NuseReal
Curated by Peter Hulm
News from 2020 not involving COVID-19, unless it predicts the impacts. See also: POST-COVID for assessments and reports on what comes next.
Sudan reaches historic peace deal with rebel groups — 31 August 2020
Heroic hotelier from 'Hotel Rwanda' arrested on terrorism charges — 31 August 2020
Ukraine Bitsonar Whistleblower Says Law Enforcement Faked His Murder in Attempt to Protect Him — 31 August 2020
Signature Bank Gave Dozens More PPP Loans to Crypto Firms Than Previously Reported — 31 August 2020
Factbox: What is QAnon and how are social media sites handling it? — 31 August 2020
Libya civil war: 10,000 people missing, rights group says — 30 August 2020
All migrants moved off Banksy-funded rescue vessel stranded in Mediterranean — 30 August 2020
: the World’s most Deadly Anti-Refugee ‘Wall’ (LINK)
Online Chess Olympiad: Indian chess team ties with Russia — 30 August 2020
Climate change didn't cause Hurricane Laura but it did make the storm worse — 30 August 2020
White soldiers declared war on their Black counterparts in an ugly incident from WWII — 30 August 2020
UN calls for action to increase women in peacekeeping — 29 August 2020
Dow closes more than 150 points higher to erase its 2020 losses — 29 August 2020
U.N. says life of Congo's Nobel Laureate doctor in danger — 28 August 2020
World Bank suspends 'Doing Business' report — 28 August 2020
Paying for Extreme Weather: Wildfire, Hurricanes, Floods and Droughts Quadrupled in Cost Since 1980 — 25 August 2020
Jerry Falwell Jr. officially does resign from Liberty University — 25 August 2020
Why Uber's business model is doomed: it made a big bet on an automated future that has failed to materialize — 24 August 2020
Angry about protesters defacing statues? It’s actually a tradition going back thousands of years — 22 August 2020
: Erasing history: ISIS, Balkans, US Civil War statues, and Saddam Hussein (LINK)
50% of people in India don't have Internet access, 41% in China, and 81% in Ethiopia — 17 August 2020
Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds — 15 August 2020
Looted landmarks: how Notre-Dame, Big Ben and St Mark's were stolen from the east — 13 August 2020
: Chantal Akerman — in search of lost culture (LINK)
: Erasing history — ISIS, Balkans, US Civil War statues, and Saddam Hussein (LINK)
