Новости за 18.12.2018

City of Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba has lambasted Gauteng MEC Uhuru Moiloa about the reduction of the Human Settlements Development Grant (HSDG) for the municipality.

The United Nations will convene Yemen's warring parties by video link on Wednesday to discuss the redeployment of all forces from Hodeidah city and three ports under a ceasefire deal agreed last we

On an earnings call with investors, Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison scoffed at how long it's taking for Amazon to move off of Oracle's databases.

FedEx reports its quarterly earnings Tuesday. Investors will want to know how Amazon Air could be affecting the logistics giant.

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia has been named the country of the year by The Economist, which means that it has improved the most in the world in the past 12 months.

Afghan government negotiators have arrived in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) to join U.S.-brokered talks with the Taliban, as efforts intensify to negotiate an end to Afghanistan's 17-year war.

Three months after she was raped by armed men while fleeing violence in South Sudan, Vicky* was horrified to discover she was pregnant.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that proponents say is aimed at banning what they call 'online Columbine communities' that allegedly encourage violence by schoolchildren.

U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered the establishment of a space command that will oversee the country's military operations in space.

British Airways says it will resume flights to Pakistan next summer, a decade after suspending operations due to security fears.

WASHINGTON DC - U.S. President Donald Trump wished good luck to his former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Tuesday, hours ahead of Flynn's sentencing for lying to investigators about

The Microsoft Surface family of devices has registered high double-digit growth in the Indian market this year and the game changer Surface Go is set to add heavily to that next year, a company execut

New Delhi (India), Dec 18 (ANI): Former Prime Minister and seasoned economist Manmohan Singh opined that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and central government should find ways to work in close coordi

In addition to their luxurious homes and lavish fashion styles, celebrities are known for designing some of the most extravagantly customized cars around to suit their personalities.

New Delhi [India], Dec 18 (ANI): South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha arrived here on Tuesday on a two-day visit to the country. She is in India at the invitation of External Affairs Minister

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - Malaysia has just filed a criminal case against Goldman Sachs for alleged money laundering and corruption practices with regard to the 1MDB bond offering project.

VALBONNE, France-- On Monday, Chinese firm Ocumension Technologies and French-based company Nicox confirmed partnership in creating a new type of treatment for Glaucoma for the Chinese market.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested he is open to the idea of other countries joining a Cold War nuclear-arms treaty between Russia and the United States or to starting talks on a new pa

The newlywed son-in-law of Iranian President Hassan Rohani has resigned from a senior institutional appointment two days after starting the job amid accusations of nepotism against Rohani's already

KASHMIR, India - Indian authorities have placed Kashmir separatist leaders under house arrest while blocking off certain roads in the region. This course of action was done in an attempt to prevent

Two Congolese soldiers were killed in clashes with Rwandan pro-Hutu rebels after two of their leaders were arrested in an eastern frontier region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a military spo

Israels accession to the global anti-money laundering makes it more difficult for Iran to join the Financial Action Task Force, an Iranian media outlet said, arguing for quicker approval of parliam

Irans Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has expressed hope that the UN would be able to play its key role in establishing peace in Yemen while remaining unaffected by different pressures.

Iran is currently scouring 60 percent of its total area for new oil and gas reserves, including in places which were deemed until recently the least likely to have hydrocarbon-bearing formations.

Irans Vice-President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari says a research study must be conducted with the aim of producing technologies that solve community problems.