Новости за 21.12.2017

Catalonia holds a regional election Thursday that the Spanish government hopes will strip pro-independence parties of their control of the Catalan parliament and end their campaign to force a split with Spain. Voting began at 9 a.m. Thursday and the nearly 2,700 polling stations will remain open until 8 p.m. (1900 GMT). But, though final polls showed separatist and unionist parties running neck-and-neck, an effective pro-independence majority remains a likely outcome that would jolt financial... Читать дальше...

December 21 – The leader of the tripartite US/Canada/Mexico 2026 World Cup bid committee has promised his team will play by the rules when trying to secure victory over rivals Morocco for the first 48-team finals following the corruption-plagued debacle that overshadowed the 2018 and 2022 process.

Catalonia holds a regional election Thursday that the Spanish government hopes will strip pro-independence parties of their control of the Catalan parliament and end their campaign to force a split with Spain. Voting began at 9 a.m. Thursday and the nearly 2,700 polling stations will remain open until 8 p.m. (1900 GMT). But, though final polls showed separatist and unionist parties running neck-and-neck, an effective pro-independence majority remains a likely outcome that would jolt financial... Читать дальше...

Fernando Torres believes Lionel Messi is the best player in the world and the Barcelona star would have achieved double in his career if it was not for Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo claimed a record-equalling fifth Ballon d'Or earlier this month to move level with Barca foe Messi as the pair continue to battle for club and individual superiority. They will go head-to-head when LaLiga champions Madrid welcome league leaders Barca to the Santiago Bernabeu Saturday. Atletico Madrid forward Torres lauded Messi... Читать дальше...

Glasgow (AFP) – Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers praised his players for a perfect response as the Scottish champions returned to winning ways against Partick Thistle. The Hoops’ record-breaking 69-match unbeaten domestic run came to a stunning end last Sunday when the Glasgow giants were hammered 4-0 by Hearts. But the Parkhead club bounced back on Wednesday against bottom of the table Thistle as goals from Stuart Armstrong and Kieran Tierney helped the Hoops extend their lead at the top of the Scottish Premiership to five points. Читать дальше...

Catalonia holds a regional election Thursday that the Spanish government hopes will strip pro-independence parties of their control of the Catalan parliament and end their campaign to force a split with Spain. But, though final polls showed separatist and unionist parties running neck-and-neck, an effective pro-independence majority remains a likely outcome that would jolt financial markets and cast a long shadow over national politics. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy called the Dec. 21... Читать дальше...

It would seem the candidates to grab some bench are Justin Holiday, who has started 29 of 30 games, and Denzel Valentine, who has started 18 straight.

My great uncle Henry always had a gimmick.  One year he was into reflexology and the next time I saw him he was peddling a wonder drug.  And when I was fifteen of so, great uncle Henry died.  And it wasn’t long thereafter that my great aunt Mildred and her daughter Jean were journeying westward for a family gathering.

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Farah was in London, the show in Liverpool, obviously too far to travel even though he was "massively honoured" to be nominated . Shows how much effort one of their favourite sports gave them back and obviously getting a live feed from Liverpool to London is too much for this fine institution than can do no wrong.

Viewing figures held up fairly well at 9.4million and the voting numbers were only slightly below par at 540,000. Читать дальше...

Eating plenty of green vegetables keeps elderly people’s brains up to 11 years younger, a study claims. Researchers followed 960 healthy pensioners with an average age of 81 over five years. They found those who had at least one portion a day of spinach, kale and lettuce had better mental capacity than those who never...

Catalans take their independence struggle to the polls Thursday in a hotly-contested election that could mark a turning point for their region just two months after a secession bid ended in failure.

Arsenal News HQ brings you the latest Arsenal news, match analysis, transfer news, injury news, team news and rumours from trusted media outlets around the World. William Carvalho reportedly wants to join Arsenal, after turning down a move to China. Carvalho is a long-time Arsenal target and there’s no transfer window he doesn’t get linked to Arsenal. The Gunners only made a concrete move for Carvalho in 2012 but Sporting’s valuation was too high. Since then we’ve... Читать дальше...

Khadeen Carrington scored 26 points and Angel Delgado added 15 points and 10 rebounds, leading No. 23 Seton Hall to an 89-68 victory over Wagner on Wednesday night at the Prudential Center in Newark. The win enabled the Pirates (10-2) to get back on track after falling to state rival Rutgers this past Saturday. Besides...

