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Palestine

Trump “Peace Plan” Too Extreme Even for Former Right-Wing Israeli Prime Minister

In an extraordinary joint press conference at the United Nations on Tuesday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert outlined their objections to Donald Trump’s so-called “peace plan” between Israel and Palestine. The plan would allow Israel to annex large swathes of territory conquered in the…

bubmagFebruary 12, 2020

Pikachu

Your biggest Pokémon Home questions, answered

Pokémon Home is finally here, and with it come questions. The new application to help trainers organize their Pokémon and bring them up to the current generation of games is available on multiple platforms, including Nintendo Switch, Android, and iOS devices. But with so much going on, it can be…

bubmagFebruary 12, 2020

Antibiotics

Antibiotics discovered that kill bacteria in a new way

A new group of antibiotics with a unique approach to attacking bacteria has been discovered, making it a promising clinical candidate in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. The newly-found corbomycin and the lesser-known complestatin have a never-before-seen way to kill bacteria, which is achieved by blocking the function of the…

bubmagFebruary 12, 2020

Bees

Pollinating opossums confirm decades-long theory

In Brazil there is a plant so strange that researchers predicted -- and 27 years later, proved -- that opossums are key to its pollination. The findings are published in the Ecological Society of America's journal Ecology. The plant Scybalium fungiforme, a little-known fungus-like species of the family Balanophoraceae, has…

bubmagFebruary 12, 2020

Liam Gallagher

Maggie Rogers, The 1975 and more artists are calling out Reading and Leeds Festival for a glaring lack of women on its 2020 lineup

Reading and Leeds Festival announced its 2020 lineup on Tuesday, and quickly drew familiar criticism for its glaring lack of female artists. The famous pair of festivals — which take place simultaneously in Reading and Leeds in England — will feature former …

bubmagFebruary 12, 2020

Bees

Pollinating opossums confirm decades-long theory

A violet-capped Woodnymph hummingbird visits the inflorescence. Credit: Felipe Amorim. In Brazil there is a plant so strange that researchers predicted—and 27 years later, proved—that opossums are key to its pollination. The findings are published in the Ecological Society of America's journal Ecology. The plant Scybalium fungiforme, a little-known fungus-like…

bubmagFebruary 12, 2020

Pope Francis

Pope decides against allowing married men to become priests

Pope Francis leads his general weekly audience at Nervi Hall on February 12 in Vatican City: Getty ImagesPope Francis has dismissed a proposal to allow married men to be ordained as priests in the Amazon region, marking one of the most significant decisions of his papacy.The proposal was put forward…

bubmagFebruary 12, 2020

Air Pollution

Half of US deaths related to air pollution are linked to out-of-state emissions

Credit: CC0 Public Domain More than half of all air-quality-related early deaths in the United States are a result of emissions originating outside of the state in which those deaths occur, MIT researchers report in the journal Nature. The study focuses on the years between 2005 and 2018 and tracks…

bubmagFebruary 12, 2020

Mecca

How The 1979 Revolution Reshaped Iran as well as Saudi Arabia

The Iranian revolution, which took place 41 years ago this week, was not the only seismic event to shake the Gulf and the Middle East that year. In November 1979, Juhayman al-Otaibi, a former corporal in the Saudi National Guard, seized the Ka’aba in Mecca with a Salafi armed group proclaiming…

bubmagFebruary 12, 2020

Refugees Welcome

Bohemian FC calls for end to Direct Provision with ‘refugees welcome’ shirt

A football club in Ireland has partnered with Amnesty International to call for an end to the country’s system of accommodating asylum seekers. ohemian FC will sport a white away shirt in the 2020 season with “refugees welcome” written on the chest around a silhouette of a fleeing family. A…

bubmagFebruary 12, 2020

Trump “Peace Plan” Too Extreme Even for Former Right-Wing Israeli Prime Minister

Your biggest Pokémon Home questions, answered

Antibiotics discovered that kill bacteria in a new way

Pollinating opossums confirm decades-long theory

Maggie Rogers, The 1975 and more artists are calling out Reading and Leeds Festival for a glaring lack of women on its 2020 lineup

Pollinating opossums confirm decades-long theory

Pope decides against allowing married men to become priests

Half of US deaths related to air pollution are linked to out-of-state emissions

How The 1979 Revolution Reshaped Iran as well as Saudi Arabia

Bohemian FC calls for end to Direct Provision with ‘refugees welcome’ shirt

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