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Hiroshima

European Council President Donald Tusk visits A-bomb site in Nagasaki ahead of G20 summit

NAGASAKI - European Council President Donald Tusk visited Nagasaki on Wednesday to pay his respects to the victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city, ahead of a Group of 20 summit to be held in Osaka later this week. In a first official visit by an…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

NATO

Two US soldiers killed in Afghanistan: NATO

Kabul (AFP) - Two US service members were killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday, NATO said, the latest international casualties as the US and the Taliban prepare for a new round of talks. NATO's Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan gave no further details, b…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Bubble

How the asteroid-mining bubble burst

In the best of worlds, Chris Lewicki and Peter Diamandis might have changed the course of human civilization. Their startup, Planetary Resources, was launched in 2012 with the modest dream of mining asteroids for minerals, metals, water, and other valuables. …

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Nukes

Experts fear ‘snowball effect’ as Iran abandons nuclear deal

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) As Iran prepares to surpass limits set by its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, each step it takes narrows the time the country's leaders would need to have enough highly enriched uranium for an atomic bomb if they chose to…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Super Komachi

America most popular long-haul destination this summer

Despite the slump in sterling relative to the dollar, America is way ahead of other long-haul destinations in terms of bookings for summer 2019. Data from Travelport shows that an average of almost 4,400 people a day will fly between the UK and the US from 2…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Protectionism

Japan’s Abe wants G-20 to unite on trade, Middle East

TOKYO (AP) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged Wednesday to seek a consensus on trade and other contentious issues when he chairs this week's summit of the Group of 20 countries in Osaka. Abe stressed the importance of global leaders overcoming their …

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Silk Road

Why Won’t American Politicians Talk about Chinese Authoritarianism?

Given the recent fight over whether U.S. refugee-detention centers are in fact concentration camps, the Trump administration might want to borrow a page from the Chinese and simply call them vocational skills education training centers. That way, no one would…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Black Hole

Renting Can Be A Waste of Money; With These 2 Tools, It Doesn’t Have To Be.

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin Renting might seem like a waste of money, but these two solutions can help. photo credit: Getty Getty Renting might seem like throwing money into a proverbial …

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

Hunt’s BoJo NoShow LiveChat: What We Learned

While Boris was busy wooing the Conservative Friends of Israel at a dinner last night, as first revealed by Guido, Jeremy Hunt spent an hour answering questions on Twitter in place of the debate Sky News had wanted to hold. Hunt was keen to stress his entrepr…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Filter Bubble

SmartNews has shown it can drive traffic. Can it drive subscriptions too?

In recent months, publishers may have been noticing an influx of traffic from a not-usual suspect: SmartNews, the news app that was founded in Japan in 2012 and has been operating in the U.S. since 2014. The company is Parse.ly’s most reliably growing externa…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

European Council President Donald Tusk visits A-bomb site in Nagasaki ahead of G20 summit

Two US soldiers killed in Afghanistan: NATO

How the asteroid-mining bubble burst

Experts fear ‘snowball effect’ as Iran abandons nuclear deal

America most popular long-haul destination this summer

Japan’s Abe wants G-20 to unite on trade, Middle East

Why Won’t American Politicians Talk about Chinese Authoritarianism?

Renting Can Be A Waste of Money; With These 2 Tools, It Doesn’t Have To Be.

Hunt’s BoJo NoShow LiveChat: What We Learned

SmartNews has shown it can drive traffic. Can it drive subscriptions too?

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