Skip to main content
Category

Checkpoint

Checkpoint

Brics leaders talk expansion amid ‘Cold War’

The Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi attend the Brics Business Summit on August 22, 2023 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Brics summit is held in South Africa between (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images) China’s Xi Jinping, the…
bubmag
August 22, 2023
Checkpoint

Russia’s first post-Soviet Moon mission ends in space crash

What is included in my trial? During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. Standard Digital includes access to a wealth of global news, analysis and expert opinion. Premium Digital includes access to our premier…
bubmag
August 20, 2023
Checkpoint

El Salvador’s controversial crackdown on gangs

About 7% of the country’s young male population have been imprisoned in brutal jails Presidency of El Salvador / Getty To continue reading for free, please register your details below Already registered? Click here to log in We will use the details you have shared to manage your registration. You agree…
bubmag
August 9, 2023
Checkpoint

FXX’s “Archer” Final Season Sets Date, Trailer

FXX FXX has premiered the trailer for the fourteenth and final season of the long-running, Emmy Award-winning adult animated spy comedy series “Archer”. The long-running series follows the workplace members of a dysfunctional intelligence agency in a Cold War-esque yet contemporary universe – allowing it to parody espionage, culture and…
bubmag
August 8, 2023
Checkpoint

The best FR Avancer loadout in Warzone

Season 5 of Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare 2 introduced the FR Advancer assault rifle, which is essentially a replica of the FFAR-1 from Black Ops Cold War. Players who used the FFAR will immediately feel comfortable with the FR Advancer, as it behaves in most of the…
bubmag
August 2, 2023
Checkpoint

Kissinger ‘n’ tell goes to China, again

Last week, the man who thawed the original freeze between capitalist America and communist China in the early 1970s returned to Beijing. Not quite Mani Shankar Aiyar going to Islamabad to cure relations - or former American basketballer Dennis Rodman going to Kim Jong-un's North Korea - but 'Henry Kissinger…
bubmag
July 30, 2023
Checkpoint

The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

Eastern European Cold War–era computing has a poor reputation. The picture is one of a landscape littered with uninspired attempts to copy American IBM PCs, British ZX Spectrums, and other Western computers. But then there was Yugoslavia’s Galaksija, a very inspired bid to put a computer into the hands of…
bubmag
July 27, 2023
Checkpoint

“Oppenheimer” and “Barbie,” Reviewed

The new film from Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer,” starts and ends in the round. In the opening shot, ripples expand in puddles as raindrops fall. Three hours later, we get a vision of Earth beginning to burn, as nuclear explosions bloom across the globe. Nolan is always entranced by the vast…
bubmag
July 20, 2023