Новости за 24.12.2017

North Korea on Sunday called the latest United Nations sanctions targeting the country “an act of war” that violates its sovereignty and said it is a “pipe dream” for the U.S. to think it will give up its nuclear weapons.

Hustling to deliver a crush of holiday shipments before Christmas, UPS is using hundreds of its accountants, marketers and other office staff to deliver packages at the last minute.

Thousands of supporters of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny gathered across the country to back his independent bid to challenge President Vladimir Putin in next year’s election.

Google parent Alphabet said Eric Schmidt will step down from his post as executive chairman in January and transition to a role as technical adviser.

Online advertising is under siege by privacy campaigns run separately by Apple and European regulators. The long-term solution may be for sites to be more explicit about how they make money from customer data.

Primark shuns online shopping and relies on supercheap prices to draw customers into its stores, a strategy that has won it a cultlike following across Europe. Americans have yet to warm to it.

From Costa Rica to Thailand and beyond, WSJ. took readers across the globe this year to experience food, fashion and culture.

President Donald Trump has signed off on a decision to provide Ukraine with lethal defensive weaponry, including portable antitank armaments, in a shift in the yearslong conflict between Kiev and separatists backed by Russia.

The Journal’s Christmas editorial, published annually since 1949.

Russia’s plan to build a nuclear power plant in Moscow-friendly Belarus is fueling fears in the Baltics that the facility is at least partly intended as a weapon to induce panic and destabilize the region.

A federal judge ruled the military must provide immediate access to legal counsel for a U.S. citizen being held as an enemy combatant at a secret location in Iraq, three months after he was captured in Syria.

Firefighters recovered one body from a burning shopping mall and said there was “zero” chance of survival for 36 other people who got trapped inside the four-story building in Davao City.

Estimates from two market-research firms indicate customers are buying the iPhone X and a pair of other new offerings at a rate comparable to recent models but falling short of the iPhone’s 2014 peak.

It wasn’t long ago that Xiaomi, once China’s top smartphone vendor, looked like it was past its prime. But a revival has brought resurgent sales at home and abroad, and now it is looking to cash in by going public.

Scientists are vying for credit in the complex story of the Crispr gene-editing system—and the battlefield is partly the publishing world.

Blood-testing firm Theranos has secured a $100 million loan from Fortress Investment Group, averting a possible bankruptcy for now.

Estimates from two market-research firms indicate customers are buying the iPhone X and a pair of other new offerings at a rate comparable to recent models but falling short of the iPhone’s 2014 peak.