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Doping in Cycling

Doping stories ‘shed dark light on Russia’ – Artemyev

Vasily Artemyev would not have been unlike many of the current Ireland squad in his teenage years. Immersed in rugby culture, sports-mad, and seeking inspiration from the heroes of the day. One can easily imagine the 15-year-old, just arrived in Dublin from…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

Saudi Arabia’s MBS Says Jamal Khashoggi Murder Hurt Him: ‘You Cannot Imagine the Pain That We Suffered’ – Newsweek

Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman has accepted responsibility for the 2018 murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, though has denied directly ordering the assassination. Speaking with CBS News for the 60 Minutes show broadcast this weeke…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2019

Gundam

Famitsu’s most wanted – rankings for September 29, 2019

1. Final Fantasy VII Remake 1,134 votes2. Project Sakura Wars 835 votes3. Dragon Quest XI S 691 votes4. Pokemon Sword/Shield 660 votes5. Persona 5 Royal 607 votes6. Animal Crossing: New Horizons 477 votes7. Tales of A…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2019

Super Heroes

Marvel To Produce New Warhammer 40,000 Comics | CBR

Marvel Comics has partnered with Games Workshop to produce new comic books based on Warhammer 40,000, Games Workshop's popular miniature wargame. News of this collaboration was broken by Games Workshop on the official Warhammer Community website. Past the in…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2019

Holocaust

The Mail

Bearing Witness I read Zuzana Justmans Personal History about her experience in the Terezín concentration camp with interest and gratitude (My Terezín Diary, September 16th). I was one of those fortunate German-Jewish children whose parents were able to arra…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2019

Hiroshima

How to dismantle a nuclear bomb

How do weapons inspectors verify that a nuclear bomb has been dismantled? An unsettling answer is: They dont, for the most part. When countries sign arms reduction pacts, they do not typically grant inspectors complete access to their nuclear technologies, fo…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2019

Scotland

A Photographer at the Ends of the Earth

For thirty-two years, Thomas Joshua Cooper has been working on a project that he calls The Atlas of Emptiness and Extremity, a collection of some seven hundred black-and-white photographs that he makes from remote, forbidding, largely unpeopled, all-but-forgo…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2019

Scotland

On Patrick White, Australia’s Great Unread Novelist

When I was 22 I was in love with a man who had a framed photograph of Patrick White hanging above his bed. I had grown up with my fathers used copies of Whites novels, and had studied some of those books in university, but it was not until I…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2019

Orangutan

Green group accuses Nestle, Unilever of buying palm oil from ‘illegal’ Sumatra plantation

Green activists warn that the orangutan population in Sumatra will shrink further as a result of illegal oil palm plantations. (AFP pic) KUALA LUMPUR: Palm oil from an illegal plantation inside an Indonesian rainforest home to endangered orangutans has found…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2019

Chinese Economy

Chinese stocks sag as trade fight trumps stronger economic data

bubmagSeptember 30, 2019

Doping stories ‘shed dark light on Russia’ – Artemyev

Saudi Arabia’s MBS Says Jamal Khashoggi Murder Hurt Him: ‘You Cannot Imagine the Pain That We Suffered’ – Newsweek

Famitsu’s most wanted – rankings for September 29, 2019

Marvel To Produce New Warhammer 40,000 Comics | CBR

The Mail

How to dismantle a nuclear bomb

A Photographer at the Ends of the Earth

On Patrick White, Australia’s Great Unread Novelist

Green group accuses Nestle, Unilever of buying palm oil from ‘illegal’ Sumatra plantation

Chinese stocks sag as trade fight trumps stronger economic data

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