ふわりと香る美しい京扇子「うつし香」が誕生。季節の移ろいを色彩と香りで表現
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bubmagJune 27, 2019
North Korea urges South to stop mediating between North, US
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) North Korea said Thursday that South Korea must stop trying to mediate between Pyongyang and Washington, as it stepped up its pressure on the United States to work out new proposals to salvage deadlocked nuclear diplomacy. The North K…
bubmagJune 27, 2019
UK lawmakers seek to block no-deal Brexit by stopping government funds
LONDON (Reuters) - Pro-European Union lawmakers will seek next week to block a new prime minister from taking Britain out of the European Union without a deal and against the will of parliament by trying to cut off some of the government’s funding. Former C…
bubmagJune 27, 2019
50 Must-Read Short Books In Translation
The great Argentine writer César Aira said in an interview once, “The longer a book is, the less it is literature.” I don’t know if I entirely agree with Aira but I do know that I love a good short book! The tight and immaculate structures necessary to really…
bubmagJune 27, 2019
Kontaktor 2019: Latvia’s growing techno scene is a reminder of a land before brands
FACT’s John Twells traveled to Latvian capital Riga to check out the second edition of Erica Synths’ Kontaktor festival, a community-focused celebration of techno and technology. When I arrive in Riga, the first thing I notice is the city’s eerie, semi-mani…
bubmagJune 27, 2019
Pluralism and the Politics of the Good
A Trump supporter holds an American flag at a rally in Madison, Ala., February 2016.(Marvin Gentry/Reuters) A politics stripped of the good might be unable to sustain the intellectual and cultural capital that makes a liberal regime possible in the first pla…
bubmagJune 27, 2019
Trump in Japan for talks on trade, Iran, North Korea
President Donald Trump on Thursday began what is likely his most consequential overseas trip of the year, one that will present the "America First" president with a flurry of international crises, tense negotiations and a growing global to-do list. Intereste…
bubmagJune 27, 2019
Any attempt to stop government funding would be irresponsible: UK PM’s spokeswoman
LONDON (Reuters) - Any attempt to cut off funding to British government departments would be “grossly irresponsible”, a spokeswoman for Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday, after reports that lawmakers would try to do so to stop a no-deal Brexit. Ea…
bubmagJune 27, 2019
Appellate Court Raises New Threat to Obamacare
"There are a lot of blogs and news sites claiming to understand politics, but only a few actually do. Political Wire is one of them." -- Chuck Todd, host of "Meet the Press" "Concise. Relevant. To the point. Political Wire is the first site I check when Im …
bubmagJune 27, 2019
Georgia Target of Russian Disinformation Machine
Georgia Target of Russian Disinformation Machine
bubmagJune 27, 2019