Новости за 19.05.2016

CLEVELAND (AP) — The ACLU of Ohio is threatening to sue Cleveland if city officials don't decide by June 1 whether to approve permits to groups planning rallies and marches during July's Republican National Convention. Groups have been told by the city that permits won't be granted until two weeks before the convention, after the U.S. Secret Service finalizes its security plan.

The inspiration award went to "Madchester" band Happy Mondays, while Simple Minds won the outstanding song collection prize. Blur's Damon Albarn won the lifetime achievement award, and Bryan Adams received an international award as "a major influence on the British music industry."

[...] teen accused of making threats at West Virginia school State Police spokesman Lt. Michael Baylous says in a news release that a 13-year-old boy from Clay was charged in a juvenile petition Thursday with making terroristic threats, conspiracy to commit murder and solicitation to commit murder.

Energy opportunities in South Africa were on the agenda for the African Utility Week conference in Cape Town.

The KwaZulu-Natal government has finally closed the deal on an industrial park to grow the province’s car manufacturing sector.

Anglo American has retained De Beers as a prize asset after a radical overhaul.

European stocks retreated on Thursday as weaker oil and metals prices put pressure on commodities shares.

SA needs to make it easier to conduct business in the country in order to attract more foreign investors, delegates at a Tshwane trade conference have heard.

Morley Safer, an intrepid storyteller and interviewer whose name became synonymous with the newsmagazine “60 Minutes,” has died. He was 84. Safer was the longest-serving correspondent in “60 Minutes” history. He joined the CBS program in 1970, just two years after it launched, and worked there ever since, contributing 919 reports over the years. He […]

Google just got a patent for a special kind of coating on self-driving cars that could help prevent pedestrian injuries. The company wants to coat autonomous vehicles with a sticky substance so that if they hit a pedestrian, the person would be glued to the car instead of flying off. “[The pedestrian] is not thrown […]

The Mediterranean has long evoked images of azure waters, warm weather and relaxation at reasonable prices. But that idyllic picture is beginning to darken, with plane crashes, terror attacks on the beach and refugee deaths at sea now blighting the region. The EgyptAir flight that vanished early Thursday is just the latest of troubles to […]

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Amina Ali, the Chibok girl who escaped Boko Haram after spending more than two years as a prisoner, met with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa in Abuja Thursday. During the emotional meeting, President Buhari held the baby Amina gave birth to while a captive of the terror group. “Like all Nigerians and […]

The death in Syria last week of Mustafa Badriddine, Hezbollah’s top operational commander in Syria, automatically and inevitably raised the fear of another confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah. After all, Lebanese media close to Hezbollah had been quick to accuse the Israelis of killing its storied terror operative. Hezbollah soon suggested that Israel was not, […]

The experienced Dutchman led the Red Devils to fifth in the Premier League this season, meaning the Old Trafford giants will have to settle for Europa League football next term

Federer has played a record 65 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments.

Scripting history, AIADMK supremo J Jayalalitha today retained power in Tamil Nadu bagging the chief ministerial post for the second consecutive term, the first time by anyone in the last 3 decades in the state.

Uber will deploy a specially outfitted hybrid Ford Fusion on the streets of Pittsburgh in coming weeks, collecting mapping data and testing self-driving abilities.

Captain of Muirfield Golf Club, Henry Fairweather in front of Muirfield golf club clubhouse, as he makes an announcement on the outcome of a membership ballot, against admitting women as club members, Thursday May 19, 2016. The Royal and Ancient,…

Captain of Muirfield Golf Club, Henry Fairweather stands in front of Muirfield golf club clubhouse, as he prepares to make an announcement on the outcome of a membership ballot, against admitting women as club members, in Muirfield, Scotland, Thursday May…

'60 Minutes' veteran Morley Safer dead at 84: CBS

One of its planes has disappeared over the Mediterranean Ocean.

The House has voted to ban the display of the Confederate flag on flagpoles at Veterans Administration cemeteries.

If the Fed is going to raise rates in June, it will have to get clearance from its most important constituency.