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Japanese stocks nudge higher amid cautious optimism about trade talks
Reuters 22 Nov 2019
Japanese shares edged higher on Friday as cautious optimism about the prospect of the United States and China reaching a trade agreement lifted investor risk appetite ... ....
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Donald Trump: Vote For The Democratic Nominee And Make It Unanimous
WorldNews.com 22 Nov 2019
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling. As the election of 1932 approached, Republicans refused to abandon President Herbert Hoover. When their national convention opened in June, delegates endorsed his Depression program to the last detail. But they could muster little enthusiasm for the man ... Everywhere he went people threw objects at him ... "Hi....
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‘Oh my f****** god’: Elon Musk unveils ‘crazy bulletproof truck’ that is immediately smashed to bits by metal ball
The Independent 22 Nov 2019
Nine years after outlining his plan for a "Tesla super truck with crazy torque, dynamic air suspension" that "corners like it's on rails," Elon Musk has revealed the Cybertruck. But while the vehicle may live up to the hype, the unveiling didn’t go quite to plan ... There was barely a dent. Download the new Indpendent Premium app ... It immediately smashed ... ....
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'Facebook, Google surveillance assault on privacy'
Sify 21 Nov 2019
Facebook and Google which offer services to billions of people without asking them to pay a financial fee are performing an assault on the right to privacy on an unprecedented scale, a stinging Amnesty International report said on Thursday, stressing that both companies need to change their business models which are threatening basic human rights ... ....
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Prince Andrew faces mounting pressure to talk to the FBI about Epstein
Scotsman 22 Nov 2019
Prince Andrew is facing mounting calls to provide information to US law enforcement agencies and to lawyers who are investigating crimes committed by American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his associates. Lawyers for Epstein's victims believe Andrew may have valuable information about the late financier's sex offences ... Grace Millane trial ... ....
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Ukraine asked about aid on day of Trump call, Defense Department official testifies
Market Watch 21 Nov 2019
WASHINGTON — In a blow to GOP defenses of President Donald Trump, a Defense Department official said Wednesday the Ukrainian government asked “what was going on” with U.S. military aid as early as July 25 — the very day that Trump asked Ukraine’s president to investigate Democrats ... Eric Swalwell, D-Calif. “The first pillar. No harm no foul....
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UK set to defy UN deadline to return Chagos Islands
The Guardian 22 Nov 2019
The Labour party’s election manifesto , published on Thursday, pledges to allow Chagossians to resettle in their homeland .......
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137 women have been killed by their partners in France this year. Critics blame a 'deeply sexist society'
CNN 22 Nov 2019
Paris (CNN)Marie-Alice Dibon and Luciano Meridda's relationship began with poetry. The pair met during a taxi ride through Paris in 2004. Dibon, then 38 and a cosmetics and pharmaceutical specialist who split her time between Silicon Valley and the French capital, had grown curious about her driver's reading material ... Things moved quickly ... Read More ... ....
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Scooter Braun Writes Impassioned Letter to Taylor Swift Following Death Threats
Variety 22 Nov 2019
Following Scooter Braun’s first public statements about the ongoing ......
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General strike as thousands protest Colombia's govt
Deccan Herald 22 Nov 2019
Tens of thousands of Colombians took to the streets of the capital Bogota on Thursday amid a general strike to protest the policies of President Ivan Duque's right-wing government ... The protest comes amid social upheaval across South America, as a wave of unrest over the past two months has battered governments in Chile, Bolivia and Ecuador ... GET IT....
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Xi wants US trade deal but will not back down
Asiatimes 22 Nov 2019
President Xi Jinping has reiterated that China wants to reach an initial trade deal with the United States but is “not afraid” to fight back when necessary. He made his remarks two days after US President Donald Trump complained that Beijing had not made sufficient concessions, making him reluctant to conclude a bargain....
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Trump ex-Russia adviser Hill tells US lawmakers to stop promoting 'falsehoods'
The News International 21 Nov 2019
President Donald Trump’s former Russia adviser Fiona Hill urged lawmakers in the House of Representatives impeachment inquiry on Thursday not to promote “politically driven falsehoods” that cast doubt on Russia’s interference in the 2016 US election ... “I became aware that Mr ... “I do not recall mentioning the Bidens ... ....
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Made in India Anti-Cancer Device a ‘Medical Breakthrough’ says FDA
Yahoo Daily News 22 Nov 2019
‘Cytotron’, a medical invention by Bengaluru based scientist Rajah Vijay Kumar to help in cancer treatment has got the honour of being called a ‘breakthrough device’ in cancer care by the USA’s Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Centre for Device and Radiological Health ... Also Read. Lisa Ray. Didn’t React After I Was Told I Had Cancer ... How it Works ... )....
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Warner, Burns get Australia to 100-0 at lunch, day 2
Yahoo Daily News 22 Nov 2019
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Australian openers David Warner and Joe Burns ensured it was a tough test match initiation for 16-year-old Naseem Shah, combining in an unbeaten partnership to get the home team to 100 without loss at lunch on day two against Pakistan ... Burns turned him for two in the last over before lunch to bring up Australia’s 100 ... ___ ... ....
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China and Nollywood have signed up for their first major film collaboration
CNN 22 Nov 2019
(CNN)Chinese entertainment group, Huahua Media, is joining forces with Nigerian filmmakers to produce the first major China-Nigeria film. Huahua signed a deal to co-produce 30 days in China, with Nigerian comedian Ayo Makun, popularly known as AY ... A lucrative market. Read More ... "We will be exposed to a lucrative and moving Chinese film market ... Makun ... ....
