Новости за 27.05.2018

QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Abdul Quddus Bizenjo has warned that `wrong’ attitude of the federal government towards the province could harm the integrity of the country.

ISLAMABAD: After a gap of about two years, the Rawalpindi bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Saturday resumed the hearing of a petition filed by a former army officer against the handing over of the Angoor Adda post to the Afghan government.

ISLAMABAD: The Elec-tion Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has proposed a bar on political parties from collecting money from aspiring electoral candidates.

ISLAMABAD: All political parties are hopeful that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly during its extraordinary session on Sunday — a day before its dissolution on the completion of its five-year term — will manage to validate the bill already passed by the two houses of parliament seeking merger of Fata with the province with the required two-thirds majority.

DERA GHAZI KHAN/MULTAN: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Saturday emphasised the need for a national dialogue for developing consensus on all important national issues, including creation of a southern Punjab province, and said the issue of new province should not be used as an election slogan.

ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain on Saturday set July 25 as the date for general elections in the country.

WASHINGTON: Pakis­tan’s ambassador-designate to the US Ali Jahangir Siddiqui arrives in Washington on May 28 and will take charge of his new assignment on May 29, two days before the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government completes its term.

ISLAMABAD: The main opposition, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), has protested against the government’s attempt to get the census results validated from the Council of Common Interests (CCI), terming it a violation of the agreement in which the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) had agreed to conduct a third-party audit of five per cent of the population blocks.

Loris Karius offered a heartfelt apology to his Liverpool teammates and all at the club after admitting he cost them Champions League glory. The German goalkeeper made two howlers as the Reds lost the final in Kiev 3-1 to Real Madrid, throwing the ball against Karim Benzema to gift the Spanish side the lead and then failing to hold a speculative Gareth Bale strike. Speaking to talkSPORT straight after the match, Karius said: “I don’t feel anything right now. Today I lost my team the game. “I feel sorry for everyone. Читать дальше...

Florida and Mississippi on Saturday declared states of emergency as Subtropical Storm Alberto moves north toward the US Gulf Coast, threatening to bring heavy rainfall and flooding by Monday. All 67 Florida counties were issued the notice to give state and local governments enough time and resources to prepare, Florida Governor Rick Scott said in a […]

Phoenix Until recently, Lilly Mucarsel has spoken Spanish just about everywhere since arriving in the United States from Ecuador three decades ago: at the library, the movies, the grocery store. She raised three daughters who also speak Spanish and are passing on the tradition to her American-born grandchildren. These days, the 62-year-old Southern Californian finds herself shifting to English when she attends a baseball game or goes to a restaurant with her husband to prove that yes, she knows that language too... Читать дальше...

Talks regarding the planned June 12 U.S.-North Korea summit in Singapore are still on track and members of the U.S. administration are working to iron out the details, President Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Saturday evening. The talks “are going very, very well,” Trump said. “I think people want to see if we can get the meeting and get something done. We got that done and we can be successful in the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, that would be a great thing for North Korea... Читать дальше...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reaffirmed his commitment to "complete" denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and to a planned meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Sunday. Moon and Kim agreed at a surprise second meeting Saturday that a possible North Korea-U.S. summit, currently planned for June 12 in Singapore, must be held successfully, Moon told a news conference in Seoul. Moon, who returned to Seoul on Thursday morning after meeting Trump in... Читать дальше...

The Toledo Mud Hens lost 3-2 to the Norfolk Tides during Star Wars night Saturday, May 26, 2018, at FifthThird Field in Toledo, Ohio. Use the arrows to scroll through the above photo gallery.

Some of my best friends in life were women.

I grew up with my girl cousins. They were my best friends, almost like siblings. I still see them sometimes. All I will say about them is they taught me all about women.

Five years ago, I made friends with a young woman in her 20’s. It started out sexual, then it went to “I am not attracted to you” to Friendzone.

We called and texted each other all the time. She was my best friend. She even gave me advice on how to get women. If I had... Читать дальше...

RESULTS

GULF SHORES, Ala. -- Safia Bright became the first Lindsey Wilson woman to win an outdoor track & field national title on Saturday to help Blue Raiders to a 10th-place finish at the 2018 NAIA Outdoor Track & Field National Championships held at Mickey Miller Blackwell Stadium.

Bright captured the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.68 seconds. She broke the tape just in front of Southern-New Orleans' (La.) Argyana Bolton's 11.72. Bolton had the fastest qualifying time on Friday. Читать дальше...

A historical record sent into outer space as a universal greeting card from humanity to alien life may in fact baffle any visitors and unintentionally create a hilarious image of humans. If the aliens have what passes for humor, or course.

The Red Bulls almost never lose at home, and they avoided defeat again Saturday against Philadelphia. But arguably MLS’ team got held to a dreary, desultory scoreless draw, hardly their prettiest effort. The ugly affair before 17,814 at Red Bull Arena saw the hosts have a Bradley Wright-Phillips goal waved offside and their four-game winning...

The Salem witchcraft trials of the 1690s continue to resonate in American political and popular culture as is evident in the almost daily tweets of President Donald Trump that investigations into collusion between the Russian government and the 2016 Trump Presidential campaign are a hoax and part of a contemporary witch hunt. Trump seeks to discredit investigators by identifying himself with the innocent victims of the Salem witchcraft accusations and executions who are celebrated in such literary... Читать дальше...

Major Rudolf “Rudy” Anderson

The stretch of thirteen now infamous days beginning in mid-October 1962 were the most dangerous in the history of mankind. This was when the world’s two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, appeared on a collision course toward thermo nuclear disaster. This dramatic event followed the frightening discovery by American reconnaissance pilots that the Russians were installing medium range ballistic missile (MRBM) sites on the island of Cuba. But while all-out war... Читать дальше...

Oxford University Press has never forgiven me for something I did as a second-year undergraduate at Oxford. May McIsack, in the fifth volume of the prestigious Oxford History of England series, stated that in the early Fourteenth Century the revenues of Gascony added up to more than the revenues of England. I explained to my tutor that the revenues of Gascony would only be £456 11shillings more than the revenues of England if the pound, or livre, of Gascony was worth the same as the English pound... Читать дальше...

Maurice Jackson is an Associate Professor of History and African American Studies and Affiliated Professor of Music (Jazz) at Georgetown University. He is the author of Let This Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism, co-editor with Jackie Bacon ofAfrican-Americans and the Haitian Revolution, co-editor with Susan Kozel of Quakers and their Allies in the Abolitionist Cause, 1754-1808and co-editor with Blair Ruble of DC JAZZ: Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC.

A BBC report about a raid on a Nigeria "baby factory,"selling infants for adoption, trafficked for prostitution, and worse, probably shocked and horrified listeners. How many of them, I wondered, knew the history of American baby selling. In the post World War II baby boom years families wanting babies to adopt quickly learned there weren't enough to go around and those with the means turned to baby brokers operating outside or on the edges of the law.

Tea House, Kew Gardens, burned by suffragettes

Parliament Square in London is filled with statues of the famous. But there is no gender balance; all the statues are of men. This year, at last, the male exclusivity is to be broken. A statue has been commissioned of Millicent Fawcett, a leader of the campaign to secure votes for British women.

Fawcett had to wait a long time for recognition. This year is the hundredth anniversary of the Act of Parliament which first granted votes to women. Читать дальше...