Новости за 13.03.2017

By Gabriela Baczynska | BRUSSELS BRUSSELS Defence spending by European NATO states inched up for the first time in seven years in 2016, the military alliance said on Monday, but still remained below the threshold the new U.S. President Donald Trump said was crucial to achieve.Trump made NATO states in Europe nervous when he criticised the alliance as "obsolete" during election campaign and then went on to suggest he could make U.S. commitment to their security conditional on them meeting the... Читать дальше...

By John Davison | MOSUL, Iraq MOSUL, Iraq Iraqi special forces are engaged in a punishing and paranoid close-quarters battle against Islamic State in western Mosul as they seek to drive the jihadists out of their last urban bastion in Iraq and deal a major blow to their self-styled caliphate.

By Taro Fuse | TOKYO TOKYO Japan's Toshiba Corp (6502.T) is seeking to extend its Tuesday deadline for submitting official third-quarter earnings due to disagreements with auditors over issues at its U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse, sources familiar with the matter said.The extension would be its second for the earnings after Toshiba postponed a month ago to probe potential problems at Westinghouse. It has flagged a $6.3 billion writedown for the nuclear unit in preliminary estimates.A second... Читать дальше...

YANGON A magnitude 5.1 earthquake jolted buildings in Myanmar's largest city and commercial hub of Yangon on Monday at about 8:50 p.m. (1420 GMT)

CAIRO Hosni Mubarak, who was overthrown as president of Egypt in an uprising in 2011, will be released from detention in a military hospital, the public prosecutor ruled on Monday, his lawyers and judicial sources said."He will go to his home in Heliopolis," Mubarak's lawyer Farid El Deeb said, adding the ageing former president would likely be released Tuesday or soon after.

By Sumeet Chatterjee and Lawrence White | HONG KONG/LONDON HONG KONG/LONDON HSBC (HSBA.L) broke with tradition by choosing outsider Mark Tucker to replace Douglas Flint as chairman later this year, handing the AIA Group (1299.HK) boss the task of selecting a new chief executive for Europe's biggest bank in 2018.A one-time professional footballer and insurance industry veteran who once led Britain's Prudential (PRU.L), Tucker will take over as the bank's first-ever external chairman on Oct. 1.HSBC... Читать дальше...

KABUL An explosion in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul destroyed a bus carrying employees of one of the country's biggest telecoms firms on Monday, killing at least one person and wounding eight, Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said.Security forces surrounded the smoking remains of the bus, which appeared to be completely burned out. A security official said earlier the blast was caused by a suicide bomber on foot, but Sediqqi said it appeared to have been caused by a roadside bomb. Читать дальше...

By Aaron Sheldrick | TOKYO TOKYO India's Adani Enterprises has applied for financing from an Australian infrastructure fund to build a rail line that is part of a $16 billion coal project in the state of Queensland, Australia's resources minister said on Monday.Financing from the A$5 billion Northern Australian Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) would offer a boost to Adani after some major banks said they would not participate in the controversial coal project.Since starting work on the Carmichael development over five years ago... Читать дальше...

BEIRUT The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said on Monday there are so far about 465,000 people killed and missing in Syria's civil war.The war began six years ago on Wednesday with protests against President Bashar al-Assad's government. It has since dragged in global and regional powers, allowed Islamic State to grab huge tracts of territory and caused the biggest refugee crisis since the second world war.

By Elisabeth O'Leary | EDINBURGH EDINBURGH Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Monday demanded a new independence referendum in late 2018 or early 2019, once the terms of Britain's exit from the European Union have become clearer.A vote that could rip apart the United Kingdom just months before Brexit would deepen the uncertainty surrounding the two-year process of leaving the EU after more than four decades."If Scotland is to have a real choice - when the terms of Brexit are known but... Читать дальше...

On Thursday, as the major exit polls predict their results for Manipur Assembly Election, one clear takeaway is that BJP is enjoying an ascendancy in north-eastern states.

At least 652 children were killed in Syria in 2016, making it the worst year yet for the country's rising generation, the United Nations' Child Relief Agency said Monday.

All limits on savings bank cash withdrawals post-demonetisation ended on Monday, as had been announced by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) last month.

Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane hailed goalkeeper Keylor Navas's contribution as the European champions leapfrogged Barcelona into top spot in La Liga despite the latest a series of blunders this season from the Costa Rican on Sunday.

SP leader CP Rai questioned Akhilesh Yadav's decision to form an alliance with Congress and his 'offer' to tie up with Mayawati's BSP following exit polls.

Director of hit Malayalam films Diphan was suffering from liver sclerosis.

The earth dons a riot of colours, the mango trees seem to drown under the weight of their tender blossoms, the rabi crop is ready to be harvested, the sounds of the chirping of birds fills the salubrious air…Vasanta Ritu(spring – the king of festivals as per Indian tradition) has graced the land in full glory.

In second ceasefire violation in less than 24 hours, Pakistani troops today resorted to mortar shelling and firing by automatic weapons along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, prompting the army to retaliate.

The Maternity Bill, while a laudable move forward, has its flaws, and does not, in my opinion, keep the interest of working mothers at the forefront.

The Congress could have been that alternative, but it isn’t, not the least because it’s a family enterprise which its vice-president Rahul Gandhi runs like an Event Management Company with a bunch of jeans-clad iPad-flaunting chums.