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Recycling

Malaysia returns thousands of tons of trash to wealthy countries

Malaysia will no longer allow other countries to dump their plastic waste on its land. The country has successfully returned 150 containers of plastic waste to 13 mostly wealthy nations since the end of last year. On Monday, Minister of Energy, Science, Tec…

bubmagJanuary 21, 2020

Singapore

China says virus that killed 4 can spread between people. Here’s what we know about the outbreak

Medical staff members carry a patient into the Jinyintan hospital, where patients infected by a mysterious SARS-like virus are being treated, in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on January 18, 2020. The outbreak of a new coronavirus stemming from Wuha…

bubmagJanuary 21, 2020

Old-Age Poverty

Nearly half billion people lack decent jobs: UN

AFP 21st Jan 2020 07:03:49 GMT +0300 Some 285 million people worldwide are considered underemployed, meaning they either work less than they want to, have given up searching for work or otherwise lack access to the labour market. Mor…

bubmagJanuary 21, 2020

Palestine

Israel’s fear of prosecution strengthens Palestine narratives

By Ramona Wadi | – (Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli media has reported that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could issue secret arrest warrants for Israeli officials involved in war crimes against the Palestinian people. According to a senior Israeli official who spoke to Israel Hayom, “The very fact…

bubmagJanuary 21, 2020

Moon Mission

The European Space Agency is going to make oxygen out of moondust

Humans are headed back to the Moon. That much is abundantly clear, as NASA, the European Space Agency, China, and others have either announced plans to send humans to Earth’s tiny neighbor or are at least discussing the possibilities. Exciting times lie ahead…

bubmagJanuary 21, 2020

Mexico Border Wall

Caravan of 3,000 Tests Pact With Trump…

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bubmagJanuary 21, 2020

Yemen Civil War

What MLK Would Make of the Israeli Occupation

This piece originally appeared on Informed Comment. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose activism we honor today, took stands far beyond Selma and Montgomery, and called on other capitals than Washington, D.C., to ensure a dignified life for human beings…

bubmagJanuary 21, 2020

Cristina Kirchner

Pompeo praises countries which blacklisted Hezbollah

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday praised Colombia, Honduras and Guatemala which designated Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. In a post on Twitter, Pompeo wrote that Hezbollah “and other transnational terrorist groups remain active in the regi…

bubmagJanuary 21, 2020

Alibaba

Masayoshi Son Is No Angel. He Might Want to Give It a Try

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The reputation of Masayoshi Son, the worlds most prolific unicorn breeder, came crashing down last year with the collapse of WeWork. An 80% writedown on The We Co., and a 970 billion yen ($8.8 billion) loss at the SoftBank Vision Fund d…

bubmagJanuary 21, 2020

Moravec‘s Paradox

Robot tanks: On patrol but not allowed to shoot

Image copyrightRyan CrierieImage caption The M247 Sergeant York was abandoned by the US Army in 1985 In 1985 the US pulled the plug on a computer-controlled anti-aircraft tank after a series of debacles in which its electronic brain locked guns onto a stan…

bubmagJanuary 21, 2020

Malaysia returns thousands of tons of trash to wealthy countries

China says virus that killed 4 can spread between people. Here’s what we know about the outbreak

Nearly half billion people lack decent jobs: UN

Israel’s fear of prosecution strengthens Palestine narratives

The European Space Agency is going to make oxygen out of moondust

Caravan of 3,000 Tests Pact With Trump…

What MLK Would Make of the Israeli Occupation

Pompeo praises countries which blacklisted Hezbollah

Masayoshi Son Is No Angel. He Might Want to Give It a Try

Robot tanks: On patrol but not allowed to shoot

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