[NEWS] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bloomberg notes Saudi Arabia's efforts to cut Iran off from trade with its neighoburs, looks at how population growth in London will outpace--and be different from--population change in the rest of the United Kingdom, and reports on the plight of child labourers in Indonesia's tobacco fields.


• Bloomberg View argues Uber is no match for mass transit in the European Union and suggests that any negative consequences of immigration for native workers are overblown.


• CBS News and BBC talk about the use of old technology like floppy disks in key software programs, the BBC being kinder than CBS.


• Gizmodo describes the current heat wave in the Arctic, something literally off the charts.


• IPS News notes the politics o mapping Kashmir, notes the chaos in Venezuela, and looks at water shortages in Burma.


• Kotaku notes how the Ghibli museum in Japan is getting a catbus.


• MacLean's looks at the political potential of Kevin O'Leary.


• The National Post notes the serious concerns over the Rio Olympics.


• Open Democracy looks at the Moscow consensus for autocracy in the former Soviet Union and proposes a new security policy for Ukraine.


• The Toronto Star and MacLean's report from the sentencing of James Forcillo for the murder of Sammy Yatim.


• Wired wonders if scientists can engineer coral resistant to climate change.