Новости за 28.05.2017

By Eric Knecht | CAIRO CAIRO Egypt has blocked the website of one of its most prominent financial newspapers, the paper's owner said on Sunday, expanding a media blackout initiated last week to curb what authorities called support for terrorism and fake news.Egypt blocked access to a number of news websites including Al-Jazeera and Huffington Post Arabic on Wednesday after similar actions by its Gulf allies Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.The censorship of Al-Borsa, a widely read financial... Читать дальше...

The second highest honour of the evening, The Grand Prix went to 120 Beats Per Minute and Sofia Capolla won the Best director Prize at Cannes.

LONDON If the Scottish National Party wins the most seats in Scotland at a June 8 election, Prime Minister Theresa May's refusal to agree to a second independence referendum will be unsustainable, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Sunday. The SNP, which won 56 of parliament's 59 Scottish seats at the last election in 2015 and is expected to win easily in Scotland again, has said Scotland should get another say on independence once the terms of Britain's EU exit are clear. May... Читать дальше...

Upset with the Gujarat government for not doing anything for youths, a member of Hardik Patel-led Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) on Sunday hurled a shoe at Union minister Mansukh Mandaviya at a function in Vallabhipur town in Bhavnagar district

The country's first indigenously built Scorpene-class submarine Kalvari has conducted successful test-fire of a torpedo

BAGHDAD Iraq's Iran-backed Shi'ite paramilitary force said on Sunday it had dislodged Islamic State from a number of villages west of Mosul, scoring further progress towards the border with Syria.    The villages taken by the Popular Mobilisation paramilitary force include Kojo, where Islamic State fighters abducted hundreds of Yazidi women in 2014, including Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji Bashar, recipients of the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought.    Kojo and the other... Читать дальше...

A 17-year-old student allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan at his residence in adjoining Navi Mumbai for failing the Class 12 CBSE examination, results of which were declared on Sunday

The Gujarat unit of the BJP on Sunday kicked off the vistarak initiative which is aimed at establishing a direct contact with people ahead of the Assembly elections to be held later this year.

The Delhi Police team is carrying out raids in Hyderabad for a middleman who used to scout for needy families looking for kidney donors.

India all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin's grandfather S Narayanasamy died at Chennai due to age-related illness, family sources said on Sunday.

By David Ljunggren | OTTAWA OTTAWA Andrew Scheer, a social conservative who now heads Canada's main opposition party, faces a formidable rival in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as he bids to heal a divided party and fend off charges he is a closet extremist.Scheer, a low-profile 38-year-old former speaker of the House of Commons, on Saturday captured the leadership of the right-leaning Conservatives on the final ballot.The closeness of the result reflects a split between members who want to debate... Читать дальше...

Defending champions India hit all the right chords during their resounding 45-run victory against New Zealand via Duckworth-Lewis method in a rain- curtailed warm-up game where skipper Virat Kohli came good after an impressive show from the bowlers.

British counter-terror police on Sunday said they have made a fresh arrest in connection with the Manchester suicide bombing in raids across the north-west England city.

Leander Paes and American Scott Lipksy at the French Open and they were drawn to play Marcos Baghdatis and Giles Muller in their first round match.

NEW YORK A Mississippi man went on a shooting spree overnight, killing a sheriff's deputy and seven other people in three separate locations in rural Lincoln County before the suspect was taken into custody by police, authorities said on Sunday.Willie Corey Godbolt, 35, was arrested and was being treated in a hospital for a gunshot wound, according to Warren Strain, a spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety.The sheriff's deputy, identified as William Durr, was fatally shot after... Читать дальше...

Despite a strict curfew in the entire south Kashmir, thousands of people gathered to pay their last respect to the slain militant commander Sabzar Ahmad Bhat, who was killed in an encounter on Saturday in an encounter on Saturday in his native village of Ratsuna in Tral area.

MUNICH Europe can no longer completely rely on its allies, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday, pointing to bruising meetings of G7 wealthy nations and NATO last week.    Merkel did not mention by name U.S. President Donald Trump, who criticised major NATO allies and refused to endorse a global climate change accord, but she told a packed beer tent in Munich that the days when Europe could completely count on others were "over to a certain extent".    "I have experienced this in the last few days," she said. Читать дальше...

MANILA Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has appealed to Muslim separatists and Maoist-led rebels to join his government's fight against Islamic State-linked militants.With fears growing that Islamic State is seeking a presence in the country, Duterte offered to pay and even house fighters from groups that have long opposed the Philippine state if they would work to defeat a common enemy, the Maute group.Duterte said the idea of militias and soldiers fighting together had come from the leader... Читать дальше...

The compulsion of using a magnifying glass for reading did not deter Dharshana M V from putting in her best efforts, as she scored 96.6 percent and secured the third rank in CBSE Class XII examination in the differently-abled category.

LONDON British police said on Sunday they had arrested a 14th person in connection with the Manchester suicide bombing, and were searching a property in the south of the city. The 25-year-old man was arrested in the southwest of Manchester "on suspicion of offences contrary to the terrorism act", Greater Manchester Police said in a statement on Twitter.

Thousands of mourners defied security curbs to attend the burial of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Sabzar Bhat, who was gunned down in an encounter in Tral, Kashmir

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Kapil Mishra is unlikely to face expulsion from the party. AAP sources said expulsion of the rebel MLA would give him a chance to join another party .

Catch all the live updates of the warm-up match between India and New Zealand at the Oval.

Unfortunate Issa Cissokho headed agonisingly into his own net in stoppage time to give Paris Saint-Germain a 1-0 win over Angers in the French Cup final at the Stade de France on Saturday.