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The French cognac make is benefiting from recovering sales in China and Russia and buoyant demand in China, but its shares are expensive as its products.

Government has extended date for usage of old notes for payment in public utilities till December 15. However, Rs 1000 not is not valid for payment.

The resolution adopted by the European Parliament to counter Russian media is an attempt to silence the voices that do not agree with the policy pursued by the European officials, Firas Moukalled, the director of the Lebanese Russia Now website, told Sputnik on Thursday.

Last week news broke that a woman was ARRESTED in Dubai after being “gang raped.” According to reports, she reported a “rape” to Dubai authorities, and she was arrested for having pre-marital sex. Well it turns out that maybe the Dubai authorities aren’t as CRAZY as we thought. You see the Daily Mail caught up […]

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AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De Europese beurzen bewogen donderdag halverwege de middagsessie rond de slotstanden van een dag eerder. Met een nagenoeg lege agenda maakten beleggers er een rustige beursdag van. Er was ook geen richtinggevend nieuws uit de Verenigde Staten, omdat de beurzen in New York vanwege Thanksgiving Day gesloten bleven.

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Experts are forecasting an 11 percent increase in online shopping from last year, with sales topping off at over $90 billion.

(AP) — Delta State University wasn't going to raise tuition next fall, but President Bill LaForge said state budget cuts changed the university's mind. College Board trustees have given preliminary approval to the 3,600-student university's plan to raise the price for two full-time semesters of tuition and fees from $6,418 to $6,733.

Air pollution caused an estimated 29,980 premature deaths in Spain in 2013 according to a report published by the European Environment Agency (EEA) on Wednesday.

These are devastating.

So sad to see someone out to dinner all alone:

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Poor guy. Just staring at an empty wall:

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Really hate seeing people shopping by themselves:

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The spot inquiry into the Indore- Patna Express accident by Railway Safety Commissioner (Eastern Circle) P K Acharya concluded today even as he inspected the wrecked coaches of the ill-fated train at Pukhrayan in Kanpur Dehat district.

At least 67 workers were killed when the platform at a power plant collapsed in Jiangxi province. One worker is reportedly still missing.

By Mary Beth Storjohann via Iris.xyz The year is quickly coming to a close and there’s New Year’s resolutions aplenty. However, with resolutions being so open-ended, it’s easy to pile too much on at once and while you may feel motivated at first, fast forward a few weeks or months and you may find that…

A tribunal ruled the whistleblower was unfairly dismissed.

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Google, Baidu, Facebook and others pursuing artificial intelligence are draining universities of top computer scientists who might otherwise be cultivating the next generation of AI researchers, say experts.

A top aide to Donald Trump mocked Hillary Clinton supporters Thursday for not accepting the presidential election results. “Look who ‘can’t accept the election results’ Hillary Clinton Supporters Call for Vote Recount in Battleground States,” Kellyanne Conway tweeted while linking to a New York Times story about the call for a recount. Conway’s turn-the-tables dig […]

For anyone who spends 350 days out of the year in a place very different than the town where they grew up, going home for Thanksgiving always...

UK police are reviewing the deaths of dozens men who used sex-enhancing drugs, amid concerns that cases previously dismissed as drug overdoses may be further victims of serial killer Stephen Port. Chef Port, 41, was found guilty of murdering four gay men and drugging and sexually assaulting seven others by a jury at London’s Old […]

Here are some things to be thankful for this holiday season.

A lot of Americans are bummed out this Thanksgiving. Maybe the recent presidential election didn’t go the way you wanted it to. Perhaps you’re still sad about the deaths of Prince and David Bowie. Maybe you can’t believe Pretty Little Liars only has half of a season left.

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Activists are hoping to flood Trump Tower with postcards protesting Stephen Bannon as a White House staffer. From the "Postcard Avalanche" Facebook page:

On the eve of a scheduled visit to Japan by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russia has stationed Bal and Bastion missile complexes (NATO code names Sennight and Stooge) on the disputed Kuril Islands in the Russian Far East, seized from Tokyo at the end of World War Two and termed the “Northern Territories” by consecutive Japanese governments.

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