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Food Industry

Eldorado Is Building a Better Casino Giant; McDonald’s Has Built a Better Burger

On Sunday, regional casino company Eldorado Resorts (NASDAQ:ERI) announced it was buying larger peer Caesars Entertainment (NASDAQ:CZR). And while that may seem counterintuitive, it could be a winning combination. Not counterintuitive is this news from McDon…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Yellow Vests

India: a general election, emerging model of power, and populist resistance

Economic goals and the ritual of democracy We already noted the economic goal of this new model of power, namely to steamroll economic reforms, deregulate existing labour, create the large mass of a disenfranchised labour force, create a unified market of go…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Refugees

UNRWA raises $110m but still cash-strapped after US cuts

United Nations - The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has raised $110m in funding pledges, helping to plug a budget gap that remains after the United States cut its 2019 contributions to zero. Pierre Krahenbuhl, commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Wo…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Trade War

FedEx warns 2020 results to be hurt by trade war, shares fall 2%

(Reuters) - Package delivery company FedEx Corp beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit on Tuesday, but warned its fiscal 2020 performance would be hurt by trade uncertainty and non-renewal of Amazon contract, sending its shares down 2%. The company…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Super Komachi

Island-hopping in search of history and literary giants

Setouchi is an area around the Seto Inland Sea. Located west of Osaka and Kyoto, the region’s major cities of Hiroshima and Matsuyama are connected by a chain of small islands. The renovated Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum When journeying to Hiroshima, visi…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Scotland

These Seaweed-Muching Sheep in Scotland Need Someone to Fix Their Wall

North Ronaldsay island, a flat, windswept freckle at the northern edge of Scotland’s Orkney archipelago, is home to a few dozen humans and some very special sheep. Unlike their grass-chomping counterparts elsewhere, this sure-footed flock—some 2,500 strong—ro…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

BUK-Missile

Bellingcat Interview: Eliot Higgins On MH17, Russia And The Iran Tanker Attack Videos

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin Eliot Higgins started Bellingcat as an online citizen investigation project back in July 2014. Frustrated with the limitations of simple blogging, Higgins had decided to s…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Yemen Civil War

Senate panel advances bill to restrict emergency arms sales

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee advanced Tuesday a bill that would restrict the presidents ability to approve emergency sales without a congressional review period. The bill advanced by voice vote, with some Republicans announcing their opposition to …

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Yemen Civil War

The Seasons After the Arab Spring

Sudanese women wave Sudanese flags during a demonstration in Khartoum, Sudan, on June 20, 2019. (REUTERS / Umit Bektas) Images of popular protests that recall the revolutionary movement of 2011 have dominated news from the Arabic-speaking world for months. U…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Android

Did ‘Legion’ Just Reference The Marvel Cinematic Universe?

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Eldorado Is Building a Better Casino Giant; McDonald’s Has Built a Better Burger

India: a general election, emerging model of power, and populist resistance

UNRWA raises $110m but still cash-strapped after US cuts

FedEx warns 2020 results to be hurt by trade war, shares fall 2%

Island-hopping in search of history and literary giants

These Seaweed-Muching Sheep in Scotland Need Someone to Fix Their Wall

Bellingcat Interview: Eliot Higgins On MH17, Russia And The Iran Tanker Attack Videos

Senate panel advances bill to restrict emergency arms sales

The Seasons After the Arab Spring

Did ‘Legion’ Just Reference The Marvel Cinematic Universe?

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