November 12, 2019 / By mobanmarket
Alibaba’s Singles’ Day, or 11.11, has never been so split. On one side, there’s the consumers’ insatiable appetite for sought-after products with heavy discounts. For example, within 25 minutes, 410 thousand bottles of Estée Lauder’s Advanced Night Repair eye cream were sold during Tmall’s Singles’ Day presale on October 21, breaking last year’s 11.11 entire […]
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American-made bombs are being used to massacre large numbers of civilians in Yemen, and new reporting shows that the Trump administration is allowing this carnage to continue and escalate in order to protect the profits of defense contractors. “It is a shame that financial interests are worth more than the blood of innocent people.” —Radhya […]
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This past July marked the 65th anniversary of the armistice that halted the Korean War. In addition to leaving nearly 5 million dead, injured, or missing, this bloody conflict forcibly separated nearly 10 million Korean families on either side of the 38th parallel. Since the1980s, a mere 20 face-to-face reunions have been held under tightly controlled conditions, […]
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In the wake of key resignations from the Tory government, leader of the UK Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn lit into Prime Minister Theresa May and her Tory government on the floor of the House of Commons on Monday as he castigated the failure of her leadership at a perilous time for the nation’s economic and […]
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Following a United Nations Human Rights Council fact-finding mission on Myanmar, a damning U.N. report published Monday concludes that the nation’s military leaders, including its top commander, should be further investigated and prosecuted for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes committed against Rohingya Muslims in the wake of a violent crackdown last August that […]
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Human rights advocates on Friday reiterated their call for political leaders to ensure safe passage and end criminalization of rescue operations following reports that as many as 150 migrants drowned in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea. “This high number represents a new low for European leaders,” said Massimo Moratti, research director for Europe at […]
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Although 77-year-old author Margaret Atwood penned one of the most iconic novels in modern history, the spotlight isn’t really her thing. And in the time since her 1985 book The Handmaid’s Tale transitioned from a literary masterpiece to a critically acclaimed series starring Elisabeth Moss, the Canadian writer has had to adapt to the rigors […]
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Click:vanilla gift card Behati Prinsloo is a few months into her second pregnancy with husband Adam Levine, and she’s not letting a baby bump slow her down. While the Maroon 5 singer is hard at work on The Voice Season 13, his stunning wife is making the most of her pregnancy at home. Prinsloo was […]
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George Leigh Mallory, who died on Mt. Everest in 1924, was asked why he wanted to climb the world’s tallest peak. “Because it’s there,” he replied. When I was young, I too loved to climb mountains. Most were peaks in California’s Sierra Nevada. The highest, Mt Whitney, was only half as high as Everest and had a trail to […]
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Jennifer Garner has always managed to look exceptionally put together, hitting red carpet events one night, shopping for groceries in cute casual looks the next. But Thursday seems to have been particularly trying for the 45-year-old star and mom of three with ex Ben Affleck. How do we know? On Friday, she took to Instagram […]
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