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Air Pollution

Study reveals dramatic health benefits after air pollution reduction – Devdiscourse

While reducing air pollution is considered as a boon for the depleting environmental conditions, a recent study explores its relation with dramatic health benefits. The study 'Health Benefits of Air Pollution Reduction' published in the American Thoracic Soci…

bubmagDecember 21, 2019

Korean Peace Talks

Trump careens toward a Christmas crisis with North Korea

The tensions threaten to blight Trumps foreign policy record as his 2020 reelection bid shifts into full gear. Upon entering office, he vowed that North Korea wouldn't develop an intercontinental ballistic missile on his watch, only to stand by as Kim preside…

bubmagDecember 21, 2019

Silk Road

629 Pakistani girls sold as brides to China

By: AP | Lahore (pakistan) | Published: December 21, 2019 9:04:17 pm In this April 14, 2019 photo, Pakistani Christian woman Samiya David shows her picture with Chinese husband, in Gujranwala, Pakistan. Samiya had been in China just two months when her bro…

bubmagDecember 21, 2019

Biological Warfare

Bombs Away: Japan Sent Explosive-Laden Balloons To Set Fire To America

Key point: The balloon attacks continued into April 1945. It crossed silently on a chilly winter evening over the southern Oregon coast, descending slowly, its ballast spent. The Japanese bomb-laden paper balloon collapsed into the Gearhart Mountain forest n…

bubmagDecember 21, 2019

Recycling

Fire crews from around the region battle tire fire at N.B. recycling plant – CTV News

MINTO, N.B. -- Fire crews from around the region are battling a massive tire fire at a recycling plant in the village of Minto, in south-central New Brunswick. Fire Chief Jody Price from nearby Oromocto, N.B., said his department had sent a crew to help ba…

bubmagDecember 21, 2019

Free Internet

Russia’s “Sovereign Internet” Test Will Cut Off Entire Country From Web On Monday

On Monday a key initiative undertaken by the Russian government for over the past year to establish a 'sovereign internet' will face a major test. That's when the country and its information systems will be intentionally disconnected from the worldwide web, a…

bubmagDecember 21, 2019

Jerusalem Controversy

50 Palestinian protesters have been blinded by shots to the eye at Gaza fence protests

Gaza ‘Blinding the truth’: Israeli snipers target Gaza protesters in their eyesThe New Arab 20 Dec by Tareq Hajjaj & Pam Bailey — Media coverage and social media posts went wild when Palestinian photojournalist Muath Amarneh was blinded in his left eye a…

bubmagDecember 21, 2019

Fake news isn’t the real problem – news is: One of the world’s leading internet researchers explains what went wrong

“Never in history have we had so much data at our disposal about human culture and behavior,” says Lev Manovich, “but as far as most artists and academics from the humanities are concerned, this data is ‘capitalism,’ so it’s considered bad, because money is b…

bubmagDecember 21, 2019

Paris

French forces killed 33 militants in Mali: Macron

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - France killed 33 militants in Mali on Saturday using attack helicopters, ground troops and a drone near the border with Mauritania where a group linked to al Qaeda operates, the French army said. French President Emmanuel Macron announced…

bubmagDecember 21, 2019

Korean Peace Talks

‘An expiration date on the bromance’: Trump’s friendly ties with Kim Jong Un faces new test

WASHINGTON The Trump administration has not settled on a new North Korea strategy even though Kim Jong Un seems poised to abandon diplomatic talks, restart provocative weapons tests and deliver an unwanted "Christmas gift" to the United States. While North K…

bubmagDecember 21, 2019

Study reveals dramatic health benefits after air pollution reduction – Devdiscourse

Trump careens toward a Christmas crisis with North Korea

629 Pakistani girls sold as brides to China

Bombs Away: Japan Sent Explosive-Laden Balloons To Set Fire To America

Fire crews from around the region battle tire fire at N.B. recycling plant – CTV News

Russia’s “Sovereign Internet” Test Will Cut Off Entire Country From Web On Monday

50 Palestinian protesters have been blinded by shots to the eye at Gaza fence protests

French forces killed 33 militants in Mali: Macron

‘An expiration date on the bromance’: Trump’s friendly ties with Kim Jong Un faces new test

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