Новости за 01.07.2017

Reigning champion Chris Froome wasted no time flexing his muscles at the Tour de France as he powered to sixth place Saturday in a treacherous opening time trial won superbly by Team Sky colleague Geraint Thomas. Heavy rain turned what, on paper, had looked like a regulation 14-kilometer circuit alongside the Rhine river into an incident-packed Grand Depart that could have major consequences in the three-week battle for the yellow jersey. While it was a great start for Team Sky, with Thomas,... Читать дальше...

People from around the world come to Silicon Valley to learn about tech startups and how to become successful entrepreneurs. But a new program called Startup School delivers those vital startup lessons to tech company founders without them leaving home. VOA's Michelle Quinn reports from Mountain View, California.

One of Dakar Fashion Week's biggest events is free — a fashion show in working class neighborhood, Niary Tally. The event's founder, Senegalese designer Adama Paris, says the so-called "Street Show" is her favorite event of the week because she gets to take fashion back to the streets where it originates. Ricci Shryock has more from Dakar.

U.S. President Donald Trump was spending most of the weekend at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, but planned to fly back to Washington briefly Saturday to deliver a speech at an event hosted by a large evangelical church. The First Baptist Church of Dallas said in a news release Saturday that the president would "deliver a powerful address honoring our veterans." The church said hundreds of veterans from the Washington area would attend the event, including wounded veterans from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Читать дальше...

Qatar says it doesn't fear any military retaliation for refusing to meet a Monday deadline to comply with a list of demands from four Arab states that have imposed a de-facto blockade on the Gulf nation. During a visit Saturday to Rome, Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani again rejected the demands as an infringement on Qatar's sovereignty. He allowed that any country is free to raise grievances with Qatar, provided they have proof, but said any such conflicts should be worked out through negotiation... Читать дальше...

Mexican authorities said Saturday that at least 19 people died in clashes between armed men and security forces in the gang-plagued northwestern state of Sinaloa, where violence has spiked dramatically following the capture and extradition of convicted drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. A statement from the State Prosecutor's Office said Friday's violence was touched off by an initial shooting involving "rival groups" of gunmen in the town of Villa Union, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) southeast of the beach resort of Mazatlan. Читать дальше...

Faced with a series of terror attacks, Pakistan is fighting back against Islamic State-affiliated militants after repeatedly claiming that Islamic State has been unable to establish a foothold in the country, analysts say. "Pakistan no longer denies IS’s presence as it used to,” Michael Kugelman, deputy director and senior associate for South Asia at Wilson Center in Washington, told VOA. He and other analysts warn that the IS group in Pakistan, while still relatively small, is spreading swiftly... Читать дальше...

Police in the Midwestern U.S. state of Arkansas say 25 people were shot Saturday night at a hip hop concert at a night club in the state’s capital, Little Rock. The shooting came as a result of an argument between two concert attendees, police said, and was not terror-related. All 25 of those shot in the incident are expected to survive. Little Rock Police Chief Kenton Buckner said a dispute broke out among several people inside the club and there are “probably multiple shooting suspects.” ... Читать дальше...

The interior ministers of France, Germany and Italy will meet in Paris Sunday to help Italy deal with masses of migrants arriving on its shores. Italy is struggling to respond to the influx of tens of thousands of migrants and threatened earlier this week to close its ports to migrant rescue boats in order to force the vessels to go to other Mediterranean countries. Officials say French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb, German counterpart Thomas de Maiziere and Italy’s Marco Minniti will meet... Читать дальше...

President Donald Trump revisited his spat with the media Saturday by unleashing a series of tweets, including one with more personal jabs directed at MSNBC's Morning Joe television talk show co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, and a description that labels them as "not bad people." Minutes after posting a congratulatory tweet to Canadians and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in commemoration of the country's 150th anniversary, Trump turned his attention to Brezezinski and Scarborough. ... Читать дальше...

Former U.S. president Barack Obama has returned to Jakarta, the Indonesian city that he called home for part of his childhood, to deliver the keynote speech at the fourth Congress of Indonesian Diaspora. Obama drew parallels between the two “diverse, multiethnic nations” of the United States and Indonesia, and called on young people to fight for democracy. He spoke at length on the values of pluralism, tolerance, and religious diversity. His remarks are likely to resonate in Jakarta, a city that... Читать дальше...

Outside the general’s office, Raith al-Shababi, an Iraqi Special Forces fighter, flips through Facebook on his phone.  “This is my brother,” he said, showing a reporter a picture of a young man in a white dress shirt, posing with a serious, thoughtful face.     “Daesh,” al-Shababi explained, holding his finger up to his head like a gun. “Boom, boom.” Islamic State militants killed his brother at the age of 21.   Waiting for the generals to escort them on a victory tour of Mosul’s Old City,... Читать дальше...

"I was 12 years old when I was raped. I did not understand what was happening." Nelle is now 36 years old. But in 1993 when war broke out in Burundi, armed men came to her village near the capital, Bujumbura. They killed her mother and father and six siblings. She was raped, but she survived. “I saw people were killing each other. They were running away and killing each other. I hid myself under dead bodies for five days,” she said. Nelle’s story of survival was long and difficult to tell.  After living through years of instability... Читать дальше...

