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Nuclear Disarmament

Valerie Plame Left Washington A Spy. She Wants Back In As A Congresswoman.

WASHINGTON Valerie Plame hasn’t lived in Washington, D.C. since 2006, after a George W. Bush administration official blew her cover as a covert CIA officer in retaliation for her husband’s criticism of the motives behind the Iraq War. But she’s ready to be b…

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Venezuela

Venezuelan Embassy’s Power Cut Off in Tense Washington Standoff – The New York Times

Mr. Márquez said Pepco acted after Mr. Vecchio reached out to the utility and explained the situation. Ben Armstrong, a Pepco spokesman, declined to comment, out of respect for customer privacy and public safety. At the peak of the embassy occupation, some 5…

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Belt and Road

Four Chinese scientists were killed in Sri Lanka attack

Four Chinese scientists were among those who died after an explosion at the Kingsbury hotel in Colombo.Credit: Chamila Karunarathne/Anadolu Agency/Getty Four Chinese researchers who were killed in the terror attacks in Sri Lanka last month were in the countr…

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Machine Learning

Applied Machine Learning: Foundations

- Have you ever wondered how when you upload a picture to Facebook it can find peoples faces and even suggest who it may be? Or how Google Maps can predict the fastest route based on traffic? If you answered yes to either of those questions, then…

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Scotland

The battle to save Scotland’s forests from disease

Image caption John Dougan said the work of generations of foresters has been lost "When I first saw the impact this disease was having, it really almost reduced me to tears." The words of Scottish Forestry's John Dougan as he describes the battle to defea…

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

North Korea launches two ballistic missiles amid stalled talks with US

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles on Thursday, in its second weapons test in less than a week, South Koreas military said. One missile travelled 260 miles and the other 170 miles in an easterly direction after being launched from a site n…

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Obamacare

House votes to roll back Trump rules on Obama health law – Atlanta Journal Constitution

In another step in the tug of war between Democrats in Congress and the Trump Administration over efforts to force changes in the Obama health law, the House on Thursday approved a bill which would limit efforts by the Trump Administration to let states permi…

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Water Pollution

Photocatalytic improvement of Y3+ modified TiO2 prepared by a ball milling method and application in shrimp wastewater treatment

* Corresponding authors a Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Treatment & Resource Reuse, Hainan Normal University, Haikou, P. R. China E-mail:zaifengshi@163.com, zxp_inorganic@126.com b College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hainan Normal…

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

Only 17 Days in Office, Erdogan’s Rival Saw Spending to ‘Spoil a Mayor’

The High Election Council, however, appears tilted in Mr. Erdogans favor. Opposition officials say that the seven judges on the council who voted in favor of annulling the March election succumbed to government pressure. The seven remained silent throughout …

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

Flare lights up sky as Air Force tests ICBM — again…

The U.S. Air Force has launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from California in the second such test this month. (May 9) AP VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE A flare lit up the sky early Thursday as the Air Force launched an unarmed intercontinent…

bubmagMay 10, 2019

Valerie Plame Left Washington A Spy. She Wants Back In As A Congresswoman.

Venezuelan Embassy’s Power Cut Off in Tense Washington Standoff – The New York Times

Four Chinese scientists were killed in Sri Lanka attack

Applied Machine Learning: Foundations

The battle to save Scotland’s forests from disease

North Korea launches two ballistic missiles amid stalled talks with US

House votes to roll back Trump rules on Obama health law – Atlanta Journal Constitution

Photocatalytic improvement of Y3+ modified TiO2 prepared by a ball milling method and application in shrimp wastewater treatment

Only 17 Days in Office, Erdogan’s Rival Saw Spending to ‘Spoil a Mayor’

Flare lights up sky as Air Force tests ICBM — again…

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