Новости за 17.04.2018

The federal government, through Mohammed Dikwa, director of special projects, ministry of finance, has announced that it is presently investigating 28 of its Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) over corruption allegations.

Das Montreux Jazz Festival will auch in seiner 52. Ausgabe mit großen Namen punkten: Auf dem Programm stehen Nick Cave, Jamiroquai, Massive Attack, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jamie Cullum, Billy Idol, Iggy Pop oder Queens of the Stone Age. Eröffnet wird die diesjährige Festivalausgabe am 29. Juni von Paolo Conte und Etienne Daho, den musikalischen Schlusspunkt setzt am 14. Juli Jamiroquai.

The cultural program, chosen with a competition that had to accompany the Bulgarian Euro-Presidency and to promote our country to foreign guests, will happen with a long delay and few of the visiting foreigners will be able to see it.

Der bekannte Tennismanager Ronnie Leitgeb ist am Dienstag bei der Neuverhandlung des Strafprozesses um die "Villa Esmara" vom Vorwurf der Beihilfe zur Untreue gegenüber der Immofinanz freigesprochen worden. Laut Richterin Caroline Csarmann hat es keinen Tatplan zur Schädigung der Immofinanz gegeben. Das Urteil ist nicht rechtskräftig, die Staatsanwaltschaft gab keine Stellungnahme ab.

"Ich hätte mir nie gedacht, dass das das Ende meiner Karriere sein wird", sagte der angeklagte Tennismanager Ronnie Leitgeb am Dienstag am Wiener Straflandesgericht. Dort wird der Strafprozess in der Causa "Villa Esmara" wiederholt. "Ich stehe heute da, und habe zwölf Jahre meines Lebens verloren", führte Leitgeb aus.

The US Chess Championships take place in Saint Louis Wed 18th to Mon 30th Apr 2018.

Championship players: Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So, Alex Onischuk, Ray Robson, Sam Shankland, Varuzhan Akobian, Jeffery Xiong, Alex Lenderman, Awonder Liang, Yaroslav Zherebukh and Zviad Izoria.

Roadworks in Billingshurst High Street are set to stay for an extra two weeks after excavators unexpectedly struck concrete.

More than 5 million people have visited Scotland’s heritage attractions in a single year with a new record set by the country’s historic properties.

Oats, water, even sneakers may be advertised as “gluten-free.”

CT Boston/Norton MA Zone Forecast for Tuesday, April 17, 2018 _____ 964 FPUS51 KBOX 171116 ZFPBOX Zone Forecast Product for Southern New England National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 715 AM EDT Tue Apr 17 2018 CTZ002-172000- Hartford CT- Including the cities of Hartford and Windsor Locks 715 AM EDT Tue Apr 17 2018 .TODAY...Partly sunny this morning, then mostly cloudy with isolated rain showers this afternoon. Highs in the upper 40s. West winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Читать дальше...

Members of the European Union don't have a unilateral opinion on the bloc's expansion into the Balkans as well as on a number of other issues rocking the region, like the Kosovo problem.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Trump administration said Monday that California Gov. Jerry Brown rejected terms of the National Guard’s...

West Hartford — Between raising two daughters and working as a dishwasher at Whole Foods, Lhakpa Sherpa just doesn't have time for training to climb Mount Everest. Even so, she has done it a record eight times — and hopes to outdo herself yet again.

Auf Druck der ostdeutschen SPD wurde die Berliner Kommunalpolitikerin Franziska Giffey Bundesfamilienministerin.

TEHRAN, Apr. 17 (MNA) – Celebrating the old and the new, the organizers of the 2018 Fajr International Film Festival have announced the names of special guests.

NeoPhotonics Corp. said Tuesday it will miss out on an expected 5% of annualized revenue as a result of the U.S. Commerce Department's ban on exports to China-based ZTE Corp. . The maker of optoelectronic modules said its estimate comes from the belief that it would have grown revenue with ZTE from a year ago and from its supply chain partners given share awards and new product design wins. In 2017, the company had direct revenue from ZTE of about 1% of total revenue, and received about 3% of total revenue from ZTE's supply chain partners. Читать дальше...

TEHRAN, Apr. 17 (MNA) – Morteza Ebadi Consulate General of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Erbil said that Tehran-Erbil flight will be resumed in the shortest time possible.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Oxfam is concerned about further military action against Syria following the recent Western strikes, noting that it will have a detrimental effect on the plight of civilians in Syria and may lead to an increase in the number of displaced persons, the charity's senior policy adviser on Syria, Matthew Hemsley, told Sputnik.

Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, a Fox News contributor who regularly defends President Donald Trump, on Monday night confronted Fox host...

Symphony orchestras are embracing film music big time these days. It sells, and if they can throw images up on the big screen too, the experience can be electrifying. For this Gene Kelly tribute, the RSNO got into bed with Warner Bros and Kelly’s third and final wife, the writer Patricia Ward Kelly, all of which amounted to a generous evening of anecdote, informative insight, and assorted film clips celebrating the whiter-than-white side of the man who made ballet relevant to popular cinema, not just as a dancer, but as writer and producer.

It's really joyful, painful thing letting one's daughter for marriage, the thought of not having your precious jewel close anymore is quite tearful. A father broke down in tears at his daughter's wedding during a dance.

There were 14,329 people who could not afford two pairs of shoes in 2017, but everyone can now afford a washing-machine, colour television and phone or mobile phone – at least according to the responses received for an annual survey. There were fewer people living in poverty in 2017 compared with a year earlier, with decreases of 2.3 percentage points in material deprivation and of 1.1 percentage point in severe material deprivation – the two main definitions used in the European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. Читать дальше...

RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) — Thinking it's odd that College of St. Joseph's newest team and arena are related to esports may indicate a generation gap. Tamara Robitille, captain of the College of St. Joseph Archangels eSports team, said her peers, fellow college students, think it's "really interesting." "They want to get in on it. From the staff and from the faculty side of things, there is general confusion about, 'What is esports?' 'What are you guys doing in there with your brightly flashing lights?'" she said. Читать дальше...

Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida) believes the cobbled sectors on stage 9 of the 2018 Tour de France will be even more treacherous than those traversed in recent editions of the race. The Sicilian sampled the pavé on Monday and said afterwards that he plans to return for a second reconnaissance before July.