Новости за 07.05.2019

TEHRAN (FNA)- US officials understand that there can be no military solution to the Venezuela issue because the consequences of such a scenario would be devastating, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said following a meeting with US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Monday.

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In this week's news, Justin Gimelstob resigns from the ATP board of directors amid mounting pressure; Tennis Channel says it’s meeting to discuss his future with the channel.

The AAP has posed five questions to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, including why he "failed" to fulfil his promise of full statehood and did not bring in an ordinance to stop sealing in the city, and said he should answer them during his rally at Ramlila Maidan here. Modi will address a big rally at Ramlila Maidan on Wednesday. BJP's Delhi unit has planned to organise at least two public meetings to seek support for its all seven candidates in the national capital. "The first question is why the promise... Читать дальше...

Metals and mining giant Vedanta Ltd Tuesday reported a 33.8 per cent decline in consolidated net profit to Rs 2,615 crore for the March 2018 quarter, on the back of lower income. It had posted a consolidated net profit of Rs 3,956 crore in the corresponding quarter of FY'18, the company said in a filing to the BSE. The net profit is "after taxes, non-controlling interests and share in profit of jointly-controlled entities and associates but before exceptional items." The company's consolidated income... Читать дальше...

Denmark's centre-right prime minister, currently governing with the support of an anti-immigration party, on Tuesday called a general election for June 5, with the left-wing opposition leading opinion polls. "I want to use all of my strength, my capabilities and my experience to continue to lead Denmark. And I ask Danes to re-elect me in the legislative elections to be held on June 5," Lars Lokke Rasmussen said in parliament. The latest opinion polls credit the opposition left-wing bloc, headed by the Social Democrats... Читать дальше...

Cyclone Fani left its trail of destruction on the Kalinga Stadium too, which is to host Men's Series Hockey Finals in June

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(Washington Examiner) Democratic presidential candidates are headed sharply left on gun control as New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and California Rep. Eric Swalwell sought Monday to one-up each other with calls for the government to confiscate firearms. Booker pledged to take executive action on his first day in office “closing dangerous loopholes in gun sales, […]

Four persons, including a woman and her two daughters, were killed when roof of their dilapidated house collapsed in the northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, police said. The victims were asleep in their house when its roof collapsed in the wee hours of Tuesday, killing four persons in Charsadda district. However, one child sustained injuries. Rescue teams reached the spot and retrieved four bodies from the rubble. Police said that owner of the house was a labourer and residing in Saudi Arabia.

The company has spent two years and probably more than $30 million to open a flagship Apple Store next week in Washington D.C. by renovating the 116-year-old Carnegie Library. The question may be, why?

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A majority shareholder of Essar Steel Tuesday moved NCLAT seeking rejection of ArcelorMittal's Rs 42,000 crore bid to acquire the bankrupt steelmaker, alleging that its promoter Lakshmi Mittal hid his association with loan defaulting firms run by his brothers. Seeking ArcelorMittal be declared ineligible to bid for Essar Steel, the petition cited Section 29A of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) which bars promoters of defaulting companies from bidding for stressed assets. The National Company... Читать дальше...

Royal fans and tourists celebrate after Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex and wife of Britain's Prince Harry, gave birth to a boy, the seventh-in-line to the throne. — Reuters

"Narendra Modi should get a tight slap of democracy," a furious TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee said Tuesday, hitting back at the prime minister for alleging repeatedly that her government is run by extortionist syndicates. She also questioned the BJP's nationalistic and patriotic claims, saying it was an "RSS man" who killed Mahatma Gandhi. "I do not bow my head in politics. When Modi alleges that Trinamool Congress is a party of syndicates...its government is run by syndicates, I feel he should... Читать дальше...

A look at MS Dhoni's tactics at CSK and his contribution to Indian cricket over the last 15 years.

The Met Gala is no ordinary fashion event, and as such, its worst-dressed list is different from the rest.

Four days after extremely severe cyclone Fani hammered Odisha and damaged its infrastructure, authorities on Tuesday struggled to restore essential services like water supply, electricity and telecommunication due to an acute shortage of skilled manpower. The state government needs to replace 1.5 lakh electric poles uprooted by high-velocity wind of about 200kmph in coastal districts, officials said. "Everything is dependent on power supply. If there is no electricity, the filling stations cannot... Читать дальше...

Former captain Mohammed Azharuddin Tuesday described India's World Cup squad a balanced one and said any result less than the coveted trophy would be seen as a disappointment for the two-time champions. The World Cup gets underway in the United Kingdom from May 30. India won the big prize in 1983 and 2011. "India have a very good chance (in the World Cup) because we have got a very balanced side. We have got good bowlers, good batsmen and then our fielding is very good (and has) improved a lot over... Читать дальше...

German sports car maker and Volkswagen subsidiary Porsche will pay a 535-million-euro (USD 598 million) fine over diesel vehicles that emitted more harmful pollutants than allowed, Stuttgart prosecutors said Tuesday. "The Stuttgart prosecutor's office has levied a 535-million-euro fine against Porsche AG for negligence in quality control," the investigators said. Porsche "abstained from a legal challenge" against the decision, the prosecutors office added. Tuesday's levy against Porsche is the latest... Читать дальше...

Acting on a tip-off, the Western Railway's Vigilance department seized 74 such forged cancer concession certificates from the ticket reservation centre at Dadar in the city.

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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday said Congress leader Duli Chand Lohiya has joined the party in the presence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Kejriwal welcomed him and said "with Duli Chand Lohiya in AAP, the Congress will have upper hand in the Rajouri Garden Assembly area", the AAP said in a statement. The statement quoted Lohiya as saying that he was inspired by the work of the AAP in Delhi. He said he joined the AAP as policies of the Congress were "anti-people" and it had no vision for Delhi. Читать дальше...

Jesús Rodríguez, Ana Mateos and Guillermo Zorrilla, scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), have just published a study in the Journal of Human Evolution in which they analyze the cannibalistic behavior of populations at Atapuerca 1 million years ago. The results make it clear that anthropophagy was a profitable strategy for Homo antecessor.