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Robert Mugabe

Shunned by the West and China, Zimbabwe Turns to U.A.E.

(Bloomberg) -- Sanctioned by the West and spurned by China, Zimbabwe has turned to the United Arab Emirates in its latest bid to find a savior that can arrest the collapse of its economy. Zimbabwes government has approached the U.A.E. in hopes of selling a s…

bubmagJanuary 27, 2020

Little Red Riding Hood

The 18 Best-Dressed Celebs at the 2020 Grammy Awards

The Grammys are a night of contradictions, style-wise. Like any music industry event or awards show, the stars are expected to pull out all the stops and really express their artistry, their boldness, and sometimes just their willingness to party or be rebellious. But also, a pop or music star…

bubmagJanuary 27, 2020

Mecca

Ruling Amid Ruins: The Plot to Break Up Iraq

Any reader of these columns is familiar with the landscape – an intergalactic Star Wars struggle between three blocks of regional powers, as the US retreats in disarray. The struggle for power is played out in one sandbox after another – first Yemen, to Liby…

bubmagJanuary 27, 2020

Barack Obama

Shaq, Michael Jordan, Nike, Barack Obama, Kanye West & More Mourn Death of Kobe Bryant

A tragic ending to an immense legacy, Kobe Bryant passed away earlier today at 41, sending shock waves throughout the community. His 13-year-old daughter, Gianna Maria Onore, also passed. Upon finishing one of the most legendary careers the NBA has ever seen,…

bubmagJanuary 27, 2020

VR

Harmonix’s Audica will finally hit Oculus Quest on January 28

Initially announced last year at Oculus Connect 6, Audica is finally launching on the Oculus Quest on January 28. The Quest version of the music shooter was initially scheduled for a release last year, but will now launch next week after a small delay. Oculu…

bubmagJanuary 27, 2020

Holocaust

75 years after Auschwitz, survivor returns to death camp for first time

Monday marks 75 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Auschwitz was not only the largest of the German regime's death camps, where more than a million people 90 percent of them Jews were murdered by the Nazis; it's become t…

bubmagJanuary 27, 2020

Feudalism

Demographic Undestiny

Demography becomes destiny, the old adage goes. But many of the most confidently promoted demographic predictions have turned out grossly exaggerated or even dead wrong. In many cases they tend to reflect more the aspirations of pundits and reporters than the actual on-the-ground realities. Good thing, too. Many of the…

bubmagJanuary 27, 2020

eSports

Overwatch League, Call of Duty League to exclusively stream on YouTube

Activision Blizzard and Google have entered a multi-year partnership to “power new player experiences,” and part of the deal is for the Overwatch League and the newly launched Call of Duty League to be exclusively streamed on YouTube. YouTube will host Activision Blizzard’s official live broadcasts of its esports leagues,…

bubmagJanuary 27, 2020

Auschwitz-Birkenau

Photos from families ripped apart by the Holocaust

Tragic stories from the Holocaust are brought to life by Centropa, a Jewish organisation that has interviewed 1,200 elderly Jews in Central and Eastern Europe.Centropa made copies of family photos, including more than 3,000 of relatives murdered by the Nazis. Hundreds of them died at Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Some of…

bubmagJanuary 27, 2020

Auschwitz-Birkenau

‘I was 90% dead’: Henri’s story of surviving Auschwitz

Media caption"I was a skeleton" - Henri Kirchka lost his whole family in Auschwitz Henri Kichka knows there will be a price to pay for telling his story: sleepless nights where the horrors of the past seep back into the present. But he knows the story must …

bubmagJanuary 27, 2020

Shunned by the West and China, Zimbabwe Turns to U.A.E.

The 18 Best-Dressed Celebs at the 2020 Grammy Awards

Ruling Amid Ruins: The Plot to Break Up Iraq

Shaq, Michael Jordan, Nike, Barack Obama, Kanye West & More Mourn Death of Kobe Bryant

Harmonix’s Audica will finally hit Oculus Quest on January 28

75 years after Auschwitz, survivor returns to death camp for first time

Demographic Undestiny

Overwatch League, Call of Duty League to exclusively stream on YouTube

Photos from families ripped apart by the Holocaust

‘I was 90% dead’: Henri’s story of surviving Auschwitz

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