Новости за 17.01.2016

Turkish police fire tear gas, water cannon to disperse Kurdish protesters denouncing round-the-clock curfews in Diyarbakir's Sur district in southeast Turkey. Rough Cut - Subtitled (no reporter narration)

Turkish police fire tear gas, water cannon to disperse Kurdish protesters denouncing round-the-clock curfews in Diyarbakir's Sur district in southeast Turkey. Rough Cut - Subtitled (no reporter narration)

Turkish police fire tear gas, water cannon to disperse Kurdish protesters denouncing round-the-clock curfews in Diyarbakir's Sur district in southeast Turkey. Rough Cut - Subtitled (no reporter narration)

Turkish police fire tear gas, water cannon to disperse Kurdish protesters denouncing round-the-clock curfews in Diyarbakir's Sur district in southeast Turkey. Rough Cut - Subtitled (no reporter narration)

Turkish police fire tear gas, water cannon to disperse Kurdish protesters denouncing round-the-clock curfews in Diyarbakir's Sur district in southeast Turkey. Rough Cut - Subtitled (no reporter narration)

KABUL (Reuters) - A rocket landed near the Italian embassy in Kabul on Sunday, a police official said, a day before a meeting of Afghan and international officials aimed at laying the groundwork for possible peace talks with the Taliban.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - The Maldives on Sunday backtracked on an unconditional agreement to allow jailed former leader Mohamed Nasheed to travel to Britain for surgery, his lawyers said.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - The Maldives on Sunday backtracked on an unconditional agreement to allow jailed former leader Mohamed Nasheed to travel to Britain for surgery, his lawyers said.

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (Reuters) - A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Sunday to put a climate-monitoring satellite into orbit, NASA said.

WASHINGTON/ANKARA, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Three Iranian-Americans left Tehran for a U.S. base in Germany on Sunday under a prisoner swap following the lifting of most international sanctions on Iran under a deal that President Barack Obama said had cut off Tehran's path to a nuclear bomb.

LONDON (Reuters) - Arsenal ended Leicester City's brief stay at the top of the Premier League on Sunday despite being held to a 0-0 draw at Stoke City after Manchester United's Wayne Rooney struck late for a 1-0 win at Liverpool.

LONDON (Reuters) - Arsenal ended Leicester City's brief stay at the top of the Premier League on Sunday despite being held to a 0-0 draw at Stoke City after Manchester United's Wayne Rooney struck late for a 1-0 win at Liverpool.

WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio praised Iran's release of five detained Americans on Sunday, but sharply criticized the deal the White House made to win their freedom saying it would lead to more Americans being taken "hostage."

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Swedish bookseller whose mysterious disappearance has sparked fears he may have been taken by Chinese agents said he had voluntarily turned himself into the authorities for a drink-driving accident that resulted in a death 11 years ago.

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - A Turkish police officer and a soldier were killed by sniper fire and two Kurdish militants were shot dead in separate incidents in the mainly Kurdish southeast's biggest city, security sources said on Sunday.

WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The United States imposed sanctions on 11 companies and individuals for supplying Iran's ballistic missile program in a move delayed by over two weeks so as not to endanger this weekend's release of U.S. prisoners, sources familiar with the matter said.

WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The United States imposed sanctions on 11 companies and individuals for supplying Iran's ballistic missile program in a move delayed by over two weeks so as not to endanger this weekend's release of U.S. prisoners, sources familiar with the matter said.

GENEVA, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Three Americans freed by Iran on Sunday landed at Geneva airport in Switzerland around 1700 GMT (2 p.m. ET), a Swiss Foreign Ministry spokesman told Reuters, and were due to head to a military base in Germany.

Arsenal regained top spot in the Premier League on goal difference from Leicester City after a fiercely-contested goalless draw at Stoke City on Sunday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Widespread misreporting of harmful gas emissions by Chinese electricity firms is threatening the country's attempts to rein in pollution, with government policies aimed at generating cleaner power struggling to halt the practice.

ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran's success in winning an end to international sanctions will only intensify a power struggle among the faction-ridden elite, and President Hassan Rouhani cannot count on domestic political support from the supreme leader before two critical elections.

ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran's success in winning an end to international sanctions will only intensify a power struggle among the faction-ridden elite, and President Hassan Rouhani cannot count on domestic political support from the supreme leader before two critical elections.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ted Wade hasn’t cared about politics enough to cast a vote in a U.S. presidential election for almost a quarter of a century, back when he supported Ross Perot’s independent candidacy in 1992.

PARIS (Reuters) - Monaco moved up to second in Ligue 1 on Sunday after second-half goals by Thomas Lemar and Joao Moutinho earned them a 2-0 win at mid-table Lorient.

MADRID (Reuters) - Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale had to come off in Sunday's game at home to Sporting Gijon with what looked like another calf problem and France forward Karim Benzema suffered a foot injury and was also substituted.