Новости за 04.07.2017

U.S. President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are on a collision course on issues of climate and trade at Friday's summit of the Group of 20 leading economies in Hamburg.

The U.N. Security Council could hold an emergency closed-door meeting Wednesday on the latest North Korean missile launch. The United States asked for the emergency talks. U.S. military analysts suspect the North test fired an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching Alaska. The U.N. has imposed sanction after sanction on Pyongyang, which have apparently done little to convince the North to give up its nuclear ambitions. The latest test launch has also frustrated North Korea's biggest ally... Читать дальше...

A gay man in central China has successfully sued a mental hospital over forced conversion therapy, in what activists are hailing as the first such victory in a country where the LGBT rights movement is gradually emerging from the fringes. A court in Zhumadian in Henan province ordered a city mental hospital to publish a public apology in local newspapers and pay the 38-year-old man 5,000 yuan ($735) in compensation, according to a copy of the June 26 judgment seen by The Associated Press. The man... Читать дальше...

A Saudi soldier was killed and three were wounded when suspected militants attacked their convoy in eastern Saudi Arabia, the interior ministry said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of attacks in the troubled region. The town of al-Awamiya, located in the oil-producing al-Qatif province, is a flashpoint between the Sunni Muslim government and minority Shi'ites complaining of discrimination. The soldier was killed by a rocket-propelled grenade in the old part of the town known as al-Musawara and an investigation was underway... Читать дальше...

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Ukrainian police on Tuesday seized the servers of an accounting software firm suspected of spreading a malware virus which crippled computer systems at major companies around the world last week, a senior police official said. The head of Ukraine's Cyber Police, Serhiy Demedyuk, told Reuters the servers of M.E.Doc - Ukraine's most popular accounting software - had been seized as part of an investigation into the attack. Though they are still trying to establish who was behind last week's attack... Читать дальше...

A former Mexican governor captured in Guatemala has agreed to his extradition for a second time in two weeks, but it was not immediately clear how soon that could happen.   Javier Duarte was captured in April, six months after resigning as governor of Veracruz.   The two hearings covered distinct charges he faces in Mexico, including allegations of embezzlement and ties to organized crime.   Duarte said Tuesday he did not commit those crimes and would return to Mexico to clear his name.   Duarte's lawyer... Читать дальше...

Uber suffered a new setback in Europe on Tuesday when a European Union court adviser said France was entitled to charge local managers of the U.S. ride-hailing app firm with running an illegal taxi service. Uber played down the non-binding opinion from an advocate general at the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ), saying it applied only to a service using unlicensed drivers known as UberPOP, which it had already discontinued in France. Judges will make a final ruling later this year. Читать дальше...

When President Xi Jinping took the stage in Davos in January and painted China as a champion of free markets ready to fill the global leadership role vacated by the United States, German officials couldn't help but chuckle. Their expectation was that Donald Trump, due to be inaugurated as U.S. president days later, would quickly temper his protectionist campaign rhetoric and patch up ties with Western allies, leaving little space for Beijing. Six months later, as Xi arrives in Berlin for a highly... Читать дальше...

Work is underway in Poland's capital to close streets and set the stage for President Donald Trump, who is due to deliver a public speech during his visit to Poland on Thursday.   Workers are building platforms at a downtown Warsaw square where Trump will speak, and colorful posters can be seen across the city inviting people to attend the event. Signs are up to show traffic diversions from areas where Trump will be during his brief stay in Warsaw.   The speech is hosted by the U.S. Embassy and Ambassador Paul W. Читать дальше...

Americans are observing Independence Day, a federal holiday marking the United States' independence from Britain. As millions of people celebrate America's 241st birthday throughout the U.S. with traditional fireworks displays parades, concerts, cookouts and other activities, law enforcement agencies are taking new and traditional approaches to keep celebrants safe. In the northeastern city of Boston, Massachusetts, where the American Revolutionary War began, police are deploying a tethered drone... Читать дальше...

The Canadian government is going to apologize and give millions of dollars to a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan when he was 15, with Canada's Supreme Court later ruling that officials had interrogated him under "oppressive circumstances." An official familiar with the deal said Tuesday that Omar Khadr will receive 10.5 million Canadian dollars (US$8 million). The official was not authorized to discuss the deal publicly before the announcement and spoke on condition of anonymity. Читать дальше...

The United States is defending its travel ban on six majority-Muslim countries, including restrictions that block grandparents and "extended" relatives of people already in the U.S. from joining them. The U.S. said in a court filing late Monday that the limitations it imposed on travel from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen were reasonable, based on long-set principles in U.S. immigration law. The government was responding to a lawsuit brought by the Pacific island state of Hawaii... Читать дальше...

