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Air Pollution

Bicycle brigades to fight air pollution

The city Corporation is forming bicycle brigades in the city as part of its campaign against air pollution. The bicycle brigades are being formed in high schools and higher secondary schools in the city, in association with Indus Cycling Embassy. The civic b…

bubmagSeptember 20, 2019

NATO

Memorize More With the Best Mnemonics From Wikipedia

There is nothing too smart or too stupid for a mnemonic. They can teach you features of specific neurological disorders, or they can teach you how to open a jar. Here are some of the cleverest memory aids that you might not know yet, as catalogued by Wikipedi…

bubmagSeptember 20, 2019

Palestine

‘Powerful states’ blocking data on firms in Israeli settlements

Amnesty International is urging UN member states to use the next Human Rights Council session on Palestine to demand the release of a database of companies operating in the illegal Israeli settlements. In a new report published on Friday, the rights organisa…

bubmagSeptember 20, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

Jared Kushner heads to Saudi Arabia for economic conference one year after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder

Enjoy this piece? then let us make a small request. Like you, we here at Raw Story believe in the power of progressive journalism and were investing in investigative reporting as other publications give it the ax. Raw Story readers power David Cay Johnstons…

bubmagSeptember 20, 2019

AR-15

Colt to stop making AR-15 rifles, weapon of choice in US mass shootings

Washington (AFP) - Legendary US gun manufacturer Colt has said it will no longer produce the AR-15, blaming market forces rather than the semi-automatic rifle's role in some of the country's worst mass shootings. "Over the last few years, the market for mode…

bubmagSeptember 20, 2019

Black Hole

Spooky ‘Black Hole’ on Jupiter Is Just a Big Shadow

NASAs Juno spacecraft recently caught this ominous view of Jupiter, which shows a massive black spot atop the gas giants churning clouds. Looks scary, but theres a perfectly reasonable explanation: Its a shadow cast by Jupiters extremely volcanic moon, Io. J…

bubmagSeptember 20, 2019

NASDAQ

Markets in record territory – Business News – Castanet.net

Canada's main stock index pushed higher into record territory in late-morning trading, helped by gains in the energy sector as the price of oil moved up. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 69.25 points at 16,927.60, after hitting an intraday record of 16…

bubmagSeptember 20, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey stations doctors near Syrian border for possible military operation: sources

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Doctors from Turkey’s large cities have been stationed in two southern provinces to prepare for a possible incursion into northern Syria, two security sources told Reuters on Friday, adding leave for doctors in the region had been cancele…

bubmagSeptember 20, 2019

Drones

Saudi oil facilities attack: Race is on to restore supply

Media captionTake a look at how much damage the attacks did to the Khurais facility in Saudi Arabia A week on, it's still not known who launched the attack on two Saudi oil facilities and from which direction, but the damage is plain to see. Saudi Arabia and…

bubmagSeptember 20, 2019

Global Warming

Al Gore: The Climate Crisis Is the Battle of Our Time, and We Can Win

Worsening droughts and biblical deluges are reducing food production and displacing millions of people. Record-high temperatures threaten to render areas of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, North Africa and South Asia uninhabitable. Growing migrations of…

bubmagSeptember 20, 2019

Bicycle brigades to fight air pollution

Memorize More With the Best Mnemonics From Wikipedia

‘Powerful states’ blocking data on firms in Israeli settlements

Jared Kushner heads to Saudi Arabia for economic conference one year after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder

Colt to stop making AR-15 rifles, weapon of choice in US mass shootings

Spooky ‘Black Hole’ on Jupiter Is Just a Big Shadow

Markets in record territory – Business News – Castanet.net

Turkey stations doctors near Syrian border for possible military operation: sources

Saudi oil facilities attack: Race is on to restore supply

Al Gore: The Climate Crisis Is the Battle of Our Time, and We Can Win

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