Новости за 06.07.2017

1. Free trade talk: Free trade is set to be a big topic today. The 28 nations in the European Union are set to sign a free trade deal with Japan on Thursday. On the same day, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is hosting a bilateral meeting with President Trump in Germany. Merkel criticized the U.S. […]

The people responsible for shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 will be prosecuted by courts in the Netherlands, that country’s foreign ministry said Tuesday. A total of 298 people from 17 countries died when the flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was brought down in Eastern Ukraine in July 2014. Officials have not identified […]

When Luis Fonsi wrote “Despacito” two years ago, it didn’t make the cut on his album but he believed the song was special. A bilingual fusion of reggaeton and pop, “Despacito,” which translates in English to slowly, has burned steadily up the charts. A remix of the song, featuring Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber, has […]

T.J. Smith, Baltimore’s chief police spokesman, has been getting the names of city homicide victims by text message with increasing regularity of late. But he never expected to see the familiar name that popped up Sunday night. Smith’s 24-year-old brother, Dionay, was fatally shot in his apartment that night. He was Baltimore’s 173rd homicide victim […]

In a controversial opinion editorial published by design magazine Dezeen last month, Dorte Mandrup made a bold declaration. “I am not a female architect. I am an architect.” The award-winning Danish architect, and founder of the Copenhagen-based practice Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter, called for the abolishment of “worthy lists and exhibitions” that celebrate only women — […]

A man charged with kidnapping a Chinese graduate student “explained the characteristics of his ideal victim” and pointed out those in the crowd who matched them at a vigil he attended for the missing woman, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday. Suspect Brendt Christensen’s comments were recorded by the FBI, which began surveillance of Christensen about […]

The $78,333.32 that President Donald Trump donated from his first paycheck as President will help fund restoration projects at Antietam National Battlefield. Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke announced Wednesday that the portion of the salary, which Trump in April announced he was donating to the National Park Service, will support restorations at the National Park […]

It wasn’t Hobby Lobby’s scrapbook supplies, their seasonal decorations or their generous selection of fabrics that got the attention of the Department of Justice. It was the ancient clay artifacts from modern-day Iraq. The DOJ said the company smuggled the artifacts into the United States, and the arts and crafts chain on Wednesday agreed to […]

Only a select few world leaders receive Israel’s grand reception at Ben Gurion International Airport: people like the President of the United States, and the Pope. So it did not go unnoticed that India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi received the same red carpet treatment. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet were on the […]

After two aborted attempts and a three-day delay, SpaceX successfully sent a communications satellite soaring toward orbit on Wednesday. The commercial space company, headed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, initially planned for the launch to occur on July 2, but pushed it to July 3 — when it was scrubbed for a second time. In […]

Republican presidents have been drawn to Poland ever since Ronald Reagan worked with Pope John Paul II and the Solidarity movement to help usher in the Eastern European country’s democratic political system. And President Donald Trump, who landed in Poland Wednesday night. Poland’s affinity for the United States is rooted in Reagan’s actions to counter […]