Новости за 17.06.2016

With the European football championships in France in full swing, Air France pilot are set to go on strike from June 24 to 27, three major unions told AFP Friday.

Viacom Inc disclosed on Friday it would foot the bill for embattled CEO Philippe Dauman`s legal fight against controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone, even as Wall Street cheers the executive`s potential departure.

A software tool unveiled Friday aims to help online firms quickly find and eliminate extremist content used to spread and incite violence and attacks.

BJP slammed DMK chief M Karunanidhi for his reported remarks that there was an attempt to impose Sanskrit with the support of the ruling party at the Centre.

US stocks sat out an equity rally that lifted shares in Europe and Asia Friday, with the Nasdaq falling especially hard due to weakness in Apple and other tech names.

Donald Trump chipped away at Hillary Clinton`s lead in the presidential race this week, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday, as the candidates clashed over how to respond to the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

The Xiaomi Mi Max will come with a fingerprint scanner located at the rear panel.

The new Samsung Galaxy Note 7 features a curved display or a rather dual-edge screen.

A Canadian woman who fought insurgents in Afghanistan became the country`s first female combat officer to rise to the rank of general on Thursday.

Barrel bomb attacks and shelling on rebel-held areas of Syria's northern city of Aleppo killed at least nine civilians today, the second day of a temporary truce, a monitor said.

Iraqi forces raised the national flag over the government compound in Fallujah today, top commanders said, a breakthrough in the nearly four-week-old offensive against the Islamic State group's bastion.

Apple Inc said its iPhone 6 and 6 Plus were still available for sale in China after Beijing`s intellectual property regulators barred their sales saying the designs had infringed a patent held by a Chinese company.

A team astronomers found that planets known as 'hot Jupiters' are more common in a star cluster in the constellation of Cancer than around stars outside clusters.

Punches were also seen being thrown on the terraces amongst Croatian fans in the chaos of the closing stages.

A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard was sentenced to jail in Germany on Friday by a judge who branded him a "willing and efficient henchman" in the Holocaust.

The conditions predictably were tough to score, and Lahiri despite being three-over was Tied-55th and Jeev was Tied-96th.

The Bombay High Court on Friday refused to modify conditions of 'protection from arrest' granted to Rajya Sabha MP and real estate developer Sanjay Kakade, accused of helping former Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal with money laundering.

AAP today said it is mulling filing a contempt litigation in the High Court against those who have allegedly leaked a document related to the issue of office of profit of 21 party legislators.

CBI today claimed one of the accused arrested in connection with the murder of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar spoke about raising an army of 15,000 armed men to fight anti-Hindu forces.

The Calcutta High Court on April 29 ordered a forensic test on the Narada sting tapes to be conducted by the Central Forensic Science Laboratory, (CFSL) Hyderabad.

Top seed Federer will play Alexander Zverev in Saturday`s last four after the young German, 19, beat Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis 7-6 (11/9), 6-3.

Pre-Olympic jitters had already risen after a French jihadist warned on Twitter after deadly attacks in France last November that Brazil was the "next target."

A married young Hindu woman was forcibly married to a 56-year-old Hindu man in Pakistan's Tharparkar district on the orders of a jirga - an elders body.

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke about near-doubling of taxpayer base to 10 crore, Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia on Friday sought to contextualise the statement saying he was talking about "scope for expansion" and getting to that mark is "impossible".

A senior Gujarat minister was caught on camera misspelling the word elephant while taking a class during an impromptu visit to a government school in Deesa.