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Even before Russia imposed sanctions over the downing of a combat jet, an influx of migrants and a loss of export markets hindered Turkey’s economy.
Senator Orrin G. Hatch suggested that some museums may offer minimal benefit to the public while enabling donors to reap substantial tax advantages.
The earnings from the militants’ violent collection practices total tens of millions of dollars a month, approaching $1 billion a year, according to some estimates.
Black Friday’s importance has waned as retailers have offered holiday sales earlier and longer.
The prospect of discovering the long-sought tomb of Queen Nefertiti would be momentous. It would also help Egypt’s tourism industry, which has plummeted in recent years because of political unrest.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 25, 2015, covering November 30, 2015.
Chris Stapleton
Eric Church
Ellie Goulding
The Weeknd
Tim McGraw
2015Pío Caro Baroja, Spanish director and screenwriter (born 1928)[†]
Pío Caro Baroja was a Spanish film and television director, screenwriter, and author.
2015Minas Hatzisavvas, Greek actor and screenwriter (born 1948)[†]
Minas Hatzisavvas was a Greek actor. He appeared in many films, television series and theatre plays with great success. He initially studied in France and later at the National Theatre of Greece Drama School in Athens. He played his first role in 1965 in Ancient Theatre of Dodona. It was the role of Paris in Rhesus of Euripides.
2015Marcus Klingberg, Polish-Israeli physician and biologist (born 1918)[†]
Avraham Marek Klingberg, known as Marcus Klingberg, was a Polish-born Israeli epidemiologist and the highest ranking Soviet spy ever uncovered in Israel. Klingberg made major contributions in the fields of infectious and noninfectious disease epidemiology and military medicine, while simultaneously passing intelligence to the Soviet Union regarding Israel's biological and chemical warfare capacities. Declared the "most important Soviet spy in Israel" by the Jerusalem Post, Klingberg is regarded as causing the greatest damage ever to the country's national security interests.
2015Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan sociologist and author (born 1940)[†]
Fatema Mernissi was a Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist.
2015Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese author and illustrator (born 1922)[†]
Shigeru Mura , best known by his pen name Shigeru Mizuki , was a Japanese manga artist, illustrator and folklorist. He is best known for popularizing and reviving interest in yōkai, supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore, especially through his most famous series GeGeGe no Kitarō.
2015Eldar Ryazanov, Russian director and screenwriter (born 1927)[†]
Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, poet, actor and pedagogue whose popular comedies, satirizing the daily life of the Soviet Union and Russia, are celebrated throughout the former Soviet Union and former Warsaw Pact countries.
2015Nigel Buxton, British travel writer and wine critic (born 1924)[†]
Nigel Edward Buxton was a British travel writer and wine critic, also known for appearing as BaaadDad in the Channel 4 comedy series The Adam and Joe Show.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]