Authorities in Malawi have faced resistance from bus operators as they try to implement enhanced traffic safety measures amid a rise in fatal accidents this year. Two police stations were torched on June 23 in Malawi’s commercial capital, Blantyre, as minibus drivers and conductors protested the new traffic safety measures. Police used tear gas to disperse demonstrations. Officials say the new measures are a response to a rise in deadly road accidents, many of them involving buses. The most recent... Читать дальше...

Venezuela's supreme court has pushed aside the opposition-controlled congress with its own appointment of a deputy chief prosecutor: a government loyalist who was sanctioned by the U.S. for her role pursuing President Nicolas Maduro's opponents.   Tuesday's decision to name Katherine Harrington to the post is another step undermining chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega Diaz.   The high court is holding a hearing Tuesday on whether to strip Ortega Diaz of immunity from prosecution for unspecified irregularities. Читать дальше...

Climbers striving to reach the summit of the world’s second largest mountain, K-2, have been stymied the past two years because of unusually harsh weather conditions and rock-snow avalanches, blamed on climatic changes. But British-based American climber, Vanessa O’Brien has not been deterred. O'Brien, 52, spoke about her endeavor to reporters in Islamabad.

Ahead of the Independence Day celebration, many museums across the country inaugurate special exhibits dedicated to the most important moments in American history. VOA Russian’s Maxim Moskalkov went to a vast display at the  National Museum of American History.

Fire gutted part of Zambia's biggest market in the nation's capital on Tuesday in what the government suspected was an act of arson as tensions rise following the arrest of an opposition leader. United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema was arrested in April and charged with treason for impeding president Edgar Lungu's motorcade. The arrest of the opposition leader has stoked political tensions in what is regarded as one of Africa's more stable and functional democracies following a bruising election last year. Читать дальше...

Russia and China have agreed on a need for a freeze on North Korea's missile and nuclear programs as well as large-scale joint military exercises by the United States and South Korea. Hours after Pyongyang announced a missile launch Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he would coordinate with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to promote their plan to combat North Korea's growing missile threat. "We’ve agreed to robustly promote our joint initiative to find a solution to the... Читать дальше...

Lawyers from around Africa gathered in Cameroon this week to call for tougher legislation against counterfeit medicine.   Sixty tons of counterfeit medicine was burned after being seized by customs officials in Cameroon, who say the stockpile had an estimated value of $80,000. Customs official Marcel Kamgaing said the imitation medicine was being used to treat everything from diabetes and hypertension to cancer and erectile dysfunction. He said the forged drugs were destined for sale at shops and roadside pharmacies. Читать дальше...

President Donald Trump's first face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday will be brimming with global intrigue, but the White House says there's "no specific agenda." So in the absence of a set list of topics, what are two of the world's most famously unpredictable leaders to discuss? Trump, who prefers to have neatly packaged achievements to pair with high-profile meetings, may be looking for some concessions from Russia to show he's delivering progress and helping restore... Читать дальше...

When three journalists were arrested last week after reporting in territory held by an outlawed rebel group in northeastern Myanmar, government officials were quick to blame the journalists. A spokesman for the president’s office told The Associated Press that members of the media have to inform security forces before reporting in conflict zones, and that if they violate any law, “he or she will have to face the charge.” The charge in this case is a section of the Unlawful Associations Act, a... Читать дальше...

Turkey's foreign minister says Turkish soldiers will remain on Cyprus under any agreement to reunify the ethnically divided island.   Mevlut Cavusoglu says Turkey won't accept a peace accord that would mandate the withdrawal of all of its troops from Cyprus — a key demand by Greece and internationally recognized Greek Cypriots.   He told reporters after a morning round of talks at a Swiss resort Tuesday that anyone "dreaming" of removing all Turkish troops from the island has "to wake up." ... Читать дальше...

The United Nations has called it one of Africa's biggest remaining wilderness areas. Now a dispute over a planned hydropower dam in Tanzania's Selous wildlife reserve pits the country's president against conservationists who say the project could cause irreparable damage to the UNESCO World Heritage site. On Tuesday, a few days after President John Magufuli said the Stiegler's Gorge dam will be built "come rain, come sun," the WWF conservation group said in a report that the project threatens... Читать дальше...

The U.N. children’s fund warns tens of thousands of malnourished children are at great risk in Yemen, Somalia and South Sudan, which are on the brink of famine. UNICEF reports an estimated 4.7 million children in the cholera-stricken countries are malnourished. Of these, UNICEF spokesman Christofe Boulierac tells VOA, more than one million are suffering from severe acute malnutrition. “Let me remind you that a child who is suffering from severe acute malnutrition are nine times more likely to... Читать дальше...