Новости за 21.02.2017

PARIS Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been appointed as a director of AccorHotels (ACCP.PA) and will chair its newly created international strategy committee, Europe's largest hotels group said on Tuesday.Sarkozy, who led France for five years from 2007, lost his bid for another presidential term in November after coming third in the primaries of his center-right party.At AccorHotels the 62-year-old replaces Nadra Moussalem, the head of private equity firm Colony Europe which sold... Читать дальше...

By Jon Herskovitz | AUSTIN, Texas AUSTIN, Texas A group of global investors with $11 trillion in managed assets told Texas on Tuesday not to enact legislation restricting access to bathrooms for transgender people, saying it is discriminatory and bad for business.The "Texas Privacy Act," or Senate Bill 6, has been marked as a priority for Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, a Republican and conservative Christian who guides the legislative agenda in the Republican-controlled state Senate. He said... Читать дальше...

By Edward Taylor and Laurence Frost | FRANKFURT/PARIS FRANKFURT/PARIS PSA Group told German Chancellor Angela Merkel and top labour representatives that it would uphold Opel and Vauxhall job guarantees if it buys the European arm of General Motors, though some analysts say thousands of job losses are likely eventually. As part of a sweeping charm offensive of the political and automotive establishment in Germany, PSA Chief Executive Carlos Tavares discussed his plans with Merkel on Tuesday, after... Читать дальше...

QUITO Ecuador looked set for an April runoff between leftist ruling party candidate Lenin Moreno and former banker Guillermo Lasso in its presidential election, with 94 percent of votes from the weekend's first round of voting counted on Tuesday morning. Moreno was so far less than one percentage point short of the threshold needed to avoid a second round on April 2 and continue a decade-long period of leftist rule, just as South America is broadly moving to the right.While Ecuadoreans are angry... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump will reverse a handful of Obama-era environmental regulations in executive orders that could be signed as early as this week, the Washington Post reported, citing unnamed sources with knowledge of the orders.The orders will instruct the Department of the Interior to lift a ban on new coal mining leases on federal lands and will instruct the Environmental Protection Agency to make changes to greenhouse gas emissions curbs on electric utilities, according to the report on Monday. Читать дальше...

PHILADELPHIA The U.S. economy is back to normal, the labor market is healthy again and inflation is headed higher, a hawkish Federal Reserve official said on Tuesday in repeating that he expects the Fed to raise interest rates three times this year."Given the state of the economy, more or less back to normal, I continue to see three modest rate hikes of 25 basis points each as appropriate for 2017, assuming things stay on track," Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker said in a speech that... Читать дальше...

By Fergus Jensen | JAKARTA JAKARTA Saudi Arabia's King Salman will visit Jakarta and Bali on the Indonesian leg of his Asian tour next month, bringing 1,500 people in his entourage including 10 ministers, Indonesian officials said."This is a very historic visit for us," Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung told reporters on Tuesday, adding that the king would be in Indonesia from March 1 to 9. He would spend the last six days of his trip "relaxing" in Bali.Anung said Indonesian President Joko Widodo... Читать дальше...

By Rami Amichay | TEL AVIV TEL AVIV A young Israeli soldier who killed a wounded and incapacitated Palestinian assailant was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment on Tuesday, in a show of leniency that drew Palestinian outrage after one of the most divisive trials in Israel's history.Eleven months ago, Sergeant Elor Azaria was serving as an army medic in the town of Hebron in the occupied West Bank when two Palestinians stabbed and wounded another soldier.One of the assailants was shot dead by troops. Читать дальше...

By Yashaswini Swamynathan U.S. stocks hit record intraday highs on Tuesday amid gains across sectors as strong earnings from top retailers underscored the strength of the U.S. economy.One in every six stocks on the S&P 500 hit a new 52-week high as a rally sparked by President Donald Trump's promise of tax reforms showed no sign of fading despite concerns around valuations.The index is trading at 19.7 times trailing 12-month earnings, above the long-term average of 17.2 times, according to... Читать дальше...

By Johan Ahlander and Simon Johnson | STOCKHOLM STOCKHOLM Bemused Swedes have been defending their record as a low-crime society in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump's speech in Florida last week in which he appeared to refer to a terrorist attack in Sweden that did not happen.Trump later said he was talking about a Fox News programme highlighting allegedly surging crime statistics in Sweden and linking them to rising immigrant numbers, after a record 163,000 asylum seekers arrived in 2015.On Monday... Читать дальше...

We pick out the top 10 smart buys from the 2017 Indian Premier League auction, which saw a total of 66 players sold.

Baku: Azerbaijan's president on Tuesday appointed his wife as the first vice-president of the ex-Soviet nation—the person next in line in the nation's power hierarchy.

RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lose his aura with the BJP's defeat in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.

Terming demonetisation as a "diversionary tactic", BSP supremo Mayawati said on Tuesday that the move was "unilateral" and was implemented without any adequate preparations or ground work.

The Delhi High Court on Monday stayed a Central Information Commission (CIC) order to CBSE to allow inspection of Class 10th and 12th school records of Union Minister Smriti Irani.

China's warships have carried out a high-seas training in the Indian Ocean, the state media reported on Tuesday.

Shares of consumer durables, banking, finance, oil and gas, industrial and capital goods sectors posted a robust show, while telecom, teck and IT ended in the red.

He feels privileged to be India's national cricket coach but the legendary Anil Kumble on Tuesday said it has been more satisfying to see Virat Kohli and Co become self-sufficient in dealing with challenges both on and off the field.

"All the players are completely behind the coach," Gerard Pique said of Barcelona coach Luis Enrique, who bore the brunt of criticsm after the PSG thrashing.

KRK called Swara Bhaskar's film Anarkali of Aarah a complete washout, and she responded with, "the unasked filth u spew is a character certificate for us."

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Elections to the cash-rich Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and nine other civic bodies in Maharashtra, which have virtually turned into a battle of prestige for Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, heading the state's first BJP-led government, and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, will be held on Tuesday.

It makes more sense for Infosys to make a strategic choice towards innovation-led growth in an emerging future than save some pennies to boost the short-term earning per share.

A meme featuring popular Tamil comedian Vadivelu has gone viral. It sums up the situation O Panneerselvam finds himself in. In a scene from 2002 Tamil film, Vadivelu's character supered in the meme as OPS is egged on by a passerby to emulate another person, who is sitting on a chair and pretending to be like royalty. The passerby is described as BJP while the person sitting is supered as Sasikala.

Akhilesh Yadav's campaign slogan, #KaamBoltaHai, has been paraphrased by people of Mirzapur into a parody about the pathetic road conditions in the region.