Новости за 01.03.2016

BEIJING, March 1 (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.

ROME/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Cardinal George Pell, the highest-ranking Vatican official to testify on systemic sexual abuse of children by clergy in the Roman Catholic Church, on Monday said senior clergy lied to him to cover up abuse in the 1970s.

ROME/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Cardinal George Pell, the highest-ranking Vatican official to testify on systemic sexual abuse of children by clergy in the Roman Catholic Church, on Monday said senior clergy lied to him to cover up abuse in the 1970s.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong bookseller and British passport holder who disappeared last year has said he will renounce his British citizenship, adding that he had not been kidnapped by Chinese authorities as suspected, but had sneaked into China illegally.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong bookseller and British passport holder who disappeared last year has said he will renounce his British citizenship, adding that he had not been kidnapped by Chinese authorities as suspected, but had sneaked into China illegally.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong bookseller and British passport holder who disappeared last year has said he will renounce his British citizenship, adding that he had not been kidnapped by Chinese authorities as suspected, but had sneaked into China illegally.

BEIJING, March 1 (Reuters) - Chinese home prices grew at a stronger pace in February, two private surveys showed on Tuesday, underlining signs of recovery taking hold in the housing market.

MELBOURNE/WELLINGTON, March 1 (Reuters)- - Australian shares rose 0.4 percent on Tuesday shored up by the big banks and miners, after disappointing Chinese manufacturing data stoked hopes that Beijing would take further steps to boost growth. New Zealand shares rose 0.3 percent.

LOS ANGELES - Some 34.3 million Americans watched the 2016 Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, the smallest TV audience for the Oscars in eight years, according to national ratings data, amid a Hollywood diversity controversy.

A spokesman for Hall says the former "Dexter" star married writer Morgan Macgregor on Monday morning at New York City Hall. Publicist Craig Bankey released no other details.

TAIPEI, March 1 (Reuters) - Taiwan stocks rose on Tuesday taking cues from overseas markets and hovering around levels not seen since early December.

(Reuters) - The U.S. government cannot force Apple Inc to unlock an iPhone in a New York drug case, a federal judge in Brooklyn said on Monday, a ruling that bolsters the company's arguments in its landmark legal showdown with the Justice Department over encryption and privacy.

BOSTON, Feb 29 (Reuters) - Billionaire investors Barry Rosenstein and Daniel Loeb's hedge funds lost more money in February as both managers were hit by volatile markets shaped by fears about slower growth and uncertainty over how the Federal Reserve will react.

What: As part of Black History Month, explore the lives of African American slaves and freedmen at Middleton Place with this last day of the "Beyond The Fields" Walking Tours and view Eliza’s House (a freedmen’s dwelling), where an exhibit focusing on the daily lives of slaves and their work "beyond the...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's navy has launched its first self-propelled floating dock, giving it the ability to repair warships far from the coast, the official People's Liberation Army Daily said on Tuesday, Beijing's latest move to modernise its navy.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department released the final batch of Hillary Clinton's emails on Monday from her time at the agency's helm, bringing the final tally of emails it says contain classified information to more than 2,000.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The credibility of the Minsk peace deal for eastern Ukraine will come under threat unless both sides in the conflict make faster progress in implementing the agreement, Germany's foreign minister said on Monday.

KINGSTON (Reuters) - Jamaican reservist soldiers reinforced security at electoral offices on Monday after a final count of votes cast in last week's general election narrowed the winning party's majority to one seat in the heavily indebted Caribbean nation.

The admissions process for Charleston County choice and magnet schools has been riddled with errors and miscommunication, according to many parents who received acceptance and rejection letters late last week.

SHANGHAI, March 1 (Reuters) - China stocks opened lower on Tuesday, even after the country's central bank resumed its easing cycle, injecting an estimated $100 billion worth of long-term cash into the economy through a reduction in banks' reserve requirement ratio (RRR).

* U.S. 2015 oil demand up 290,000 bpd at highest level since 2008

NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp said on Monday that it had agreed to pay $280 million (£201 million) to resolve claims that it monopolized the market for in-store promotions at more than 50,000 retail stores across the United States.

BEIJING, March 1 (Reuters) - Activity in China's services industry expanded in February but at a slower pace than in the previous month, an official survey showed on Tuesday.

TRENTON, N.J. — The average cost for a year’s supply of a prescription drug doubled in just seven years to more than $11,000 — about three-quarters of the average annual Social Security benefit.