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Water Scarcity

South Africa: The Myth of Day Zero – What We Got Wrong With Water

Here's to 2020 being a turning point once and for all on water management "Day Zero" is now part of the lexicon of water management. There are at least two things wrong with the term: The implication that it is an unavoidable surprise from mother nature, an…

bubmagDecember 27, 2019

Super Heroes

Review: Incoming #1 Offers a Tantalizing Glimpse at the Marvel Universe’s Future

For a few years, Marvel Comics published oversized one-shot special issues, often titled with some variation of Point One or Marvel Now, that charted a course for the future of the Marvel Universe. Featuring a whole host of superstar comic book writers and ar…

bubmagDecember 27, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

One of the few surviving buildings of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima may be demolished

An old garment depot that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and provided temporary shelter to victims within its concrete walls, could be partially demolished by local authorities 75 years later. The former Hiroshima Army Clothing Depot was one of th…

bubmagDecember 27, 2019

Star Wars

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s ending, explained – CNET

This is it for the Skywalker Saga. Walt Disney Pictures Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker caps off a story that spans nine films over the last four decades. That's a lot of baggage to unload, and director J.J. Abrams attempts to pay off earlier elements whil…

bubmagDecember 27, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

Congolese migrant woman, 41, dies in US border custody on Christmas Day at Texas hospital – USA TODAY

HOUSTON A 41-year-old Congolese woman died Wednesday in U.S. government custody shortly after she entered a border station in South Texas, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Thursday. CBP says the woman, who the agency did not identify, had arrived at …

bubmagDecember 27, 2019

NASDAQ

Asian shares hit 18-month top in festive cheer; oil, gold hold gains

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian shares jumped to an 18-month high on Friday while gold and oil prices stayed buoyant in a holiday-shortened week, as investor optimism was boosted by hopes a U.S.-China trade deal would soon be signed. Traders returned from their Ch…

bubmagDecember 27, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

300 migrants rescued off Spain over two-day Christmas period

Around 100 refugees and migrants were rescued off the coast of Spain on Thursday, adding to around another 200 plucked off makeshift boats on Christmas Day, Spain's maritime rescue service said. More than half of them were found off the Costa Blanca on Spain…

bubmagDecember 27, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

The real lesson of Afghanistan is that regime change does not work

The trove of U.S. Lessons Learned documents on Afghanistan published by the Washington Post portrays, in excruciating detail, the anatomy of a failed policy, scandalously hidden from the public for 18 years. The Lessons Learned papers, however, are based on t…

bubmagDecember 27, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

Algeria reviews security as Turkey readies Libya intervention

Algiers (AFP) - Algeria's newly elected President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has chaired a rare meeting of the country's top security body to discuss contingency plans for a threatened Turkish military intervention in neighbouring Libya. The High Security Council …

bubmagDecember 27, 2019

Animal Protection

Elephants in Thailand ‘broken’ for lucrative animal tourism…

Separated from their mothers, jabbed with metal hooks, and sometimes deprived of food -- many Thai elephants are tamed by force before being sold to lucrative tourism sites increasingly advertised as "sanctuaries" to cruelty-conscious travellers. Balanced pr…

bubmagDecember 27, 2019

South Africa: The Myth of Day Zero – What We Got Wrong With Water

Review: Incoming #1 Offers a Tantalizing Glimpse at the Marvel Universe’s Future

One of the few surviving buildings of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima may be demolished

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s ending, explained – CNET

Congolese migrant woman, 41, dies in US border custody on Christmas Day at Texas hospital – USA TODAY

Asian shares hit 18-month top in festive cheer; oil, gold hold gains

300 migrants rescued off Spain over two-day Christmas period

The real lesson of Afghanistan is that regime change does not work

Algeria reviews security as Turkey readies Libya intervention

Elephants in Thailand ‘broken’ for lucrative animal tourism…

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