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Unwelcome Refugees

Brexit clears final hurdle in the House of Commons

By: New York Times | London | Updated: January 23, 2020 8:15:03 am Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government said that it aimed to do so anyway but that it did not want a formal requirement in the Brexit bill.(Written by Stephen Castle) Brexit legislation once reduced Britain’s Parliament to recriminations…

bubmagJanuary 23, 2020

Jamal Khashoggi

Saudi officials close to the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reportedly knew of plans to hack Bezos phone

Saudi officials close to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (know in the West as MBS) told The Wall Street Journal that they were aware of plans to hack Jeff Bezos' phone. The unnamed officials also said that senior adviser to the crown prince, Saud al-Qahtani, was also involved in the hacking…

bubmagJanuary 23, 2020

Anti-Putin Protests

The Story of ‘No Hope for Russia’ Is Wrong – RDIF CEO on Anti-Russian Narratives in Davos

As many heads of state skipped WEF-2020, most discussions focused on business and the economy. But Wednesdays panel meeting on Russia turned into a heated debate, with its participants arguing about bias and outdated stereotypes. Relations between Moscow and …

bubmagJanuary 23, 2020

Matteo Salvini

Matteo Salvini revels in, steers Italy’s political chaos

Polls show that his hard-right League party is well positioned to win in regional elections in the northern region of Emilia-Romagna, which has for decades been synonymous with the Italian left, and in the region of Calabria in the country's south, from which…

bubmagJanuary 23, 2020

Belfast

Can wearing masks stop the spread of viruses?

Image copyrightGetty Images One of the abiding images of any virus outbreak is people in surgical masks. Using them to prevent infection is popular in many countries around the world, most notably China during the current coronavirus outbreak where they are…

bubmagJanuary 23, 2020

Auschwitz-Birkenau

Auschwitz: How death camp became centre of Nazi Holocaust

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz in January 1945 On 27 January 1945, Soviet troops cautiously entered Auschwitz. Primo Levi - one of the most famous survivors - was lying in a camp hospital with scarlet fever when…

bubmagJanuary 23, 2020

Jamal Khashoggi

All These Extremely Powerful People May Want to Double Check They Weren’t Hacked by a Saudi Prince

In early 2018, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman took a sweeping tour of the U.S. as part of a strategy to rebrand Saudi Arabias ruling monarchy as a modernizing force and pull off his Vision 2030 planhobnobbing with a list of corporate execs and politic…

bubmagJanuary 23, 2020

Joe Biden

Joe Biden: We’re not going to turn this into a farce

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bubmagJanuary 23, 2020

NATO

At Florida base, a mix of relief, anxiety in Saudi shooting aftermath

NAVAL AIR STATION PENSACOLA, Fla. (Reuters) - With an FBI investigation underway, Navy security officer David Link still is not allowed to talk about what he saw when a Saudi gunman killed three U.S. sailors at this sprawling Florida naval base last month. …

bubmagJanuary 23, 2020

Unwelcome Refugees

The ‘Immense Disaster’ Facing Climate Refugees

If you are a climate migrant, how urgent is urgent? Slowing, or even stopping, the damage humans are doing to the physical world through profligate use of fossil fuels and casual extermination of other species is urgent. But what we are allowing fellow humans to tolerate is just as urgent,…

bubmagJanuary 23, 2020

Brexit clears final hurdle in the House of Commons

Saudi officials close to the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reportedly knew of plans to hack Bezos phone

The Story of ‘No Hope for Russia’ Is Wrong – RDIF CEO on Anti-Russian Narratives in Davos

Matteo Salvini revels in, steers Italy’s political chaos

Can wearing masks stop the spread of viruses?

Auschwitz: How death camp became centre of Nazi Holocaust

All These Extremely Powerful People May Want to Double Check They Weren’t Hacked by a Saudi Prince

Joe Biden: We’re not going to turn this into a farce

At Florida base, a mix of relief, anxiety in Saudi shooting aftermath

The ‘Immense Disaster’ Facing Climate Refugees

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