Новости за 19.01.2016

A blizzard hits Ukraine's port city of Odessa, killing two people and cancelling flights. Rough cut - subtitled (no reporter narration).

A blizzard hits Ukraine's port city of Odessa, killing two people and cancelling flights. Rough cut - subtitled (no reporter narration).

A blizzard hits Ukraine's port city of Odessa, killing two people and cancelling flights. Rough cut - subtitled (no reporter narration).

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Garbine Muguruza's rapid rise up the world rankings gives Spain hope of adding to its solitary tennis gold medal at the 2016 Olympics, but the 22-year-old is cagey about a dream mixed doubles pairing with Rafa Nadal in Rio.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's prosecutor has charged the local unit of Philip Morris International of under-reporting the value of imported cigarettes, which led to tax revenue losses of about 20 billion baht ($551.27 million), the attorney-general said.

MIAMI (Reuters) - FIFA's Sepp Blatter may have been banned for eight years from the game but he is still receiving his president's salary from world soccer's governing body, a spokesman for FIFA's Audit and Compliance Committee told Reuters on Monday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Stone-throwing protesters took to the streets of Haiti's capital on Monday to demand the suspension of a Jan. 24 presidential election over alleged irregularities, while in provincial areas unknown attackers burnt several electoral offices.

HONG KONG, Jan 19 (Reuters) - A planned initial public offering for Chinese online lending platform Lufax, backed by Ping An Insurance Group Co of China Ltd , may take place in the second half of 2016 at the earliest, its chairman said on Tuesday.

SEOUL, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The state-run Export-Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM) said on Tuesday it plans to sign an agreement with the Iranian central bank on providing up to about 5 billion euros ($5.45 billion) in financing for South Korean companies doing business there.

SHANGHAI, Jan 19 (Reuters) - China's primary money market rates were mixed on Tuesday after the seven-day repurchase agreement rate spiked briefly and the central bank injected 55 billion yuan ($8.36 billion) into banks through its short-term liquidity operations (SLO) tool on Monday. The seven-day repo was quoted as high as 3.9 percent on Monday, more than 100 basis points (bps) above Friday's close of 2.6 percent, although the volume-weighted average figure was steady at 2.33 percent.

TAIPEI, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Taiwan stocks fell on Tuesday in cautious trade but losses were limited as regional markets steadied after China's GDP figures came out largely in line with expectations.

LOS ANGELES, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Southern California Gas Co expects to stop a Los Angeles-area natural gas leak by late February, possibly sooner, the company said on Monday, after previously indicating the job could take until late March.

An avalanche has killed five military personnel in the French Alps near the Italian border. Yiming Woo reports.

An avalanche has killed five military personnel in the French Alps near the Italian border. Yiming Woo reports.

An avalanche has killed five military personnel in the French Alps near the Italian border. Yiming Woo reports.

An avalanche has killed five military personnel in the French Alps near the Italian border. Yiming Woo reports.

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Venus Williams's dreams of winning a first Australian Open title at the age of 35 were shattered on Tuesday when she was beaten 6-4 6-2 in the first round by British number one Johanna Konta.

BEIJING, Jan 19 (Reuters) - China's unemployment rate is at around 5.1 percent, the country's statistics bureau said on Tuesday, without giving a time frame.

South Carolina’s "stand your ground" law should not protect someone who kills a romantic partner in self- defense if the deadly confrontation happens in a home they share.

SYDNEY/WELLINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Australian and New Zealand shares were a shade firmer on Tuesday as a slew of Chinese data offered no nasty surprises, even as it confirmed that growth in Asia's economic giant had slowed to a pace not seen since the global financial crisis.

SYDNEY/WELLINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Australian and New Zealand shares were a shade firmer on Tuesday as a slew of Chinese data offered no nasty surprises, even as it confirmed that growth in Asia's economic giant had slowed to a pace not seen since the global financial crisis.

HONG KONG, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Growth of investment in China's property sector continued to decline in December, dropping to 1 percent, the slowest growth in nearly seven years even as national sales improved, official data showed on Tuesday.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Jakarta is seeing a growing number of transportation services catering exclusively to women, offering better security and comfort when compared to packed public buses and trains in the Indonesian capital of 10 million people.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Internet company Meituan-Dianping, akin to a mix of Yelp, GroupOn and food delivery, said on Tuesday it has raised more than $3.3 billion in a funding round, as the firm takes on a slew of rivals in a fiercely competitive domestic market.

BEIJING, Jan 19 (Reuters) - China generated 5.618 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of power in 2015, falling 0.2 percent from the previous year, the first annual drop since 1968, data from the country's statistics bureau showed on Tuesday.