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Yemen Civil War

Child soldiers used in Yemen civil war, report says

More than 1,000 Yemeni children have been forced to fight in the civil war, the Yemen based NGO "Mwatana for Human Rights has said. The organization's annual report, which they presented on Tuesday in Paris, detailed how 1,117 children as young as 17 had bee…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

SpaceX

Leaky component led to SpaceX explosion – BBC News

Image copyrightSpaceXImage caption The Crew Dragon is designed to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) A leaky component may have been to blame for the dramatic explosion of a SpaceX capsule during testing in April. No one was hurt in…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Hiroshima

Dawn of the Nuclear Age: 74 years ago, the first atomic bomb was tested in a desert in New Mexico

tech2 News StaffJul 16, 2019 18:18:42 IST Seventy years ago today, the first atomic bomb the Trinity test was tested deep in a desert in New Mexico. Twenty-one days after that, the first bomb atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in Japan. Three days after…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Refugees

Trump’s asylum crackdown: Will the ‘safe third country’ plan work?

Image copyrightAFP/Getty ImagesImage caption Migrants travelling from Guatemala to Mexico - as pictured - would not then be permitted to apply for asylum in the US The Trump administration has announced a new rule to curb Central American asylum claims in …

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Julian Assange

Hackers breached Bulgaria’s tax agency and leaked the data of 5M people

Bulgaria has suffered what has been described as the biggest data leak in its history. The stolen data, which hackers emailed to local media on July 15, originates from the countrys tax reporting service the National Revenue Agency (NRA). The breach contains…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Slavery Abolition

Trump Is Most Racist President Since Andrew Johnson, Says Historian

The historian Jon Meacham described Donald Trump as the most racist president in American history alongside slavery-era Andrew Johnson. Meacham, who has written several presidential biographies, was reacting on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews to Trump's…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Virtual Reality

Elon Musk’s SpaceX shows off VR Hyperloop so you can glimpse the future of travel

Elon Musk knows how to stay busy. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO took time out of his Model X production and space-shuttle hustle to play spokesmodel in California for Hyperloop. Musk hosted the unveiling of the most in-depth virtual reality experience of the Hyper…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Star Wars

Star Wars Design Furnitures

Designer Kenneth Cobonpue conceived a furnitures line inspired by Star Wars in collaboration with Disney. You can easily recognize the iconic characters and symbls of the saga in this unique collection melting design and technology. The Star Wars capsule was …

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Julian Assange

Granting Julian Assange political asylum was “the right thing” to do

VP: How do you explain that? Does it make any sense to you? RP: We cant understand how someone who used to brag about being part of the Citizen Revolution, who used to call it a legend and used to say that he was part of the Rafael Correa legend…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

‘Executed’ North Korean negotiator is alive, says South Korea’s spy agency

A North Korean nuclear negotiator who was reported to have been executed over the failure of the February Hanoi summit between Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump is still alive, South Korean intelligence said on Tuesday. News of Kim Hyok Chols death b…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Child soldiers used in Yemen civil war, report says

Leaky component led to SpaceX explosion – BBC News

Dawn of the Nuclear Age: 74 years ago, the first atomic bomb was tested in a desert in New Mexico

Trump’s asylum crackdown: Will the ‘safe third country’ plan work?

Hackers breached Bulgaria’s tax agency and leaked the data of 5M people

Trump Is Most Racist President Since Andrew Johnson, Says Historian

Elon Musk’s SpaceX shows off VR Hyperloop so you can glimpse the future of travel

Star Wars Design Furnitures

Granting Julian Assange political asylum was “the right thing” to do

‘Executed’ North Korean negotiator is alive, says South Korea’s spy agency

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