Новости за 15.11.2016

President-elect Donald Trump is suddenly a fan of the Electoral College. Trump in 2012 called the U.S. electoral-vote system a “disaster for democracy.” And in an interview that aired Sunday on CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” Trump said his opinion hadn’t changed even though Hillary Clinton bested him in the popular vote. You know, you get 100 million votes, and somebody else gets 90 million votes, and you win,” he told CBS’ Lesley Stahl.

The Disaster Management Cell (DCM), Noida will conduct earthquake school evacuation drill (tomorrow Nov 16) on Wednesday at Mahamaya Balika Inter College Sector 44 where about 600 students and faculty will be trained in various disasters i.e. earthquake, fire, urban floods etc.

I don’t see how we can ever trust each other again.” —NYU social psychologist Jonathan Haidt

The dramatic life of foxes in Russia's wild nature

OMAHA — The Elkhorn school board decided to promote Assistant Superintendent Bary Habrock to lead the growing district when current superintendent Steve Baker retires next year.

The Russian military has launched a large-scale operation against terrorists stationed in Syria. Russian warplanes flying from its aircraft carrier deployed off the coast of Syria, conducted their first strikes against foreign-backed terrorists in Homs and Idlib provinces. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday that jets from the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, which was recently deployed in the eastern Mediterranean, had launched their first strikes against ISIS and Al-Nusra Front positions. Читать дальше...

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NEW YORK — The "Grandmaster draw" has come under fire in the world of elite chess.

The way it works is that GMs know certain positions and outcomes so well that will sometimes agree to a draw after just 15 or 20 moves.

This is dismaying to fans of "fighting chess," although it's understandable given how well-prepared, using powerful computers, GMs now are.

At Game 3 of the 2016 World Chess Championship in New York, title holder Magnus Carson of... Читать дальше...

ALMELO - Stadsboerderij Beeklust in Almelo moet kippen, pauwen, duiven en kalkoen binnen houden vanwege de ophokplicht die in Nederland geldt door de vogelgriep.

ENSCHEDE- De Universiteit Twente krijgt een miljoen euro voor onderzoek naar een medicijn tegen artrose. Het geld komt uit een totale subsidie van vier miljoen euro voor het onderzoek dat negen universiteiten naar de gewrichtsslijtage gaan doen. Ook dertien bedrijven nemen deel aan het consortium.

Total cost of the railway line estimated at $16.8 billion

German consortium has put forward a proposal to Russian Railways that it will finance the Moscow-Kazan high speed railway for the sum of 2.7 bln euros and attract up to 800 mln euros, First Vice-President of Russian railways Alexander Misharin told reporters.

Donald Trump plans to change US trade policy and to review the NAFTA agreement on the first day of his presidencial term.

Markets took another blow on Tuesday as the Sensex plunged over 514 points to end at nearly 6-month low of 26,305 while the Nifty cracked below 8,200 mark on concerns about outflows amid surging US yields and the dollar gathering more steam.

Russia on Tuesday charged Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev over suspicions he pocketed a two-million- dollar payoff during a deal involving state-controlled oil giant Rosneft.

More than 42 million Americans voted before Election Day, but their ballots may still be getting counted a week later.