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Stocks Dawdle as Treasuries Real; Shameful Retreats: Markets Wrap

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell as much as 411 points, putting U.S. stocks on pace for the biggest two-day decline since August, while yields on benchmark government bonds touched April 2014 highs as caution crept into markets after one of the best starts to a year in recent history. Screens flashed red across most…

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The a form of refined and insidious kinds of Holocaust denial

Between 1941 and 1945, the German National Socialists carried out the worst genocide in history. The National Socialists – Nazis – systematically and horrifically murdered around six million Jewish people in Europe. They rounded their victims up into ghettos, imprisoned them in labour camps, and killed them in purpose-built gas chambers. The following sentence shouldn’t…

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The EU’s migration hypocrisy in Africa

On a hot November evening last year, I found myself in the middle of a bizarre, otherworldly scene in the economic capital of the Ivory Coast, Abidjan. On a small stage set up at a local stadium, Ivorian football star Didier Drogba was urging hundreds of local youth to chant, « I promise I won’t migrate! I…

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Cypriot kid’s 1974 gallop into the unknown

Nicosia, Cyprus – Nine-year-old Mihalis Mihail had never seen a ship before, let alone been on board one. Yet there he stood, anxious and confused on the deck of The Patra, about to embark on a journey that would change his life forever. The port of Limassol in southern Cyprus stirred with unusual commotion that…

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Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Role Up a Health Firm for Crew

It’s no secret Jeff Bezos has been looking to crack health care. But no one expected him to pull in Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon, too. News Tuesday that Bezos’s  Amazon.com Inc., Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co., led by Dimon, plan to join forces to change how health care is provided…

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California Senate defies FCC, approves salvage neutrality regulation

Enlarge / California State Capitol building in Sacramento. Getty Images | joe chan photographyThe California State Senate yesterday approved a bill to impose net neutrality restrictions on Internet service providers, challenging the Federal Communications Commission attempt to preempt such rules. The FCC’s repeal of its own net neutrality rules included a provision to preempt state…

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Africa’s drone revolution

Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), have been used for more than three decades, but in the last few years drones are increasingly being developed and used for commercial purposes. But while inventors and entrepreneurs in Western countries struggle with strict regulations, many African countries are proving very innovative and accepting in terms of drone usage…

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Israel’s Shin Bet to face first-ever torture probe

For the first time in its history, an interrogator from Israel’s secret police agency, the Shin Bet, is to face a criminal investigation over allegations of torture. It will be the first probe of the Shin Bet since Israel’s supreme court issued a landmark ruling nearly two decades ago prohibiting, except in extraordinary circumstances, the…