Новости за 21.08.2017

After searching areas recently liberated from ISIS along the Syria-Lebanon border, the Lebanese army has uncovered a large amount of weapons, ranging from factory-made missiles to crude homemade devices, the army said, releasing photos of the spoils.
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Germans are not generally known for their sense of humor, but the Foreign Ministry has gone some way to counter that stereotype by poking fun at right-wing US media outlet Breitbart.
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The long awaited solar eclipse has finally arrived and eager stargazers have taken to social media to share their delight at witnessing this cosmic ballet they’ve waited almost a century to see.
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An earthquake with a reported magnitude of 3.6 struck a popular tourist spot near the Ischia volcano in Italy on Monday evening. Images from the area show people being helped out of badly damaged buildings.
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US Navy warships were involved in four major accidents this year, more than any other year since the turn of the century. The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral John Richardson has ordered an "operational pause" and a probe of all fleet activity.
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Anti-fascist protesters against an anti-illegal immigration rally by far right group La Meute (The Wolf Pack) in Quebec City pelted police, who were attempting to keep the two groups from fighting with fireworks, beer bottles and smoke bombs Sunday.
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Activists in Baltimore, Maryland took a sledgehammer to one of the oldest monuments to Christopher Columbus in the US, blaming the European explorer for racism, murder, genocide and slavery in the Americas.
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A man captured while trying to blow up a Confederate monument in Houston, Texas on Saturday has been charged with a federal crime. Andrew Cecil Schneck tried to drink the liquid explosives when he was approached by officers, the police said.
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Hamburg’s Nicolai Muller is facing seven months on the sidelines after his goal celebration resulted in a reputed anterior cruciate ligament at the weekend.
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Interest in chess has been growing in the US and Russia since the intense showdown between Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin, says Russian grandmaster Alexander Riazantsev. He talked to RT about the future of the mind sport and the players to watch.
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An Iranian court has issued a ruling demanding that the US pay $245 million to more than a dozen victims of chemical attacks carried out by Saddam Hussein's forces during the Iran-Iraqi war of 1980-1988.
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An Afghan wheelchair basketball team consisting almost entirely of landmine victim amputees have set their sights on one day competing in international competitions.
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In the latest chapter of the denunciation of Confederate monuments across the US, the University of Texas has removed several statues from its campus in Austin during the night, calling them "symbols of subjugation" revered by white supremacists.
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Further details have emerged about an 18-year-old Moroccan accused of killing two people and injuring eight others in the Finnish city of Turku last week. The suspect temporarily lived in Germany before heading to Finland, where he was denied asylum.
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Students at an Islamic primary school in the Dutch city of Leiden were due to return from their summer holidays on Monday, but were unable to enter the building as it had been locked by anti-Islam group Pegida.
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The British military could see its troop numbers slashed again to fund spending on state-of-the-art warships, submarines and unmanned drones, it has been revealed.
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The US Navy has called for an “operational pause” in all fleets following the collision of the guided missile destroyer USS John S McCain with a merchant ship off Singapore. The Navy also ordered a review of “root causes” of a series of incidents at sea.
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A fresh cabinet split has emerged as top Tory MPs clash over whether to use fishing rights as a Brexit negotiating pawn.
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Leaders in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics have signed an open letter calling on the United Nations to ban the use of lethal autonomous weapons, or ‘killer robots,’ similar to the prohibition on land mines, firebombs and chemical weapons.
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The Catholic Church and local authorities have come under fire for reportedly exploiting a loophole known as the “consent” defense to avoid paying compensation to children who have been sexually abused by members of the clergy.
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One teenager and two off-duty IDF soldiers were attacked by a group of Israeli youths, who allegedly shouted "you are Arabs" while hitting them with a hookah pipe in a public park in a northern Israeli town.
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This is the moment Russian MMA lightweight Alexandr ‘Peresvet’ Shabliy landed a perfect knee shot to knock down his opponent at ACB 67, which took place over the weekend in Grozny, Chechen Republic.
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Right-wing news outlet Breitbart has apologized after it published a photograph of German footballer Lukas Podolski, claiming he was an illegal migrant traveling by jet-ski from Morocco to Spain.
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A US Air Force MQ-1 Predator drone has crashed in southeast Turkey, the Incirlik Air Base has confirmed. This is the second drone crash in four days involving Predators flown from the joint US-Turkish base near the Syrian border.
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Monday's solar eclipse will cost US companies $694 million in missed output, when employees take a break to watch the moon block the sun, according to outplacement and career transitioning firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
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