Новости за 17.01.2019

Frida Ghitis, WPR
Last Sunday, masked men intercepted a white van carrying Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido to a political meeting outside Caracas. They shoved Guaido into an SUV and sped away, taking into custody the man spearheading a bold and risky new strategy to try and reverse the country's calamitous decline under President Nicolas Maduro.Authorities freed Guaido after a short detention, perhaps because the incident was only meant to intimidate him, or maybe because the government is still unsure about how to deal with Guaido... Читать дальше...

Facebook purged two separate groups behind more than 500 fake accounts with Russian ties. One group had ties to Russian news agency Sputnik, while the other had behavior similar to the Internet Research Agency's midterm actions.

Ethan Epstein, Washington Times
On a recent trip to Montreal, I was disturbed by a billboard that greeted me just outside the city's main train station: an ad for Huawei, the controversial Chinese technology company.

Aaron Kliegman, Free Beacon
In any war, the enemy gets a say in when the fighting stops. The Islamic State made clear on Wednesday that it is not done fighting the United States, nor the wider civilized world.

1. Trump denies Pelosi aircraft for foreign trip in response to call for State of the Union delay  Fox News
2. Why the press praises Pelosi, hailing her 'badass' moves against Trump  Fox News
3. Trump fires back at Nancy Pelosi: I'm canceling your trip  CNN
4. Trump and Pelosi: A Game of Spite and Malice  The New York Times
5. When Pelosi does it, media call it a 'power move.' When Trump does it, they call it 'the low road'  Washington Examiner
6. View full coverage... Читать дальше...

President Trump on Thursday abruptly denied military aircraft to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for a foreign trip just minutes before the congressional delegation was set to depart, in a stunning response to her call to delay the State of the Union address amid the government shutdown.

Sebastian Payne, Financial Times
Theresa May has survived yet again and stumbles on. The UK prime minister emerged victorious from a confidence vote in her government on Wednesday evening, which went down the typical party lines. The entire parliamentary Conservative party rallied behind their prime minister even though dozens of MPs had rejected her Brexit plan only 24 hours earlier. Her leadership is safe, for now. The government is safe, for now. Attention in Westminster therefore turns to... Читать дальше...

Premier Rachel Notley will reveal the next stage of her Made-in-Alberta energy strategy Thursday afternoon in Edmonton.

Mr. Trump said Pelosi could still use commercial transportation for the trip to Brussels, Egypt and Afghanistan

Mr. Trump said Pelosi could still use commercial transportation for the trip to Brussels, Egypt and Afghanistan

A 27-year-old from Washington has been banned from Royal Caribbean ships for life after video posted online shows the man leaping from the 11th deck of the cruise ship while it was docked in Nassau, Bahamas. Nick Naydev, 27, posted video on Instagram that shows him jumping from the ship. Naydev said he could “barely walk for 3 days” after bruising his neck and tailbone when he struck the water, according to Fox News. Royal Caribbean issued a statement after the […]

Con Coughlin, The National
The Nairobi attack is an attempt by the group to demonstrate that it is still a force to be reckoned with

Speaker Ted Arnott informed legislators of the change on October 16 but a report that reflects the increase won't be made public until sometime this summer.

Google, like many tech companies, is always looking for more ways to move computing to their cloud. Google Cloud Functions, for example, lets developers use their Python and Node.js code “serverlessly” in the cloud. Google Cloud Functions has now picked up beta support for Google’s own Go programming language.

The show will air from Barclays Center on March 2.

Erislandy Lara’s return to the ring against Brian Castano will air on Showtime on March 2 from Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.

Lara (25-3-2, 14 KO) is looking to bounce back from his April 2018 loss to Jarrett Hurd, a fight that wound up considered a top Fight of the Year contender, a rarity from the usually very technical Cuban southpaw. Now 35, Lara is still a contender in the 154-pound ranks, and is looking to win what is technically a world title against Castano. Читать дальше...

Cabinet has approved a $30 million water supply expansion project for the people of Yendi in the Northern Region, Information Minister Disclosed. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said the Akufo-Addo government is delighted about the project because of the Municipality rsquo;s contribution to the Agric sector. Sector minister lauded Yendi rsquo;s con ...

The Chairman of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), Dr Steve Manteaw is pushing for ldquo;prosecution rdquo; for any mines and natural minister that appended his or her signature to mining leases without parliamentary ratification. This was after it emerged that about 35 mining firms in the country are operating withou ...

Technology is a boom-or-bust business, but it rsquo;s mostly busts. I rsquo;ve always assumed that 10% of my technology investments will succeed mdash;and succeed wildly. The other 90% I expect to fail. When I made the transition from my first career at Microsoft to my second career in philanthropy, I didn rsquo;t think that my success rate wou ...

A Canadian geologist was found dead after he was abducted Tuesday by a dozen gunmen at a mining site in Burkina Faso, officials said Thursday, making him the second Canadian to go missing in the African country.

The Los Angeles Clippers center seems to have found the perfect role in the third installment of the 'John Wick' franchise.

University of Montana cleans asbestos in three offices in McGill Hall The Missoulian After detection of asbestos last month in McGill Hall at the University of Montana, a cleanup is underway in Rooms

• Instacart shoppers are rallying against a new payment policy structure that they say has resulted in cuts to their earnings.
• These shoppers are urging customers to leave the minimum tip on an order and then tip in cash once the order has been delivered.
• They say that this ensures that they receive the full value of the tip, rather than it being absorbed into what Instacart pays them. 

Instacart shoppers are rallying against a new payment policy change. 

Netflix's post-apocalyptic survival film Bird Box is drawing criticism for using footage of a real fiery train disaster but the streaming giant has no plans to remove it.

NEW YORK — Jed Lowrie can earn a $500,000 performance bonus during each season of his deal with the New York Mets if he makes 550 plate appearances. The Mets and the infielder finalized the $20 million, two-year contract on Wednesday. He gets a $5 million signing bonus, of which $1 million is due on