Friday, February 28, 2020

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  • The 37-year-old mayor from Indiana has his vulnerabilities, but has become a contender for the presidency in just a few months. The post Op-Ed: Is Pete Buttigieg’s version of ‘hope...
  • The critical issue in the next election will not be income inequality, climate change, or racial justice. It will be the preservation of our democratic system. The post Op-Ed: Some...
    • Support for struggling communities can transcend our racial divide. The post Op-Ed: Deindustrialization Isn’t (Just) a White Working-Class Problem appeared first on Niskanen...

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  • Cornell University historian Lawrence Glickman has mined an impressive volume of documents and diversity of sources in order to understand the meaning of a potent political idea...
  • The Honorable John Shimkus (R-IL) Is it true that the replacements for HFCs are more expensive than their counterparts? If so, what impact will this have on the consumer? RESPONSE...
    • American households in eleven key states could expect more than $70,000 in higher costs if the Green New Deal is implemented, according to a new study released today by Power the Future...
  • Stopping the virus’s spread is about putting others first – but we all know what’s happened to vaccination levelsWhen death came to the village of Eyam, it was probably hidden...
  • The humanitarian disaster in Idlib would also create a new refugee crisis for EuropeThe Syrian province of Idlib is under relentless attack from the forces of Bashar al-Assad and...
    • Frosty relationshps with civil servants can thwart a minister’s ambitions, as I discovered to my costPriti Patel, who is reportedly giving her top civil servant the “silent...

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  • The young winner, who worked at an IGA grocery store in Lévis, a suburb of Quebec City, won the prize Tuesday.
  • The seventh case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Ontario has been confirmed in Toronto.
    • The rout on stock markets continued in trading today as North American markets continued to plunge amid concerns about the novel coronavirus and its impact on the global economy...
  • This may all be a bit of an over-reaction, as a legal appeal is pending. Even if the appeal fails, it’s not clear what taking the Paris agreement into account really means, as far as...
  • ISSN 1063-7737, Astronomy Letters, 2019, Vol. 45, No. 11, pp. 778–790.c Pleiades Publishing, Inc., 2019. Nicola Scafetta1*,FrancoMilani2, and Antonio Bianchini3, 41Department...
    • Climate paranoia has hit the UK courts big-time. It now seems illegal not to obsess over trace gases in the atmosphere, due to the Paris climate agreement. Heathrow Airport’s controversial...
  • The latest addition takes the total capabilities of Google Translate to 108 languages.
  • The actor will be endorsing the brand`s upcoming Realme 6 and Realme 6 Pro devices.
    • Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus on Monday refuted reports that it has cancelled an offline event to showcase its upcoming OnePlus 8 flagship series owing to the coronavirus outbreak. ...
  • Albouy and his team found that degradation of temporal information impaired speech recognition but not melody recognition. On the other hand, the perception of melody decreased...
  • Astronomers have spotted a record-breaking explosion created by a black hole some 390 million light-years away in the universe. According to CNN.com, this record-breaking, gargantuan...
    • A study on this exciting finding was published in PNAS by Tel Aviv University (TAU) researchers led by Prof. Dorothee Huchon of the School of Zoology at TAU`s Faculty of Life Sciences...
  • "Our leaders behave like children so it falls to us to be the adults in the room. They are failing us but we will not back down," the 17-year-old said as she addressed some 20,000 people...
  • India's statement came a week after the global terror financing watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in Paris decided to retain Pakistan in its 'Grey List'...
    • First Secretary in India's Permanent Mission Vimarsh Aryan said that the international community cannot be misled by Pakistani hysterical reactions at all global forums to malign...
  • As Delhi looks to return to normalcy after violence rocked the city, the Delhi Police in a statement Friday (February 28) said that at least 123 FIRs have been filed and as many as 630...
  • The Delhi government on Friday gave a nod to Delhi Police to prosecute former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar in sedition case.
    • The teams of GRP, UP police, bomb disposal squad carried out intensive checking before confirming that the information was a hoax.

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  • The UN health agency on Friday (Feb 28) upgraded the global risk from the new coronavirus to its highest level, saying the continued increase in cases and countries affected was "clearly...
  • ROME: Crack that prosecco, it's aperivirus time. And why not accompany your bubbly with a slice of virus ice-cream cake, fresh from the area of Italy worst hit by the disease? Italy...
    • ASUNCION: The death toll from a dengue fever outbreak in Paraguay rose to 34, the Public Health Ministry said on Friday (Feb 28), warning that the virus is spreading beyond the capital...

      Channel NewsAsia Asia Pacific News

  • YANGON: Temporary factory closures and layoffs have already begun to hit low wage workers across Asia as quarantines and travel restrictions from the new coronavirus disrupt supply...
  • SHENZHEN: China's manufacturers are struggling to find enough workers to fill factory floors as the regular post-ChineseNew Year labour migration trickles rather than flows...
    • LONDON: A British man who was infected by COVID-19 on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan has died, bringing the death toll among people who were aboard the vessel to six, Japan's...

      Channel NewsAsia Front Page News

  • SOFIA: Ludogorets's league match at Arda Kardzhali has been postponed by the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) as a precaution amid rising concerns over the coronavirus outbreak...
  • World records continued tumbling at the world track championships as Italian Filippo Ganna smashed his own mark in the individual pursuit on Friday.
    • Tottenham Hotspur forward Son Heung-min will self-isolate, in line with government recommendations over the coronavirus, on his return to London after travelling home to South...

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