Australia has a new Information Warfare Unit that will start operations within days.  It will defend Australian military targets from cyber attacks and will be able to launch its own assaults on foreign defense forces.  Australia’s newest frontline forces are ‘keyboard warriors’ - analysts, technicians and computer experts who will lead the fight against cyber attacks. The unit will run both defensive and offensive operations.  It will allow Australia to respond to modern digital forms of conflict... Читать дальше...

The leader of a prominent Kashmir rebel group has rejected U.S. sanctions and vowed to continue fighting until the disputed Himalayan region is “liberated from India.” Syed Salahuddin, who operates from the Pakistani-controlled portion of Kashmir, said at a news conference Saturday that Washington’s decision will not impact activities of his Hizbul Mujahideen, the main militant organization fighting New Delhi’s rule in the divided territory. The State Department on Monday (June 26) designated... Читать дальше...

Ukraine has blamed Russian security services for a massive cyber attack that started in the last week in Ukraine and eventually spread to computers across the world. Ukraine’s security agency, the SBU, said in a statement Saturday the attack bore resemblances to past hacks of Ukrainian infrastructure by the Russian security services. "The available data, including those obtained in cooperation with international antivirus companies, give us reason to believe that the same hacking groups are involved in the attacks... Читать дальше...

The World Health Organization's new director-general, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, began his five-year term Saturday. The former Ethiopian health and foreign minister is the first African chosen to head the organization.    Tedros, who goes by his first name, won the office by a clear majority, defeating British and Pakistani candidates in May in the first WHO election decided by member countries. He is facing a slew of challenges as he takes the helm of the sprawling organization with a... Читать дальше...

The World Health Organization says a rapidly spreading cholera outbreak in Yemen has claimed 1500 lives since April and is suspected of sickening 246,000 people. WHO representative in Yemen Dr. Nevio Zagaria said in a news conference in Sanaa on Saturday that the number of suspected cases in the country's second outbreak of cholera in six months has multiplied tenfold in the last two months. The death toll rose from 1300 as announced two weeks ago by WHO, which put the number of suspected cases at 200,000 at the time. Читать дальше...

One of Dakar Fashion Week’s biggest events is free and high-end — a fashion show in a working class neighborhood. The event’s founder, Senegalese designer Adama Paris, says the “Street Show” is her favorite show of the week because she gets to take fashion back to the streets where it belongs. Just across the street from where fast-moving public buses pause briefly to pick up passengers, Moussa Diouf lines up Nike, Adidas and Puma shoes on a short cement wall. The wall sits on one side of a makeshift... Читать дальше...

Alaska is commemorating 75 years since nearly 4,000 segregated black soldiers toiled in harsh weather and terrain to help build a highway across the state and Canada.   The soldiers worked on the 1,500-mile (2,400-kilometer) highway during World War II, a contribution largely ignored for decades.   It took the soldiers working from the north just over eight months to meet up with white soldiers coming from the south to connect the two segments on Oct. 25, 1942. The route set the foundation for the only land link to Alaska. Читать дальше...

Current and former leaders from Europe and beyond are gathering in Strasbourg to bid farewell to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died June 16 at 87.   The ceremony Saturday at the European Parliament’s seat in Strasbourg, close to the border with Germany, was deemed fitting for a chancellor whose biggest achievements included helping unite Europe.   It is the first time such a memorial for a national leader is being held at the European level.   Among the speakers are EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker... Читать дальше...

With the Islamic State (IS) militant group on the verge of defeat in the Iraqi city of Mosul and surrounded by counter-Islamic State forces in the Syrian city of Raqqa, one question looms — where will the next major battle be? Many U.S. military officials point to the Euphrates River Valley, namely Deir Ezzor province in Syria, and the area around the city of al-Qaim in Iraq. Those areas are not heavily populated like Mosul or Raqqa, but the fight could still prove incredibly difficult as multiple counter-Islamic State forces... Читать дальше...

Democratic Republic of Congo declared its two-month Ebola outbreak officially over Saturday after 42 days without recording a new case of the disease. The outbreak in Congo’s remote northeastern forests, a record eighth for the country where the disease was first discovered in 1976, killed four out of the eight people infected, Health Minister Oly Ilunga said in a statement. “I declare on this day, at midnight, the end of the outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever of the Ebola virus in DRC,” Ilunga said. Читать дальше...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and the Democrat-led Legislature are to return to work Saturday to try to resolve the state’s first government shutdown since 2006 and the first under Christie.    The Republican governor and the Democrat-led Legislature failed to reach an agreement on a new budget by the deadline at midnight Friday.   Christie ordered nonessential services, including state parks and the motor vehicle commission to close beginning Saturday. He and lawmakers are in a stalemate over... Читать дальше...

Turkey has always prided itself on being a secular state. The nation enshrined the separation of church and state in its constitution by constitutional amendment in 1928. But that was nearly a century ago, and about 99 percent of the nation’s citizens are now identified as Muslim. Watch: Evolution vs. Erdogan: Turkey Struggles with Basic Science The current government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has received some criticism for eroding the country’s historic commitment to... Читать дальше...