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Geely

Car review: Volvo S60 – sporty looks with durability

Premium is the word Volvo people would like to have pop into your head when you see their new S60 sports saloon. Chris McKinnon, head of lifecycle at Volvo Car Corporation, tells me so at launch of its latest model that they have benchmarked the car during it…

bubmagMay 3, 2019

Electric Car

Cobalt for 500,000 electric cars could be harvested from the oceans

Electric car sales mean global demand for cobalt could outstrip supply next year Rick Lewis / Alamy Stock Photo By David Adam Strings of plastic balls dangled in the ocean could harvest enough cobalt for hundreds of thousands of electric car batteries. The…

bubmagMay 3, 2019

Week in Review: Paris May Day protests turn violent, Arundhati Roy & the world is getting angrier

This week FRANCE 24 took a look at Leonardo da Vinci's genius, 500 years after his death; independence activists who sought Hitler's help in liberating India from colonialism; and how China uses a new "social credit" system to rank citizens. ARTICLES Peopl…

bubmagMay 3, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

Explainer: Who is targeting the Muslim Brotherhood?

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is working to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, a move that would bring sanctions against one of the Arab world’s oldest and most influential Islamist movements. The Brothe…

bubmagMay 3, 2019

Electric Car

UPDATE 2-Tesla to get up to $2.7 bln from upsized offering, Musk to buy more stock

(Adds details on share sale, background) May 3 (Reuters) - Tesla Inc on Friday raised the size of its planned share offering to 3.1 million shares, priced at $243 apiece, and said Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk would now buy stock worth up to $25 million,…

bubmagMay 3, 2019

Greta Thunberg

ICYMI: Make Earth Greta Again: Pigtailed teenage environmentalist dares you to disagree

A 16 year old girl with pigtails and aspergers telling the adult world that we’re all going to die unless everyone stops flying planes and driving cars is hard to criticise, and that is exactly the point. So ICYMI looks at the cult of Greta. For more, follo…

bubmagMay 3, 2019

Christianity

Pope on sensitive trip to Orthodox Bulgaria and North Macedonia

VATICAN CITY/RAKOVSKI, BULGARIA (Reuters) - Pope Francis starts a trip on Sunday to Bulgaria and North Macedonia where he will have to tread carefully because of sensitive relations with the dominant Eastern Orthodox Church in the two Balkan countries where C…

bubmagMay 3, 2019

CCTV

Things to consider when choosing Security Camera CCTV System

A security system is an important part of every company and every home as well. You have to feel safe no matter where you are, and installing or upgrading a security system is the way to go. So as to find the best security camera CCTV system for your home…

bubmagMay 3, 2019

Yellow Vests

Probe after French officer seen hurling stone at protesters

Paris (AFP) - French prosecutors and police inspectors have opened an investigation after an officer was seen hurling a paving stone at protesters during May Day demonstrations in Paris, sources said Friday. The incident -- captured in video footage posted o…

bubmagMay 3, 2019

Singapore

Five bars to visit when in Jakarta

Gridlock is normal in Jakarta, and as its the last leg of a long trip, Im in no mood to stray too far from my hotel in Thamrin. Im, however, eager to try the cocktails, which Ive heard uses local ingredients from snake fruit and torch ginger to pandan. Tariq…

bubmagMay 3, 2019

Car review: Volvo S60 – sporty looks with durability

Cobalt for 500,000 electric cars could be harvested from the oceans

Explainer: Who is targeting the Muslim Brotherhood?

UPDATE 2-Tesla to get up to $2.7 bln from upsized offering, Musk to buy more stock

ICYMI: Make Earth Greta Again: Pigtailed teenage environmentalist dares you to disagree

Pope on sensitive trip to Orthodox Bulgaria and North Macedonia

Things to consider when choosing Security Camera CCTV System

Probe after French officer seen hurling stone at protesters

Five bars to visit when in Jakarta

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