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Monsanto

Bayer Judge Picks Mediator Ken Feinberg for Roundup Settlement Talks

(Bloomberg) -- A U.S. judge overseeing Roundup-cancer lawsuits against Bayer AG provisionally appointed high-profile mediator Ken Feinberg to lead settlement talks over the herbicide litigation, which has tanked the companys stock since it acquired Monsanto a…

bubmagMay 23, 2019

Greta Thunberg

Girl Reportedly Bullied by Teacher, Classmates for Refusing to ‘Climate Strike’

A Swedish girl who refused to join her classmates in skipping school for the sake of the climate has ended up being labelled as a "climate denier", which her mother described as "mass psychosis".A high-school pupil who refused to attend a so-called "school st…

bubmagMay 23, 2019

Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s The Boring Company will build a Las Vegas transport tunnel

The $48.7 million project’s contract was awarded to The Boring Company by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA). The project will see the construction of an underground Loop transport system for trade show attendees at the Las Vegas Conventi…

bubmagMay 23, 2019

Greta Thunberg

Brilliant Minds?

Fifty percent of global greenhouse gas emissions are produced by the richest 10 percent of the world's population. This represents the real ecological scandal (and danger) of our age: the fact that most of the worlds worst polluters think they are on the rig…

bubmagMay 23, 2019

Yellow Vests

France’s ‘yellow vests’: Noisy, but not an electoral force

At the beginning of the year, some polls showed a united “yellow vest” party could scoop up as much as 13% of votes amid widespread public sympathy for their cause of lowering taxes and helping the struggling working poor. But nothing similar is likely to hap…

bubmagMay 23, 2019

Yemen Civil War

Yemen Press Reader 539: | Jemenkrieg-Mosaik 539 – Yemen War Mosaic 539

Eingebetteter Medieninhalt Eingebetteter Medieninhalt May 23, 2019: Radhya Al-Mutawakel on the Yemen War European banks are financing arms producers CNN: Systematic abuse of aid in Yemen Yemen as international battleground Growing tensons in the Middle East…

bubmagMay 23, 2019

Iran Liberalism

Supreme leader criticizes Iran’s politicians amid U.S. tension

Iran's supreme leader publicly chastised the country's moderate president and foreign minister Wednesday, saying he disagreed with the implementation of the 2015 nuclear deal they had negotiated with world powers. The extraordinary comments by Ayatollah Ali …

bubmagMay 23, 2019

Air Pollution

Air pollution may up childhood anxiety, depression, finds study

According to the World Health Organisation, pollution is responsible for millions of deaths annually. (Photo by Getty Images) Being exposed to traffic-related air pollution can alter brain chemicals in children, increasing the risk of mental disorders such a…

bubmagMay 23, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Data privacy: A hot-button issue for Americans one year after GDPR

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect in the European Union a year ago this month. GDPR, which gives EU citizens more control over their personal data by mandating how businesses must handle that information, has attracted great inter…

bubmagMay 23, 2019

US–China tech rivalry reflects contrasting cyber cultures – The Strategist

Theres a growing debate in policy circles right now: are cyber technologies good or bad for democracy? Are internet platforms weakening public debate and social cohesion? Will artificial intelligence inevitably favour tyranny? Whats often missing from this d…

bubmagMay 23, 2019

Bayer Judge Picks Mediator Ken Feinberg for Roundup Settlement Talks

Girl Reportedly Bullied by Teacher, Classmates for Refusing to ‘Climate Strike’

Elon Musk’s The Boring Company will build a Las Vegas transport tunnel

Brilliant Minds?

France’s ‘yellow vests’: Noisy, but not an electoral force

Yemen Press Reader 539: | Jemenkrieg-Mosaik 539 – Yemen War Mosaic 539

Supreme leader criticizes Iran’s politicians amid U.S. tension

Air pollution may up childhood anxiety, depression, finds study

Data privacy: A hot-button issue for Americans one year after GDPR

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