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Trade War

European markets subdued on trade war concerns but inflation data buoys stimulus hopes

European markets were subdued on Wednesday as fears of a trade war spilled over onto the continent, but eurozone inflation data kept hopes alive of fresh stimulus. Inflation picked up in June, beating expectations, but did little to dampen hopes of the Europ…

bubmagJuly 17, 2019

BUK-Missile

US and Ukraine Fail to Provide Evidence on MH17 Crash – Russian Ambassador

THE HAGUE (Sputnik) - The United States and Ukraine have not yet provided the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) with their data on the 2014 crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in the east of Ukraine, Russian Ambassador to the Netherlands Alexander Shulgin sai…

bubmagJuly 17, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey journalists and activist acquitted of terrorism charges

Image copyrightAFPImage caption Sebnem Korur Fincanci, chairwoman of Turkey's Human Rights Foundation, as she walks free A Turkish court has acquitted two journalists and a human rights activist of terrorism charges. The three defendants had been accused …

bubmagJuly 17, 2019

NATO

Imran Khan’s ‘New Pakistan’ Is as Good as the Old

When you are clueless in Pakistan, you turn to the army. And so Khan has appointed the army chief, Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, to his newly formed economic council. (Many would say the army chief appointed himself). The military already controlled security and fo…

bubmagJuly 17, 2019

Barack Obama

Stephen Colbert slams Trump: ‘Racism is your brand’

Donald Trump has come under fire from the late show hosts for his weak attempts to defend the slew of racist tweets he posted on Sunday. The Daily Show's Trevor Noah broke down exactly what was wrong with his "don't have a racist bone in my body" comments, a…

bubmagJuly 17, 2019

New York City

A Decision in the Eric Garner Case

Ashley Southall contributed reporting. The Daily is made by Theo Balcomb, Andy Mills, Lisa Tobin, Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Annie Brown, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Larissa Anderson, Wendy Dorr, Chris Wood, J…

bubmagJuly 17, 2019

Obamacare

Why Are Democrats Undermining Obamacare?

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The House is widely expected to vote Wednesday to finally kill the so-called Cadillac tax. Whether the Senate will follow is less clear, but the overall sentiment isnt: The excise tax on high-cost insurance plans has long enjoyed bipart…

bubmagJuly 17, 2019

Cold War

The space race forged immortal rock and roll guitars

Just beyond a long, elegant hall of mostly headless, ancient Greek statues at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City lies a chunk of Jimi Hendrixs guitar, which the rock legend doused in lighter fluid, lit ablaze, and slammed into the ground at the M…

bubmagJuly 17, 2019

Riots

‘Orange Is the New Black’ Taught Us What Netflix Was For

Some of the inmates are nonviolent offenders; others have killed. Some have suffered bad breaks, abuse or straight-up injustice; others are dangerous, vicious and unrepentant. Orange extends understanding to all of them (as well as to bullying guards and cyn…

bubmagJuly 17, 2019

Blockchain

Contract management startup Icertis becomes unicorn with $115M new round

Icertis, a Washington-headquartered startup that develops cloud-based software to help large companies manage contracts, has raised $115 million at more than a billion dollar valuation to become the latest SaaS unicorn as it looks to further expand its footpr…

bubmagJuly 17, 2019

European markets subdued on trade war concerns but inflation data buoys stimulus hopes

US and Ukraine Fail to Provide Evidence on MH17 Crash – Russian Ambassador

Turkey journalists and activist acquitted of terrorism charges

Imran Khan’s ‘New Pakistan’ Is as Good as the Old

Stephen Colbert slams Trump: ‘Racism is your brand’

A Decision in the Eric Garner Case

Why Are Democrats Undermining Obamacare?

The space race forged immortal rock and roll guitars

‘Orange Is the New Black’ Taught Us What Netflix Was For

Contract management startup Icertis becomes unicorn with $115M new round

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