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Hiroshima

Japan: Nagasaki mayor tells PM Abe to adopt nuke-ban treaty

Mayor Tomihisa Taue told mourners at Nagasaki's 74th anniversary of its devastation by a US World War II bomb that nuclear weapons must be eliminated. The August 9, 1945 bombing three days after a similar device devastated Hiroshima killed some 70,000 Nagasa…

bubmagAugust 9, 2019

Venezuela

Trump’s Venezuela Policy Is Causing Turmoil in the Caribbean

In May, accounts emerged in local media that authorities had closed the southern port of Cedros, one of the main arrival points for passenger boats from Venezuela, and where many people arrive legally to buy food and supplies that have become scant and overpr…

bubmagAugust 9, 2019

CCTV

ECIL Delhi Recruitment 2019: Walk in for 20 Technical Officer Posts

ECIL Job 2019: Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) invited the applications for the post of Technical Officer. Eligible Candidates may apply for the post in the prescribed format and attend walk-in-interview on 28 August 2019. Notification Detai…

bubmagAugust 9, 2019

NASDAQ

Stocks are dropping on Italian political strife, weakness in the UK and German economies, and lingering trade-war fears

Associated Press Stocks dropped on Friday as investors reacted to a shrinking UK economy, a decline in Germany manufacturing output, and a snap election in Italy.The UK economy shrunk by 0.2% in the second quarter, its first contraction sinc…

bubmagAugust 9, 2019

Monsanto

Bayer Wants to Settle All Roundup-Related Cancer Claims for $8 Billion

Bayer AG is proposing to pay as much as $8 billion to settle more than 18,000 U.S. lawsuits alleging its Roundup herbicide causes cancer, according to people familiar with the negotiations. Though an agreement may not be imminent, if successful it would ease…

bubmagAugust 9, 2019

Recycling

Gulp. Your reusable coffee mug may be just as bad for the environment as a disposable

Is any item more symbolic of our modern, disposable culture than the single-use coffee cup? In March 2016, they were vilified in celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s “War on Waste” campaign, when he drove a bus through London covered in 10,000 coffee …

bubmagAugust 9, 2019

New York City

Rezdôra Brings Northern Italy to New York City

At Rezdôra, a new northern-Italian restaurant in the Flatiron district, some dishes have a reputation that precedes them. On a recent Tuesday evening, a woman thrust her phone in a hosts face and asked if she could order a dessert shed seen in a Grub Street g…

bubmagAugust 9, 2019

Bubble

Walking the Path of the Buddha in a Neglected Corner of India

Buddhism was born under a giant fig tree, which, today, grows at the center of the remote and unbeautiful town of Bodh Gaya, in Indias destitute northeastern state of Bihar. The tree is about three crooked blocks from the Be Happy Café and a few minutes walk …

bubmagAugust 9, 2019

Hiroshima

Remembering Ted Hall and Klaus Fuchs

Seventy-four years ago on August 6, the US dropped the first ever atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, a non-military target of several hundred thousand, instantly vaporizing some 70,000 people, mostly civilians, and causing the painful, slower death of anot…

bubmagAugust 9, 2019

Economic Bubble

The Notorious Pornographer Who Scandalized Japan

Netflixs latest boundary-pushing original series is an action-packed dramedy imported from Japan. The Naked Director, which is now streaming, delves into the competitive underground world of porn during the Japanese economic bubble of the 1980s. Directed by…

bubmagAugust 9, 2019

Japan: Nagasaki mayor tells PM Abe to adopt nuke-ban treaty

Trump’s Venezuela Policy Is Causing Turmoil in the Caribbean

ECIL Delhi Recruitment 2019: Walk in for 20 Technical Officer Posts

Stocks are dropping on Italian political strife, weakness in the UK and German economies, and lingering trade-war fears

Bayer Wants to Settle All Roundup-Related Cancer Claims for $8 Billion

Gulp. Your reusable coffee mug may be just as bad for the environment as a disposable

Rezdôra Brings Northern Italy to New York City

Walking the Path of the Buddha in a Neglected Corner of India

Remembering Ted Hall and Klaus Fuchs

The Notorious Pornographer Who Scandalized Japan

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