agency declared the canal a Superfund site, and real estate developers began sniffing around the area. As the waters changed from…

bubmagMarch 3, 2020

China is using coronavirus to boost its dystopian social credit system

Getty Images / WIRED It was a neighbour who turned Mr Yang in. The flat compound’s management were told he had been to Wuhan and that he had not reported it. They ordered him to self-quarantine for 14 days. He had no symptoms typical of the coronavirus, Covid-19, and was…

bubmagMarch 3, 2020

Putin

Russia’s Has Its Very Own B-2 Lookalike Stealth Drone

Key point: Hunter-B might need several more years of development before it's ready for squadron service.Russia’s prototype stealth drone will make its first flight in July or August 2019, state media reported.The Hunter-B drone will be fully autonomous and follow a pre-programmed flight path, according to Russian news agency TASS.“The Russian…

bubmagMarch 3, 2020

Boris Johnson

Unlikely UK will lock down cities to prevent coronavirus spread: Chief Medical Officer

Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England is seen outside Downing Street in London, Britain, March 3, 2020. REUTERS/Henry NichollsLONDON (Reuters) - It seems unlikely Britain will lock down any cities to prevent the spread of coronavirus but the government will keep all options available, England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris…

bubmagMarch 3, 2020

Palestine

For Palestinians, Netanyahu, Gantz are ‘two sides of same coin’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed victory in Israel's election over his main challenger, former military chief of staff Benny Gantz, although it appears he may just be short of securing a parliamentary majority to form the next government. Exit polls after Monday's vote, the third in less than a year,…

bubmagMarch 3, 2020

Catalonia

Jailed Catalan independence leader to teach at university

By Associated PressThe Associated PressTues., March 3, 2020timer1 min. readMADRID - A jailed pro-Catalan independence politician was allowed to leave prison Tuesday to take up part-time teaching work at a university.Oriol Junqueras, a former vice-president for Spain’s wealthy northeastern Catalonia region, is serving a 13-year sentence for his role in…

bubmagMarch 3, 2020

Catalonia

Jailed Catalan independence leader to teach at university

MADRID (AP) — A jailed pro-Catalan independence politician was allowed to leave prison Tuesday to take up part-time teaching work at a university. Oriol Junqueras, a former vice president for Spain’s wealthy northeastern Catalonia region, is serving a 13-year sentence for his role in the illegal secession push against Spain…

bubmagMarch 3, 2020

Propaganda

U.S. national security agencies gather to combat potential election interference

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Super Tuesday primary elections were so far free of any signs of interference, said national security professionals who gathered in Northern Virginia in an unprecedented monitoring effort to counter cyberattacks and foreign disinformation. A man inserts his voter card into a touchscreen voting machine at a…

bubmagMarch 3, 2020

Africa: Africa Must Act On Pesticide ‘Double Standards’

Letter From New Hampshire: The Dangers of Disinformation

A ‘Netflix for the 99 Percent’ Enters the Streaming Wars

Russia’s Has Its Very Own B-2 Lookalike Stealth Drone

Unlikely UK will lock down cities to prevent coronavirus spread: Chief Medical Officer

For Palestinians, Netanyahu, Gantz are ‘two sides of same coin’

Jailed Catalan independence leader to teach at university

Jailed Catalan independence leader to teach at university

U.S. national security agencies gather to combat potential election interference

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