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Julian Assange

Julian Assange: US submits formal extradition request for WikiLeaks founder

The US Justice Department has delivered to officials in the United Kingdom a formal extradition request for Julian Assange, making further US charges against the WikiLeaks founder unlikely. A US official who spoke on background to discuss a sensitive matter …

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

British MPs pick among 10 hopefuls to be next PM

Ten politicians have passed the first hurdle to be Britain's next prime minister, with Brexit and threats of "no deal" dominating the race. The race is being led by former foreign minister Boris Johnson, followed by the current foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt, …

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Silk Road

Is Turkey the Western anchor of the New Silk Road?

Despite sharing growing strategic interests with Russia and China, Ankara remains economically much more closely integrated with the West, if not even dependent

bubmagJune 11, 2019

North Korea Nuclear Talks

One year after Singapore summit, hopes fading for progress in U.S.-North Korea nuclear talks

One year after the handshakes, photo ops and circus-like fanfare of the first-ever summit between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader, hopes that Pyongyang will soon give up its nuclear weapons have all but evaporated. Following the Singapore …

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Bubble

I know this is weird, but Doom Eternal really reminds me of Mario

The thing about the Doom Guy, right, is that he travels to Hell and reduces everyone he meets there to gibs. The thing about Mario, right, is that he travels to a world that looks like a cupcake and then he collects a bunch of golden coins and hoots with…

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

News24.com | It’s not about privilege, but power structures

Thank you, Helen Zille and Thuli Madonsela. It is wonderful to read thoughtful ideas and this provoked real thinking on my part. I think one finds privilege in every part of society: schools, clubs, governments, among old people and children, but this is …

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Electric Scooter

Yamaha uses Gogoro drive tech for EC-05 electric scooter in Taiwan, August 2019 release date

Electric vehicles are upon us, like it or not, and Yamaha is taking steps forward with the Yamaha EC-05 electric scooter (e-scooter), using technology from Gogoro, a Taiwanese e-scooter maker. Claiming improved range and performance from Gogoro’s large format…

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Alibaba

Jack Ma and Melinda Gates push ‘digital cooperation’ to offset potential damage from technology – The Drum

Alibaba founder Jack Ma and Belinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, led a UN panel and the release of a report into digital cooperation that aims to make sure the benefits of digital development reaches all. The panel and report i…

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Singapore

When disaster hits, Indonesia’s Islamists are first to help

The flags hanging outside Anwar Ragaua's house have drawn warnings from police, but the wiry 50-year-old vows he's not taking them down. After all, the police weren't there to help when he was the sole fisherman in his village to survive the tsunami that inu…

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Grexit

MeRA25: Greek progressives’ chance to take the fight against austerity back into Parliament – JACOBIN

Almost all left-wing parties lost votes in the European elections, no matter what their strategy regarding the European Union (EU). For this reason, many analyses of the result have focused on more general obstacles, invoking the death of the populist moment,…

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Julian Assange: US submits formal extradition request for WikiLeaks founder

British MPs pick among 10 hopefuls to be next PM

Is Turkey the Western anchor of the New Silk Road?

One year after Singapore summit, hopes fading for progress in U.S.-North Korea nuclear talks

I know this is weird, but Doom Eternal really reminds me of Mario

News24.com | It’s not about privilege, but power structures

Yamaha uses Gogoro drive tech for EC-05 electric scooter in Taiwan, August 2019 release date

Jack Ma and Melinda Gates push ‘digital cooperation’ to offset potential damage from technology – The Drum

When disaster hits, Indonesia’s Islamists are first to help

MeRA25: Greek progressives’ chance to take the fight against austerity back into Parliament – JACOBIN

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