Новости за 17.04.2018

Doug Bandow

President Donald Trump has received applause from all the wrong places for his latest attack on Syria. The Bashar al-Assad regime is brutal, but the U.S. government should not police arbitrary rules of war or, even worse, get involved in someone else’s civil war. The president is being pushed into adopting Hillary Clinton’s policy.

The president began his television address on Syria with sharp criticism of “the evil and despicable attack” allegedly made by the Assad government, and evil and despicable it was. Читать дальше...

Myanmar President Win Myint announced Tuesday an order to grant amnesty to about 8,500 prisoners. The move coincides with Myanmar's traditional New Year. A spokesman said the amnesty includes 51 foreigners as well as 36 people listed as political prisoners by the Thailand-based watchdog group Assistance Association for Political Prisoners. The president's order does not cover two Reuters journalists who are facing trial for possessing secret official documents. The reporters were covering the... Читать дальше...

U.S. stocks opened higher on Tuesday, as equities continued to be supported by strong first-quarter results, including from such heavyweight names as Goldman Sachs and Netflix. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.9% to 24,792. With the day's gain, the Dow returned to positive territory for the year and rose above its 50-day moving average, which it hasn't closed above since March 9. The S&P 500 added 0.5% to 2,693. The Nasdaq Composite Index rose 0.8% to 7,215. The day's gains were broad... Читать дальше...

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp noticed Mohamed Salah’s massive untapped potential just 45 minutes into his Premier League debut against Watford this season. The Egypt international didn’t have the best first half at Vicarage Road, and Klopp told him at half time that he was playing too wide and making himself too easy to mark. MORE: Real […]

China has responded to U.S. President Donald Trump's charges China and Russia are manipulating the value of their currencies. Monday, Trump tweeted, "Russia and China are playing the Currency Devaluation game as the U.S. keeps raising interest rates. Not acceptable!" His charge came just days after the U.S. Treasury Department declined to label China and Russia as currency manipulators in its latest report. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Tuesday the messages coming from the United States are confusing... Читать дальше...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's communications watchdog says it is blocking access to some servers owned by tech giants Google and Amazon in order to comply with a court order to block a popular messaging app. The Russian Communications Agency on Monday began enforcing a court ban on the messaging app Telegram over its refusal to hand over encryption keys. Telegram, which was developed by Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov, has refused to share data, citing privacy concerns. It has promised to keep the app running despite the ban. Читать дальше...

Filed under: News, Politics, White House

• President Donald Trump's administration over the weekend carried out its second military strike on the Syrian government without even asking for permission from Congress.
• Congress has the sole constitutional authority to declare war, but most US military action since 2001 has been covered by a sweeping Authorization of Use of Military Force that covers actions against terror organizations linked to the 9/11 attacks.
• But the US attacked Syria's actual government... Читать дальше...

Thanks, China.

It is now more or less taken for granted that solar panels are getting cheaper and cheaper. But that didn’t just happen — solar PV did not jump onto that trajectory on its own. After all, solar panels have been around for decades, but they didn’t really start plunging down the cost curve until the mid- to late-2000s.

Germany deserves some credit for creating demand with its aggressive feed-in tariffs. President Barack Obama and the Democrats deserve some credit for creating demand with the 2009 stimulus bill. Читать дальше...

Kris Osborn

Security, North America

An F-35 used sensors, on-board computers and targeting systems to find, track and destroy two airborne drones at once.

Previous test data and observers have confirmed the F-35 identified and targeted the drone with its mission systems sensors, passed the target ‘track’ information to the missile, enabled the pilot to verify targeting information using the high off-boresight capability of the helmet mounted display and launched the AIM-9X from the aircraft to engage the target drone... Читать дальше...

The controversial invention was designed by Dutch activists advocating for the legalization of euthanasia and has stirred vivid debate among social media users.

