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Feudalism

Manu S Pillai’s latest book features episodes from India’s history and the lives of its prolific figures

Nationalism, politics, religion and that unquenchable thirst for power, all find their way into Manu Pillais latest work, The Courtesan, The Mahatma and The Italian Brahmin a collection of anecdotes plucked from Indian history, from the lives of Maharajas and…

bubmagJune 23, 2019

NSA

AP sources: US struck Iranian military computers this week

WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. military cyber forces launched a strike against Iranian military computer systems on Thursday as President Donald Trump backed away from plans for a more conventional military strike in response to Iran's downing of a U.S. surveillance dr…

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Food Industry

Canada Bans Import Of Shark Fin

The issue of shark fin has been a contentious one in the restaurant industry for at least the last decade, as the luxury item has been roundly condemned for its inhumane method of harvesting. This week, Canada has taken the step of banning the import of the i…

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Hrant Dink

Raqqa Will Rise Again

FOR THE third time in its history, the city of Raqqa is in ruins. It was first destroyed by the Persians in the early sixth century when it was known as Callinicum but was rebuilt by the Byzantine emperor Justinian shortly thereafter. The second time it was d…

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Refugees

German politician’s murder raises spectre of far-right attacks

Image copyrightReutersImage caption Lübcke's funeral took place in Kassel on 13 June Walter Lübcke knew how it felt to receive death threats. A senior politician from Angela Merkel's CDU party in Hesse, the 65-year-old was well known in the region for his …

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Exoskeleton

The Evil Robots of the Ancient World

This week, Oxford University announced that American billionaire and philanthropist Stephen A. Schwarzman had gifted the university with its largest cash donation ever£150 millionto fund (among other things) an institution to investigate the ethics of artific…

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

No comment from Boris Johnson about police being called to home

Britain's Conservative leader Boris Johnson refused to comment Saturday after reports surfaced that police had been called to the home he shares with his girlfriend. The Guardian reported on Friday that police were called after an altercation involving Johnso…

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

Ensure that widows are ‘not left out or left behind’, UN chief urges on International Day

In the absence of social and legal protection, he said in his message, widowed womens lifetime earnings and savings are often too little to avoid poverty. Even in countries with good pension coverage, women are significantly more likely to suffer poverty i…

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

Russia bans Georgia airline flights as tensions rise over protests

Moscow (AFP) - Russia's government on Saturday banned Georgian airlines from flying into its territory, extending restrictions imposed by President Vladimir Putin as part of growing tensions between Moscow and its ex-Soviet neighbour. Putin had signed a decr…

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Holocaust

Holocaust survivors: The families that weren’t meant to live

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Manu S Pillai’s latest book features episodes from India’s history and the lives of its prolific figures

AP sources: US struck Iranian military computers this week

Canada Bans Import Of Shark Fin

Raqqa Will Rise Again

German politician’s murder raises spectre of far-right attacks

The Evil Robots of the Ancient World

No comment from Boris Johnson about police being called to home

Ensure that widows are ‘not left out or left behind’, UN chief urges on International Day

Russia bans Georgia airline flights as tensions rise over protests

Holocaust survivors: The families that weren’t meant to live

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