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Brexit

The UK trip gives Trump the chance to bask in the staged theatrics of British ceremony, to frame himself as a statesman and his family as a political dynasty

London (CNN)President Donald Trump normally is a chaos maker when he travels abroad. But he will attempt to use his pomp-laden state visit to Britain this week to wring strategic advantage out of another country's already raging political meltdown. Trump arr…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

NATO

The ‘Special Relationship’ Has Seen Better Days

Seventy-five years ago, the United States and Britain joined with other Allied nations to invade Normandy on D-Day, beginning the end of the Nazi occupation of Europe. Since then, the two countries have been close partners, fighting wars alongside each other—…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Economic prosperity, political repression mark China 30 years after Tiananmen

BEIJING, China Thirty years since the Tiananmen Square protests, China's economy has catapulted up the world rankings, yet political repression is harsher than ever. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims are held in re-education camps without charge, student acti…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Xi Jinping

Factory activity shrinks across Asia, stokes global recession fears – Investing.com

By Jonathan Cable and Marius Zaharia LONDON/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Factory activity contracted across Asia and Europe last month as an escalating trade war between Washington and Beijing raised fears of a global economic downturn and heaped pressure on policy…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Belt and Road

Michael Klare: US Plans to Muscle Up for “Great Power” Conflict With China

Yves here. The US military, having gotten mired in a series of neverending but costly misadventures in the Middle East, is now proposing to double down on failure, or at best mediocrity. Even though though US forces are badly overextended, the National Defens…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Water Scarcity

News24.com | Land reform and agriculture: What to expect in the next 5 years

Various role players in the agriculture and land reform sectors have come out in full support of newly appointed Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Thoko Didiza. With the tough task of implementing government's land reform resting o…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Singapore

Leading Taiwanese bubble tea brand Milksha is coming to Singapore

The leading bubble tea brand in Taiwan is opening its first Southeast Asia branch in Singapore at the end of June. Milksha, which goes by the name Milkshop in Taiwan, will open its first flagship shop at Suntec City Mall at the end of the month, followed soo…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

New Film: Watch Jesus at Work in Athens

In 2011 I went to Athens, Greece, with the intention of teaching migrant church leaders the Bible. I had no idea what God was about to do in my heart. We’re living in an age of migration. Never before have so many people been on the move. In 2015, more…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Hiroshima

2017 North Korean nuclear test 10 times larger than previous tests, new study finds

WASHINGTON-- North Korea detonated a nuclear device in 2017 equivalent to about 250 kilotons of TNT, a new study estimates, creating an explosion 16 times the size of the bomb the United States detonated over Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. The new assessment of t…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

Water Scarcity

Combination of water scarcity and inflexible demand puts world’s river basins at risk

IMAGE: During a prolonged drought, annual crop fields can be left fallow without causing lasting economic damage, but almond groves, such as these in California's Central Valley, require consistent irrigation to... view more Credit: Steven Davis / UCI Ir…

bubmagJune 3, 2019

The UK trip gives Trump the chance to bask in the staged theatrics of British ceremony, to frame himself as a statesman and his family as a political dynasty

The ‘Special Relationship’ Has Seen Better Days

Factory activity shrinks across Asia, stokes global recession fears – Investing.com

Michael Klare: US Plans to Muscle Up for “Great Power” Conflict With China

News24.com | Land reform and agriculture: What to expect in the next 5 years

Leading Taiwanese bubble tea brand Milksha is coming to Singapore

New Film: Watch Jesus at Work in Athens

2017 North Korean nuclear test 10 times larger than previous tests, new study finds

Combination of water scarcity and inflexible demand puts world’s river basins at risk

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