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Reclaimed city off Singapore triggers ecology fears

  Johor Bahru / AFP A planned multi-billion-dollar new city near Singapore is attracting interest from investors with promises of luxury living but there are questions over its future owing to China’s economic woes and warnings of environmental catastrophe. Forest City, a $42 billion futuristic “eco-city” of high-rises and waterfront villas, will sit on four man-made islands on the Malaysian ...

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Morocco’s new bridge lits up

  Relaxnews To celebrate its title as the longest cable-stayed bridge in Africa, the new Mohammed VI bridge has been adorned with multicolored, variable LED lighting. A RECORD-BREAKING BRIDGE The Mohammed VI bridge was inaugurated by its namesake the King of Morocco earlier in July. At 950 meters long and 6 lanes wide, with two 200 meter-tall towers and 160 ...

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Obama Foundation announces library’s Chicago site

  AP The Obama Foundation formally announced on Friday that Chicago’s Jackson Park will be home to Barack Obama’s presidential library. “Michelle and I are thrilled that the Obama Presidential Center will be developed in the heart of Chicago’s South Side, a community we call home and that means the world to us,” the president said in a statement. “With ...

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