Новости за 21.12.2017

Blackstones co-boss Lee Clarke believes a triple bill of tricky fixtures will be a good chance to gauge his side’s progress.

A group of Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have been conducting a secret investigation for weeks to search for evidence that top officials at the Justice Department and FBI improperly handled the so-called Trump dossier, Politico reported Wednesday evening, citing four people familiar with the GOP members’ plans.

• Arsenal forward and Southampton defender wanted by league leaders• Guardiola also keen on midfielder with Yaya Touré set to leave in summerPep Guardiola has informed Manchester City’s hierarchy that he would like to sign Arsenal’s Alexis Sánchez and Southampton defender Virgil van Dijk, with both understood to have been identified as primary targets for the Premier League leaders.City, who travel to Bournemouth on Saturday in search of a 17th successive victory, are keen to strengthen in the January... Читать дальше...

The best cracker jokes make us groan as much as laugh – and that's deliberate.

Win the one-bedroom Islington flat for the price of a cocktail.

This week’s Level Talk looks a global look at East-West tensions, revealing that things perhaps are not quite as bad as they seem. Dr. Tara McCormack, lecturer in politics and international relations at the University of Leicester and Mary Dejevsky, a prominent writer, and journalist based in London take part in this program.

GUTHRIE, Okla. (AP) — Three small earthquakes were recorded overnight in central Oklahoma. The U.S. Geological Survey reports a magnitude 3.4 quake struck shortly before 10:30 p.m. Wednesday near Guthrie, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of Oklahoma City. Magnitude 3.0 ad 2.3 quakes were recorded in the same area later Wednesday night and early Thursday morning. No injuries or damage are reported. Thousands of earthquakes recorded in Oklahoma in recent years have been linked to underground wastewater injection from oil and gas production. Читать дальше...

«Nein heißt Nein», sagt das deutsche Sexualstrafrecht. Doch «MeToo» hat gezeigt, dass das oft nicht reicht. Das feministische Schweden geht jetzt einen Schritt weiter.Stockholm (dpa) - Was Stefan Löfven da mit ernster Miene sagt, ist eigentlich eine Selbstverständlichkeit. Dennoch fühlt sich Schwedens Regierungschef genötigt, sie zu betonen. «Sex muss freiwillig sein», sagt er. «Und ist er nicht freiwillig, so ist er illegal.» Das will die rot-grüne schwedische Regierung nach dem internationalen... Читать дальше...

Bern (dpa) - Die Schweiz hat eine EU-Entscheidung zur Börsenregulierung des Landes als diskriminierend kritisiert. Die EU-Kommission hat am Donnerstag beschlossen, die Schweizer Bestimmungen zunächst nur auf ein Jahr befristet als gleichwertig mit EU-Bestimmungen anzuerkennen. Die Schweiz behält sich nun nach Regierungsangaben vor, eine bereits zugesagte Millionenüberweisung zur Unterstützung osteuropäischer EU-Länder neu zu überdenken. Die Schweiz erfülle die gleichen Bedingungen wie andere Drittstaaten... Читать дальше...

Gas production from the Absheron field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea at the first stage will amount to 1.3 bcm, and at the second stage it will increase to 4 bcm. This follows from the report of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), circulated today.According to the press service, the President of SOCAR Rovnag Abdullayev and the Vice-President of Total for Southern Europe and the Caspian region Bernard Clement discussed the development of the field ...

When Elizabeth Odio Benito and her fellow judges first arrived in The Hague to work at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, they didn't have a courtroom or rules to guide their work. They didn't even have robes.   “What we did have was a great, great commitment,” Odio Benito said. As atrocities continued unabated, the judges began hammering out the legal framework for a groundbreaking United Nations court that wound up meting out justice for nearly a quarter of a century... Читать дальше...

Bratislava (dpa) - A Slovakian court found rightist lawmaker Milan Mazurek guilty of racism and sentenced him to pay a fine, broadcaster TV TA3 reported Thursday.A member of the extreme right People‘s Party Our Slovakia and lawmaker since 2016, Mazurek branded the Roma minority as "asocial" and "parasites" who want to "suckle" the Slovakian welfare system.While the penalty for inciting racial hatred in Slovakia could have carried six years in prison and a revocation of his parliamentary post, he... Читать дальше...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has once again used a Christmas greeting to dress down Vatican colleagues, denouncing the “cancer” of cliques and how bureaucrats can become “corrupted” by ambition and vanity. “Reforming Rome is like cleaning the Egyptian sphinxes with a toothbrush,” Francis told cardinals, bishops and priests who work for him on Thursday....

No fewer than four people have reportedly been killed by fresh cholera outbreak while 38 others were infected in Toto local government area of Nasarawa state.

LONDON (AP) — The family of a British-Iranian woman detained for months in Iran for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government said Thursday they are hopeful she could come home soon after discovering she has served enough of her sentence to be eligible for early release from prison. There was no official update on the case of charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 38, who has been serving a five-year prison sentence since she was arrested during a holiday with her toddler daughter to visit family in April 2016. Читать дальше...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Terrorist attacks in France and worldwide were named one of the most important events of the expiring 2017 year by 53 percent of French citizens, a poll conducted by the Elabe Institute showed Thursday.

The Trump SoHo just got rid of the Trump name. Overnight, the hotel removed the name from the awning, threw a mat over the hotel’s logo embedded in the sidewalk, and, according to reports from guests, removed the Trump-branded toiletries and chocolates. It basically wiped the Trump name from everything, “even the Wi-Fi.” The building licensed …

We look at the danger facing journalists in Mexico and how the U.S. has responded to one of them. This week, Mexican journalist Gumaro Pérez Aguinaldo was assassinated in the southern state of Veracruz, becoming at least the 12th journalist to be killed in Mexico so far this year. Reporters Without Borders says the killing puts Mexico alongside Syria as the most murderous country for journalists. In a broadcast exclusive jailhouse interview, we speak by phone with another Mexican journalist: Emilio Gutiérrez Soto... Читать дальше...

Take a look around baseball with today’s MLB Daily Dish.

The MLB Daily Dish is a daily feature we're running here at MLBDD that rounds up roster-impacting news, rumors, and analysis. Have feedback or have something that should be shared? Hit us up at @mlbdailydish on Twitter or @MLBDailyDish on Instagram.

Check out all of our offseason previews here.

• The Giants have re-signed Nick Hundley to a 1-year deal.
• Orioles’ Zach Britton will miss 4-6 months with a ruptured Achilles tendon. Читать дальше...

Take a look around baseball with today’s MLB Daily Dish.

The MLB Daily Dish is a daily feature we're running here at MLBDD that rounds up roster-impacting news, rumors, and analysis. Have feedback or have something that should be shared? Hit us up at @mlbdailydish on Twitter or @MLBDailyDish on Instagram.

Check out all of our offseason previews here.

• The Giants have re-signed Nick Hundley to a 1-year deal.
• Orioles’ Zach Britton will miss 4-6 months with a ruptured Achilles tendon. Читать дальше...

Malicious new software recently exposed by Russia's top cyber security provider is capable of hijacking Android devices and using them for a variety of nefarious activities before their batteries go up in flames.

The loss-making Indian chemical industry is expecting to bounce back after the Modi administration’s decision to levy a heavy anti-dumping duty on the cheap Chinese APIs (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients) preferred by local drug manufacturers.