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Paris

Climate change: Should you fly, drive or take the train?

Image copyrightGetty Images The climate campaigner Greta Thunberg chose to sail to a UN climate conference in New York in a zero-emissions yacht rather than fly - to highlight the impact of aviation on the environment. The 16-year-old Swede has previously tr…

bubmagAugust 24, 2019

Paris

What is the G7 summit and what does it do?

Image copyrightGetty Images The G7 group of nations is meeting in the French resort town of Biarritz for what will be its 45th summit. But what is the G7, who are its members and what does it do? What is the G7? The G7 (or Group of Seven) is an…

bubmagAugust 24, 2019

Xi Jinping

US-China trade war: Trump announces new retaliatory tariff hikes

Image copyrightAFPImage caption The increases will affect about $550bn of Chinese imports President Donald Trump has hit back at China by announcing new higher tariffs on imports - escalating a mounting trade war between the two nations. In a series of tw…

bubmagAugust 24, 2019

Xi Jinping

Global disputes likely to thwart unity at G7 summit in France

PARIS (Reuters) - Leaders of the G7 nations arrive in France on Saturday for a summit as a brewing U.S.-China confrontation over protectionism highlighted President Emmanuel Macron’s tough task in delivering meaningful results on trade, Iran and climate chang…

bubmagAugust 24, 2019

Belt and Road

Circle CEO: China’s Digital Currency Could “Bypass Western Banking System”

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire says the U.S. lagging behind Chinas development of a national digital currency could alter the way Western companies transfer payments. Speaking on the Global Coin Research podcast this week, Allaire said China is setting the pace i…

bubmagAugust 24, 2019

Hiroshima

Japan Built a Killer Kamikaze Jet Weapon: A World War II Winner?

While plans called for producing almost 500 Kikkas by the end of 1945, those plans were dashed by Japan's surrender on August 15. Just one aircraft had been completed by war's end. It is a fallacy that Germany was the only nation to develop combat jets in Wo…

bubmagAugust 24, 2019

NASDAQ

4 Key Metrics Capture Salesforce’s Strong Second-Quarter Performance

Salesforce(NYSE:CRM) is firing on all cylinders. In its fiscal second quarter, the software-as-a-service company beat analysts' consensus forecasts for every important metric. In addition, the company saw broad-based growth across all of its service offerings…

bubmagAugust 24, 2019

Super Heroes

Game of Thrones Star Kit Harington Reportedly Joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe

The Marvel Cinematic Universe may be losing Spider-Man, but they are gaining the (former) King of the North. Fresh off the final season of Game of Thrones, Jon Snow actor Kit Harington is reportedly set to star in an upcoming Marvel movie, according toDeadlin…

bubmagAugust 24, 2019

Refugees Welcome

Against the dictatorship of church ladies

Skip to comments. Against the dictatorship of church ladiesCrisis Magazine ^ | August 23, 2019 | Auguste Meyrat Posted on 08/23/2019 3:25:40 PM PDT by ebb tide The Church has lost its manly spirit. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the recent prote…

bubmagAugust 24, 2019

Putin

Trump Administration Plans to Open U.S. Consulate in Greenland

(WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration is planning to open a U.S. consulate in Greenland for the first time in decades amid increased strategic and economic interest in the Danish territory. The State Department says in a letter to Congress that re-establis…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Climate change: Should you fly, drive or take the train?

What is the G7 summit and what does it do?

US-China trade war: Trump announces new retaliatory tariff hikes

Global disputes likely to thwart unity at G7 summit in France

Circle CEO: China’s Digital Currency Could “Bypass Western Banking System”

Japan Built a Killer Kamikaze Jet Weapon: A World War II Winner?

4 Key Metrics Capture Salesforce’s Strong Second-Quarter Performance

Game of Thrones Star Kit Harington Reportedly Joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Against the dictatorship of church ladies

Trump Administration Plans to Open U.S. Consulate in Greenland

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