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Paris

Steelmaker ArcelorMittal to offer steel for Notre-Dame Cathedral restoration

PARIS (Reuters) - ArcelorMittal has offered steel for the restoration of Notre-Dame de Paris after a fire gutted the gothic cathedral’s roof and destroyed its iconic spire, the steelmaker said on Thursday. “The company ... will offer up steel to repair and …

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Water Scarcity

Insights Into Water Supply and Use in a Peri-Urban Area

analysisBy Ana Rita Sequeira, Halina Kobryn, Lário L. M. Herculano, Mark P McHenry and Ryan AdmiraalThe United Nations reports that water scarcity affects more than 40% of the global population. Just over a third of people don't have access to safely managed …

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Animal Protection

Chinese woman apologises after photographs of her petting giant panda cub cause upset online

Published: 1:41pm, 18 Apr, 2019 Updated: 1:41pm, 18 Apr, 2019

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Free Internet

Splinternet: EU Censorship Ramps Up WIth ACTA 2, While UK Passes Terror Law, Porn Law, and Introduces First Internet Regulation Agency

By Aaron Kesel Across Europe, MEPs voted successfully to redesign the Internet with a censorship directive disguised as a copyright proposal, while the UK itself passed a horrifying terror bill that will make it illegal to watch any “terrorist propaganda” (n…

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Refugees

Nicaragua refugees: ‘I don’t understand why people hate us’

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Anti-government protests kicked off a year ago in Nicaragua and deadly clashes followed One year ago, on 18 April 2018, Nicaraguans took to the streets to protest against proposed changes to the country's social sec…

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Palestine

Israeli envoy: no action on West Bank until after peace plan

UNITED NATIONS (AP) Israel's U.N. ambassador said Wednesday he believes his government will take no action on annexing Jewish settlements in the West Bank until after the Trump administration releases its long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. Danny Da…

bubmagApril 18, 2019

New York City

Climate Change: New York City Buildings to Face Greenhouse Gas Limits

The cost to building owners will be high. Mark Chambers, the director of the Mayors Office of Sustainability, said the cumulative cost to building owners to make the upgrades needed to meet the caps would exceed $4 billion. He added that building owners would…

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Bubble

Gene Therapy Restores Immunity for ‘Bubble Boys’

April 17, 2019 -- In 1971, a boy was born in Texas with a rare genetic defect that robbed him of an immune system. With the help of NASA engineers, David Vetter lived for years inside a series of plastic rooms that protected him from infections, earning him t…

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Apple in talks with self-driving car sensor suppliers

(Reuters) — Apple has held talks with at least four companies as possible suppliers for next-generation lidar sensors in self-driving cars, evaluating the companies technology while also still working on its own lidar unit, three people familiar with the disc…

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Nukes

North Korea tests ‘tactical’ weapon, report says

Seoul, South Korea (CNN)North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected and directed a "new tactical guided weapons firing test," according to a report from the country's state media. The report, from news agency KCNA, did not state exactly what kind of weapo…

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Steelmaker ArcelorMittal to offer steel for Notre-Dame Cathedral restoration

Insights Into Water Supply and Use in a Peri-Urban Area

Chinese woman apologises after photographs of her petting giant panda cub cause upset online

Splinternet: EU Censorship Ramps Up WIth ACTA 2, While UK Passes Terror Law, Porn Law, and Introduces First Internet Regulation Agency

Nicaragua refugees: ‘I don’t understand why people hate us’

Israeli envoy: no action on West Bank until after peace plan

Climate Change: New York City Buildings to Face Greenhouse Gas Limits

Gene Therapy Restores Immunity for ‘Bubble Boys’

Apple in talks with self-driving car sensor suppliers

North Korea tests ‘tactical’ weapon, report says

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