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Belt and Road

Russia, China, West: Where will Kazakhstan’s next president steer the strategically placed country?

There is a clear favorite among the seven candidates in this Sunday’s election in Kazakhstan – incumbent President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev – who took office after the surprise resignation of his predecessor, Nursultan Nazarbayev. The former parliament speaker c…

bubmagJune 8, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey’s Erdogan is footballer Mesut Ozil’s best man

Turkey's Erdogan is footballer Mesut Ozil's best man

bubmagJune 8, 2019

Drones

Here’s the Aska flying car that could whisk you to work in 2025 – CNET

Ready or not, here comes a new flying car design: the Aska, a dual-purpose vehicle designed both to drive on roads and to fly through the air so you can loft yourself over the gridlock. After working on the design for two years, startup NFT will unveil a mod…

bubmagJune 8, 2019

Animal Protection

I studied factory farms for years — but visiting one was far worse than I ever imagined

I was giving a talk at a conference in Oklahoma about the public health dangers of industrial animal farming, or factory farming as it is commonly called. Each year, more than 64 billion animals are raised and killed for food globally. In the United States al…

bubmagJune 8, 2019

Refugees Welcome

German authorities rejected almost all 2019 church asylum cases

Germany's Funke media group reported Saturday that the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) had accepted only two out of 147 church asylum cases up to April this year. In 2018, the figure for the same period was close to 12%. Overall, there were …

bubmagJune 8, 2019

Protectionism

Market Snapshot: Stock-market investors discover they can’t ignore politicians anymore

Add investing to the list of things that are all about politics these days. That seems to be the lesson for investors in stocks and other financial markets as they gear up for summer against a backdrop of tensions over trade policy and other potential geopol…

bubmagJune 8, 2019

Big Data

Train for certification on the Google Cloud Platform for just $15

The AAPicks team writes about things we think youll like, and we may see a share of revenue from any purchases made through affiliate links. Have you had a long week feeling like you’re stuck in the wrong career? You could be a Google Data Engineer or even a…

bubmagJune 8, 2019

VR

I Think I Hated This Tech Conference on Psychedelics

I stood in a silent auditorium and stared obediently into the eyes of a stranger. His eyes were brown. His nametag said Mark. He had a soul patch so tiny I wondered if he had to tweeze it into shape. Around me, several hundred other people were similarly engr…

bubmagJune 8, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey’s Erdogan witness in footballer Mesut Ozil’s wedding

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was in the wedding party as Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil tied the knot on Friday. State-run Anadolu news agency said Erdogan and his wife, Emine, were legal witnesses for Ozil, who married model, actress…

bubmagJune 8, 2019

Global Warming

Crucial to life, oceans get chance in climate spotlight

Armed with better data than ever before, scientists have in recent months sounded the alarm over the rising pace of global warming and the parlous state of Nature. But there is another area of concern, one that covers two thirds of the planet and plays a cru…

bubmagJune 8, 2019

Russia, China, West: Where will Kazakhstan’s next president steer the strategically placed country?

Turkey’s Erdogan is footballer Mesut Ozil’s best man

Here’s the Aska flying car that could whisk you to work in 2025 – CNET

I studied factory farms for years — but visiting one was far worse than I ever imagined

German authorities rejected almost all 2019 church asylum cases

Market Snapshot: Stock-market investors discover they can’t ignore politicians anymore

Train for certification on the Google Cloud Platform for just $15

I Think I Hated This Tech Conference on Psychedelics

Turkey’s Erdogan witness in footballer Mesut Ozil’s wedding

Crucial to life, oceans get chance in climate spotlight

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