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Former Al Jazeera journalist Caitlin McGee spent years living in the Middle East and has reported from South Sudan, Sierra Leone and Indonesia. Recently returned home to New Zealand, she’s dismayed with what she’s found.
The girl sitting across from me never had control of her body. She’d spent her childhood as the po... |
Drive for change? Chemical element thorium is seen as a safer nuclear alternative to uranium (Picture: Reuters)
It might sound like the kind of material used as a plot device in a comic book blockbuster, but it could solve the fuel crisis in the real world.
Chemical element thorium is being hailed as the key in the b... |
"It's an urban legend that the government launched the Internet," writes L. Gordon Crovitz in Monday's Wall Street Journal, launching into just one of a myriad of problems with his short opinion piece.
While he concedes that the military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program funded the creation o... |
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EULESS, Texas — A Texas police officer who died after a gunfight had moved from New York City to the Dallas area because he wanted to be somewhere safer, his mother says.
Officer David Hofer, 29, died Tuesday during surgery following a gunfight with an armed suspect in a park near a Dallas-area schoo... |
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AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to Mexico, where a new report by the Citizen Lab has revealed the Mexican government used Israeli-made spy software to surveil a team of international investigators who had dispatched to Mexico to investigate the high-profile disapp... |
On Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Washington politicians should not take advantage of recent tragedies to pass aggressive gun control laws, especially since “real assault weapons” have been illegal since 1934.
Cruz was responding to the bill Sen. Diane Feinstein’s (D-CA) introduced on Thursday that would target s... |
All the U.S. “Wild Weasel” F-16s are being given a new paint job similar to the one of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
It is called “Have Glass 5th generation” as it represents the evolution of the standard Have Glass program that saw all the F-16s receiving a two-tone grey color scheme made with a special radar-absorb... |
Robert Jervis is at the same time a giant and a gadfly, a leader and a subversive in the field of international relations. In his career, Jervis has often been very much a theorist in the mainstream political science tradition. In some of his most famous works—including “Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma” and The ... |
That feeling you get the first time "Lockdown" starts playing.
We're talkin' 'bout that triple again! That's right. E3 2017 is less than ten days away. Well...EA's event is, which technically isn't officially part of E3. Look, it's confusing this year. Regardless, in a tradition that is nearly as old as Giant Bomb its... |
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has voiced his support for Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of Poland’s governing conservative PiS party, who said in connection with Bill Clinton’s recent derogatory statement concerning the two countries that the former US President should “turn to a doctor”. Speaking in his regula... |
LXC Coin, a new cryptocurrency that will invest in the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending market, has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Crowd For Angels.
The new challenger to Bitcoin is seeking to raise £250,000 on the platform, with a company valuation of £2m.
The campaign started on Friday and investments totalling £30,... |
Independent MP Peter Dunne says a gung ho, overzealous inquiry and a spooked Parliamentary Service led to breaches of his privacy and the disclosure of his emails.
Mr Dunne is seeking legal advice over the release and then recall by the Parliamentary Service of his emails to the Fairfax reporter, Andrea Vance, as part... |
With a Champions League semi-final beckoning, most clubs would be forgiven for adopting something of a siege mentality when it comes to their pre-match preparations.
Heads would be down, the barriers up, the drawbridge raised. But not at Schalke 04.
On a beautiful spring day in the Ruhr valley and ahead of the bigge... |
Two rockets were fired from northern Gaza into the Mediterranean Sea on Sunday morning.
Israel believed the fire was likely a test of the rocket systems, the Walla news site reported.
They were fired by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military branch of the Hamas group that rules the Gaza Strip.
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With BlackBerry falling apart day by day, fans have never been more eager to reminisce on the pioneering smartphone maker's rise. While it's easy to forget the celebrity that the BlackBerry brand once held, Bloomberg Businessweek spoke with a number of old employees — most having worked there when it was still named RI... |
Has historian finally discovered real reason for Hitler's obsessive hatred of Jews?
Unmasked: Adolf Hitler's virulent hatred of the Jews led to the Holocaust, which claimed six million lives
Adolf Hitler's obsessive hatred for Jews was sparked by his experiences after World War One, according to a new book.
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The news keeps getting worse for Facebook. First, the IPO didn’t do as well as expected, though it made lots of people at Facebook v... |
Editor's Note: This essay was inspired by “ A Voice of Hate in America’s Heartland ,” published in The New York Times on November 25, 2017. The Times reflected on the shortcomings of the piece after it was met with outrage and ridicule.
ELKO, Nevada—“The water is almost ready,” he said, bending down to look for the li... |
After a two week stint with the BlackBerry Z10 last month, I happened upon another chance to go across the platform border, this time into the Windows world - with the Nokia Lumia 928.
Microsoft and mobile have had a tumultuous, off-again on-again relationship. However, there is little doubt that MS's smartphone succe... |
As always when we’re into the “improve and fix” part of an upcoming Alpha release, you can expect more frequent builds over the next couple of weeks. Develop-3092 is the first update to last week’s initial release of Alpha 18 on our Steam Latest (unstable) branch.
And no, Alpha 18 Still Does Not Have a Name. Though we... |
Protesters marched through the central train station in Cologne, Germany, to call for an end to violence against women after dozens of attacks shook the city on New Year's Eve. (Facebook/Rote Antifa [Essen])
The mayor of Cologne on Wednesday offered some poorly received advice to female residents of her city after a w... |
Smart contracts deployed to the Ethereum mainnet can deal with real money, so having our Solidity code free from errors and highly secure is essential.
Zeppelin Solutions, a smart contract auditing service, has recognized this need. Using their experience, they've put together a set of vetted smart contracts called Op... |
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Todos conocemos la historia de como se fundo la Sociedad Cooperativa Trabajadores de Pascual-Boing. El dueño de Refrescos Pascual, Rafael Jiménez en ese tiempo se negó a darle a los trabajadores, tres aumentos salariales de emergencia, decretados por el entonces presidente de México debido a la crisis. Esto desem... |
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