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Belt and Road

UN’s environment chief urges China to keep belt and road projects green and clean

Published: 1:00pm, 8 Jun, 2019 Updated: 1:00pm, 8 Jun, 2019

bubmagJune 8, 2019

Big Data

IMF’s Lagarde highlights potential disruptive nature of fintech

FUKUOKA (Reuters) - International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde warned on Saturday that the increasing presence of technology giants using big data and artificial intelligence could cause a significant disruption to the world’s financial s…

bubmagJune 8, 2019

Climate Change

Two Women, Divided by Opportunity

For Olga, this aid is important so that we can lift ourselves up right here, so we dont have to migrate. I thought back to my home state of Arizona, where the remains of 127 migrants were recovered in the harsh desert just last year, 84 of them unidentifiabl…

bubmagJune 8, 2019

Geely

Strange that Geely is not selling new Protons in China

With the recent sales success of the revised Proton Iriz and Proton Persona under the engineering and vendor guidance of Geely, it must be asked why Geely is not exporting left-hand drive versions of the revised Iriz and Persona to China where there is a dema…

bubmagJune 8, 2019

Times Square

Thwarted terrorist plot in Times Square reveals ISIS’ lingering threat

Josh Campbell is a CNN law enforcement analyst. He previously served as a Supervisory Special Agent with the FBI conducting counterterrorism investigations. Follow him on Twitter at @joshscampbell. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more…

bubmagJune 8, 2019

Climate Change

Bloomberg To Put $500 Million Into Closing All Remaining Coal Plants By 2030

It's fine and all to talk about wanting to get rid of coal plants (though shouldn't his effort be focused on China here to really help the climate??). But shouldn't you have an idea for what WILL BE rather than just trying to stop what is, or is being built?…

bubmagJune 8, 2019

Hrant Dink

10 Minutes 38 seconds in This Strange World: Female friendship, flashbacks, and misogyny

Turkish by birth, Shafak has lived all over the world and though her novels are set in different places, Istanbul often features as a backdrop. In 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, she is affectionate but ambivalent about the city, which is called …

bubmagJune 8, 2019

Venezuela

Haiti Braces for Anti-Corruption Protests Sunday

Jacquelin Belizaire in Washington, Matiado Vilme, Renan Toussaint, Florence Lisene in Port-au-Price, Yvan Martin in Cape Haitian, Jean Hernst Eliscar in Les Calles contributed to this report. WASHINGTON /PORT-AU-PRINCE Haiti is bracing for more anti-corrupti…

bubmagJune 8, 2019

Bubble

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: When The Tassel Isn’t Worth The Hassle. There may also be space,…

There may also be space, though, for some new innovations. For instance, there could be demand for a kind of hybrid college, which combines serious scholastic study with sustained instruction in a trade or practical skill. Lets call this the Thales Model, in …

bubmagJune 8, 2019

Monsanto

USDA investigates unapproved GMO wheat found in Washington state

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed the discovery of unapproved, genetically modified (GM) wheat plants growing in an un-planted agricultural field in Washington state. There was no evidence the wheat had entered the food su…

bubmagJune 8, 2019

UN’s environment chief urges China to keep belt and road projects green and clean

IMF’s Lagarde highlights potential disruptive nature of fintech

Two Women, Divided by Opportunity

Strange that Geely is not selling new Protons in China

Thwarted terrorist plot in Times Square reveals ISIS’ lingering threat

Bloomberg To Put $500 Million Into Closing All Remaining Coal Plants By 2030

10 Minutes 38 seconds in This Strange World: Female friendship, flashbacks, and misogyny

Haiti Braces for Anti-Corruption Protests Sunday

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: When The Tassel Isn’t Worth The Hassle. There may also be space,…

USDA investigates unapproved GMO wheat found in Washington state

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