Новости за 09.07.2015

KABUL — A key leader of the Islamic State and another top commander were killed in recent U.S drone strikes in eastern Afghanistan, according to intelligence officials here, the latest sign that the radical Islamist group is considered a growing threat in the country.Story goes hereRead full article >>

VIENNA — Diplomats at the Iran nuclear talks on Thursday edged closer to reaching agreement on a handful of outstanding issues, as they held a flurry of back-to-back meetings to try to finish their work before a looming deadline.Read full article >>

ATHENS — Facing a midnight deadline from European creditors, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras huddled with government and political leaders Thursday to hammer out details of the debt-laden country’s last-ditch request for a fresh bailout.Read full article >>

Federal marriage benefits will become available to same-sex couples in all 50 states, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Thursday, a change that follows the Supreme Court’s historic ruling that all same-sex couples in the country have the right to get married.Read full article >>

JERUSALEM — Usually people are desperate to leave Gaza. But an African-born Israeli named Avraham Mengistu decided to slip across the border fence, bristling with high-tech sensors and protected by remote-controlled machine guns, and enter the Gaza Strip.Read full article >>

BEIJING — China’s stock market recovered sharply in volatile trading Thursday after the government announced further measures to restore investor confidence, including forbidding major shareholders from selling.Read full article >>

Chuck Blazer, the former FIFA executive committee member whose cooperation with U.S. authorities led to the indictments of more than a dozen world soccer officials, has been banned for life by FIFA because of his “many and various acts of misconduct.”Read full article >>

What should they have done? What would you have done?There’s a young man being brutally slaughtered — punched, stabbed 30 or 40 times, stomped and repeatedly kicked in the head — in a Red Line Metro car, in the middle of a holiday afternoon, in the nation’s capital, in front of almost a dozen witnesses.Read full article >>

On June 17, a church in Charleston became the scene of horrific slaughter. White supremacist Dylann Roof allegedly murdered a beloved pastor and eight of his parishioners simply because they were black. Roof, his friends said, wanted to incite a race war. Instead, he incited a fierce debate over racism and the Confederate flag.Read full article >>

CHENNAI, India — In a country still struggling to deal with widespread violence against women, an Indian judge has touched off a firestorm by suggesting that a rape victim and her attacker heal their rift in the hope of a happy ending.Read full article >>

The New York Stock Exchange ground to a halt for nearly four hours Wednesday because of what officials said was a technical glitch, spooking investors and raising new worries about the soundness of the world’s complex financial markets.Read full article >>

The head of the Republican National Committee, responding to demands from increasingly worried party leaders, spent nearly an hour Wednesday on the phone with Donald Trump, urging the presidential candidate to tone down his inflammatory comments about immigration that have infuriated a key election constituency.Read full article >>

Christina Waters’s cellphone rang, and she looked down to see that the number was blocked. She knew immediately it was U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, just calling to check in.It has been that way since Waters attended a 2009 church picnic in Chicago and came away with a bullet lodged in her head from stray gunfire. She suffered hearing loss in one ear, and her college dreams were delayed. But she pushed forward, with encouragement from Duncan, who has known her since elementary school. Now 24... Читать дальше...

BEIJING — For decades, the Chinese Communist Party has been able to keep control of democracy protests, dissidents, the legal system and the military, but it is now facing an even more intractable foe: a plummeting stock market.Read full article >>

ATHENS — Greece and its European lenders prepared for a final showdown over whether to keep this struggling Mediterranean nation in the euro zone, amid signs that the economy would asphyxiate within days without a desperately needed bailout.Read full article >>

When Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras decided to call a referendum on a bailout offer from Greece’s creditors — an offer that expired before Sunday’s referendum — he informed the Greek nation in a televised speech. At 1 a.m.Read full article >>

For anyone wondering about whether to take a fish oil pill to improve your health, the Web site of the National Institutes of Health has some advice.Yes. And no.One page on the Web site endorses taking fish oil supplements, saying they are likely effective for heart disease, because they contain the “beneficial” fatty acids known as omega-3s.Read full article >>

Federal health officials are proposing that Medicare begin paying doctors to discuss end-of-life issues with their patients, six years after the “death panel” controversy erupted in the early days of the debate over President Obama’s health-care legislation.Read full article >>