Новости за 27.03.2017

Every legislative session brings forth a variety of measures that fall firmly into the file labeled "Nice to Have, But Probably Not Essential."

South African President Jacob Zuma has instructed Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan to return immediately from an investor roadshow to Britain and the U.S.

The ceremony will take place Friday, April 7 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, says the storm system that struck the Southern Plains on Sunday will take aim Monday at Mississippi Valley and Ohio Valley states. Forecasters say damaging winds and large hail are the biggest threats Monday, particularly in western Kentucky, northern Mississippi and western Tennessee, including the Memphis area. In northwest Louisiana, sheriff's officials said a church was destroyed by an apparent tornado, though no injuries were reported.

Real Madrid talent Raphael Varane has heaped praise on the influence of former boss Jose Mourinho amid continued speculation linking him with Manchester United.

Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co. on Monday clinched regulatory approval for their megamerger from the European Union’s competition watchdog on condition they divest several businesses to address antitrust concerns.

NVIDIA and Qualcomm both turned seemingly modest investments into enough cash to buy a new house.

Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, is reportedly slated to be interrogated by the Senate Committee over allegedly unreported meetings with Russian officials.

When radio host Tim Blackwell isn't hanging out at NOVA's studio co-hosting the national drive show with Kate Ritchie and Marty Sheargold, you'll find him in Sydney's inner west either eating, drinking, watching a movie, or all of the above.

Powerful noted that all Kanu had focus on his prophesies over the activities of the All Progressives Congress Party led by President Muhammadu Buhari.

MADRID — A Spanish National Court judge has ordered an investigation into the alleged role of nine Syrian officials in the disappearance and execution of a man in 2013, in the first criminal case accepted by a European court against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Investigative magistrate Eloy Velasco said Monday the nine could be charged

Leader of the Opposition in Madhya Pradesh Assembly, Ajay Singh, on Monday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to remove Shivraj Singh Chouhan as chief minister in the wake of the CAG observations about the Vyapam scam.

About 25,000 people living in the Queensland town of Mackay are being urged to evacuate, with fears Cyclone Debbie will bring a devastating tidal surge to the region.

Producer/writer/director Claudia Pickering exchanged architecture for filmmaking.

What's being called "China's retaliation" against the deployment of elements of the US THAAD missile defense system in South Korea is largely exaggerated and has been instigated by the South Korean media, Kim Haeseon, a South Korean expert on China, told Sputnik.

Hong Kong has selected Carrie Lam to be the city's first-ever female chief executive, sealing an election that many saw as a foregone conclusion and not a democratic race.  In her victory speech Sunday, Lam pledged to mend political rifts across the city’s political spectrums.  But her victory is largely shunned by the city’s democracy activists, who say it signals an alarming defeat for public opinion.  Joyce Huang has more for VOA from Hong Kong.

Hundreds of Russians, including President Putin’s main political opponent Alexei Navalny, were arrested Sunday after anti-corruption protests.

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish National Court judge has ordered an investigation into the alleged role of nine Syrian officials in the disappearance and execution of a man in 2013, in the first criminal case accepted by a European court…

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish National Court judge has ordered an investigation into the alleged role of nine Syrian officials in the disappearance and execution of a man in 2013, in the first criminal case accepted by a European court…

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish National Court judge has ordered an investigation into the alleged role of nine Syrian officials in the disappearance and execution of a man in 2013, in the first criminal case accepted by a European court against President Bashar al-Assad's regime. The case is built around the 2013 arbitrary detention, disappearance, torture and execution of a truck driver in Damascus.

Bali police are investigating the death of an Australian woman at a luxury seaside villa in Bali, saying they suspect she had consumed more than a whole bottle of vodka.

NEW YORK — Books on gun violence, Koch Industries and New York’s history of immigration have won prizes for outstanding nonfiction work. Prize officials told The Associated Press on Monday that Gary Younge’s “Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives” won the $10,000 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been jailed for 15 days for resisting police orders during an anti-government protest.