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Police and demonstrators clash during march

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bubmagAugust 12, 2019

Putin

LOOK CLOSER: Doing the Deep Dive With Mr. Bond? Or …

The apex cool of a character like the quasi-fictional James Bond had everything to do with the aplomb with which he got wherever he was going and never the real grunt work involved in getting there. So the periodic but frequent threats to his life, while wel…

bubmagAugust 12, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

Trump may Want out of Afghanistan, but He’s setting Stage for Global Conflict

Afghanistan has long been touted as the graveyard of empires. The British and the Soviets certainly discovered that lesson to their great regret. Perhaps future historians will judge the failure of the United States to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan over a…

bubmagAugust 12, 2019

Scotland

Patients waiting more than two weeks for routine appointments, GPs warn

The average waiting time for routine appointments with a GP has reached almost 15 days, according to an annual poll of physicians the first time the result of the survey has broken through the two-week barrier since its inception. The poll, carried out yearl…

bubmagAugust 12, 2019

Slavery Abolition

The ‘intelligence squared’ debate

Anti-Israel events are as numerous as midges in Scotland. Most are small meetings of like minded anti-Zionists vociferously agreeing that the Jewish state is the number 1 source of global evil. The opposition is very rarely represented; after all, the organis…

bubmagAugust 12, 2019

The Queen

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II ‘dismayed by incompetent politicians’

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is becoming increasingly exasperated with politicians and their "inability to govern", a royal insider has claimed. The Queen is said to have expressed her "disappointment" in MPs at a private event soon after former UK prime mi…

bubmagAugust 12, 2019

Silk Road

‘Chexit’: China might just exit the multilateral order, if the US pushes it too hard – SCMP

The South China Morning Post (SCMP) carries a story on Monday, citing that China is likely to decouple from the global multilateral trade framework, mainly grieved by the US’ if the protectionism policies. “The convergence of China with the West, initiated b…

bubmagAugust 12, 2019

Plastic Pollution

German environment minister calls for plastic bag ban

German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze has said she plans to introduce a law to ban the use of plastic bags. "My ministry will get a plastic bag ban on its way," the Social Democrat said in Berlin on Sunday, without providing a timeline. She said the go…

bubmagAugust 12, 2019

CCTV

Auckland Transport’s new CCTV system could give city thousands more cameras

Thousands more CCTV cameras could be installed around Auckland in a new Council system. Auckland Transport (AT) intends to combine most of the city's CCTV cameras into a single system that the police will be able to access in real-time. AT and Auckland Coun…

bubmagAugust 12, 2019

Doping in Cycling

Lance Armstrong roasted for bragging about ‘blowing the doors off Mike Pence’ on a bike path

Lance Armstrong is being roasted on Twitter for bragging about cycling past Vice President Mike Pence on a bike path, though the disgraced former champion insists it was a joke. I cant drop many people on a bike these days but I just blew the f****n doors of…

bubmagAugust 12, 2019

Police and demonstrators clash during march

LOOK CLOSER: Doing the Deep Dive With Mr. Bond? Or …

Trump may Want out of Afghanistan, but He’s setting Stage for Global Conflict

Patients waiting more than two weeks for routine appointments, GPs warn

The ‘intelligence squared’ debate

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II ‘dismayed by incompetent politicians’

‘Chexit’: China might just exit the multilateral order, if the US pushes it too hard – SCMP

German environment minister calls for plastic bag ban

Auckland Transport’s new CCTV system could give city thousands more cameras

Lance Armstrong roasted for bragging about ‘blowing the doors off Mike Pence’ on a bike path

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