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Privacy Concerns

Migrant children are suffering at the border. But reporters are kept away from the story. – The Washington Post

Overcrowded facilities. Sick, filthy and hungry children sleeping on concrete floors. Young children taking care of infants and toddlers in the enforced absence of their parents. News stories emerged last week about squalid conditions at a Border Patrol dete…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Trade War

Trade War: Interactive Graphic

The Trade War Is Exposing What Little U.S. Tech China Still Needsclick for interactive graphicSource: Bloomberg Very cool interactive graphic showing a variety of key technology components, the companies that use them, and what products and services they are…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

SpaceX

We’ve Falcon caught it! SpaceX finally nets a fairing half after a successful Heavy launch

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy turned night into day this morning as the monster rocket successfully hauled itself from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A. The 27 Merlin engines illuminated the night sky in a manner to bring a nostalgic tear to the eye of thos…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Water Scarcity

Climate-change, depleting reservoirs and the blindness to water treatment and recycling

Climate change is the buzz word. And it is likely that both agriculture and water availability will be severely hit, unless the right measures are taken immediately. Unseasonal rains and excessive heat affect crop productivity adversely. Finally, as ground wa…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Scotland

The Creepiest Creature of the Woods

The Cannock Chase is a large area of thick woodland, expansive fields, green hills, bubbling streams and long and winding centuries-old canals in the English county of Staffordshire. Shugbrough Hall, which dates back to 1693, is a huge stately home that sits …

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Xi Jinping

China considers blacklisting FedEx after Huawei delivery errors – BNNBloomberg.ca

China is considering adding FedEx Corp. to a list of so-called unreliable entities, said people familiar with the matter, a move that would escalate tensions with the U.S. Authorities in China have almost completed the preparations that would be needed to bl…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Obamacare

Kellyanne Conway will not appear before Congress to discuss alleged violations of the Hatch Act

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway will not appear before the House Oversight Committee to discuss her alleged multiple violations of the Hatch Act. According to CNN, White House counsel Pat Cipollone wrote in a letter to Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md.,…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Nukes

Iran says U.S. sanctions on Khamenei mean end of diplomacy

DUBAI (Reuters) - New U.S. sanctions against Iran’s supreme leader and foreign minister have closed off diplomacy, Iran said on Tuesday, blaming the United States for abandoning the only route to peace just days after the two foes came within minutes of confl…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Super Komachi

How to explore the work of Sri Lanka’s most influential architect

As I pull back my curtain to watch the sun set over the Kandalama reservoir I suddenly find myself inches from a beady-eyed grey langur monkey peering at me from the other side of the glass. Hes perched nonchalantly on the rail that runs round the outside of …

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Neymar

Euro papers: Neymar ‘must apologise’ to join Barca

The best back page stories from around Europe - including why Neymar "must apologise" before returning to Barcelona and more. We asked our friends at Football Whispers to scour the European press to bring you the very best of the transfer rumours doing the…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Migrant children are suffering at the border. But reporters are kept away from the story. – The Washington Post

Trade War: Interactive Graphic

We’ve Falcon caught it! SpaceX finally nets a fairing half after a successful Heavy launch

Climate-change, depleting reservoirs and the blindness to water treatment and recycling

The Creepiest Creature of the Woods

China considers blacklisting FedEx after Huawei delivery errors – BNNBloomberg.ca

Kellyanne Conway will not appear before Congress to discuss alleged violations of the Hatch Act

Iran says U.S. sanctions on Khamenei mean end of diplomacy

How to explore the work of Sri Lanka’s most influential architect

Euro papers: Neymar ‘must apologise’ to join Barca

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