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Hrant Dink

Outnumbered And Scared, These Kurdish Americans Are Fighting Trump’s Syria Policy

On a Sunday night in early October, 24-year-old Sherin Zadah was working on her graduate school application at her San Diego home when her father, who had been watching the nightly news, called out: Oh, my God, what is Trump doing? The White House had just a…

bubmagNovember 24, 2019

Air Pollution

Your state’s air pollution might be coming from another state’s power plants

Air pollution from power plants caused 16,000 premature deaths in the United States in 2014, according to new research on the sources and destinations of fine particulate matter produced by electricity generation. The state-by-state study had some other troub…

bubmagNovember 24, 2019

Silk Road

China – The Belt and Road Initiative – The Bridge that Spans the World

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), also called the New Silk Road, is based on a 2,100-year-old trade route between the Middle East and Eastern Asia, called the Silk Road. It wound its ways across the huge landmass Eurasia to the most eastern parts of China. …

bubmagNovember 24, 2019

SpaceX

This new NASA app lets you see what it would be like aboard a manned mission on the SpaceX Crew Dragon

The first manned flight with SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule, which aims to allow astronauts to travel between Earth and the International Space Station (ISS), is set to take place in early 2020. If all goes smoothly, it could even take place in the first quart…

bubmagNovember 24, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

European Cybersecurity: What Happens After Brexit? – Government Technology

Will Brexit actually happen? If yes, how and when? What will be the terms? Those questions have been pondered by millions of people around the world for the past 4+ years, even after the historic vote was passed in 2016. More specifically, questions surrou…

bubmagNovember 24, 2019

Animal Protection

Samrat hospitalised again before his 6-day remand in ACC case

He was put under intensive care at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University over heart complications on Saturday. The hospitalisation suspended the move to place Samrat on a six-day remand granted by a Dhaka court on Nov 17, said ACC Deputy Director Jaha…

bubmagNovember 24, 2019

NASDAQ

History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme

So goes the famous Mark Twain quote. I thought of this in reading a few blockchain sector reports this morning. David Kelnar‘s “blockchain primer” is a very good summary of what is promising about the crypto sector and what is challenging. In his summary …

bubmagNovember 24, 2019

Food Industry

A 300 times return, inside McDonald’s CEO change, and what’s next for WeWork

Hello! While most of Wall Street was focused on deal talks between Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade this week, another financial services deal caught my eye. Honey, which makes a browser extension that surfaces coupons while you shop online, sold to PayPal…

bubmagNovember 24, 2019

Donald Trump

Florida Trump voter: Impeachment inquiry is ‘a waste of time’

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bubmagNovember 24, 2019

Hiroshima

In Nagasaki, Pope Francis calls for the abolition of nuclear weapons

Rain didn't deter Pope Francis' faithful lining up before dawn to catch a glimpse of him on Sunday (November 24). Speaking at Nagasaki's Atomic Bomb Hypocenter Park, ground zero of the bomb drop during WW2 that killed 27,000 people, the Pontiff sent a strong…

bubmagNovember 24, 2019

Outnumbered And Scared, These Kurdish Americans Are Fighting Trump’s Syria Policy

Your state’s air pollution might be coming from another state’s power plants

China – The Belt and Road Initiative – The Bridge that Spans the World

This new NASA app lets you see what it would be like aboard a manned mission on the SpaceX Crew Dragon

European Cybersecurity: What Happens After Brexit? – Government Technology

Samrat hospitalised again before his 6-day remand in ACC case

History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme

A 300 times return, inside McDonald’s CEO change, and what’s next for WeWork

Florida Trump voter: Impeachment inquiry is ‘a waste of time’

In Nagasaki, Pope Francis calls for the abolition of nuclear weapons

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