Новости за 17.05.2016

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Venezuela's hospitals are failing.

In a recent bombshell New York Times report, Nicholas Casey outlined how the country's economic crisis has led to a huge public-health emergency.

"Hospital wards have become crucibles where the forces tearing Venezuela apart have converged," Casey wrote.

"Gloves and soap have vanished from some hospitals. Often, cancer medicines are found only on the black market. There is so little electricity that the government... Читать дальше...

Daniel Uria
CHRISTCHURCH , New Zealand, May 17 (UPI) -- A New Zealand man put on a high-speed marriage proposal as he had the ring delivered to his table through a pneumatic tube at a local cafe.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi promised Israel on Tuesday warmer ties if it accepts efforts to resume peace talks with the Palestinians, urging Israeli leaders not to waste an opportunity to bring security and hope to a troubled region.

Perhaps the scariest thing about Frontline’s excellent new edition The Secret History of ISIS is that the history of the terrorist group isn’t all that secret. Secret History focuses on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who is repeatedly referred to be various interviewees here as a “thug” who rose with alarmingly easy quickness to overtake Osama bin Laden as the world’s most prominent formentor of global terrorism. Frontline traces the way Zarqawi’s quick, lethal, down-and-dirty methods–untethered from much... Читать дальше...

Xbox Live Gold subscribers in South Africa will have to fork out 218% more for their subscription from June this year‚ according to emails received by subscribers.

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Home building in the U.S. rebounded in April, a sign the housing recovery could be finding traction after a slow first quarter.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over phone on poor condition of Jagamohan, a hall facing the sanctum sanctorum in Puri Jagannath Temple.

Amsterdam staat niet langer in de top tien van internationale succesvolle congressteden. De hoofdstad is ingehaald door steden als Lissabon en Istanbul en staat nu op de twaalfde plek, blijkt dinsdag uit cijfers over 2015 van de International Conventions and Congres Association (ICCA).

A Portland police sergeant looking for speeders captured a fireball that flashed across the sky on his dashboard camera

Thomas Russo, American International Group Inc.’s general counsel who earlier had been the top in-house lawyer at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., is retiring from the global insurer, according to an internal memo to employees.

Allen Cone
WASHINGTON, May 17 (UPI) -- Employers can give workers big incentives or insurance discounts if they answer health questions, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

SEOUL, May 17 (Yonhap) -- The head of the national Olympic body said Tuesday he hopes to see banned swimmer Park Tae-hwan race at this year's Summer Games, even as his own organization is barring Park from the competition because of a doping history.

ALMELO/HENGELO - Geen negen maanden, zoals de officier van justitie had geëist, maar vier jaar cel. Zo straffen drie Almelose rechters de 30-jarige Shirwac A.K.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A NATO spokesman says military equipment and troops have started arriving in Poland by air and sea for a major military deployment exercise by the new "Spearhead" force.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A NATO spokesman says military equipment and troops have started arriving in Poland by air and sea for a major military deployment exercise by the new "Spearhead" force.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A NATO spokesman says military equipment and troops have started arriving in Poland by air and sea for a major military deployment exercise by the new "Spearhead" force.

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BEIRUT –  The Russian military is constructing a new army base in the central Syrian town of Palmyra, within the protected zone that holds the archaeological site listed by UNESCO as a world heritage site and without asking for permission from relevant authorities, an American heritage organization and a top Syrian archaeologist said Tuesday.

The American School of Oriental Research's Cultural Heritage Initiative posted pictures from the satellite imagery and... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 170 historic religious institutions across New York state will show off their art, architecture and history this weekend.

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 170 historic religious institutions across New York state will show off their art, architecture and history this weekend.

A 1925 synagogue in Queens, Astoria Center of Israel, has exquisite decorative murals by French art deco painter Louis Pierre Rigal. Elsewhere in the state, Trinity Memorial Episcopal Church in Binghamton, built in the late 1800s, is a Victorian Gothic distinguished by its carved limestone trim and rugged bluestone walls. The conservancy's sacred sites program provides aid for the restoration of culturally significant religious properties.