Новости за 09.12.2015

BEIJING (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council is not the right place to discuss human rights in North Korea, especially because it could cause tension on the Korean peninsula, China's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, Dec 9 (Reuters) - The decision by the International Monetary Fund to soften lending rules for countries if they fail to repay official debt creates a dangerous precedent, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Wednesday it had asked South Korea to ensure the safety of Chinese ships after South Korea's navy fired warning shots at a Chinese vessel which crossed into waters disputed by North and South Korea.

(Reuters) - Goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois has rejected the idea that his Chelsea team mates are lacking commitment ahead of Wednesday night's crunch Champions League match against Porto.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan held firm to positions on their troubled ties at a conference on Afghanistan's future on Wednesday that risked being overshadowed by a Taliban attack in Afghanistan's biggest city.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan held firm to positions on their troubled ties at a conference on Afghanistan's future on Wednesday that risked being overshadowed by a Taliban attack in Afghanistan's biggest city.

* Central bank says will deal with banks not playing by rules

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Georgia on Wednesday executed a man convicted in the 1992 murder of a family friend, state officials said, after he lost appeals based on the drug to be used in a lethal injection.

Dec 9 (Reuters) - Technology consulting company Computer Sciences Corp (CSC) will buy Xchanging Plc for about 480 million pounds ($721 million), the companies said, beating out other suitors in a bidding war for the insurance-focused outsourcing company.

MUMBAI, Dec 9 (Reuters) - An Indian government auctioneer will sell on Wednesday farmland, a restaurant and even a car which officials say once belonged to the country's most wanted man, fugitive Mumbai mafia boss Dawood Ibrahim.

HONG KONG, Dec 9 (Reuters) - China's central bank has suspended new applications for the Renminbi Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor (RQDII) investment scheme, sources told Reuters on Wednesday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - As Iraqi forces close in on the western city of Ramadi, thousands of civilians are effectively being held hostage inside by Islamic State militants who want to use them as human shields.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - As Iraqi forces close in on the western city of Ramadi, thousands of civilians are effectively being held hostage inside by Islamic State militants who want to use them as human shields.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United States' new envoy to the coalition it leads against Islamic State said on Wednesday that only 30 percent of airstrikes conducted by Russia in Syria targeted the ultra-hardline group.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United States' new envoy to the coalition it leads against Islamic State said on Wednesday that only 30 percent of airstrikes conducted by Russia in Syria targeted the ultra-hardline group.

RIYADH (Reuters) - The powerful Islamist insurgent group Ahrar al-Sham said on Wednesday that a Syrian opposition meeting in Saudi Arabia must insist that President Bashar al-Assad face justice and that Syria's "institutions of oppression" are dismantled.

RIYADH (Reuters) - The powerful Islamist insurgent group Ahrar al-Sham said on Wednesday that a Syrian opposition meeting in Saudi Arabia must insist that President Bashar al-Assad face justice and that Syria's "institutions of oppression" are dismantled.

Afghan security forces fight Taliban insurgents after they attacked Kandahar's sprawling airport. Julie Noce reports.

Afghan security forces fight Taliban insurgents after they attacked Kandahar's sprawling airport. Julie Noce reports.

Afghan security forces fight Taliban insurgents after they attacked Kandahar's sprawling airport. Julie Noce reports.

Afghan security forces fight Taliban insurgents after they attacked Kandahar's sprawling airport. Julie Noce reports.

Dec 9 (Reuters) - Oil and gas explorer Ophir Energy Plc said it had signed heads of agreements to sell the offtake from its floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) project Fortuna to six buyers.

LONDON (Reuters) - Russian companies planning a return to global bond markets in 2016 after a long absence may expect an eager welcome from fund managers who are starved of new emerging debt issues and reckon such deals will remain scarce.

LONDON (Reuters) - Expectations of a takeover frenzy in global mining have been dashed by falling commodity prices, leaving the field open for private equity funds looking to deploy billions of dollars.

LONDON (Reuters) - The pension scheme of telecoms firm BT said it planned to pull an 8.4 billion pound government bond investment mandate from its asset manager Hermes Investment Management, to save costs.