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Riots

No end in sight to Chile unrest as massive strike, more protests planned

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - State workers in Chile promised to launch a massive, nationwide walk-off early on Tuesday, a sign protesters were not yet satisfied following the government’s decision to rewrite the country’s heavily critiqued dictatorship-era constituti…

bubmagNovember 12, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Uber under fire after CEO calls Saudi writer’s gruesome killing ‘a mistake’

NEW YORK Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is being criticized for calling the murder of a Washington Post columnist "a mistake" and comparing it to the death of a pedestrian struck by one of the company's autonomous vehicles. Khosrowshahi later said he regretted h…

bubmagNovember 12, 2019

Cold War

Bolivia Crisis Shows the Blurry Line Between Coup and Uprising

Bolivias crisis, where the stakes of using the right label seem unusually high, also exemplifies why scholars consider the old binaries to be outdated, misleading, even harmful. Popular perceptions of coups, cemented in the Cold War era, still envision tanks…

bubmagNovember 12, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

U.S. Held Nearly 70,000 Migrant Children In Government Custody In 2019

COMAYAGUA, Honduras (AP) The 3-year-old girl traveled for weeks cradled in her fathers arms, as he set out to seek asylum in the United States. Now she wont even look at him. After being forcibly separated at the border by government officials, sexually abus…

bubmagNovember 12, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

From Lublin to London, Europe’s Contested Ideas of National Identity

Attila Husejnow/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesParticipants bearing placards during the pro-LGBT Equality March in Lublin, Poland, September 28, 2019 The politics of identitynational and personalhave taken us along unexpected paths in the past few y…

bubmagNovember 12, 2019

Singapore

Hotel Review: W Taipei (Marvelous Suite) – Understated Luxury Hotel with Fantastic Location and Bar

Japan Airlines Business Class I highly recommend pre-arranging a limousine to get into the city - the one that I typically utilise costs around NT$1,300 (S$59) for a one-way trip you will be chauffeured in a luxurious Mercedes-Benz S-Class so it is actually …

bubmagNovember 12, 2019

NASDAQ

Market Snapshot: Stocks futures edge tentatively higher as Wall Street awaits Trump speech

U.S. stock futures were inching higher Tuesday as investors reacted to reports that President Donald Trump would delay imposing auto tariffs on Europe during an anticipated speech scheduled to begin at noon. How are major benchmarks performing? Futures fo…

bubmagNovember 12, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

Saudi court convicts 38 people on terrorism-related charges

RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi Arabian court has convicted 38 people of terrorism-related crimes, state-run Al Ekhbariya television reported on Tuesday. The TV channel said they were charged with financing terrorism and with takfir - the Islamist militant pract…

bubmagNovember 12, 2019

Fortnite

How to use a Nintendo Switch Pro Controller with an Android phone

Playing games on your smart phone is one of the best ways to entertain yourself. However, with some games it can be really hard to play when you're just tapping fingers on a screen. Fortunately, it's possible to sync up a traditional controller of some kind. …

bubmagNovember 12, 2019

Chinese Economy

Silver Prices Under Pressure

Silver has recorded small losses in Tuesday trade. In the European session, the metal is trading at $16.78, down $0.05 or 0.32% on the day. Silver Dips to 3-Month Low Silver prices remain under pressure and continue to lose ground. The metal dropped to 16.6…

bubmagNovember 12, 2019

No end in sight to Chile unrest as massive strike, more protests planned

Uber under fire after CEO calls Saudi writer’s gruesome killing ‘a mistake’

Bolivia Crisis Shows the Blurry Line Between Coup and Uprising

U.S. Held Nearly 70,000 Migrant Children In Government Custody In 2019

From Lublin to London, Europe’s Contested Ideas of National Identity

Hotel Review: W Taipei (Marvelous Suite) – Understated Luxury Hotel with Fantastic Location and Bar

Market Snapshot: Stocks futures edge tentatively higher as Wall Street awaits Trump speech

Saudi court convicts 38 people on terrorism-related charges

How to use a Nintendo Switch Pro Controller with an Android phone

Silver Prices Under Pressure

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