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Venezuela

Democracy Is at Stake in Hong Kong. Does Trump Care?

It seems about as black-and-white a situation as an American president can face in this messy world of ours: hundreds of thousands of largely peaceful protesters— at points as much as a quarter of Hong Kong’s entire population—spilling into the streets of the…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Geely

Tesla reportedly in advanced talks with South Korea’s LG Chem for making car batteries

ReutersAug 23, 2019 16:29:24 IST U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc is in advanced talks with South Koreas LG Chem Ltd to source batteries for vehicles to be made in its Shanghai plant, a person familiar with the matter said. Representational image. The…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Black Hole

Links 8/23/19

Video: Peregrine falcons can fly at more than 200 miles per hour Boing Boing Poland lightning strike kills four, injures 100, in Tatra mountains storm BBC Scientists detect a black hole swallowing a neutron star EarthSky (Chuck L) Are farmers setting the A…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Belt and Road

Empty trains on the modern Silk Road: when Belt and Road interests don’t align

China’s provinces are sending empty freight trains to Europe. Chinese media explains why.China is sending empty freight trains to Europe through one of its key Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects: the China-Europe Railway Express. The bizarre phenomenon c…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Super Komachi

From Cornwall’s highest peak to underground exploring in Liverpool – my week of UK adventures

If you happen to be travelling in northern Lancashire on Saturday, we might meet as I prepare for a (guided) hike across the sands of Morecambe Bay the last of seven adventures I am attempting in seven days, and the only one that has been nailed down in advan…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Scotland

Bank Holiday Travel: Friday and Saturday busiest days on the roads

Experts are recommending drivers set off after 9pm tonight to get away for the bank holiday weekend. More than 16.5 million leisure journeys are planned over the three-day weekend, with Friday and Saturday expected to be the busiest days on the roads accordi…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Air Pollution

Air pollution might be making us depressed

Its common knowledge that air pollution is detrimental to our health, killing seven million people every year, and yet little is known about its toll on our mental well-being. Now, new research has revealed a link between polluted areas and increased cases of…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Putin

Putin orders reciprocal Russian response to U.S. missile test

MOSCOW, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday told the Defence Ministry and other government agencies to analyse the threat posed by a new U.S. missile test and to prepare a reciprocal response. The Pentagon said on Monday it had test…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Korean Peace Talks

Global Markets Await Fed Chair’s Speech

Here is todays Foreign Policy brief: The U.S.Federal Reserve Chairman delivers a keynote speech as the world looks on, the annual G-7 summit approaches, and yet another round of U.S-Taliban peace talks gets under way in Qatar. We welcome your feedback at mor…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Chinese Economy

One Year Into the US-China Trade War, Trump Is Still Far from Winning

Capturing the worlds attention, the U.S.-China trade war has been going on for more than a year now, and yet we still cannot see an end to it. Recently, China allowed its currency to depreciate to the lowest level in a decade, simultaneously announcing that i…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Democracy Is at Stake in Hong Kong. Does Trump Care?

Tesla reportedly in advanced talks with South Korea’s LG Chem for making car batteries

Links 8/23/19

Empty trains on the modern Silk Road: when Belt and Road interests don’t align

From Cornwall’s highest peak to underground exploring in Liverpool – my week of UK adventures

Bank Holiday Travel: Friday and Saturday busiest days on the roads

Air pollution might be making us depressed

Putin orders reciprocal Russian response to U.S. missile test

Global Markets Await Fed Chair’s Speech

One Year Into the US-China Trade War, Trump Is Still Far from Winning

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