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Anti-Putin Protests

Cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and rockets: The politics of Eurovision

The 2019 Eurovision Song Contest started with a bang – literally. The very moment competitors took the stage in Tel Aviv to rehearse Saturday morning, rockets rained down on southern Israel, sending thousands to bomb shelters. >> Subscribe now, save 35…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Geely

Defying Brexit, Volvo car brand Polestar picks UK for new development hub

By Esha Vaish STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish luxury electric carmaker Polestar, which is jointly owned by Volvo Cars and its Chinese parent Geely, is setting up an R&D center in Britain to develop future passenger cars, it said on Wednesday. The move com…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Alibaba

The battle between Tencent and Ant Financial over digital wallets may never be won

Tencent and AlibabaChinas tech superpowers, with a combined market value of almost $1 trillionhave clashed repeatedly since they were created in the earliest days of the countrys internet economy. Some 20 years later, one of the most important pieces of turf …

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Super Heroes

The Best Black Widow Stories to Buy Before Her Movie

As one of the few surviving heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe at the start of Avengers: Endgame, Black Widow goes on to play a central role in the film. The character is a founding member of the MCU's Avengers and has been a prominent figure since 2010…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Hiroshima

Why You Shouldn’t Fear the Biggest Nuclear Weapon Ever Exploded

Within five miles of ground zero, everyone not killed by the blast and heat would receive a lethal dose of 500 rems of high-energy radiation. Up to 20 miles away from the detonation, the blast wave would gut every buildingeven concrete and steel reinforced bu…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Scotland

Section Hiking the Cape Wrath Trail

The Cape Wrath Trail is considered the hardest trail in the United Kingdom because it passes through one of the wildest, most rugged and remote sections of the Scottish Highlands. Technically, the Cape Wrath Trail is more of a route than a trail, and while th…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Belt and Road

Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app that the Chinese state uses to spy on people in Xinjiang

China's Xinjiang province is home to the country's Uyghur ethnic minority and other people of Turkic Muslim descent; it has become a living laboratory for next-generation, electronically mediated totalitarianism; up to 1,000,000 people have been sent to conce…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Gundam

New Mobile Suits and characters for SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays revealed, plus the ‘Ability GET’ mechanic detailed

Mobile Suits (and Characters)Mobile Suit Gundam Wing - Gundam Heavyarms Endless Waltz Igel Armament - Gundam Sandrock Endless Waltz Armadillo Armor Mobile Suit Gundam SEED - Gundam Strike Rouge (Ootori) - Gundam Astray Red Frame Kai - Works GINN - Civi…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Chinese Expansionism

Putting the Chinese genie back in the bottle

It is insanity to empower China, our most significant geopolitical rival, to continue its long-term effort to replace the United States as the world's premier superpower. It is even crazier to allow the Chinese to do so at our expense. For nearly two decade…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Singapore

A U.S. Ally Is Turning to China to ‘Build, Build, Build’

CLARK, Philippines—Vince Dizon makes sure his guests take in the view from his ninth-story office before they leave. A set of windows looks out over a hazy, expansive airfield that was the center of the United States’ largest overseas military base, until it …

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and rockets: The politics of Eurovision

Defying Brexit, Volvo car brand Polestar picks UK for new development hub

The battle between Tencent and Ant Financial over digital wallets may never be won

The Best Black Widow Stories to Buy Before Her Movie

Why You Shouldn’t Fear the Biggest Nuclear Weapon Ever Exploded

Section Hiking the Cape Wrath Trail

Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app that the Chinese state uses to spy on people in Xinjiang

New Mobile Suits and characters for SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays revealed, plus the ‘Ability GET’ mechanic detailed

Putting the Chinese genie back in the bottle

A U.S. Ally Is Turning to China to ‘Build, Build, Build’

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