Sesame Street just won a hefty award to bring educational programming and a humanitarian response to children displaced by war and conflict in the Middle East.

Le virus qui touche le saumon de l'Atlantique élevé dans les îles Discovery, en Colombie-Britannique, présente un risque minime pour la population de saumons rouges du fleuve Fraser, conclut un rapport de Pêches et Océans Canada.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A city council in Tennessee voted Wednesday night to sell two parks where two Confederate statues are located and crews began work to remove one of them. Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said in a tweet that Health Sciences and Fourth Bluff parks were sold and that work underway there complied with state law, the Commercial Appeal reported . The council unanimously approved the sale to a private entity Wednesday. A statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest is at Health Sciences... Читать дальше...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A city council in Tennessee voted Wednesday night to sell two parks where two Confederate statues are located and crews began work to remove one of them. Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said in a tweet that Health Sciences and Fourth Bluff parks were sold and that work underway there complied with state law, the Commercial Appeal reported . The council unanimously approved the sale to a private entity Wednesday. A statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest is at Health Sciences... Читать дальше...

Berlin (dpa) - Der Energieverbrauch in Deutschland ist in diesem Jahr um 0,8 Prozent gestiegen. Das ergab eine Vorausberechnung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Energiebilanzen (AGEB), die am Donnerstag in Berlin veröffentlicht wurde. Für den Anstieg des Energieverbrauchs auf 461,5 Millionen Tonnen Steinkohleeinheiten sei vor allem die gute Konjunktur verantwortlich, heißt es in einer Mitteilung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft.Dabei hätten sich die Anteile am nationalen Energiemix verschoben. Mineralöl und Erdgas... Читать дальше...

The affected southbound stretch of Interstate 5, which runs from the Canadian border to Mexico, opened on Wednesday afternoon, the Washington State Department of Transportation said. Federal investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are seeking answers about the crash's cause in interviews with the train's engineer and a trainee conductor who were in the locomotive's cab. NTSB members say they are focused on whether the engineer was distracted, but are timing their interviews... Читать дальше...

LONDON – Britain’s First Secretary of State Damian Green was forced to resign Wednesday after an investigation found that he had made “misleading” and “inaccurate” statements about pornographic images found on a Parliament computer in his office in 2008. Green, a key ally to Prime Minister Theresa May, denied using pornography on his office computers...

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — Between 9,000 and 11,000 people were killed in the nine-month battle to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State group, a civilian casualty rate nearly 10 times higher than has been previously reported, an Associated Press investigation has found. The deaths aren't acknowledged by the U.S.-led coalition, the Iraqi government or IS's self-styled caliphate. Iraqi or coalition forces are responsible for at least 3,200 civilian deaths from airstrikes, artillery fire... Читать дальше...

Süßigkeiten haben zur Weihnachtszeit Hochkonjunktur. Doch während die süßen Naschereien beim Menschen schlimmstenfalls zu ein paar zusätzlichen Pfunden und Karies führen, ist Schokolade für Hunde giftig. Insbesondere um Weihnachten steige entsprechend das Risiko für Schokoladenvergiftungen bei den Vierbeinern, warnt eine Studie der britischen Universität Liverpool im Fachblatt "Veterinary Record".

R. T. Howard

Security, Global Governance

Today, not only does war continue to cause mass migration, but migration can itself become a cause of war.

MASS MIGRATION, on the sustained and massive scale that western Europe continues to experience, creates tensions not only within states but also between them. These tensions will sometimes erupt into open conflict; already a new age of “Migration Wars” has begun.

This represents a curious inversion. Across the centuries... Читать дальше...

Derek Chollet

Security, Americas

George H. W. Bush's four years in office presented challenges as complex and as numerous on the international stage as faced by any president in American history over the course of the entire administration.

Jeffrey A. Engel, When the World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 608 pp., $35.00.

IT WAS the kind of parade Donald Trump dreams about. On June 8, 1991, hundreds... Читать дальше...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A team of Michigan wildlands firefighters is heading to California to help put out fires that have been burning across the state. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said 20 firefighters left Wednesday and will be gone through early January. They will be on standby in the Sequoia National Forest. The team includes 13 Michigan DNR firefighters. Seven others are from Michigan's Bureau of Indian Affairs. DNR Fire Section Manager Jim Fisher says the team could replace crews... Читать дальше...