Новости за 18.12.2016

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WHITTIER, Calif., Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A 100-foot tall, eucalyptus tree fell on a wedding party at a Southern California park in Whitter, killing one person and injuring five others.

Robert Gates said that leaders from both parties have been "laid back" about Russian interference in the U.S. election.

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A top aide to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign said on Sunday it was an "open question" whether President-elect Donald Trump's advisers colluded with Russia to hack into Democratic Party emails to try to sway the Nov. 8 election.

Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said there was evidence that Trump associates had contact with a Russian intelligence official and the website Wikileaks before U.S. intelligence agencies accused Russia of being behind computer attacks of Democratic emails... Читать дальше...

A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a military camp in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Sunday morning, killing at least 52 soldiers, a security official said. The Islamic State group's Yemen-based affiliate claimed responsibility. Abdel-Rahman al-Naqeeb gave told The Associated Press that 63 people were also injured in the blast. Security officials said that preliminary...

APELDOORN - Kirsten Wild uit Almelo heeft op het NK op de Baan ook de puntenkoers gewonnen en zegevierde daarmee op alle vier de onderdelen waarop ze deelnam. Op vrijdag won Wild met Nina Kessler de koppelkoers, terwijl ze op zaterdag de titels veroverde op de achtervolging en de scratch. Het zilver ging naar de uittredende Vera Koedooder, brons was voor Judith Bloem.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's incoming White House chief of staff on Sunday played down the prospect that Trump would revisit Washington's decades-old "one China" policy, even though he suggested as much a week ago.

Since 1979, the United States has acknowledged Taiwan as part of "one China" but Trump prompted a diplomatic protest from Beijing after he accepted a congratulatory phone call on his election win from President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan on Dec. Читать дальше...

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After the worst start to a year ever, the stock market surged to new highs in 2016. 

All the major indexes rebounded to records and defied the doomsday forecasts that preceded events like Brexit and President-elect Donald Trump's election.

For next year, no strategist at a top Wall Street firm forecasts that the bull market will end. Many expect America's largest companies to return to earnings growth, and to see other benefits from Trump's promises to cut taxes and ease regulations. Читать дальше...

Green said he was OK after the game but his status for Monday is not yet known

The FIFA Ethics Committee is not conducting an official investigation in relation to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko over the recent World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) report accusing Russia of running a state-wide doping program, the committee's press service said Sunday.

The 'Star Wars' spinoff also grossed $135.5 million in 70 percent of the overseas market.

A 62-year-old land broker was booked in Rander police station on Saturday for allegedly dumping a 40-year-old woman on coming to know that she is suffering from breast cancer. Already having a wife and son the accused started married life with the woman in 2008 after finding her through newspaper advertisement.

Donald Trump finally admitted the obvious about his out-of-control supporters during his "Thank You Tour" on Friday in Orlando, Fla., and said, "You were nasty and mean and vicious and you wanted to win, right?"

Overtime should have been a productive power play for the Tomah High School boys hockey team.

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The good thing about getting to read a lot of books for work is that I'm constantly challenged to rethink my conceptions of happiness, productivity, and success.

The bad thing is that one time a stack of said books collapsed on my desk neighbor.

Without a doubt, the books that moved me most this year focused on psychology and behavioral science — and as 2016 draws to a close, I'm reflecting on everything I learned.

Below, I've... Читать дальше...

Mario Balotelli scores twice as Nice ensure they will finish the weekend as Ligue 1 leaders by beating Dijon.

CHICAGO (AP) — Minister Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, spoke from a podium draped in the red, black and green of the Pan-African flag, a symbol of black pride.

No chance to reach even zero today as the entire state awaits a Monday warmup.

SEATTLE — A police officer who was wounded while investigating a reported shooting in Washington state remains in critical but stable condition at a Seattle hospital.

Representative Joaquin Castro defense President Obama's decision not to go public with the Russian scandal during the election and explains how according to him the Republican party is trying to deny that the hacking happened.

Uber co-founder and chief executive Travis Kalanick had to encounter a "scary situation" on his arrival in India as he found himself "without a visa" and it was only a high-level intervention that saved him from being deported.

A 3-year-old Arkansas boy is dead after a gunman fired at his grandmother’s car during a road-rage incident Saturday night, police said.

Convicted sex offender Deuvontay S. Charles was 19 when he recruited his victims, according to federal prosecutors.