Новости за 20.01.2017

A 500-strong military contingent of NATO troops, mostly from Germany, held a farewell parade before their deployment to Lithuania as part of the bloc’s ‘Enhanced Forward Presence’ in the Baltic nation.
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Trump supporters en route to the inauguration of Donald Trump were blocked from passing through a checkpoint barricaded by Black Lives Matters and #DisruptJ20 protesters. Clashes have been reported between protesters and supporters of the president-elect.
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Mayhem erupted in the Turkish parliament after an MP handcuffed herself to the rostrum in protest at constitutional reforms that would put more power in the hands of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Should Marine Le Pen win a chance to enter the Elysée Palace, her first official trip would be not to Washington, but to the EU headquarters, to signal that Brussels’ superpower has finally come to an end, France's far-right presidential candidate said.
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Secret CIA documents show the US had plans to either give the Falkland Islands to Argentina and repatriate the islanders to Scotland or allow them become Argentine citizens because the spy agency thought the UK would lose the 1982 war.
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Hundreds are rallying to protest against US President-elect Donald Trump near the US Embassy in Manila, the Philippines, chanting “Dump Trump” and burning the US flag.
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Former NFL player Aaron Hernandez has appeared in a Boston court for a pretrial hearing ahead of his double murder trial in which the judge has ruled the jury can see tattoos that may link him to the crime.
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Global stock markets were flat to positive in cautious trading on Friday awaiting Donald Trump’s inauguration speech as the 45th President of the United States. He's expected to take the oath of office at about 5:00pm GMT.
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President-elect Donald Trump has nominated New York Jets owner Woody Johnson as ambassador to the United Kingdom. But who is the billionaire philanthropist?
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The United States national debt will have grown by about $9 trillion to over $19.6 trillion under President Barack Obama, according to the website USdebtclock.org.
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Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists have destroyed part of a Roman theater and the legendary four-column structure ‘Tetrapylon’ in the ancient city of Palmyra, Syrian TV reports.
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A spectacular fireworks display on inauguration eve proved to be a real blast online, as the pyrotechnics left viewers open-mouthed when they spelled “USR” instead of “USA.” The goof prompted Twitter users to joke that Russia had “hacked” the show. Ha-ha.
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President Barack Obama’s legacy is a hot topic on his last day in office. Many on Twitter are not allowing others to forget that the 44th commander-in-chief won the Nobel Peace Prize, before becoming the first to bomb several countries over eight years.
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President-elect Donald Trump attended a luncheon with leaders of Congress and several of his administration picks, calling them out, making jokes, and boasting that they have “by far the highest IQ of any cabinet ever assembled.”
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A duck living in Symbio Wildlife Park in News South Wales, Australia has earned the respect of the internet after beating a tiger at “the most dangerous game ever of Marco Polo.”
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Chinese billionaire and Alibaba founder Jack Ma believes that improper distribution of funds and hyper inflated US military spending, not globalization or other countries “stealing” US jobs, is behind the economic decline in America.
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