Новости за 21.11.2018

DAKAR (Reuters) - Thirteen new cases of Ebola were confirmed on Wednesday in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo - one of the highest daily counts since the start of the outbreak in July, the health ministry said.

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By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - Abortion rates among U.S. women in all age groups plunged to a decade low, with teens experiencing a greater decrease than older women, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.

By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nancy Pelosi, working to reclaim the top job in the U.S. House of Representatives, won over another supporter on Wednesday as a fellow Democrat reversed course and said he would back her as House speaker next year. Pelosi, a 78-year-old San Francisco liberal and current House Democratic leader, is fighting hard to regain the job of speaker after the Nov

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twelve U.S. Republican Senators on Wednesday urged President Donald Trump to submit the deal to update the North American Free Trade Agreement to Congress for passage by year-end, before Democrats assume control of the House of Representatives. "We are concerned that if the administration waits until next year to send to Congress a draft implementing bill, passage of the USMCA as negotiated will become significantly more difficult," the senators, led by Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, wrote. Читать дальше...

By April Joyner NEW YORK (Reuters) - World stock markets climbed on Wednesday, with earnings and gains in tech stocks lifting shares on Wall Street, and oil rebounded from a steep sell-off as U.S. government data pointed to strong demand. The recovery in U.S

By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices rose almost $2 a barrel on Wednesday, bouncing from the lowest levels in months, after U.S. government data showed strong demand for refined fuel, but concerns remained over rising global crude supply

BERLIN (Reuters) - The Trump administration has invited the heads of Volkswagen , BMW and Daimler to the White House to discuss U.S.

US Chief Justice John Roberts is pushing back against President Donald Trump for his description of a judge who ruled against Trump's migrant asylum policy as an "Obama judge."

By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - Abortion rates among U.S. women in all age groups plunged to a decade low, with teens experiencing a greater decrease than older women, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday

By Andrea Shalal BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany and France said they would sign a contract with Airbus and Dassault Aviation to start work on a next-generation fighter jet in early 2019, with next steps on a joint tank programme due by the end of 2018. French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel first announced plans for the two big arms programmes in July 2017 as part of an effort to deepen bilateral defence cooperation.

By Aziz El Yaakoubi and Mohammed Ghobari DUBAI/ADEN (Reuters) - An estimated 85,000 children under five may have died from extreme hunger in Yemen since a Saudi-led coalition intervened in the civil war in 2015, an aid agency said on Wednesday, as the U.N. special envoy arrived in Yemen to pursue peace talks. Western countries are pressing for a ceasefire and renewed peace efforts to end the disastrous conflict, which has unleashed the world’s most urgent humanitarian crisis with 8.4 million... Читать дальше...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A committee of the upper house of the Russian parliament on Wednesday recommended to the National Security Council that it change the rules on the use of nuclear weapons, RIA news agency reported.

By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - Endemic violence in Central African Republic is pushing the country towards famine with 63 percent of the population already needing emergency aid, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator in the country said on Wednesday. Central African Republic (CAR) has been in chaos since 2013, when mainly Muslim Seleka rebels ousted the president, provoking a backlash from Christian anti-balaka militias.

By Pawel Florkiewicz and Pawel Sobczak WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) rushed a legislative amendment through parliament on Wednesday reversing changes it had made at the Supreme Court that the European Union had condemned as undemocratic.

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PRAGUE (Reuters) - The junior partner in the Czech Republic's ruling coalition will allow the government to survive a motion of no-confidence by abstaining from the vote, the party said on Wednesday. The decision announced by Jan Hamacek, head of the centre-left Social Democratic Party, makes it unlikely that Friday's vote could gather 101 votes necessary to declare no-confidence in Prime Minister Andrej Babis's government. Babis has been under pressure over allegations from opponents that he... Читать дальше...

By Humphrey Malalo and George Obulutsa NAIROBI (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped an Italian volunteer and wounded five people in Kenya in an attack that has brought fears of an upsurge in activity by militant Islamists.

By Aziz El Yaakoubi, Katie Paul and Maha El Dahan ABU DHABI (Reuters) - A UAE court sentenced a British academic to life in prison on charges of spying for the British government on Wednesday, in a move Britain said would have serious diplomatic consequences for relations between the old allies. The United Arab Emirates public prosecutor said the sentence was handed down on Matthew Hedges "after the accused confessed before the court to the charges brought against him", but that Hedges could appeal. Читать дальше...

As well as sitting on FIFA's Ethics Committee, Sundra Rajoo was the director of the Malaysia-based Asian International Arbitration Centre.

Former Bayern and Germany captain Lothar Matthaeus said Oliver Kahn would be the ideal candidate to succeed Hoeness, who has spent nearly 50 years at the club as a player, then team manager and eventually president.

FC Pune City defeated Jamshedpur FC 2-1 in a hard-fought match to register their first win of the ongoing Indian Super League football tournament on Wednesday.

Nicklas Bendtner's off-field behaviour has got him into trouble in the past. While at Juventus, he was fined and stripped of his driving licence after being caught drink driving.

Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik late Wednesday evening ordered the dissolution of state Assembly

Attorney general Michael Lauber told journalists that his meetings with FIFA President Gianni Infantino were normal and regular, especially in complex cases.