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US needs ugly pictures on cigarette packs, too

  Graphic images of diseased lungs, rotting teeth and people smoking through tracheotomy holes aren’t the best way to sell cigarettes. Which is exactly why they feature so prominently on cigarette packs in dozens of countries — and should in the U.S. as well. More than seven years ago, Congress mandated such labels, covering at least half of the fronts ...

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UK, India must chalk out a fresh trade deal

  The High Court ruling that a parliamentary nod is required to trigger Article 50 — the formal procedure for the UK to leave the EU — may have come as a shock for the British government, but Prime Minister Theresa May has said that her government was confident of winning the appeal against the verdict in the Supreme Court ...

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What Brexit does and doesn’t say about American election

  As the U.S. election campaign nears its climax, Donald Trump is amping up his claim that the failure of opinion polls to predict the U.K.’s June vote to leave the European Union presages a similar surprise in his favor on Tuesday. While there are some lessons to be learned from the Brexit referendum, other conclusions aren’t backed by the ...

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