How to Abdicate a Throne? The Akihito Way.

Japan’s emperor bypassed the government by asking the people to endorse his departure. Mr. Hara is a professor of politics in Japan.

from Pocket https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/opinion/japan-emperor-akihito-abdication-naruhito-throne.html
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India’s Times Internet isn’t ceding ground to US rivals Facebook and Google

The aggressive push by Silicon Valley companies and Chinese firms to win India, one of the last great growth markets, has decimated many local businesses in recent years. With each passing day, Amazon is closing in on Walmart-owned Flipkart’s lead on the e-commerce space.

from Pocket https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/30/indias-times-internet-isnt-ceding-ground-to-us-rivals-facebook-and-google/
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U.S. Military Stops Counting How Much of Afghanistan Is Controlled by Taliban

KABUL, Afghanistan — The American military command in Afghanistan has halted regular assessments of how many people and districts the government and insurgents there control, it emerged on Wednesday — eliminating what has long been an important public measure of progress in the war.

from Pocket https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/world/asia/us-afghanistan-territory-taliban.html
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Drug Agency Calls for Strong Warning Labels on Popular Sleep Aids

The labels must mention that side effects include risky behaviors, such as sleepwalking and sleep driving, that can lead to injury and even death.

from Pocket https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/health/sleep-drugs-ambien-side-effects.html
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Things ‘Stopped Changing’: Why Conflict Still Flares in Northern Ireland

LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland — It began with a heavy-handed police raid on a suspected weapons cache, two minutes from Stevie Mallett’s youth club. Some residents responded with stones, gasoline bombs and, ultimately, bullets fired at the police and their vehicles.

from Pocket https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/world/europe/northern-ireland-derry-new-ira-mckee.html
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Mueller, Venezuela, Deutsche Bank: Your Wednesday Briefing

Let us help you start your day. We start today with Robert Mueller’s objection to the attorney general’s description of his investigation, Juan Guaidó’s calls for uprising in Venezuela and why French is harder for some than others.

from Pocket https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/briefing/mueller-venezuela-deutsche-bank.html
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Instagram officially tests hiding Like counts

Would we feel less envious, shameful and competitive if Instagram didn’t tell us how many Likes a post received? That’s the idea behind Instagram now hiding Like counts from both a post’s viewers and its author as part of an experiment in Canada.

from Pocket https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/30/instagram-hidden-like-counter/
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