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Seleção

Brazil downplays heavy favorite status in Copa América final

TERESÓPOLIS, Brazil (AP) — Only 13 days ago, Brazil thrashed Peru 5-0 in a Copa América group stage match, with samba-style soccer, goals from long distance and defensive perfection. But Seleção players said Thursday they don’t expect an easy rematch against …

bubmagJuly 4, 2019

Barack Obama

Barack Obama Wishes Daughter Malia (and America!) a Happy Birthday

Malia Obama shares a birthday with America and her father, former President Barack Obama, celebrated the special double-celebration on Thursday with a sweet Instagram post. “”Happy Fourth of July, everybody! This is always a great day in the Obama family: a …

bubmagJuly 4, 2019

Korean Peace Talks

Honeymoon over? North Korea says US ‘hell-bent on hostile acts’

In a made-for-television event with more symbolism than substance, President Donald Trump met Sunday with Kim Jong Un in the Demilitarized Zone. USA TODAY Three days after President Trump and Kim Jong Un shared a warm and fuzzy moment on North Korean soil,…

bubmagJuly 4, 2019

Venezuela

Venezuela ‘death squads’ kill young men and stage scenes: UN report

"In every case, witnesses reported how FAES manipulated the crime scene and evidence. They would plant arms and drugs and fire their weapons against the walls or in the air to suggest a confrontation and to show the victim had 'resisted authority'." A demons…

bubmagJuly 4, 2019

Global Warming

Dragonflies with tiny fanny packs show migration patterns in new study – larongeNOW

The little packs emitted radio signals which could be picked up by towers along the insects migration route. The signals sent information about speed and distance back to researchers. Knight explained the bugs breeding habits and the areas they stay in winte…

bubmagJuly 4, 2019

Fortnite

Check out the latest challenges for Fortnite’s Season 9!

Season 9 of Fortnite is officially upon us, which means brand new outfits, new locations on the map, and brand new challenges to boot. It's the ninth week of Season 9 now, and more challenges have dropped for players to complete to get their Battle Pass up ra…

bubmagJuly 4, 2019

Trickle-Down

Budget 2019: Nirmala Sitharaman has her work cut out

By Anuvab PalIf you thought climbing Mt Everest was tough, our new finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s task of presenting the Budget is up there. After holding government posts, noted economists have returned to leafy Ivy league universities, and claimed t…

bubmagJuly 4, 2019

Belt and Road

Better Buy: HSBC Holdings vs. Bank of China

HSBC Holdings plc (SEHK:0005) and Bank of China Ltd (NASDAQOTH:BACHF) (NASDAQOTH: BACHY), two banks operating in the Greater China region and popular with local Hong Kong investors, are both listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The two are constituent stoc…

bubmagJuly 4, 2019

Climate Change

Calculation Shows We Could Add a U.S.-Sized Forest to the Planet to Fight Climate Change

Trees are good for all sorts of things, like providing shade for picnics and habitat for animals. But theyre also a huge part of the efforts to combat climate change by sucking carbon dioxide out of the air. New findings were published on Thursday in Science…

bubmagJuly 4, 2019

Global Warming

Massive Forest Restoration Could Greatly Slow Global Warming

We have heard for years that planting trees can help save the world from global warming. That mantra was mostly a statement of faith, however. Now the data finally exist to show that if the right species of trees are planted in the right soil types across the…

bubmagJuly 4, 2019

Brazil downplays heavy favorite status in Copa América final

Barack Obama Wishes Daughter Malia (and America!) a Happy Birthday

Honeymoon over? North Korea says US ‘hell-bent on hostile acts’

Venezuela ‘death squads’ kill young men and stage scenes: UN report

Dragonflies with tiny fanny packs show migration patterns in new study – larongeNOW

Check out the latest challenges for Fortnite’s Season 9!

Budget 2019: Nirmala Sitharaman has her work cut out

Better Buy: HSBC Holdings vs. Bank of China

Calculation Shows We Could Add a U.S.-Sized Forest to the Planet to Fight Climate Change

Massive Forest Restoration Could Greatly Slow Global Warming

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