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Grape expectations: India's biggest winemaker seeks millions

Grape expectations: India's biggest winemaker seeks millions

India's largest winemaker Sula Vineyards is heading to the stock market, betting on the diversifying tastebuds of a booming urban middle class in a country that has long favoured strong liquor.

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Putin says nuclear tensions 'rising' but Moscow won't deploy first

Putin says nuclear tensions 'rising' but Moscow won't deploy first

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that nuclear tensions were rising, though he insisted "we have not gone crazy" and Moscow would not be the first to deploy them in the Ukraine conflict.

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Snow problem! The icy city where nothing stops cyclists

Snow problem! The icy city where nothing stops cyclists

Winter temperatures that drop to minus 25 degrees Celsius do not stop cyclists in the Finnish city of Oulu.

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How not to retire: South Korean ex-president bedevilled by protests

How not to retire: South Korean ex-president bedevilled by protests

After five years running South Korea, former president Moon Jae-in moved to a peaceful village far away from Seoul, in search of a quiet retirement. Then the protests began.

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Canadian university identifies low carbon foods for student meals

Canadian university identifies low carbon foods for student meals

Trays in hand, Polytechnique Montreal students line up at the cafeteria and through a fogged up buffet counter glass, check out dishes that now come with information about their carbon footprint.

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Civil society wants voice heard at COP15 biodiversity meeting

Civil society wants voice heard at COP15 biodiversity meeting

Protests, public debates and film screenings: this is the other side of the COP15 summit, where NGOs are mobilizing to raise awareness of the need to protect biodiversity and lobbying for a major deal to do just that.

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Weakened Stormers tackle 'fearsome' Clermont in Champions Cup

Weakened Stormers tackle 'fearsome' Clermont in Champions Cup

Champions Cup newcomers Stormers will lack five regulars, including Springboks Frans Malherbe, Marvin Orie and Evan Roos, when they face "fearsome" Clermont in France on Saturday.

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Red Sox agree to deal with Japanese outfielder Yoshida: reports

Red Sox agree to deal with Japanese outfielder Yoshida: reports

Masataka Yoshida, who led the Orix Buffaloes to this year's Japan Series title, has agreed to a five-year Major League Baseball deal with the Boston Red Sox, multiple reports said Wednesday.

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Ramesh 'Sunny' Balwani gets prison time for Theranos fraud

Ramesh 'Sunny' Balwani gets prison time for Theranos fraud

A judge on Thursday sentenced a top aide and ex-boyfriend of fallen Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to prison for duping people into trusting the failed blood testing startup.

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Peru president ousted and arrested after bid to dissolve Congress

Peru president ousted and arrested after bid to dissolve Congress

Peru's leftist president Pedro Castillo was ousted by lawmakers and arrested Wednesday in a dizzying series of events in a country long prone to political upheaval.

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