Новости за 13.12.2017

• Voters in Alabama are deciding whether Republican Roy Moore or Democrat Doug Jones will take the open US Senate seat in their state Tuesday night.
• The race remained close right up to Election Day, despite a massive sexual misconduct scandal that has rocked Moore's campaign in recent weeks.
• President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama have campaigned for the candidates in their respective parties.
• A win for Jones would put a Democrat in an Alabama Senate seat for the first time in two decades. Читать дальше...

Das Europaparlament hat am Mittwoch die "demokratische Opposition" in Venezuela mit seinem diesjährigen Sacharow-Preis für Meinungsfreiheit ausgezeichnet. Parlamentspräsident Antonio Tajani überreichte den Preis dem Präsidenten der entmachteten venezolanischen Nationalversammlung, Julio Borges, und dem früheren Bürgermeister von Caracas, Antonio Ledezma.

David Shedd

Security, Americas

President Trump's nominee, Joseph Macmanus, is not the man for the job.

Latin America has stood out as an area of foreign-policy interest for Donald Trump since the early days of the 2016 campaign. And so far, with the presidency in hand, the Trump administration has made headway on many of its campaign promises regarding the region—from addressing the crisis in Venezuela to improving President Obama’s flawed Cuba policy.

Even with... Читать дальше...

A discussion was held at Lethbridge College on Tuesday about the importance of unstructured outdoor play for childhood development.

Arsenal News HQ brings you the latest Arsenal news, match analysis, transfer news, injury news, team news and rumours from trusted media outlets around the world. Aaron Ramsey could not run during the closing stages of our draw at Southampton after picking up a hamstring injury. And Shkodran Mustafi did not play on Sunday because of a thigh problem he sustained against Manchester United. Will either of them be OK to face West Ham on Wednesday? And who might get the nod at the London Stadium? Here’s the latest from Arsene Wenger... Читать дальше...

Sensors will measure everything from punch strength to stress and data will be interpreted in real time using analytics and artificial intelligence.

Curt Mills

Security, Americas

Recent efforts in Washington—including an historic audit of the Pentagon—are aimed at cutting waste, and limiting blowback.

A year on from the election of Donald Trump—which some hoped would usher in a new era of foreign policy “realism” and “restraint” (in contrast to the swashbuckling days of the last Republican administration)—many of those same voices are gravely disappointed. “There is no realism and restraint in American foreign policy... Читать дальше...

Gwen Stefani‘s kids have set the bar high for Santa Claus this year.

The pop superstar — who has partnered with Hallmark this holiday season — spoke with PEOPLE for this week’s issue about her evolving Christmas traditions with boyfriend Blake Shelton, plus what her sons are wishing for under the tree.

“The oldest one has just started to get into liking brands and knowing what that is,” Stefani said of Kingston James McGregor, 11. “I remember that age — like, fifth grade — and for us... Читать дальше...

There are calls for UCP house leader Jason Nixon to be removed from his job and the controversy is connected to how he handled a sexual harassment case when he was a business owner years ago. Tom Vernon explains.

A webcast of Global News Hour at 6 Edmonton with Gord Steinke and Carole Anne Devaney from Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017.

That special place in hell everyone keeps talking about is getting mighty crowded.

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Newly crowned flyweight champion Nicco Montano is taking a look at the field of title challengers. And to her mind, Sijara Eubanks is more deserving than anyone else.

Le changement de ton de Washington ne semble pas avoir d'effet sur la ligne maintenue par le gouvernement nord-coréen dans le dossier nucléaire. Alors que les États-Unis se disent prêts à négocier sans conditions préalables avec le régime de Pyongyang, Kim Jong-un entend faire de son pays la puissance nucléaire la plus forte au monde .

James Jay Carafano

Security, Asia

The U.S.-India strategic relationship could play a pivotal role in ensuring peace and stability in Asia. The only problem is that there is no framework for creating the right sort of relationship.

Congress has created numerous rules regarding how America goes about establishing strategic relationships. Unfortunately, those rules don’t work well in the world as it exists in the twenty-first century.

Over many decades, the United States has established a two-tier system. Читать дальше...

‘I micromanage a lot, but not that much,” Mayor de Blasio said Tuesday in distancing himself from the decision to hand out $15 Dunkin’ Donuts gift cards to low-level defendants who fill out a survey on their experience with city courts. Fair enough: He just sets the tone and overall policy, in this case for...

The jealous creep who forced his girlfriend to walk naked through Harlem claimed on the stand Tuesday that she agreed to the stunt in an bid to atone for texting other men. “In Africa, they used to do this when somebody gets cheated on,” Jasson Melo, inexplicably wearing his expired UN credentials from his time...

Music has always been important to Rosita Watson. The youngest of nine sisters and two brothers, she grew up in a close-knit religious family in Oakland. Her father was a pastor, her mother taught piano and her older sisters Betty, Mary, Shirley and Macletus formed a gospel singing group, the Watson Sisters, whose 1963 album “Glory Train” earned a four-star review in Billboard magazine. Watson was too young to be a regular part of the group, but she joined her late... Читать дальше...

Ted Galen Carpenter

Security, Eurasia

One of the pitfalls of being a superpower is that at times two or more of your clients will feud with each other.

One of the pitfalls of being a superpower with a multitude of political and security clients around the world is that at times two or more of them will feud with each other. There have been numerous examples in recent years, both serious and farcical. The periodic quarrels between Japan and South Korea over a tiny island typify the former. Читать дальше...

After years of policy stubbornly pushing regime change and pundits claiming Daesh would never fall without Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s removal, Washington appears to be slowly warming to the fact that Assad will remain in power, at least until the next Syrian elections in 2021.

The Bronx terrorist-wannabe who watched ISIS decapitation videos when he worked out — to keep himself “motivated” — was back to his terrorism recruiting alongside the Chelsea Bomber while the pair were in jail, prosecutors allege. Sajmir Alimehmeti, 24, “collaborated” with now-convicted Ahmad Rahimi to get a thumb drive into the Metropolitan Correctional Center that...

Edward P. Joseph

Security, Europe

Without a solution to the name dispute, Macedonia will continue to languish in uncertainty—another open territorial question weighing on regional stability.

The “Interim Accord” was supposed to function as a stop-gap solution, halting the Greek blockade on its neighbor and opening diplomatic relations between the two countries, pending a permanent solution. Twenty-two years later and there is still no final agreement on the name—and the... Читать дальше...

Ruined houses, shell craters and deserted streets — this is a typical scene in the Oktyabrsky district of Donetsk, the largest city of Ukraine's pro-Russian rebel region that bears the same name. The self-styled Donetsk and next-door Luhansk "people's republics" broke away from central rule in 2014 after months of violent street protests in Kyiv toppled Ukraine's Moscow-leaning president and propelled pro-Western nationalists to power. In this calm suburb of Donetsk, many people stood aloof of politics. Читать дальше...

What is Gov. Cuomo afraid of? New York’s combative chief executive has never been one to shy away from a confrontation with his critics. But of late he seems to have turned tail and run from the press corps. The threat: questions about such embarrassments as the FBI probe of his hiring practices, the upcoming...