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Homeless

Resilience in the face of homelessness: The stories of Thuli and Emihle

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bubmagAugust 15, 2025

Censored Internet

Chinese subsea cable maker to establish manufacturing facility in Saudi Arabia

Home Subsea Chinese subsea cable maker to establish manufacturing facility in Saudi Arabia August 15, 2025, by Nadja Skopljak To accelerate growth in the Middle East and enhance local industrial capabilities as part of its global strategy, China’s ZTT Submarine Cable & System is planning to set up a manufacturing…

bubmagAugust 15, 2025

Nuclear Weapons

Presidents Trump and Putin Must Seize the Moment in Alaska

August 15, 2025 The war in Ukraine is a regional security and humanitarian tragedy, but regarding nuclear weapons, Washington and Moscow stand to benefit from working together. Donald Trump walks with Vladimir Putin before taking a family photo at the G20 Summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019.(Brendan Smialowski /…

bubmagAugust 15, 2025

Palestine

Chris Smalls Speaks Out After His Journey to Gaza

Activism / August 15, 2025 In an interview, the union organizer talks about joining the Freedom Flotilla, confronting Israeli forces, and solidarity between Palestine and the US labor movement. US cofounder and the former president of the Amazon Labor Union Chris Smalls (C) addresses a press conference on the Freedom…

bubmagAugust 15, 2025

Greenland

Greenland’s Melting Ice Is Supercharging Life in the Sea

Ocean currents swirl around North America (center left) and Greenland (upper right) in this data visualization created using NASA’s ECCO model. Advanced computing is helping oceanographers decipher hot spots of phytoplankton growth. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio Greenland’s rapidly melting ice sheet is not only raising sea levels but also…

bubmagAugust 15, 2025

Narendra Modi

Indian PM Modi vows to protect farmers, pushes self-reliance amid Trump tariff tensions

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the country on Friday to move towards more self-reliance, manufacture everything from fertilisers to jet engines and EV batteries, and vowed to protect farmers in the face of a trade conflict with Washington. With the punishing tariffs imposed on Indian exports by US President…

bubmagAugust 15, 2025

Air Pollution

Campaigners sue Chilean government over copper mining pollution

A coalition of environmental campaigners and Indigenous groups is suing the Chilean government for systematically failing to curb pollution in the heart of the country’s copper mining region, as demand rises for the metal that is critical for the energy transition. It marks the first time the Chilean government has…

bubmagAugust 15, 2025

Recycling

DEVELON material handler offers extended reach and elevated cab for recycling operations

DEVELON material handler offers extended reach and elevated cab for recycling operations The DX270WMH-7 wheel material handler features a 3-foot longer reach than previous models By Stephanie Bontorin August 15, 2025 DEVELON's newest wheel material handler, the DX270WMH-7, is built to conquer tough recycling jobs. The machine is designed to…

bubmagAugust 15, 2025

Putin

Putin enters Trump talks from a position of strength

Russian President Vladimir Putin may already feel like a winner when he sits down Friday in Alaska with President Donald Trump. Putin, who has ruthlessly secured unprecedented power at home, has seen his army finally eke out a slight advantage on the battlefield in Ukraine after years of brutal back-and-forth…

bubmagAugust 15, 2025

Pandemic

Why US federal health agencies are abandoning mRNA vaccines

They’re turning their backs on a technology thought to have saved millions of lives—with the potential to save many more. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images This time five years ago, we were in the throes of the covid-19 pandemic. By August 2020, we’d seen school closures, national lockdowns, and widespread panic. That…

bubmagAugust 15, 2025

Resilience in the face of homelessness: The stories of Thuli and Emihle

Chinese subsea cable maker to establish manufacturing facility in Saudi Arabia

Presidents Trump and Putin Must Seize the Moment in Alaska

Chris Smalls Speaks Out After His Journey to Gaza

Greenland’s Melting Ice Is Supercharging Life in the Sea

Indian PM Modi vows to protect farmers, pushes self-reliance amid Trump tariff tensions

Campaigners sue Chilean government over copper mining pollution

DEVELON material handler offers extended reach and elevated cab for recycling operations

Putin enters Trump talks from a position of strength

Why US federal health agencies are abandoning mRNA vaccines

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