May 27, 2016 11:55
- Bloomberg notes Saudi Arabia's efforts to cut Iran off from trade with its neighoburs, looks at how population growth in London will outpace--and be different from--population change in the rest of the United Kingdom, and reports on the plight of child labourers in Indonesia's tobacco fields.
- Bloomberg View argues Uber is no match for mass transit in the European Union and suggests that any negative consequences of immigration for native workers are overblown.
- CBS News and BBC talk about the use of old technology like floppy disks in key software programs, the BBC being kinder than CBS.
- Gizmodo describes the current heat wave in the Arctic, something literally off the charts.
- IPS News notes the politics o mapping Kashmir, notes the chaos in Venezuela, and looks at water shortages in Burma.
- Kotaku notes how the Ghibli museum in Japan is getting a catbus.
- MacLean's looks at the political potential of Kevin O'Leary.
- The National Post notes the serious concerns over the Rio Olympics.
- Open Democracy looks at the Moscow consensus for autocracy in the former Soviet Union and proposes a new security policy for Ukraine.
- The Toronto Star and MacLean's report from the sentencing of James Forcillo for the murder of Sammy Yatim.
- Wired wonders if scientists can engineer coral resistant to climate change.
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