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Unwelcome Refugees

‘Between life and death’: Rescued migrants recall Libya ‘hell’

Onboard the Ocean Viking in the Mediterranean - Forty-two-year old Florent* took off his life jacket, knelt to the floor of the Ocean Viking, a migrant rescue vessel, and let out a roar. He looked up, index fingers pointing to the sky as tears rolled down hi…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

PBS, Netflix, MSNBC among 2020 duPont-Columbia award winners

NEW YORK (AP) Groundbreaking reporting on the separation of families at the U.S.-Mexican border, the growth of America’s white supremacist movement and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi will be honored at the 2020 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University A…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

CCTV

Jersey City’s mayor says gunmen targeted kosher market

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) The mayor of Jersey City said Wednesday it’s clear that gunmen in a furious shooting that left six people dead targeted a Jewish market. Mayor Steven Fulop refused to call it an anti-Semitic attack but said surveillance video shows the…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

Water Scarcity

Climate Crisis could Reverse Progress in Achieving Gender Equality

People who directly depend on the natural world for their livelihoods, like farmers and fishers, will be among the greatest victims of the climate crisis. In vulnerable hotspots, such as the arid lands of Kenya and Ethiopia, farming communities are already st…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

Solar Storm

EIB’s new climate fight era takes it to 218MW Spanish PV pipeline

The support to a pipeline in Extremadura and others is the EIB's latest solar play since its landmark shift of energy lending policies. Image credit: Luisangel / Flickr Yet another solar pipeline is in the works in Spain, with hundreds of megawatts slated fo…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

The Queen

U.K. General Election Explained: What to Know as Britain Votes

If one party wins more than half of the parliamentary seats, it will form the government, and its leader will become the prime minister. For decades, such majority governments were by far the most common result. But that has happened only once in the past t…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

Drones

Saudi Arabia oil attacks: UN ‘unable to confirm Iranian involvement’

Image copyrightReutersImage caption The attacks temporarily knocked out half of Saudi Arabia's crude oil production The UN has reportedly so far been unable to confirm Iran was involved in drone and cruise missile attacks on two key Saudi oil facilities in…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

VR

Teeoh’s avatar social platform aims to beat the odds

The success stories of failed gaming startups that went onto strip elements of their infrastructure and pivot into wider markets like Slack has led plenty of game developers to “platformize” their tech to varying degrees of success. Teeoh is looking to creat…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

Biological Warfare

Cracked Vault Holding Nuclear Waste Could Leak Untold Radiation into the Ocean

Sometimes it really seems like we’re actively trying to bring about sci-fi level visions of apocalyptic end times. Ever hear of “the Tomb,” a cement bunker in the Marshall Islands? It looks like a flying saucer crashed into a reef atoll and half-buried itself…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

Trade War

Trump’s China Trade War Is Failing. Democrats Should Campaign Against It.

Democrats must link Trumps trade agenda to his racism and xenophobia. They should emphasize that in Trumps worldview, every import is an insult to him, and every trading partner is a villain trying to rip us off. Thus, tariffs and walls must be erected to pro…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

‘Between life and death’: Rescued migrants recall Libya ‘hell’

PBS, Netflix, MSNBC among 2020 duPont-Columbia award winners

Jersey City’s mayor says gunmen targeted kosher market

Climate Crisis could Reverse Progress in Achieving Gender Equality

EIB’s new climate fight era takes it to 218MW Spanish PV pipeline

U.K. General Election Explained: What to Know as Britain Votes

Saudi Arabia oil attacks: UN ‘unable to confirm Iranian involvement’

Teeoh’s avatar social platform aims to beat the odds

Cracked Vault Holding Nuclear Waste Could Leak Untold Radiation into the Ocean

Trump’s China Trade War Is Failing. Democrats Should Campaign Against It.

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