For the World Economy, a Grim Slog Tempered by New Hopes
The emergence of vaccines has taken the edge off the worst fears, but a meaningful economic recovery probably remains distant.
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The emergence of vaccines has taken the edge off the worst fears, but a meaningful economic recovery probably remains distant.
Iran expressed fury over the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, blaming it on Israel and the United States. His death may complicate President-elect Biden’s intention to restore the Iranian nuclear deal.
In statehouse races, suburban voters’ disgust with President Trump failed to translate into a rebuke of other Republicans, ensuring the party’s grip on partisan mapmaking.
Contemporary hermits are reaching out to people struggling with isolation. Their message: Go inward, and get outside.
The scandal surrounding the writer Gabriel Matzneff was not limited to his pedophilia. It also opened a window on the entrenched and clubby nature of many of France’s elite institutions.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 25, 2020, covering November 28, 2020.
AC/DC
Future & Lil Uzi Vert
Chris Stapleton
Ariana Grande
Pop Smoke
2020David Prowse, English weight-lifting champion, actor and Green Cross Man (born 1935)[†]
David Charles Prowse was an English actor, bodybuilder, strongman and weightlifter. He portrayed Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy and a manservant in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film A Clockwork Orange. In 2015, he starred in two documentaries concerning his Darth Vader role, one titled The Force's Mouth, which included Prowse voicing Darth Vader's lines with studio effects applied for the first time, and the other titled I Am Your Father, covering the subject of the fallout between Prowse and Lucasfilm.
2020Over seven hundred civilians are massacred by the Ethiopian National Defense Force and Eritrean Army in Aksum, Ethiopia.[†]
The Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) is the combined military force of Ethiopia. ENDF is consisted of 8 command forces which is controlled by the Chief of General Staff.
In 2020, the world population was approximately 7,887,001,292 people[†]