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Holocaust

Eva Kor: Auschwitz survivor of Mengele Nazi torture dies

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionAuschwitz survivor Eva Kor called for forgiveness even for Nazi crimes Eva Kor survived the Holocaust and went on to call for forgiveness of Nazi perpetrators, giving tours of the death camp at Ausch…

bubmagJuly 5, 2019

Venezuela

‘Safe like China’: In Argentina, ZTE finds eager buyer for surveillance tech

By Cassandra Garrison SAN SALVADOR DE JUJUY, Argentina (Reuters) - In Argentina's remote northern province of Jujuy, Chinese telecoms giant ZTE is installing a little slice of the Asian nation's vast surveillance state - security cameras that the local gover…

bubmagJuly 5, 2019

Venezuela

“Safe like China”: In Argentina, ZTE finds eager buyer for surveillance tech

By Cassandra Garrison SAN SALVADOR DE JUJUY, Argentina (Reuters) - In Argentina's remote northern province of Jujuy, Chinese telecoms giant ZTE is installing a little slice of the Asian nation's vast surveillance state - security cameras that the local gover…

bubmagJuly 5, 2019

Christianity

The Deepening Crisis in Evangelical Christianity

Last week, Ralph Reed, the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s founder and chairman, told the group, “There has never been anyone who has defended us and who has fought for us, who we have loved more than Donald J. Trump. No one!” Reed is partially right; for many …

bubmagJuly 5, 2019

Alibaba

Chinese online giant Alibaba to donate $145m to women’s football

Shanghai (AFP) – China’s second richest man Jack Ma will contribute to a $145 million donation to the Chinese women’s football squad, it was announced Friday, who despite underfunding routinely outperform the men’s national team. The one billion yuan ($145 m…

bubmagJuly 5, 2019

Donald Trump

Your Friday Briefing

In 1938, a Times film critic wrote that there were three unique and valuable institutions the British have that we in America have not: Alfred Hitchcock, Magna Carta and Tower Bridge. Last Sunday was the 125th anniversary of the opening of the bridge, one of…

bubmagJuly 5, 2019

Exoskeleton

Incredible video captures the moment a shrimp MOLTS

An incredible video shows the moment a shrimp bursts out of its old exoskeleton in a process called 'molting'. The video was taken by an unknown spectator who captured the rare process in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. Molting is one of the most important physiolog…

bubmagJuly 5, 2019

Singapore

Iswaran in China for first-hand update on tech developments – The Straits Times

BEIJING - Mr S. Iswaran is on his first official visit to China as Minister for Communications and Information, where he met senior government officials and visited some Chinese companies to get a first-hand update on developments in the tech industry. His f…

bubmagJuly 5, 2019

Korean War

Excavating a Horror That Some Koreans Wish Would Stay Buried

ASAN, South Korea On a lush hillside torn open by an excavator, Park Sun-joo and volunteers combed through the soil with trowels and brushes, looking for villagers, including children, who were bludgeoned and buried, some still alive and moaning, by their own…

bubmagJuly 5, 2019

Slavery Abolition

Who Should Be on the Next Mount Rushmore?

Are there any American heroes we can agree on in 2019? This might sound like an abstract question, but for the Fourth of July weekend, Politico Magazine has decided to make it more concrete, asking experts: Who would you put on a new Mount Rushmore? Every ye…

bubmagJuly 5, 2019

Eva Kor: Auschwitz survivor of Mengele Nazi torture dies

‘Safe like China’: In Argentina, ZTE finds eager buyer for surveillance tech

“Safe like China”: In Argentina, ZTE finds eager buyer for surveillance tech

The Deepening Crisis in Evangelical Christianity

Chinese online giant Alibaba to donate $145m to women’s football

Your Friday Briefing

Incredible video captures the moment a shrimp MOLTS

Iswaran in China for first-hand update on tech developments – The Straits Times

Excavating a Horror That Some Koreans Wish Would Stay Buried

Who Should Be on the Next Mount Rushmore?

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