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Climate Change

US EPA gives coal industry a reprieve

Amid scientists' increasingly urgent warnings, the Trump administration has ordered a sweeping about-face on Obama-era efforts to fight climate change, easing restrictions on coal-fired power plants in a move it predicted would revitalise America's sagging coal industry. As miners in hard hats and coal-country lawmakers applauded, Environmental Protection Agency chief…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Scotland

Memorial garden opens to public after Aberdeen baby ashes scandal

A "peaceful" memorial garden featuring a sculpture for people affected by the baby ashes scandal in Aberdeen has opened to the public. Baby and adult ashes were mixed together at Hazlehead Crematorium and given back to relatives of the adult. But, the paren…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

CCTV

Alesha MacPhail: Pupils and teachers to remember murder victim

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Alesha MacPhail was a pupil at Chapelside Primary in Airdrie Teachers and pupils at Alesha MacPhail's school are to celebrate her life ahead of the first anniversary of her murder. The six-year-old had just finishe…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

BUK-Missile

International investigators indict the suspected killers of 298 people on flight MH17

BODIES RAINED down from the sky on July 17th 2014, landing in the sunflower fields of eastern Ukraine. Limbs littered the gardens in the village of Grabovo, and travel books lay along the roads. The 298 people who took off aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 i…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Self-driving car startup Argo AI is giving researchers free access to its HD maps

Argo AI is releasing curated data along with high-definition maps to researchers for free, the latest company in the autonomous vehicle industry to open source some of the information it has captured while developing and testing self-driving cars. The aim, t…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Slavery Abolition

Twitter Users Honor Juneteenth On Its 154th Anniversary

People on Twitter are celebrating and reflecting on Juneteenth, a day of remembrance that marks the official end of chattel slavery in America. On June 19, 1865, Union Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to issue an official order to end slaver…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Refugees

Ecuador: Colombia refugees stage weeks-long protest against UNHCR

Quito, Ecuador - Gina Pena said she was leaving a humanitarian aid office in Ecuador's capital Quito one day when she saw the man who had threatened her life back in Colombia. "If I open my mouth, he'll cut my family up. That's what he told me," Pena recalle…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Putin

Russia and Putin: Is president’s popularity in decline?

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption The level of support for President Putin is now under intense debate in Russia Within months of Russian President Vladimir Putin clinching his fourth term in office, Russia hosted the World Cup. It was June 2018, a…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Paris

The fake French minister in a silicon mask who stole millions

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption The real Jean-Yves Le Drian is on the left, while the fake Le Drian sits behind a desk in a makeshift office Identity theft is said to be the world's fastest-growing crime, but in sheer chutzpah there can be few con…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping in North Korea: Why China’s president is visiting Kim now

Image copyrightAFPImage caption They've met before but never in North Korea itself China's President Xi Jinping is expected in North Korea on Thursday to meet Kim Jong-un, in the first Chinese state visit to the North since 2005. The two, who have met in …

bubmagJune 20, 2019

US EPA gives coal industry a reprieve

Memorial garden opens to public after Aberdeen baby ashes scandal

Alesha MacPhail: Pupils and teachers to remember murder victim

International investigators indict the suspected killers of 298 people on flight MH17

Self-driving car startup Argo AI is giving researchers free access to its HD maps

Twitter Users Honor Juneteenth On Its 154th Anniversary

Ecuador: Colombia refugees stage weeks-long protest against UNHCR

Russia and Putin: Is president’s popularity in decline?

The fake French minister in a silicon mask who stole millions

Xi Jinping in North Korea: Why China’s president is visiting Kim now

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