Новости за 13.06.2016

The Russian Foreign Ministry considers the idea of a woman becoming UN Secretary General to be "fair."

Iraq said Monday it had launched an investigation into possible human rights abuses against civilians fleeing the Islamic State-held city of Fallujah as an aid group said more than 4,000 more people had left the city over the weekend.

With Patrick Lambie now ruled out of this weekend's game, the second in the series between the Springboks and Ireland, who will coach Allister Coetzee look to as pivot of the Boks side?

Conservationists are asking the White House Council on Environmental Quality to put the brakes on plans to allow a popular off-road, desert race from near Las Vegas to Reno to run through a newly established national monument in southern Nevada.

David Bowie's producer Tony Visconti has apologised to Adele after suggesting her latest album 25 may have been digitally manipulated.

ATO data indicates big wage gaps among male and female public servants.

WASHINGTON (AP) — For Donald Trump, Sunday's mass shooting in Florida was a moment to redouble his call for tougher action against terrorism and to take credit for "being right" about the threat. The responses of Trump and Clinton to the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history were a study in contrasts for the two presumptive presidential nominees — one of whom will soon be leading a country fearful of terrorism, gun violence and the often merciless intersection of the two. Within a few hours... Читать дальше...

Dale "Boomer" Ranney can get in Donald Trump's face like almost no one else.

Dale "Boomer" Ranney can get in Donald Trump's face like almost no one else.

Fifty people were killed when a gunman opened fire inside a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando. Steve Inskeep and David Greene talk to NPR's Carrie Johnson and Dan Byman of the Brookings Institution.

A messy 10-year fight between the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a retired professor over a doctorate is headed for the Constitutional Court.

BALTIMORE (AP) — Prosecutors are expected to call more witnesses Monday in their murder case against the police van driver in the death of a 25-year-old black man who died after his neck was broken in the back of the…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Prosecutors are expected to call more witnesses Monday in their murder case against the police van driver in the death of a 25-year-old black man who died after his neck was broken in the back of the…

By Chang Jae-soon and Roh Hyo-dong WASHINGTON, June 12 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. blacklisting of North Korea as a "primary money laundering concern" is not expected to be as powerful as a similar 2005 financial sanction, as Pyongyang is now using Chinese i

WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of people who pay the full cost of their health insurance will face the sting of rising premiums next year, with no financial help from government subsidies. President Barack Obama's health law provides income-based subsidies for consumers who buy individual policies on HealthCare.gov and state insurance markets. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas is seeking an average premium increase of nearly 60 percent for 2017, and Smith says his monthly bill of about $350 is already about as much as a car payment. Читать дальше...

SINGAPORE (AP) — A kiss between two male actors has been removed from a production of the musical "Les Miserables" in Singapore following complaints from the public.

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius is in a South African court for a sentencing hearing after the double-amputee Olympian was convicted of murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

TOKYO (AP) — Global shares slipped Monday amid growing unease over what the U.S. Federal Reserve might do on interest rates and Britain's possible exit from the European Union.

TOKYO (AP) — Global shares slipped Monday amid growing unease over what the U.S. Federal Reserve might do on interest rates and Britain's possible exit from the European Union.

Global stock falls before Fed meeting, Britain's referendum TOKYO (AP) — Global shares slipped Monday amid growing unease over what the U.S. Federal Reserve might do on interest rates and Britain's possible exit from the European Union. The U.S. Federal Reserve had been expected to start raising interest rates, but now appears likely to remain in a wait-and-see mode. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 slipped 3.5 percent to 16,019.18 as the yen surged against the dollar, hurting exporters. Brent crude... Читать дальше...

Republican Donald Trump plans Monday to further address the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history in a campaign speech originally intended to attack the presumptive Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton. The switch comes a day after Trump called for Clinton to drop out of the race for president if she didn't use the words "radical Islam" to describe the Florida nightclub massacre.

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Dale "Boomer" Ranney can get in Donald Trump's face like almost no one else.