Новости за 21.06.2016

Quase um mês depois de decidir pela criação da CPI que vai investigar o superfaturamento na compra de alimentos para a merenda nas escolas de São Paulo, os deputados paulistas se reúnem pela primeira vez nesta quarta-feira (22) para eleger quem vai presidir as sessões da Comissão Parlamentar de Inquérito na Assembleia Legislativa.

If you want to go further, you have to go faster. That may be a general rule in life, but for long jump star Ruswahl Samaai, going a bit slower is just what he needs to pull off a might leap.

Cops arrested three people with loaded handguns, rifles and bullet-resistant vests at the Holland Tunnel, NBC news reported.

ALMELO - Fanshopmedewerkster Nicole Lokotte-de Louw was dinsdagrmiddag al druk in de weer, want voor de echte fan van Heracles is woensdag een belangrijke dag.

In what seems like an attempt to mitigate the damage done by his stint on "The Bachelorette," recently eliminated bachelor Chad Johnson, also known as "Bad Chad," appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Monday night after his elimination from the show.  Johnson had piqued the Internet's interest with...

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Mark Cuban speculated Tuesday about the scope of Donald Trump's wealth, after the Federal Election Commission released a dismal campaign-finance report from the presumptive Republican nominee.

"If @realDonaldTrump were fractionally as rich as he says he is, he would write a $200 [million] check to propel his campaign," Cuban posted. "He doesn't have the cash."

The release of the Trump campaign's May Federal Election Commission report showed the presumptive... Читать дальше...

Gold futures head sharply lower as some investors bet that the U.K. will vote to remain in the European Union.

With no exit polls planned for the U.K. referendum on EU membership, those who want to get a jump on the likely result are looking to turnout figures to shed some light.

Trader Joe’s, the popular California-based supermarket chain, agreed in court to spend about $2 million to reduce refrigerator coolant leaks that deplete the ozone layer and contribute to global warming.

To celebrate their debut as official sponsors of the tournament, SOCAR are bringing a number of fans along for what promises to be the ride of their lives

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Former Nedbank chairperson Reuel Khoza has warned South Africans to guard their freedom from leaders who are determined to subjugate the rule of law.

Krista Perdue, 42, was reported missing on Monday morning after her husband, Samuel, went to check on her in their bedroom and realized she was gone but all her belongings were still in the house.

NEW YORK — A handful of new startups are tackling a thorny problem that AOL couldn’t solve with zillions of dollars: How to cover local news in different cities without going broke. Some see a news hole left behind by the shrinking newsrooms of traditional city newspapers and alt-weeklies. Others want to woo smartphone-addicted millennial

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WASHINGTON — Congress is pushing the White House to revive a Cold War-era committee to crack down on Russian spies, underscoring just how uneasy Washington is about its adversaries in Moscow.

In its 2017 Intelligence Authorization Bill, the Senate Intelligence Committee is asking the White House to reinstate a presidentially-appointed group to unmask Russian spies and uncover Russian-sponsored assassinations. Читать дальше...

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Costco launched a new credit card this week that offers some of the best rewards in the market.

The new card, managed by Visa, launched on Monday. Costco's former card was managed by American Express.

The company ended a 16-year deal with American Express to switch over to Visa.

The new Costco Visa card offers 4% cash back on eligible gas purchases (on up to $7,000 per year, then 1% back), 3% back on restaurant and travel purchases, 2% back on Costco and Costco.com purchases... Читать дальше...

The Tyler Perry-created drama returns tonight on OWN, and Angela Robinson's Veronica is not slowing down.

The Tyler Perry-created drama returns tonight on OWN, and Angela Robinson's Veronica is not slowing down.

Senator Gian Chand informed the committee that Hindu girls in Sindh province -- home to the majority of the 3 million Hindus living in Pakistan -- were the victims of force conversions.

Routine commercial use of small drones was cleared for takeoff by the Obama administration Tuesday, after years of struggling to write rules that would both protect public safety and ...

In Iraq slowly but surely the offensive on Mosul continues as the Iraqi forces are trying to liberate the second largest city from the grips of Daesh. At the forefront, along with men, women are fighting the terrorists fiercely. A correspondent of RIA Novosti met with some of these women.

An inquiry has found that teenage military recruits in Australia were horrifically abused both physically and sexually by senior officers as part of a sick initiation practice. The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse started an inquiry this week into the conduct of the Australian military and its treatment of cadets at its facilities. They received no fewer than 111 reports of incidents of sexual abuse carried out against navy cadets as young as 15 in the 1960s right through to the 1980s. Читать дальше...

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands, June 21 (UPI) -- The International Criminal Court in The Hague sentenced former Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba to 18 years imprisonment for war crimes Tuesday.