Новости за 17.10.2020

NEW YORK — US stocks ended the week mixed on Friday as optimism over positive economic data was tempered by a soaring US deficit and the growing realisation a new stimulus package is unlikely anytime soon.

NEW YORK — The British pound wobbled on Friday, boosting London stocks, after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned he was ready to walk away from European Union trade talks and prepare for a "no-deal" Brexit.

MONTREAL — Fiat Chrysler (FCA) has committed to a multi-year investment in assembling electric vehicles in Canada and to add up to 2,000 new jobs, a union representing some of the carmaker's workers indicated.

WASHINGTON — Americans are voting early in record numbers with more than 17.8 million casting their ballots already ahead of a presidential election between Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump taking place under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic.

BAKU — Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev vowed on Saturday to take revenge on Armenia after a missile strike killed 12 sleeping people in the city of Ganja, a dramatic escalation in the conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

BEIRUT — Lebanon's protest movement has made some important gains since it burst out onto the streets a year ago, even if its revolutionary fever has died down.

SANAA — A landmark prisoner exchange between war-torn Yemen's government and Houthi rebels began on Thursday, with hundreds of combatants heading home on flights criss-crossing the country and Saudi Arabia.

BUDAPEST — Faces are more im-portant for humans than dogs, according to a brain activity study on how the two species see each other in a recently published study by a team of Hungarian and Mexican re-searchers.

GDYNIA, Poland — Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir lowered her own world record for an all-women's half marathon at the world championships in Gdynia on Saturday but serial record-breaker Joshua Cheptegei missed out on a medal in the men's race.