[NEWS] Some Saturday links

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• Al Jazeera America argues that depending on cars will hurt Newark's urban renaissance, notes the emerging Indian-Israeli alliance and the import of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in sectarian communities in Northern Ireland, looks at the slowly reviving film industry of Côte d'Ivoire, chronicles the human rights issues of LGB Ukrainians and of Christian sects in the Caucasus, examines the legacies of German immigration in Brazil, and looks at the shantytowns of Mongolia.
  
• Al Jazeera examines Russia's Eurasianism, notes emergent water shortages in Syria, looks at the reaction of Sephardic Jews to a new Spanish citizenship law that would give them access to Spain, and chronicles the persecution of the Ahmadiyya in Pakistan.


• Bloomberg notes that sanctions on Russia may hurt the Greek economy, notes the collapse in wages for young people in southern Europe, and looks at Germany's serious impending demographic issues.


• BusinessWeek looks at Tinder's shabby treatment of a female co-founder, examines the stagnant economy of Thailand, looks at hospitals which mine credit card data to predict their future patients.


• CBC notes with disappearance of anonymous public WiFi in Russia, takes a look at the consequences of the shutdown of the McCain potato processing plant in Borden-Carleton, points out the ongoing collapse of a caribou herd on the Québec-Labrador border, shows the sad toll of the Air Algérie plane crash in Québec, and notes that Vancouver's aquarium can no longer breed cetaceans.


• Global News looks at the impact of Air Algérie's disaster in Montreal.


• MacLean's suggests Canada is not immune to an American-style housing crash, argues that the Canadian job market is weaker than it appears, and reports on the claims that restrictive American immigration policies could work to the benefit of Canada.


• National Geographic notes some surprisingly social cephalopod populations and looks at naming ceremonies for some gorillas in Rwanda.


• NPR reports that some big data firms claim Snowden's data release has given terrorists ideas as to how they can be quieter, and notes some Ivoirien cacao farmers who taste
  
• The New York Times notes the closure of an Upper East Side restaurant priced out by rising rents.


• Reuters observes the worsening demographics of Italy.


• Transitions Online takes a small-scale look on the effects of emigration in Uzbekistan.


• Universe Today looks at how some Martian canyons were formed by different water releases.


• Xinhua notes how emigration from Portugal has become mainstream.