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Air Pollution

Face masks could raise pollution risks

A woman wears a protective face mask while walking in Beijing.Credit: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Across Asia, and increasingly elsewhere, people are wearing medical masks in the street. Young and old, people are tying gauze squares over their noses and mouths…

bubmagOctober 1, 2019

Xi Jinping

China to mark 70 years of communism with massive show of force in Beijing

By Ben Blanchard BEIJING, Oct 1 (Reuters) - China will celebrate seven decades of communist rule on Tuesday with a display of power through central Beijing, showing off goose-stepping troops, new missiles and floats celebrating the country's technological pr…

bubmagOctober 1, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

Alex Gibney’s Anti-Putin Portrait ‘Citizen K’ Gets Awards Release From ‘Free Solo’ Distributor

Prolific doc maker Alex Gibney returns this year with “Citizen K,” a portrait of Putin’s Russia that Greenwich Entertainment will release in Los Angeles on November 22. Financed by Amazon, the film will later hit streaming via Prime Video. Greenwich last year…

bubmagOctober 1, 2019

Venezuela

New protest hit Haiti amid demands that president resign

PORT-AU-PRINCE Thousands of demonstrators set fires Monday and chanted calls for Haitis president to resign as the opposition to Jovenel Moïse tried to increase pressure for him to leave office. Protesters said several people were hit by gunfire, including a …

bubmagOctober 1, 2019

Silk Road

How China became the world’s ‘economic miracle’

Image copyrightGetty Images It took China less than 70 years to emerge from isolation and become one of the world's greatest economic powers. As the country celebrates the anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, we look back on how i…

bubmagOctober 1, 2019

Feudalism

An illusion of parity

While Maos economic experimentation turned out to be disastrous, the era of reform and opening up launched by Deng Xiaoping at the end of the 1970s transformed China into the worlds second-largest economy. (Illustration: C R Sasikumar) As China celebrates th…

bubmagOctober 1, 2019

Scotland

Britain’s pine marten population to double overnight in conservation effort

Englands pine marten population is set to double overnight as the mammal, almost extinct in the country, is reintroduced. There are thought to be just 20 pine martens left in the country after they were hunted and their woodland habitats were destroyed. No…

bubmagOctober 1, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

Opinion: A year later, what Khashoggi’s murder says about Trump’s close ally

Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. He is completing a book about President Trump's national security team and policies. The opinions expressed in this comme…

bubmagOctober 1, 2019

Big Data

AI & Big Data; Better Together

Big data, unstructured or structured, fast or slow, in multiple contexts or one is a beast to manage. Big data is growing fast fueled by the democratization of data and the IoT environment. Often organizations simply control what they know they get results fr…

bubmagOctober 1, 2019

Silk Road

China@70: Why National Day military parade in Beijing today matters

At Tiananmen Square, Beijing, on Monday. (Photo: Reuters) Tuesday, October 1, marks the 70th anniversary of the Peoples Republic of China, which Beijing will mark with the biggest ever celebrations and a joyful atmosphere. The celebrations will be an affirm…

bubmagOctober 1, 2019

Face masks could raise pollution risks

China to mark 70 years of communism with massive show of force in Beijing

Alex Gibney’s Anti-Putin Portrait ‘Citizen K’ Gets Awards Release From ‘Free Solo’ Distributor

New protest hit Haiti amid demands that president resign

How China became the world’s ‘economic miracle’

An illusion of parity

Britain’s pine marten population to double overnight in conservation effort

Opinion: A year later, what Khashoggi’s murder says about Trump’s close ally

AI & Big Data; Better Together

China@70: Why National Day military parade in Beijing today matters

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