Credit to Author: CREATORS SYNDICATE| Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 17:36:48 +0000
FROM THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH As if to remind us how far US politics has strayed from normalcy, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff is calling for legislation to prohibit…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE| Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 17:50:18 +0000
LAYLAN, Iraq: No documents? No doctor. Without state-issued IDs, Iraqi mothers struggle to have children born under the now-defeated Islamic State (IS), group treated for conditions ranging from asthma to…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: ASSOCIATED PRESS| Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 17:48:37 +0000
by Jeffrey Kucik, University of Arizona With the US-China trade war intensifying, there is a lot of talk about whether tariffs save American jobs — as President Donald Trump claims — or destroy them….READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: ASSOCIATED PRESS| Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 17:46:03 +0000
by Fiona Greenland, University of Virginia; James Marrone, Johns Hopkins University; Oya Topçuoğlu, Northwestern University, and Tasha Vorderstrasse, University of Chicago The Islamic State surrendered its last scrap of territory, in…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE| Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 16:32:31 +0000
BEIJING: Microsoft has been collaborating with researchers linked to a Chinese military-backed university on artificial intelligence, elevating concerns that US firms are contributing to China’s high-tech surveillance and censorship apparatus….READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 17:08:36 +0000
By Wang Yiwei, The People’s Daily Chinese President Xi Jinping published a signed article titled “East Meets West — A New Chapter of Sino-Italian Friendship” on March 20 in the…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: INTER PRESS SERVICE| Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 16:17:52 +0000
By Jens Berggren STOCKHOLM, Sweden: Every year, the World Economic Forum asks some 1,000 decision-makers from the public sector, business, academia and civil society across the globe to assess the…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: INTER PRESS SERVICE| Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 16:37:28 +0000
WISCONSIN, USA: The UN’s World Water day is fast approaching as the state of the world’s consumable water supply remains dismal. Billions of people face at least the very real…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 12:51:31 +0000
HEJERE, Ethiopia — Analysis of the flight recorders of the crashed Ethiopian Airlines plane has begun, the airline said Friday, and The New York Times reported that the pilot requested permission “in a panicky voice” to return to the airport shortly after takeoff as the plane dipped up and down sharply and appeared to gain startling speed.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 11:55:22 +0000
HEJERE, Ethiopia – Flight data recorders from a doomed Ethiopian Airlines flight arrived in France for analysis Thursday as frustrated relatives of the 157 people killed stormed out of a meeting with airline officials in Addis Ababa.
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