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Korean Peace Talks

Watch | Top Global News Developments in 2019

1) Protests in Hong Kong Protests began in June in Hong Kong as a mark of opposition to the city governments Extradition Bill that would have seen offenders sent to mainland China 2) The U.S. President is impeached U.S. President Donald Trump was impeached…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Korean War

Don Larsen, Yankees Pitcher Who Threw The Only World Series Perfect Game, Dies At 90

(Original Caption) New York Yankee's pitcher Don Larsen delivers a third-strike pitch to dodger ... pinch-hitter Dale Mitchell for the final out in the first perfect game in World Series history here. Second baseman Billy Martin stands in front of the sco…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Little Italy

A Baltimore Tale

Over the Christmas holiday, Mary and I drove from West Virginia to visit her widowed birth mother who lives in Baltimore. I’ll call her Ruth. Mary and I grew up in the Baltimore area. Wow! What a striking decline in our beloved hometown, once renowned as Cha…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Matteo Salvini

Italy’s Government Could Collapse Six Different Ways This Month

(Bloomberg) -- Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte already exceeded the expectations of most of his political opponents by surviving the collapse of his first government last summer. But his second coalition is so fragile that a host of issues could still t…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Korean Peace Talks

North Korea#39;s Kim Jong Un touts strategic weapon amid stall in talks

Expressing deep frustration over stalled nuclear talks, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned of unspecified shocking action and that his country will soon reveal a new strategic weapon to the world as its bolsters its nuclear deterrent in face of gangster-l…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Matteo Salvini

‘Will they go to Italy?’ Indian minister rallies behind citizenship law, says other nations won’t take ‘poor’ Hindus

Speaking in the context of the recently-passed Citizenship Amendment Act, which fast-tracks Indian citizenship for religious groups fleeing persecution in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Reddy said India must pick up the slack for other nations unwillin…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Water Scarcity

How the Climate Crisis Could Reverse Progress on Gender Equality Around the World

By: Mark Leon Goldberg on January 01, 2020 By Nitya Rao, Professor of Gender & Development, University of East Anglia This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. People who directly dep…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Feudalism

Is America About to Suffer Its Weimar Moment?

Is America about to suffer its Weimar moment, culminating in the collapse of its republican institutions? Our democracy may be far more rooted than that of Germanys first republic, which fell in 1933 to Adolf Hitler, but there are disturbing similarities. A …

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Drones

The airborne commute – a flight of fancy?

Image copyrightUberImage caption Test flights for Uber's flying taxis are due to start from 2020 There is something about the idea of a flying car that sparks the imagination - maybe it is the association with futuristic sci-fi movies or just the idea of f…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Julian Assange

UN Special Rapporteur On Torture Blasts UK Government’s Indifference To Abuse Against Julian Assange

The government of the United Kingdom informed United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer that they reject any allegation that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been subjected to torture in any form as a result of actions by the U.K. governmen…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Watch | Top Global News Developments in 2019

Don Larsen, Yankees Pitcher Who Threw The Only World Series Perfect Game, Dies At 90

A Baltimore Tale

Italy’s Government Could Collapse Six Different Ways This Month

North Korea#39;s Kim Jong Un touts strategic weapon amid stall in talks

‘Will they go to Italy?’ Indian minister rallies behind citizenship law, says other nations won’t take ‘poor’ Hindus

How the Climate Crisis Could Reverse Progress on Gender Equality Around the World

Is America About to Suffer Its Weimar Moment?

The airborne commute – a flight of fancy?

UN Special Rapporteur On Torture Blasts UK Government’s Indifference To Abuse Against Julian Assange

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