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Korean Peace Talks

North Korea fires short-range projectiles: South’s military

North Korea fired two short-range projectiles on Thursday, the South's military said, with nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington at a deadlock. The weapons were launched from South Pyongan province in an easterly direction over the sea, Seoul's Join…

bubmagNovember 1, 2019

NATO

NATO chief in Ukraine says Russia must withdraw troops

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is planning to pull back troops from the eastern region of Luhansk as NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg visits the country. As Stoltenberg called on Russia to reduce tensions in the area, Zelenskyy said he was ma…

bubmagNovember 1, 2019

Global Warming

Fragments found in Yukon 46 years ago were from ancient rhinoceros – Times Colonist

Joan Hodgins remembers the "wonderful day" in April 1973 as she hiked up hills and hopped over creeks with half a dozen kids participating in an outdoor program she led near Whitehorse. Along the way, the 22-year-old educator plopped what looked like tiny b…

bubmagNovember 1, 2019

Plastic Pollution

Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and PepsiCo are still the world’s biggest plastic polluters

One of the most universal experiences we have now as humans is living with plastic pollution. Take a walk on a street in New York, Lagos, or Mumbai and you’ll see the same ugly sight: plastic bottles and potato chip wrappers littering the streets, getting swe…

bubmagNovember 1, 2019

Donald Trump

Nancy Pelosi tells Stephen Colbert why she finally opened the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump

"Nobody goes to Congress to impeach a president." When Speaker Nancy Pelosi opened a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump this September, general sentiment among many Americans was that it was about time. Dissatisfaction with the Trump pr…

bubmagNovember 1, 2019

Alibaba

Hong Kong fashion firm Lever Style identifies fund linked with Alibaba founders as cornerstone IPO investor in digital push

Published: 3:36pm, 1 Nov, 2019 Updated: 3:53pm, 1 Nov, 2019

bubmagNovember 1, 2019

Bees

Climate Change Tracker: To bee or not to bee

Whenever we talk about the effects of climate change on animal species, the urge is to focus on flagship species like the tiger or the snow leopard. While that is a valid way to look at Earths ongoing ecocide, we often neglect the smallest creatures. Sometime…

bubmagNovember 1, 2019

New York City

Cuba Gooding Jr. Pleads Not Guilty Again as Sexual Misconduct Charges Grow

NEW YORK (AP) — In what’s quickly become a familiar scene, Cuba Gooding Jr. trotted into court Thursday to face yet more charges in his New York City sexual misconduct case, accused for the third time of groping or touching a woman at a Manhattan night spot. …

bubmagNovember 1, 2019

Android

UBTECH JIMU TruckBots Educational STEM Robot Kit $97.75 (or 2 for $174) + Delivery @ Allphones eBay

The fun is extended with the Blockly coding platform, allowing kids ages 8 and up to build and code these robots to perform countless programs and tricks. Download the FREE JIMU app that has step by step, 3D, 360° building instructions. Kids 8+ can engage in…

bubmagNovember 1, 2019

NASDAQ

Japan’s Sharp beats Q2 profit expectations on laptop business – Nasdaq

By Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Japan's Sharp Corp 6753.T, an Apple AAPL.O supplier, posted a profit that beat expectations and was its first rise in five quarters, driven by the strength in the laptop business it bought from Toshiba 6502.T. Sha…

bubmagNovember 1, 2019

North Korea fires short-range projectiles: South’s military

NATO chief in Ukraine says Russia must withdraw troops

Fragments found in Yukon 46 years ago were from ancient rhinoceros – Times Colonist

Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and PepsiCo are still the world’s biggest plastic polluters

Nancy Pelosi tells Stephen Colbert why she finally opened the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump

Hong Kong fashion firm Lever Style identifies fund linked with Alibaba founders as cornerstone IPO investor in digital push

Climate Change Tracker: To bee or not to bee

Cuba Gooding Jr. Pleads Not Guilty Again as Sexual Misconduct Charges Grow

UBTECH JIMU TruckBots Educational STEM Robot Kit $97.75 (or 2 for $174) + Delivery @ Allphones eBay

Japan’s Sharp beats Q2 profit expectations on laptop business – Nasdaq

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