Новости за 27.07.2017

The controversial meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya was about lifting the US sanctions against Moscow, key witness and Magnitsky Act lobbyist William Browder told the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Astronomers studying the galaxy formation have theorised that up to half of all matter that makes up our Milky Way came from far flung regions of space - meaning that us and everything around us are extragalactic immigrants.
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The Muslim feminist behind Berlin’s first liberal mosque is scouting locations for a liberal mosque in the UK in what she describes as part of a revolution in Islam.
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A controversial new paper that challenges the conventional wisdom on antibiotics and blames current practices with drugs for the rise of superbugs has generated significant backlash within the medical community.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has endorsed a bill ratifying a protocol to the 2015 agreement between Moscow and Damascus regulating the deployment of the Russian Air Force in Syria for 49 years.
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Twitter said it failed to add any new monthly active users globally during its second quarter. Its user base declined to 68 million, from 70 million in the first quarter of 2017.
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The Pentagon has not yet received official orders from the White House on implementing a ban on transgender service members, said General Joseph Dunford (USMC), chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and President Donald Trump’s chief military adviser.
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A newsreader on a local Texas TV channel has been praised for her professionalism after continuing her broadcast unabated while a spider creeped down her arm.
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By next year, 15 million people would opt out of the Affordable Care Act, widely known as Obamacare, if one of its key provisions – individual mandate – were repealed today, shows an estimate by the Congressional Budget Office.
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US law requires that the DoD stops all support for the Iraqi Army’s 16th Division, a unit involved in numerous acts of extrajudicial killings and other atrocities in Mosul, Human Rights Watch said.
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The burial place of a 1.5-year-old boy with a deformed elongated skull was unearthed by archaeologists in Crimea. The scientists immediately dubbed the finding an ‘alien’ due to the unusual structure of the skull.
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Videos of clashes at the Al-Aqsa mosque have surfaced via social media, as Palestinians entered the compound for the first time in weeks on Thursday.
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Iran says it has successfully tested the Simorgh rocket, a two-stage vehicle meant to deliver small space satellites into orbit. The test comes years behind schedule and may be the second one for the rocket.
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Creepy clowns got much, much creepier when Corey Berry in Hollis, Maine donned a clown mask and duct taped a machete to his amputated arm.
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King Abdullah II of Jordan has issued a sharp rebuke to “political showman” Benjamin Netanyahu, who has given a hero’s welcome to an Israeli guard who shot an assailant and another man at the country’s embassy in Jordan.
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White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci appeared on CNN Thursday to complain about leakers and rebuff allegations that he accused Chief of Staff Reince Priebus of releasing sensitive information to the media.
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Concerns over spying by Beijing may force Australia to curb the Solomon Islands’ plans for stable internet access, after the small Pacific nation hired a Chinese company to lay an undersea cable connected to Sydney, Australian media reported.
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A water-seller shot in broad daylight on Baltimore’s Greenmount Avenue was the 200th homicide victim in 2017, putting the Maryland city on pace to surpass the records set over the past two years. Activists are calling for a “ceasefire” in early August.
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New York is considering allowing roadside police to test the ‘textalyzer’ in investigations to see if a driver was distracted by their cell phone in the wake of phone-related crashes.
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The head of the Chechen Republic has announced he would be ready to resign and move to Jerusalem to serve in the security force that guards the Al-Aqsa mosque “for the rest of his life.”
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A diver in Indonesia was treated to a rare sight off Komodo Island, catching a glimpse of a giant megamouth shark. Despite its fearsome name, the shark, which has been sighted about 60 times since being discovered, isn’t considered dangerous.
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Oxford University is just a “school for stupid people,” Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said, in response to research from the institution which said that the leader had paid “keyboard trolls” to support his presidential campaign.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Vasily Nebenzya as Russia’s envoy to the UN. The appointment comes after the sudden death of former ambassador and prominent diplomat Vitaly Churkin in February.
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has become the world’s wealthiest man, surpassing Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates after shares in the e-commerce giant surged by more than $15 overnight, according to Bloomberg.
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An Israeli crowd control stink bomb known as the Skunk, which smells like raw sewage and rotting bodies, destined for employment in the restive region of Kashmir, was rejected after it was found that Indians easily ignored its smell, local media report.
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