April 04, 2019 / By mobanmarket
This week we commemorate the ending of the First World War: four years of fighting; 10 million soldiers dead, including almost one million from the British Empire. In Britain alone about three million people lost a close relative. The armistice that brought the war to an end was signed at 5.10 on the morning of […]
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John Bolton, US national security adviser, will meet Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, on Saturday in Moscow, amid reports that Washington will tell Russia it plans to quit a landmark nuclear weapons treaty. Mr Bolton, who will also meet Nikolai Patrushev, Russian security council secretary, announced the visit to Moscow in a tweet, saying he would "continue discussions […]
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Donald Trump has raised $106 million for his 2020 re-election war chest, with more than two years still to go until the vote. New figures filed with the Federal Election Commission showed the US president hauled in more than $18 million during the third quarter of 2018. At least the last four presidents had not […]
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Disease has always been joined at the hip to superstition and fantasy – the term “influenza” once referred to the influence of unfriendly stars – but there’s something especially, horribly otherworldly about the flu epidemic of 1918-1920, which claimed over 50 million lives. Invisible to the microscopes of the era, the Spanish flu was a […]
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Air quality monitors in the Indian capital reached their maximum “hazardous” level as Diwali celebrations left New Delhi engulfed in a thick layer of smog – despite a court ban on toxic fireworks. More than 300 people were arrested in New Delhi and 200 in Kolkata for flouting a Supreme Court order that only “green firecrackers” were to […]
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BioWare’s Anthem will now launch in spring 2019, EA has said, confirming recent reports of a delay. Except it’s not a delay, EA boss Andrew Wilson explained to company investors in a call last night (transcribed by Seeking Alpha). The game was progressing “well”, but was being given “some free air”. “The first thing about […]
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British recycling and household waste has been found dumped in Malaysia, The Telegraph can disclose. Plastic products sold in the UK that are intended for reprocessing have been apparently discarded by waste companies at several sites around the south-east Asian country. Reporters from The Telegraph and Unearthed, Greenpeace’s investigative unit, found bales, including an envelope […]
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Donald Trump has questioned whether climate change is “man-made” and suggested that world temperatures could start falling in the future. The US president said during an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes show that he does not think climate change is a “hoax”, reversing his previous position. However Mr Trump claimed that some scientists have […]
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Obsidian and Versus Evil have announced a 3rd April release date for Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire. The game will be available on PC, Mac and Linux. There are three editions to consider – standard, Deluxe, and Obsidian – plus pre-order incentives. One incentive is a white hawk pet to serve as a kind of […]
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An Australian man was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday for helping his wife commit suicide so he could access her life insurance, in what the judge called a precedent-setting case. Graham Morant, 69, was found guilty last month of counselling and aiding his wife Jennifer Morant to kill herself in 2014. She suffered […]
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