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5 years ago+11 11 0America says France will become its number one ally if Britain does not boost military spending
AMERICA has given Britain an ultimatum to boost its defence spending, or risk the death of the Special Relationship. The bombshell warning was delivered to the US’s Secretary of Defense to his British counterpart, Gavin Williamson, two weeks ago. The ...
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5 years ago+8 8 0A town in Mexico overthrew their local government. Things couldn't be going better.
Seven years ago, the people of Cherán — a town of some 20,000 inhabitants in the highlands of Michoacán, one of the Mexican states worst-affected by the drug wars of the last decade — decided it was time to start over. And now, after they've kic ...
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5 years ago+4 5 1Russian billionaire declares himself leader of 'space nation' Asgardia
The self-funded event was held at the opulent Hofburg palace in Vienna and included a choral performance of the nation's anthem, an official oath, and a video message from Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemiev on the International Space Station. So wh ...
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5 years ago+7 7 0London ferries produce pollution equivalent to hundreds of buses and trucks
Ferries used by commuters and tourists in the centre of London are spewing out pollution equivalent to hundreds of buses and trucks every day. Meanwhile, cruise ships docking at places like Tower Bridge pump out as much toxic nitrogen oxide gases and ...
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5 years ago+11 11 0How technology can empower Democracy
An always-on assessment platform for politicians and their decisions — utilizing blockchain and AI. ‘Professional politicians’ are usually optimized to play the ‘media game’ and often, they only focus on manipulating the public opinion rather than de ...
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5 years ago+25 25 0 x 1Apple is ordering so many shows, with nowhere to show them
Yesterday, Apple ordered its first international series, Calls, adapted from a French series by the same name. It’s the latest addition to its growing pile of projects; currently the count sits at 21. The company is reportedly placing a big bet on or ...
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5 years ago+7 7 0Samsung's new Galaxy patent is a bezel-less, notch-free slice of the future
Is your next phone just going to be one giant screen? It will be if Samsung has its way. The latest concept design to make its way out of Samsung shows the company is working on a button-free, bezel-free, headphone jack-free phone that is all screen, ...
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5 years ago+10 10 0Woman who lied about rape at Michigan college sentenced to jail
A woman who lied about being raped in a Michigan college parking lot was sentenced to 45 days in jail. Mary Zolkowski, 21, pleaded guilty to falsely reporting a felony in March. Zolkowski said she told her mother she had been raped in February by a s ...
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5 years ago+12 12 0Angela Merkel given 2 weeks to reach migration deal with EU counterparts
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s allies in Bavaria averted an immediate collision Monday with the German leader, giving her two weeks to make deals on migration with other European countries instead of turning them back unilaterally at Germany’s border. In ...
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5 years ago+2 2 0Dying Light 2 Won't Have Battle-Royale, But It Will Have Multiplayer "Surprises"
While many suspected Dying Light 2 would have some type of battle-royale mode, developer Techland has confirmed otherwise. However, while the Polish devs are skipping out on the industry's latest hot trend, it isn't bypassing multiplayer al ...
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5 years ago+15 15 0Astronomers catch a black hole devouring a star
Astronomers Seppo Mattila and Miguel Pérez-Torres usually study the natural deaths of stars, but they weren’t going to pass up the chance to investigate a stellar murder. A new paper in Science describes how they nabbed photographic evidence that a s ...
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5 years ago+5 6 1Trump brushes off Kim's human rights record, saying a lot of others have done 'bad things'
President Trump is brushing aside concerns about North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s human-rights abuses as he seeks to broker a nuclear deal with the young autocrat. Pressed by Fox New's Brett Baier in an interview about Kim's oppression of ...
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5 years ago+3 3 0Cyberpunk 2077 first details, screenshots
CD Projekt RED has shared first information and screenshots of Cyberpunk 2077, which saw its first trailer debut earlier this week at Microsoft’s E3 2018 press conference. Get the details below.
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5 years ago+9 9 0What Prevents You from Fulfilling Your Passion
You know you have the talent, and within you lies the desire to hone and use that gift. Yet, after many years of living in a world where both opportunities and obstacles abound, you wonder, “Why the heck do I feel miserable of just being satisfied se ...
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5 years ago+5 5 0Bad news becomes hysteria in crowds, new research shows
News stories about terrorism, disease outbreaks, natural disasters, and other potential threats become increasingly negative, inaccurate and hysterical when passed from person to person, according to new research by the University of Warwick.
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5 years ago+9 9 0Soldier who led police chase in armored vehicle charged with driving under influence of drugs
A Virginia National Guard soldier faces charges of driving under the influence of drugs and eluding police after authorities say he drove an armored military vehicle in a two-hour police chase. Police on Tuesday night pursued the M577 armored personn ...
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5 years ago+11 11 0Scientists discover 'oldest footprints on Earth' in southern China dating back 500 million years
Scientists in China have discovered what they claim are the oldest fossilised animal footprints ever found. The parallel tracks were formed in mud up to 551 million years ago in southern China's Yangtze Gorges. They potentially date to 10 millio ...
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5 years ago+27 27 0 x 1Report: Microsoft has acquired GitHub
Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft has acquired GitHub, and will announce the deal on Monday. Github is an online service that allows developers to host their code in the cloud using the popular Git source management system, invented by Linux foun ...
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5 years ago+10 10 0Mexican president again tells Trump Mexico will not pay for wall
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Tuesday repeated that his country would "never" pay for the border wall that his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump wants built to stop illegal immigrants crossing into the United States.
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5 years ago+8 8 0'Immigration killed her': Guatemalan woman shot dead by US Border Patrol
A Guatemalan woman shot dead by a border patrol agent in Texas has been named as Claudia Patricia Gómez Gonzáles by local media outlets which reported that she travelled to the US in the hope of finding work to pay for her education. Gómez, a 20-year ...