Новости за 08.04.2017

Liberal candidate Felicity Wilson has denied giving a misleading account of her academic qualifications.

TOKYO - The Sunwolves picked up their first Super Rugby win of 2017 Saturday as they beat the Bulls 21-20 at...

Waratahs back-rower Ned Hanigan says he was shocked to receive an invitation from Michael Cheika to a Wallabies catch-up camp early next week in Canberra after playing just 263 minutes of Super Rugby.

BALTIMORE — Patience is the ultimate virtue for the Yankees. These are the growing pains you knew were going to come in this season of transition as the Yankees blew a four-run lead and fell to the Orioles, 6-5, Friday night at Camden Yards. It was cold and it was ugly. With 27 world championships...

Waratahs coaches Daryl Gibson and Nathan Grey have implored SANZAAR to take a harsher stance on deliberate knock-downs after Hurricanes five-eighth Beauden Barrett was shown two yellow cards at critical moments on Friday.

Authorities in western Myanmar say a ferry carrying scores of wedding guests capsized in the Ngawun River, killing 20 people. Emergency workers said the ferry collided with another boat. At least nine people are missing and 30 people have been rescued, officials said. Police said at least 70 passengers were believed to be on the boat when it capsized. The wedding guests were returning from a ceremony in Pathein. “Most of them were relatives from the same village,” a police officer said. Fatal boat accidents are common in Myanmar... Читать дальше...

The Rs 1,180-crore scam has been hanging heavy on the former hief Minister Mayawati but it was put in cold storage by the earlier Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party government.

Debate about the wisdom of signing Tim Cahill on a multi-million dollar, multi-year deal has been ongoing, but the truth is his value and impact on Melbourne City cannot be properly judged until the club's season is over.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson heads to Moscow, April 12, days after the United States launched missile strikes on a Syrian airbase in response to a Syrian chemical weapon attack that killed civilians. Officials say the top U.S. diplomat will urge Russia to think carefully about its continued support for the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad. VOA State Department correspondent Nike Ching has the story.

Perth mummy blogger Constance Hall has announced she has split from her husband and father of her four children, telling her loyal followers she still "loves him with every inch" but that the pair had come to lead separate lives.

Russia is ready for further cooperation with the United States on Syria, as without such a partnership neither political settlement in Syria, nor fight against terrorism is possible, chairman of the Russian upper house defense and security committee Victor Ozerov said Saturday.

When Arnaud Laillou, a nutrition specialist with UNICEF, led a salt iodization study in 2014, he wanted to be sure that salt producers were not adding too much iodine. Just four years earlier, UNICEF had stopped providing iodine to salt producers at the end of a decade-long, largely successful government-run iodization program. Laillou was stunned to find that 90 percent of coarse salt and 40-50 percent of fine salt was now not iodized. And all of it was labeled as iodized. “It was a real shock... Читать дальше...

A lawsuit has been filed accusing Seattle Democrat mayor Ed Murray of child sexual abuse stretching back decades, as President Trump’s urgent investigation into the elite pedophile ring that has infiltrated Washington D.C. and politics nationwide [...]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley won a court fight to halt his looming impeachment hearings but couldn’t prevent the release of an investigative report that describes his paranoia and obsession over trying to keep his romance with a staffer from becoming public. The stunning events Friday capped a wild week in Alabama politics....

Former England hooker Brian Moore has announced he is recovering in St George's hospital in Tooting, London after suffering a heart attack.

On April 8, 1935, the U.S. Congress approved the Works Progress Administration, a central part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.

Vasyl Lomachenko and Jason Sosa weigh in for world title fight The post WATCH Vasyl Lomachenko and Jason Sosa hit the scales appeared first on Boxing News.

Rickie Fowler's 67 on day two of the Masters propels him into a four-way tie for the halfway lead alongside Sergio Garcia, Thomas Pieters and Charley Hoffman.

As U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping met Friday at Trump’s Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, human rights activist said they hoped the leaders would discuss human rights. Hu Jia and Wang Qiaoling, wife of detained human rights lawyer Li Heping, told VOA they were concerned about two specific human rights cases in China: a wave of arrests July 9, 2015, known as the 709 Incident that targeted three groups connected to rights advocacy, and house church persecution. They... Читать дальше...

Since the departure of Gambia’s long-time ruler Yahya Jammeh, newly elected president Adama Barrow’s government has been taking steps to restore the economy, rule of law and political reforms after two decades of one-party rule. Gambia’s vice president recently visited the United States to “thank its partners for the help they provided during her nation’s political impasse,” she said. In an exclusive interview, Fatoumata Jallow Tambajang also told VOA’s Mariama Diallo about the challenges her country is facing... Читать дальше...

As Nigerians await the return of the missing Chibok girls abducted in April 2014, a Boko Haram commander has narrated how he was given two of them as gifts.

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