Новости за 06.02.2017

By David Brunnstrom | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump will play a round of golf with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Florida this week and says he will make sure the Japanese leader is his partner in the game, rather than a competitor.Trump, who is due to welcome Abe at the White House on Friday, told Westwood One Sports Radio that playing golf was a better way to get to know someone than having lunch."We’re going to have a round of golf, which is a great thing," Trump said in the interview on Sunday... Читать дальше...

By Robin Emmott | BRUSSELS BRUSSELS The European Union will keep sanctions on Russia until Moscow drops its support for the separatist rebellion in Ukraine, foreign ministers said on Monday, as U.S.

BERLIN The European Union still sees some chance of reviving the stalled U.S.-European trade deal known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), European Commission Vice President Jyrki Katainen said on Monday.Katainen said it was noteworthy that U.S. President Donald Trump had attacked a U.S

LONDON A majority of Britons approve of the government's approach to leaving the European Union, a poll indicated on Monday, in a boost to Prime Minister Theresa May after she laid out her priorities for negotiations. May set out her vision for Brexit in a speech in mid-January, outlining plans to leave the EU single market in a clean break with the bloc.She had previously been criticised for being vague, and some lawmakers want further clarity before they will vote to start Brexit negotiations.While... Читать дальше...

By Alistair Smout and Matthias Blamont | LONDON/PARIS LONDON/PARIS France's presidential elections has become so unpredictable that gamblers are betting on a second term for the sitting president, even though he bowed out of the contest last year and his party has since picked another candidate.British bookmakers reopened the market for bets on the deeply unpopular Socialist President Francois Hollande due to demand from customers. The chances of him changing his mind and going on to win are now put at 100-to-1... Читать дальше...

By Aditya Kalra | NEW DELHI NEW DELHI An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 hit the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand late on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey.Tremors were felt across parts of North India, including the Indian capital New Delhi, according to people on the ground. The Indian Meteorological Department said the earthquake was one of "moderate" intensity. It pegged the magnitude at 5.8 and put the epicentre in the Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand, close to... Читать дальше...

PARIS French far-right leader Marine Le Pen and independent centrist Emmanuel Macron are set to make it through to the presidential election's second round in May, according to an opinion poll published on Monday, with Macron comfortably winning the runoff.The IFOP rolling poll of voting intentions showed Le Pen garnering 25.5 percent of the vote in the April 23 first round, up 1.5 percent since Feb. 1, while Macron would get 20.5 percent, up 0.5 percent over the same period.Conservative candidate Francois Fillon placed at 18.5 percent... Читать дальше...

By Balazs Koranyi and Francesco Canepa | FRANKFURT FRANKFURT The European Central Bank rejected U.S. accusations of currency manipulation on Monday and warned that deregulating the banking industry, now being openly discussed in Washington, could sow the seeds of the next financial crisis.Arguing that lax regulation had been a key cause of the global financial crisis a decade ago, ECB President Mario Draghi said the idea of easing bank rules was not just worrisome but potentially dangerous, threatening... Читать дальше...

South African legend Joost van der Westhuizen died on Monday aged 45 after a long battle with motor neurone disease, triggering a wave of tributes to one of rugby's greatest.

LONDON The speaker of Britain's lower house of parliament said on Monday he would not support any plans for U.S. President Donald Trump to address parliament during a state visit planned for later this year, citing Trump's "migrant ban" as a factor."As far as this place (parliament) is concerned I feel very strongly that our opposition to racism and to sexism, and our support for equality before the law and an independent judiciary are hugely important considerations," speaker John Bercow told lawmakers in parliament. Читать дальше...

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola admits even he is surprised by the stunning start Brazil forward Gabriel Jesus has made to his career in English football.

Prithvi Shaw and Shubman Gill slammed centuries as India U-19 crushed their counterparts from England by 230 runs in the fourth One-dayer to take a 3-1 lead in the five-match series in Mumbai.

In an unusual case of 'mass bunking' being confronted by the CRPF, 59 trainee commandos of
its elite jungle warfare and counter-Naxal squad CoBRA have gone missing from a train just before they were to report for duty in the Left Wing Extremism-hit theatre of Bihar as part of their first deployment.

The Union Budget for 2017-2018 presented by the Finance Minister in the Lok Sabha on 1 February, 2017 has been widely hailed. One of the features that attracted a lot of adulation is the section in the Finance Minister’s budget speech

Former AIADMK minister KP Munusamy on Monday slammed VK Sasikala for making a "backdoor entry" to the Chief Minister's post and questioned why O Panneerselvam made way for her despite being the "preferred choice" of late chief minister J Jayalalithaa.

Here's how some of the renowned personalities paid tribute to Alastair Cook's decision to step down as England's Test captain

PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal have been named in the Indian squad for the inaugural Asia Mixed Team Championships, scheduled to be held in Vietnam from 14-19 February.

Heralding the "Chinnamma" era in AIADMK and Tamil Nadu politics, party supremo Sasikala was on Sunday unanimously elected as the leader of the legislature party, paving the way for her to take over as the next chief minister of Tamil Nadu.

Congress on Monday claimed that it would win 23 to 25 seats out of the 37 seats it contested in the recently-held Goa Assembly election.

Israel says it's started demolishing buildings at a West Bank settlement outpost evacuated last week amid clashes between settlers and security forces.

The Jammu and Kashmir government recently said that more than 1,200 Rohingya families, comprising of 6,000 people, have been living in different parts of Jammu for the last six years.

Elections for Uttar Pradesh state assembly start on 11 February, but 40 percent of its voters said they still don’t know which political party they will vote for, according to a new survey.

Shah Rukh Khan pulls off a smart move by releasing a song that did not make it to the final cut, after the success of Raees at the box office

India’s Davis Cup tie against New Zealand seemed pretty straightforward to the outside observer with a 4-1 win, but will the script of tennis in India make happy reading after this?

Jose Mourinho took a swipe at his old club Chelsea as the Manchester United boss accused the Premier League leaders of lacking style.