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Slavery Abolition

Lowry: Throwing America under the bus

Beto ORourke has taken the measure of America and found it wanting. This country, though we would like to think otherwise, he intoned over the weekend, was founded on racism, has persisted through racism and is racist today. This is now a mainstream sentime…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Water Pollution

‘Stranger’ tourists, Phish and the plague, kinkajou attack: News from around our 50 states

Alabama Decatur: The city is trying to figure out how to ban guns from a water park were two people were shot. The Decatur Daily reports officials say they need a change in state law before banning visitors from bringing guns into Point Mallard water park. B…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Paris

British PM Johnson faces tough Brexit lunch with Macron

PARIS (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Thursday try to convince France to reopen Brexit negotiations less than a day after President Emmanuel Macron bluntly ruled out any further talks on the divorce deal. A day after German Chancell…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Animal Protection

Demand for cute selfies puts otters at risk

Several ‘otter cafes’ have sprung up in Japan and other major cities worldwide. (AFP pic) GENEVA: Social media users are fuelling a burgeoning appetite for acquiring wild otters and other endangered animals as pets, conservationists say, warning the trend co…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Tech firms must give up their awkward secret: Humans – BBC News

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Amazon admitted recently that human contractors sometimes reviewed a small number of Alexa recordings. Among the thousands upon thousands of words that make up the privacy policies of the tech giants, one you rarely…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Exoskeleton

Russia sends ‘Fedor’ its first humanoid robot into space

MOSCOW: Russia on Thursday launched an unmanned rocket carrying a life-size humanoid robot that will spend 10 days learning to assist astronauts on the International Space Station. Named Fedor, for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research with identi…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

Kenya: Old People in Tharaka-Nithi Threaten to Shun Census Over Cash

Hundreds of elderly people aged over 70 years from Muthambi Sub-County, Tharaka-Nithi County have threatened to boycott this year's census and any other government exercise until they are included in the Inua Jamii cash transfer programme. Addressing journal…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Exoskeleton

Russia sends ‘Fedor’ its first humanoid robot into space

Russia on Thursday launched an unmanned rocket carrying a life-size humanoid robot that will spend 10 days learning to assist astronauts on the International Space Station. Named Fedor, for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research with identification…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Christianity

Madras High Court deletes observations on misuse of women-centric laws

The Madras High Court on Thursday deleted from a recent judgement its observations regarding misuse of women-centric laws. The decision was taken following stiff opposition to the remarks made by the court from a section of lawyers led by senior counsel R. Va…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Silk Road

Russia’s UNSC Kashmir Stance Wasn’t Influenced by India or Pakistan, but by China

Russia didnt want the issue of Kashmir to be brought before the UNSC at all, though it allowed China to go forward with the meeting out of respect for their strategic partnership but then remained conspicuously silent about Indias threats against it in order …

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Lowry: Throwing America under the bus

‘Stranger’ tourists, Phish and the plague, kinkajou attack: News from around our 50 states

British PM Johnson faces tough Brexit lunch with Macron

Demand for cute selfies puts otters at risk

Tech firms must give up their awkward secret: Humans – BBC News

Russia sends ‘Fedor’ its first humanoid robot into space

Kenya: Old People in Tharaka-Nithi Threaten to Shun Census Over Cash

Russia sends ‘Fedor’ its first humanoid robot into space

Madras High Court deletes observations on misuse of women-centric laws

Russia’s UNSC Kashmir Stance Wasn’t Influenced by India or Pakistan, but by China

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