Новости за 25.08.2016

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The USS Nitze and a guided missile destroyer were intercepted by four Iranian military boats near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, according to US defense officials. US officials said four Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps vessels performed a “high-speed intercept” of the Nitze and ignored attempts to communicate, acting in an “unprofessional” manner. RT reports: The Nitze and guided missile destroyer USS Mason encountered the Iranians in international waters, where four Iranian Revolutionary Guard... Читать дальше...

Ed Adamczyk
ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Survivors of the shootings at Orlando's Pulse Nightclub in June will not be billed for medical services, two Florida health care systems announced.

Tories still short of target of delivering 1m new homes by 2020

Sibanye heads for the biggest drop on record as safety stoppages mean it produced less gold than it could have.

Some active fund managers are able to significantly outperform the markets, a report by TD Direct Investing shows.

The 2016 presidential campaign has been called many things, but U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison – the first Muslim ever elected to Congress – says it may also prove to be … Click to Continue »

Johnny Depp has personally sent checks to the ACLU and Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles on behalf of his ex Amber Heard, as part of her pledge to donate all $7 million from their divorce settlement. “Following Amber Heard’s announcement that her divorce settlement was to be divided equally and gifted to Children’s Hospital of [...]

HP shares down nearly 6% in premarket trades after earnings report Wednesday

Three people have been wounded in an armed standoff in eastern Germany between police and members of a group that denies the legitimacy of the modern German state.

The old Top Gear team's new car programme will show James May driving with a broken arm and Jeremy Clarkson on the Game of Thrones set.

It's been a mere two years since the Springboks faced Argentina in Salta and yet only seven members of that team will be back on the pitch when the two sides face off at the same venue in this weekend’s Rugby Championship.

Hundreds of members of the American Postal Workers Union rallied on Tuesday in protest against the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal. Prominent Malaysian economist, Dr. Jomo Kwame Sundaram told Radio Sputnik why the White House is serious about getting Obama’s legacy trade agreement.

Russia's corporations painted an accurate reflection of the state of their country's economy Thursday with banks booming while commodities companies suffered.

In 1948, a federal housing bureaucrat named Paul Oppermann, trying to come to terms with the perils of the nuclear age, proposed a solution to the problem of protecting America’s cities from the bomb: empty them out preëmptively by encouraging the population to move to suburbs and small towns of fifty thousand or fewer. “No power in the world could afford to drop an atomic bomb on a city of 50,000 or less” is how the San Francisco Chronicle summarized the talk that Oppermann gave to a local planning organization. Читать дальше...

Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid, intriguing managerial changes, a bizarre nickname and a draconian rule change - your La Liga guide.

ALMELO - Onlangs raakten drie kinderen in een Almelose speeltuin gewond door houtsnippers. Hoe vervelend het ook is, het kan gebeuren, zegt de producent. "Ga daarom nooit met blote voeten een openbare speeltuin in."

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem arrived in Baghdad to discuss with the Iraqi authorities Turkish military operation in northerner Syria, a source in the Foreign Ministry told Sputnik on Thursday.

Kim, the former president of Dartmouth College, was first tapped by President Barack Obama to head the World Bank in 2012. Since the creation of the World Bank after the end of World War II, its leaders have all been Americans while the International Monetary Fund, its sister lending organization, has always been headed by a European.

Wade Sheridan
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Director Doug Liman has exited Fox and Marvel's "X-Men" spinoff "Gambit" in order to helm "Dark Universe" for rival DC Comics and Warner Bros.

LONDON — British lawmakers on Thursday demanded that social media do more to police users who promote extremism, arguing that companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter are “consciously failing” to stop radicalization online. Social media companies are leaving cyberspace “ungoverned and lawless,” allowing the forums to become the lifeblood of the so-called Islamic State, according

Leicester City and England midfielder Danny Drinkwater signed a new five-year contract with the Premier League champions.