Новости за 19.11.2016

By Mohamed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - A truce aimed at ending more than a year of war in Yemen began on Saturday, although residents said fighting was still going on in parts of the country. The 48-hour ceasefire by the Saudi-led military coalition raised hopes of an end to a humanitarian crisis caused by a war that has drawn in regional foes Iran and Saudi Arabia. The truce seemed to be largely holding up despite gun battles in the Western city of Taiz and air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition... Читать дальше...

A $19 billion UK-based hedge fund just launched a coding contest with cash prizes for young Europeans.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad (R) speaks to demonstrators in Kuala Lumpur on Nov....

"Russia completely agrees with the general perception that the US has no clear strategy in Afghanistan and it only wants to maintain a military and political presence in the war-hit nation to control China," said Kabulov.

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A French startup just took a stake in a $5.8 billion Chicago investment firm. 

iM Square, which invests in asset management firms, has taken a minority stake in Chicago-based Dolan McEniry, according to a statement.

Philippe Couvrecelle and Jean Maunoury, both of Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management, launched iM Square last year.

The firm backs asset management firms with between $1 and $20 billion under management and helps them sell their funds in Europe. Читать дальше...

Cristiano Ronaldo, with his flamboyant personality, eventually became a laughingstock on the Internet. The soccer player decided to take a picture next to his black Lamborghini. The joke was the pose of the player who looked like a robot. Of course, the Internet was relentless on him. On the same day several memes and montages […]

Vietnam "doesn't put all its eggs in one basket," but Hanoi had been counting on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal to create jobs and more wealth, Pham Quang Minh, rector of Hanoi National University's University of Social Sciences and Humanities, told Sputnik Vietnam.

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in the Peruvian capital of Lima to participate in the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and hold a number of bilateral meetings, including with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

They ran a campaign of gun and drugs terror in Liverpool.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Carolina Panthers' sideline turned into a football version of a MASH unit in the second half of Thursday's narrow win against the New Orleans Saints.

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Billionaire Michael Platt decided to close his hedge fund firm, BlueCrest Capital Management, to outside money last year as investors pulled out.

BlueCrest now focuses on managing Platt's and employees' money — and has had a huge year, returning 40%, according to a Bloomberg News report.

The firm decided to trade with high levels of leverage, or borrowed money, Bloomberg reported.

Last year, the then $9 billion firm received a wave of redemptions from big investors... Читать дальше...

Source: "Sometimes [al-Baghdadi] used to joke around... But now he no longer does."

Need a post-meal binge-watching suggestion? We got you.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - OCTOBER 08: Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel speaks onstage during 'Disrupting Information and Communication' at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on October 8, 2014 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Vanity Fair) Snapchat's co-founder,Evan Spiegel, is [...]

Working class people from the Rust Belt played a large part in getting Donald Trump elected earlier this week. These same types of people also played a role in voting the UK out of the European Union earlier this year.

Along the route through Mexico, no one was really sure how to say Trump's name. Smugglers called him "El Malo" (the bad one) or "El Feo" (the ugly one) and told the migrants they had better hurry north before his wall went up.

The wildly popular National Dog Show's 15th annual Thanksgiving Day special is here. From 12 noon to 2 p.m. in all time zones across the U.S. on Thanksgiving Day, NBC will air the annual canine competition, which will take place Saturday and Sunday in Oaks, Pennsylvania.

Procrastination strikes everyone, but it doesn’t have to. Dr. Travis Bradberry explains why we procrastinate and how to stop it.

Last year, Turkey's president condemned Trump and suggested his name be removed from two skyscrapers in Istanbul. But now the government and its supporters say they're glad he won.

The fleets have used artillery as well as ballistic and cruise missiles in their exercises.

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The stock-pickers are (kind of) back.

That's according to Third Point, the hedge fund led by Dan Loeb. The fund said in in its third quarter letter sent Tuesday that the hedge fund business "is rapidly evolving."

Here’s the relevant excerpt from the $14.9 billion firm (emphasis added):

“We have seen a return to a “stock-pickers” market this year. However, that term does not mean what it did fifteen or twenty years ago when we were in our infancy. Then... Читать дальше...

Presidential pardons do not extend to NFL suspensions, but Tom Brady still may be heartened to know that the president-elect believes he got a raw deal when the league suspended him for the first four games of this season. Donald Trump said in an interview recorded last month but first aired Friday night on FOX…

PvdA-lijsttrekkerskandidaten Diederik Samsom en Lodewijk Asscher zijn zaterdag tijdens hun tweede debat in Tilburg opnieuw in aanvaring gekomen over arbeidsmigratie in de EU.