Новости за 28.09.2016

If you’re dining with a South Korean public official, don’t order the lobster. Top quality beef and liquor may also be off the table, and if you want to send a gift, it may have to be a box of tuna or spam. A new anti-corruption bill, described by some as the strictest ever, took […]

Former Israeli Prime Minister, President and Nobel laureate Shimon Peres is dead, according to Israel’s Channel 2 and Channel 10. The 93-year-old Peres suffered a massive stroke two weeks ago. He was reported to be making progress, but doctors said he took a turn for the worse Tuesday. Peres’ family was believed to be at […]

Four people died and at least 524 were injured in Taiwan after a powerful typhoon slammed into the country’s northeastern coastline on Tuesday. Most cities and counties announced that school and offices would be closed Wednesday, as well as the financial markets for a second day, Taiwan’s Central News Agency reported. More than 2,700,000 homes […]

Some families have at least one relative who’s either odd or eccentric. Others boast family members of a more unusual kind. That’s what one filmmaker discovered in 2011 when he heard of a group of former farmers in Fukushima’s nuclear exclusion zone, fighting to keep their radiation-affected cows alive, though they brought them no profit. […]

Shimon Peres, the Israeli elder statesman who shared a Nobel Prize for forging a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians, has died. He served as a constant force for generations in Israeli politics. The 93-year-old died after suffering a massive stroke two weeks ago. He was reported to be making progress but doctors said he […]

The FBI has asked to examine the cell phones of a small number Democratic Party staffers as it investigates a possible hack, law enforcement and Democratic sources told CNN Tuesday. The development comes on the same day Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told lawmakers that 18 states have asked for help in warding off cyberattacks […]

President Barack Obama on Tuesday tapped the highest-ranking US diplomat in Cuba as the first ambassador to the island in more than 50 years. But deep opposition among some senators means it’s nearly impossible he’ll be confirmed before the President leaves office. Jeffrey DeLaurentis has served as the United States’ charge d’affairs in Havana since […]

There’s one group of U.S. voters that appears especially motivated by this year’s presidential election — Spanish speakers. According to Google, searches for the phrase “registrarse para votar” have surged 2200% in the last week. For comparison sake, the English equivalent “register to vote” has gone up only 430% in the same timeframe. It’s unclear […]

When Donald Trump wanted to prove, despite the evidence, that he never supported the Iraq War, he turned to Sean Hannity for help. “I spoke to Sean Hannity, which, everybody refuses to call Sean Hannity. I had numerous conversations with Sean Hannity at Fox. And Sean Hannity said — and he called me the other […]

Rudy Giuliani blasted Hillary Clinton as “too stupid to be president” because she stayed with her husband after the Monica Lewinsky scandal. “She didn’t just stand by him — she attacked Monica Lewinsky, and after being married to Bill Clinton for 20 years, if you didn’t know the moment Monica Lewinsky said Bill Clinton violated […]

Housing markets across the globe are overheating, and some are at risk of a bubble. Vancouver’s housing market is the most at risk, according to The UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index, thanks to skyrocketing home prices and strong buyer demand. London, Stockholm, Sydney, Munich and Hong Kong are also in bubble-risk territory, the report […]

Spending by super PACs tied to Donald Trump friends such as Ben Carson and banker Andy Beal will help make this week the general election’s most expensive yet. Republicans and Democrats will spend almost $28 million on radio and television this week, according to advertising records, as Trump substantially increases his advertising buy for the […]

When Donald Trump tried to score points by saying that Hillary Clinton had spent days off the campaign trail to prepare for Monday night’s debate, Clinton — having spent days off the trail to prepare — had a ready reply. “I think Donald just criticized me for preparing for this debate,” Clinton said wryly after […]

Elon Musk said Tuesday that a self-sustaining colony of people could be living on Mars within 50 to 150 years. The SpaceX CEO laid out his plan to colonize the Red Planet at the International Astronautical Congress, a meeting of multiple international space exploration associations in Guadalajara, Mexico. Musk has long said he wants to […]

The FBI has asked to examine the cellphones of a small number Democratic Party staffers as it investigates a possible hack of cellphones, law enforcement and Democratic Party sources told CNN Tuesday. Law enforcement has reached out to the staffers individually about “imaging” their phones to search for evidence of hacking, such as malware. Investigators […]