Новости за 27.06.2024

Indonesian immigration authorities have detained 103 foreign nationals after a raid at a villa on the resort island of Bali, officials said Thursday.

A specter is haunting American universities--the specter of fragility.

Two-time Wimbledon champion Andy Murray still had not decided as of Thursday whether he will be able to compete at the grass-court Grand Slam tournament that begins next week and he is likelier to enter doubles than singles if he can play at all after recent surgery to remove a cyst on his spinal cord.

"Be curious, not judgmental."

Former Chinese defense minister Li Shangfu was expelled from the ruling Communist Party and is being investigated for corruption and bribery, the official Xinhua news agency reported Thursday. Li was removed from office in October 2023 after disappearing from public view for almost two months.

It's a scenario that terrifies America's auto industry.

Maryland authorities have a word of advice for anyone planning a big fireworks display for the Fourth of July.

International experts portrayed a grim picture for war-torn Sudan, warning in a report Thursday that 755,000 are facing famine in the coming months, amid relentless clashes between rival generals.

A parliamentary election will be held in Mongolia on Friday for the first time since the body was expanded to 126 seats, adding some uncertainty to a system that has been monopolized by two political parties and plagued by corruption.

Heavy security was deployed Thursday in Kenya's capital Nairobi ahead of planned protests against a controversial finance bill, despite the president's decision not to sign it after the plans sparked deadly chaos in the capital and saw protesters storming and burning part of the parliament building.

Human rights experts working for the United Nations on Wednesday accused Sudan's warring parties of using starvation as a war weapon, amid mounting warnings about imminent famine in the African nation.

"This is who I am, Mom. Why can't you and Dad accept that I'm trans?" shouted a 17-year-old girl who now identifies as a young man.

I will try to appeal here to the reader's emotions by exploring the feelings of the peace-loving Israeli people in the hope that how they feel might persuade at least a few hardened hearts where the facts have failed.

Continued accusations of blasphemy in a small village in Pakistan have led to violent assaults and imprisonment of Christians.

Seventy-four percent of registered voters who favor Joe Biden for president want government to grow bigger because they believe it's the government's job to provide more and more -- and ever more -- services. By contrast, only 19 percent of Donald Trump's base of support says similarly. I

China's space officials said Thursday they welcomed scientists from around the world to apply to study the lunar rock samples that the Chang'e 6 probe brought back to Earth in a historic mission, but noted there were limits to that cooperation, specifically with the United States.

We are deeply concerned by the Iranian regime's ruthless suppression of the people of Iran, including ethnic and religious minorities.

Rejection of velayat-e faqih (absolute clerical rule). Affirmation of the people's sovereignty in a republic founded on universal suffrage and pluralism;

The Iranian regime, facing a nation demanding regime change, is currently grappling with significant existential challenges.

More than 45,000 species are now threatened with extinction -- 1,000 more than last year -- according to an international conservation organization that blames pressures from climate change, invasive species and human activity such as illicit trade and infrastructural expansion.

Two candidates in Iran's presidential election withdrew from the race as the country prepared Thursday for the upcoming vote, an effort by hard-liners to coalesce around a unity candidate in the polls to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi.

Catastrophic Canadian warming-fueled wildfires last year pumped more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air than India did by burning fossil fuels, setting ablaze an area of forest larger than West Virginia, new research found.

The Israeli military released photos on Thursday that it says show a staffer with the aid group Doctors Without Borders wearing military fatigues at a gathering of Gaza militants.

Thousands of doctors in England are staging their 11th walkout on Thursday in a long-running dispute with the government over pay and working conditions, disrupting hospital services just days before the U.K. general election.

The Minnesota Timberwolves did some extra digging into Terrence Shannon Jr. before the NBA draft.