Новости за 28.09.2021

MOSCOW — Russia on Tuesday recorded its highest daily coronavirus death toll yet, following an increase in cases linked to the Delta variant and a lacklustre vaccination drive.

LONDON — Stock markets tumbled on Tuesday as traders tracked a strengthening dollar, high oil prices, political impasse in Germany and US debt concerns.

PRISTINA  — The latest tensions between Serbia and Kosovo is the worst regional crisis in a decade, with Serbia boosting its military presence on their border.

By Amaury Hauchard
Agence France-Presse

INGALL, Niger — For Veli Rabo, a 28-year-old Nigerien, the idea of finding a job has almost become a joke.

His time is spent being “completely unemployed — I am even too unemployed!” he says with a laugh.

A member of the Fulani community, also called Peuls, he is among thousands of young nomads who cannot find work, living on the front line of a complex and entrenched conflict.

Around one young person in four in northern Niger is out of work... Читать дальше...

By Issam Ahmed
Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON — It would take 15 billion years for the clock that occupies Jun Ye’s basement lab at the University of Colorado to lose a second — about how long the universe has existed.

For this invention, the Chinese-American scientist, along with Hidetoshi Katori of Japan, will split $3 million as co-winners of the 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

Working independently, the two developed techniques using lasers to trap and cool atoms... Читать дальше...

MANCHESTER, United Kingdom — Manchester United cross paths with Villarreal once more on Wednesday in desperate need of a win to avoid another European embarrassment and ease the rising pressure on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.