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Singapore

Which UK airport has the most new routes this summer?

Doncaster-Sheffield airport wins few prizes. It is a big shed planted at the former RAF station at Finningley in South Yorkshire, and is much handier for Doncaster (three miles) than Sheffield (20 miles, via Doncaster). But this summer, DSA has gained more in…

bubmagMay 3, 2019

Hiroshima

In utero at time of Hiroshima A-bomb, hibakusha tells U.N. that quest for nuke-free world will outlive him

NEW YORK - Jiro Hamasumi, who was in his mother’s womb when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, told the United Nations on Wednesday he and other survivors will persist with their efforts to spare future generations the suffering ca…

bubmagMay 3, 2019

Airbnb listings in China are littered with racist discrimination

Members of Chinas Uyghur ethnic minority have long found it difficult to travel domestically. Police harassment and widespread racism mean they are effectively barred from checking into many hotels. Airbnb doesnt help with the problem. Dozens of listings on…

bubmagMay 3, 2019

Obamacare

Pete Buttigieg: Obamacare Is Too Conservative

The idea that the monster Obamacare became was reared by conservatives is laughable. Stuart M. Butler, Ph.D., distinguished fellow at The Heritage Foundation, balks: Is the individual mandate at the heart of 'Obama Care' a conservative idea? Is it constitu…

bubmagMay 3, 2019

Belt and Road

What is China’s Belt and Road?

The Belt and Road is really the expansion of a specific part of Chinas domestic political economy to the rest of the world. That is the nexus between state-owned contractors and state-owned banks, which formed in the domestic infrastructure building spree con…

bubmagMay 3, 2019

Cold War

Venezuela thrust to forefront of US-Russia clashes

WASHINGTON (AP) Russia's support for Venezuela's embattled President Nicolas Maduro has become the latest flashpoint in deteriorating relations between the United States and Russia, moving to the top of a list of long-simmering spats between the Cold War foes…

bubmagMay 3, 2019

Panda

Grolar Bear or Pizzly?

An ursid hybrid is an animal with parents from two different species or subspecies of the Ursidae (bear) family. Species and subspecies of bear known to have produced offspring with another bear species or subspecies include brown bears, black bears, grizzly …

bubmagMay 3, 2019

Silk Road

Pentagon warns on risk of Chinese submarines in Arctic

By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deepening Chinese activities in the Arctic region could pave the way for a strengthened military presence, including the deployment of submarines to act as deterrents against nuclear attack, the Pentagon …

bubmagMay 3, 2019

Black Hole

New-and-improved LIGO may have detected a black hole eating a neutron star

The first detection of gravitational waves ripples in the very fabric of spacetime, caused by cataclysmic events like black holes colliding was one of the most important physics discoveries in a century. Three years on, we're now getting new detections so oft…

bubmagMay 3, 2019

Venezuela

Venezuela opposition figure, facing arrest warrant, says he met with generals

Lopez, a firebrand politician and Guaido’s mentor, was arrested during a protest movement in 2014 and transferred to house arrest in 2017. (AP) Venezuelan opposition politician Leopoldo Lopez, evading arrest in a Spanish diplomatic residence, on Thursday dis…

bubmagMay 3, 2019

Which UK airport has the most new routes this summer?

In utero at time of Hiroshima A-bomb, hibakusha tells U.N. that quest for nuke-free world will outlive him

Pete Buttigieg: Obamacare Is Too Conservative

What is China’s Belt and Road?

Venezuela thrust to forefront of US-Russia clashes

Grolar Bear or Pizzly?

Pentagon warns on risk of Chinese submarines in Arctic

New-and-improved LIGO may have detected a black hole eating a neutron star

Venezuela opposition figure, facing arrest warrant, says he met with generals

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