The MTA reopened the 167th Street B/D station in the Bronx last week, after five months of major repairs and renovations, including new concrete and metal platforms, stairs, beams and columns; new LED lighting; digital signage for real-time service information; new turnstiles; and brighter lightning. As with other station updates, there’s also new artwork, and the 167th Street station has stunning new murals that pay tribute to figures important to the community. [ more › ]
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Six in 10 wild coffee species endangered by habitat loss
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Kew scientists’ analysis of 124 wild species shows 60% facing possible extinction, risking viability of commercial stock
Wild coffee species are under threat, with 60% of them facing possible extinction, including Arabica, the original of the world’s most popular form of coffee, researchers say.
Most coffee species are found in the forests of Africa and Madagascar. They are threatened by climate change and the loss of natural habitat, as well as by the spread of diseases and pests.
AfD worker accused of ordering arson attack in Ukraine

A Bundestag employee of the Alternative for Germany party has been accused of ordering a firebombing in Ukraine. Manuel Ochsenreiter denies all accusations, but he is known to have connections to pro-Russia separatists.
A History of Steve King’s Racist Remarks
While some Republicans suggested the Iowa congressman’s views were new to them, Mr. King has a long and documented history of denigrating racial minorities.
Extreme-right wing of Germany’s AfD placed under surveillance

Domestic intelligence agency to begin monitoring elements of anti-immigration party
Germany’s domestic intelligence agency is to begin monitoring elements of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD), placing particular focus on Björn Höcke, a nationalist agitator considered one of the driving forces in a move to take the party towards the extreme right.
The BfV said it would also be keeping the party’s youth wing, Young Alternative (JA), under surveillance and would investigate whether the AfD as a whole should be put on its official watchlist, but said it still had insufficient evidence for doing so.
Trump: ‘great potential’ for expanded U.S., Turkey economic development
waffle shop open for business – 45 figures if he is open to selling out everyone else must be too. President Donald Trump said in a tweet on Monday he saw “great potential to substantially expand” economic development between the United States and Turkey, after threatening on Sunday to devastate Turkey’s economy if they attack Washington’s Kurdish allies in Syria.
Donald Trump says he ‘never worked for Russia’
Why would you deny what you never did, unless you did it and want to cover it up.?

President Donald Trump directly addressed reports that intelligence officials had concerns about his ties to Russia. Trump said questions about his involvement with Russia were “a disgrace” and reports about it “a hoax.”
Polish Mayor Dies After Being Stabbed Onstage at Charity Event
RIP Pawel Adamowicz, the mayor of Gdansk, was known as an advocate of tolerance and critic of the right-wing national government.
Senator convicted over racist remark about Italy’s first black minister

Roberto Calderoli of far-right League likened Cécile Kyenge to an orangutan during a rally
A senator from Italy’s far-right League has been given an 18-month prison sentence for likening the country’s first black minister to an orangutan.
Roberto Calderoli said during a party rally in July 2013 that whenever he saw pictures of Cécile Kyenge, an MEP who at the time was integration minister, “I cannot but think of the features of an orangutan”.
Trump dodges ‘most insulting’ question over whether he has worked for Russia

US President Donald Trump avoids directly answering the question put to him by Jeanine Pirro, a personal friend at Fox News, after a report said law enforcement officials — concerned about his behaviour after he fired FBI director James Comey — began investigating the possibility.
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