“Make sure you do not go out hunting again,” was a magistrate’s word of warning to a man who was granted bail after admitting to various breaches of hunting regulations. Anthony William Theuma, a 42-year old whose passion for hunting landed him in trouble, was found by police in possession of a modified rifle. Administrative Enforcement Officers patrolling the area in the vicinity of Gudja Road in Tarxien last Sunday at around 7.30pm came across the hunter, out on a hunting spree. This was well outside... Читать дальше...

Global steel demand will grow by 1.8 per cent this year to 1.616 billion tonnes driven by favourable global economic momentum, though the market faces risks from rising trade tensions, the World Steel Association (worldsteel) said on Tuesday. In 2019, global steel demand growth will slow to 0.7 per cent and total 1.627 billion tonnes, it said. Steel use in China, which consumes half the world's steel, will remain flat in 2018 at 736.8 million tonnes and fall by 2 per cent next year to 722.1 million tonnes, worldsteel said.

JOHANNESBURG - If i haven't lost count already, I believe this is my ninth column, and we have covered a broad range of topics all around the buy-local theme, and we have a veritable play list of local songs to accompany us!

What we haven’t done, though, is unpack in detail what it means to be a Proudly South African company and how we select and adjudicate who qualifies to become a member and who doesn’t.

The controversial invention was designed by Dutch activists advocating for the legalization of euthanasia and has stirred vivid debate among social media users.

The scooters are everywhere. In front of my South of Market office, all over Golden Gate Park, on the corner of downtown intersections, and sometimes near, or sort of close to, bike racks and street signs. But most often, the electric scooters are dumped in the middle of the sidewalk. 

Fox News host Sean Hannity faced some friendly fire on his own show Monday evening, with longtime Fox legal analyst Alan Dershowitz chiding him to his face about his Michael Cohen connection. “I really think that you should have disclosed your relationship with Cohen when you talked about him on this show,” said Dershowitz with the look of a man who just swallowed a grenade. “You could have said that you had asked him for advice or whatever, but I think it would have been much, much better had you disclosed that relationship.

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17 апреля специалисты регионального МЧС эвакуировали посетителей из торгового центра «Русский рынок». Мероприятие проходило в рамках учений по отработке действий в случае сильного пожара.

«По легенде учений, в одной из секций начался пожар. Людей эвакуировали без нареканий», - сообщил КТВ-ЛУЧ диспетчер 7 ОФПС.

Стоит отметить, что это не первая в городе проверка готовности. В 11:00 прошла тренировочная эвакуация из офисного здания на улице Кирова, 46. На улицу были выведены 60 человек. Читать дальше...

Allegations of sexual harassment have shaken the organisation that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature.

If you are planning your wedding this year, the wedding fair at Leonardslee House in Lower Beeding is a great place to go for ideas.

Robert De Niro, meet the dog. And by that, we mean the entire popular household pet species that the actor has somehow never heard of until now. On Monday’s “Tonight Show,” Jimmy Fallon and his high-profile guest wandered the halls of 30 Rock, where they ran into this strange animal De Niro hasn’t encountered before: The domestic canine. “Usually rabbits aren’t so big,” the Tribeca Film Festival host said at the site of a labradoodle puppy. Also Read: 'SNL': Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller Do 'Meet... Читать дальше...

As we've noted previously, Comcast has enjoyed a little more resilience to the cord cutting threat than satellite TV and telco TV providers--thanks to its growing monopoly over broadband. As DSL users frustrated by lagging telco upgrades switch to cable to get faster speeds, they're often forced to sign up for cable and TV bundles they may not want (since standalone broadband is often priced prohibitively by intent). Of course that doesn't mean these users or stick around (or that they even actively use the cable subscription they pay for)... Читать дальше...

Senegal has a small but ambitious circus. It began as a local association offering arts and acrobatics workshops to disadvantaged kids from poor neighborhoods around the capital. The circus troupe has grown from there and now performs abroad, though some of the acrobats continue to face resistance from their families. Chika Oduah reports for VOA from Dakar.