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Brexit

With a Tory majority expected in the U.K., Brexit may seem like a slam dunk — but it’s not – Global News

Now that a Tory majority government is projected for the U.K., the question becomes: what does a snap election in favour of Boris Johnson’s party mean for the future of Brexit? Johnson ran on the promise that a Tory win would mean he would get parliament to …

bubmagDecember 13, 2019

NATO

Spain in drive to get women into special forces

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption More Spanish women are to be trained for special forces operations Spain's defence ministry is opening more special forces roles to women as part of international efforts to tackle terrorism and unconventional warfa…

bubmagDecember 13, 2019

Fortnite

Fortnite adds Rey and Finn skins in time for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Plus a bright red Sith Trooper skin and First Order Tie Fighter glider Image: Epic Games Fortnite has added perhaps its most high-profile crossover items today with new Rey and Finn skins to celebrate next weeks premiere of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.…

bubmagDecember 13, 2019

Hiroshima

Books for our time: seven classics that speak to us now

From planetary change to geopolitical recalibrations, 2019 has been convulsive. The year saw millions worldwide protesting against governmental inaction on the cascading crises in the global environment. Anxiety over nuclear annihilation vied with concerns ov…

bubmagDecember 13, 2019

Neymar

Football gossip: Sancho, Eriksen, Guardiola, Haaland, Zaha, Torreira

Manchester United are confident of signing Borussia Dortmund's England winger Jadon Sancho, 19, next month and could also move for Tottenham's Denmark midfielder Christian Eriksen, 27. (Mirror) Pep Guardiola has a break clause in his contract which could see…

bubmagDecember 13, 2019

Hrant Dink

US Congress recognises Armenian genocide

WASHINGTON: The US Congress on Thursday (Dec 12) formally recognised the 1915-1917 murder of up to 1.5 million Armenians as genocide. The Senate's passage of the repeatedly stalled resolution is expected to anger Turkey, which denies there was a genocidal ma…

bubmagDecember 13, 2019

Hrant Dink

U.S. Senate passes resolution recognizing Armenian genocide, angering Turkey

By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution that recognizes as a genocide the mass killings of Armenians a century ago, a historic move that infuriated Turkey and dealt a blow to the already problematic…

bubmagDecember 13, 2019

Brexit

UK’s Farage: We will get Brexit, but maybe not the right Brexit

LONDON (Reuters) - Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said Britain would leave the European Union if Boris Johnson’s Conservatives win the majority forecast in the exit poll, but it may not be the hard Brexit he had spent his political career campaigning for. …

bubmagDecember 13, 2019

Filter Bubble

6 Privacy Search Engines to Browse the Web Safely

Before Google, discovering websites and services or finding information was tricky. The same can be said for internet users now if they had to do anything on the web using URLs only, and no search engines. Today though, Google is more than just a search engi…

bubmagDecember 13, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

The Strange Death of Social-Democratic England

Christopher Furlong/Getty ImagesA mural depicting Prime Minister Boris Johnson, London, December 12, 2019 The immediate, clear consequence of the UK election of December 12, 2019, is that Boris Johnsons Conservative Party has succeeded where Theresa Mays fai…

bubmagDecember 12, 2019

With a Tory majority expected in the U.K., Brexit may seem like a slam dunk — but it’s not – Global News

Spain in drive to get women into special forces

Fortnite adds Rey and Finn skins in time for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Books for our time: seven classics that speak to us now

Football gossip: Sancho, Eriksen, Guardiola, Haaland, Zaha, Torreira

US Congress recognises Armenian genocide

U.S. Senate passes resolution recognizing Armenian genocide, angering Turkey

UK’s Farage: We will get Brexit, but maybe not the right Brexit

6 Privacy Search Engines to Browse the Web Safely

The Strange Death of Social-Democratic England

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