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The Evil Robots of the Ancient World

This week, Oxford University announced that American billionaire and philanthropist Stephen A. Schwarzman had gifted the university with its largest cash donation ever£150 millionto fund (among other things) an institution to investigate the ethics of artific…

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

No comment from Boris Johnson about police being called to home

Britain's Conservative leader Boris Johnson refused to comment Saturday after reports surfaced that police had been called to the home he shares with his girlfriend. The Guardian reported on Friday that police were called after an altercation involving Johnso…

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

Ensure that widows are ‘not left out or left behind’, UN chief urges on International Day

In the absence of social and legal protection, he said in his message, widowed womens lifetime earnings and savings are often too little to avoid poverty. Even in countries with good pension coverage, women are significantly more likely to suffer poverty i…

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

Russia bans Georgia airline flights as tensions rise over protests

Moscow (AFP) - Russia's government on Saturday banned Georgian airlines from flying into its territory, extending restrictions imposed by President Vladimir Putin as part of growing tensions between Moscow and its ex-Soviet neighbour. Putin had signed a decr…

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Holocaust

Holocaust survivors: The families that weren’t meant to live

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Plastic Pollution

Plastic pollution: Beach cleaner quits ‘losing battle’

Image copyrightLaura TrueloveImage caption Alan Cookson, second from right, estimates he has helped clear 5,000kg of plastic off Wales' beaches An environmentalist who dedicated himself to cleaning beaches is hanging up his litter picker because of a "losi…

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Palestine

Kushner’s economic plan for Mideast peace faces broad Arab rejection

RIYADH/AMMAN/CAIRO (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s economic vision as part of the wider plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was met with contempt, repudiation and exasperation in the Arab world, even as some in the Gulf called for it to…

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Greta Thunberg

Climate protestors storm Garzweiler coal mine in Germany

Image copyrightAFPImage caption Hundreds of protesters joined forces to break into the mine and march through it Hundreds of climate change activists have stormed an open cast coal mine in western Germany to campaign against fossil fuels. The protesters …

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Monsanto

Encore Casino Boston opens its doors to the public Sunday morning – The Union Leader

EVERETT, Mass. At 10 a.m. Sunday, amid fanfare and tourists angling to see it, Encore Boston Harbor the largest casino resort in the Northeast and likely its most luxurious opens in this industrial city on the north lip of Boston, on the former site of a Mons…

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Holocaust

Feinstein 54 Below: Your Sinatra Promotion Is On A Wikipedia Article About The Holocaust?

Today I was finishing 'Auschwitz,' a granular history of the place and the camp, how a no place became a notorious place, and an inside look at the ironies of history. (Auschwitz started by deporting Jews.)In the final pages I came across a reference to Topf …

bubmagJune 23, 2019

The Evil Robots of the Ancient World

No comment from Boris Johnson about police being called to home

Ensure that widows are ‘not left out or left behind’, UN chief urges on International Day

Russia bans Georgia airline flights as tensions rise over protests

Holocaust survivors: The families that weren’t meant to live

Plastic pollution: Beach cleaner quits ‘losing battle’

Kushner’s economic plan for Mideast peace faces broad Arab rejection

Climate protestors storm Garzweiler coal mine in Germany

Encore Casino Boston opens its doors to the public Sunday morning – The Union Leader

Feinstein 54 Below: Your Sinatra Promotion Is On A Wikipedia Article About The Holocaust?

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