Новости за 01.03.2016

Tornadoes in the South can come out of nowhere, it seems, hidden by the terrain or swallowed in clouds. In the Lowcountry, they can form suddenly along the coast from storms spinning offshore, like the one that tore up homes on Johns Island last fall.

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican newspaper on Monday lauded the film “Spotlight,” which took home this year’s Oscar for best picture, for giving voice to the pain of the victims of sexual abuse by the clergy.

(Reuters) - The coach of sprinter Justin Gatlin has stepped down as the head of the United States relay squads just months out from the Rio Olympics due to a change in USA Track and Field's criteria.

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors who uncovered a huge corruption scheme at oil company Petrobras are looking into whether Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva received undue favours from engineering firms they are investigating.

BRASILIA, March 1 (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors who uncovered a huge corruption scheme at oil company Petrobras are looking into whether Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva received undue favors from engineering firms they are investigating.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A court in southern China has jailed 24 people for fraudulently raising nearly 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) in one of the country's biggest financial scams, the official Xinhua news agency said.

LIMA (AFP) - Fresh off his Oscar win, Leonardo DiCaprio on Monday took to social media to press Peru's authorities over oil spills sullying indigenous towns in the Amazon basin region.

Miss Colombia will star, not in a pornographic movie, but in an upcoming action film with Vin Dieasel.

Social media-famous Bretman Rock, known for his vlogs and makeup tutorials, has just arrived in Manila on Monday (February 29, 2016) and netizens from all over the Philippines can’t help but get all giddy to see their favorite online personality in the flesh.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council plans to vote on a resolution on Tuesday that would dramatically expand existing U.N. sanctions on North Korea in response to its Jan. 6 nuclear test, the U.S. mission to the United Nations said on Monday.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council plans to vote on a resolution on Tuesday that would dramatically expand existing U.N. sanctions on North Korea in response to its Jan. 6 nuclear test, the U.S. mission to the United Nations said on Monday.

While on the lookout for scraps of food or a little money at a Congolese peacekeepers base, an 18-year-old woman was raped by three men.

* Builders to add 7 mln sq ft office space in 2016-2018 - analyst

SHANGHAI, March 1 (Reuters) - Chinese stock investors gave a lukewarm welcome on Tuesday to the central bank's latest monetary policy easing move, as disappointing manufacturing and service sector surveys continued to curb risk appetite.

By Lu Jianxin and Pete Sweeney SHANGHAI, March 1 (Reuters) - China's money rates fell across the board on Tuesday after the central bank cut banks' reserve requirement ratio (RRR), partly offsetting a huge amount of maturing reverse bond repurchase agreements, which drain funds from the market, traders said. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) cut the RRR by 50 basis points, effective on Tuesday, injecting around 650 billion yuan ($99.20 billion) in long-term money into the banking system

SYDNEY, March 1 (Reuters) - Australia's central bank stared down global headwinds and kept interest rates steady for a tenth month on Tuesday, even as surprisingly soft data suggested the domestic economy hit an air pocket at the end of last year.

SHANGHAI, March 1 (Reuters) - The Shanghai Stock Exchange has asked more than 30 securities firms to curtail junk bond underwriting because of rising defaults, the state-owned Securities Times paper reported on Tuesday.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Deposits into Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's bank accounts ran to hundreds of millions of dollars more than previously identified by probes into state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

The regional command center of Northern Mindanao Police Regional Office 10 (PRO 10) has placed all field units on “full alert” status in anticipation of attacks by New People’s Army (NPA) rebels.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 (Reuters) - Deposits into Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's bank accounts ran to hundreds of millions of dollars more than previously identified by probes into state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China and Vietnam share a "common destiny", Chinese President Xi Jinping told a visiting Vietnamese envoy, as the two continue to repair ties damaged by their competing claims in the disputed South China Sea.

SEATTLE — A neighbor of Salma Hayek's Washington state ranch told investigators he shot at the actress' beloved Belgian Malinois with an air rifle because it was in his garage and fighting with his own dogs, investigators said Monday in finding the shooting justified.

* Business surveys show further deterioration in China economy

SEOUL (Reuters) - Seoul will not shut the door to dialogue with North Korea, South Korean President Park Geun-hye said on Tuesday, but warned that Pyongyang, facing new U.N. sanctions, would be subject to even greater pressure as long as it stuck to its nuclear programme.

* Turnaround depends on oil prices and China (Recasts with new details, economists)