Новости за 14.07.2017

An Indiana senator and longtime critic of outsourcing jobs to foreign countries announced Friday that he's selling his stock in his family's arts and crafts company after The Associated Press reported it manufactures some products in Mexico. Democrat Joe Donnelly said he hasn't had an active role in the company for 20 years but was taking the action to avoid allowing the issue to become "a distraction from our work to end outsourcing and keep American jobs here instead of shipping them to other... Читать дальше...

South Sudanese judges said Friday that despite President Salva Kiir's decision to fire 14 of their colleagues, they will continue their strike until their demands are met. The judges went on strike May 1, demanding that Kiir increase their pay, improve working conditions and remove Chief Justice Chan Reec Madut from the bench for ignoring their demands. At a news conference in Juba, Justice Bold Lul Wang, chairman of a general assembly representing South Sudan's judges, said judges were shocked by Kiir's move... Читать дальше...

Turkey fired more than 7,000 police officers, government officials and academics on Friday, the eve of the one-year anniversary of a failed military coup. A government order, published by the official state-run Gazette, shows those dismissed include 2,303 police — including some high-ranking officers — along with more than 300 academics from universities. The decree also strips 342 retired officers and soldiers of their ranks. The order was published under a state of emergency imposed after... Читать дальше...

Turkey has deployed warships to Cypriot waters in the latest escalation over contested gas exploration rights. “Turkey is determined to protect both its own rights and interests in its continental shelf and to continue its support to the Turkish Cypriot side,” said a toughly worded statement by the Turkish Foreign Ministry late Thursday. Two Turkish frigates and a submarine are reportedly monitoring the exploration ship West Capella. The ship, contracted by France's Total and Italy's ENI, started... Читать дальше...

The U.S. Justice Department on Friday filed a civil complaint seeking to recover about $144 million in assets obtained through paying bribes to a former Nigerian oil minister, the department said in a statement. The complaint said that from 2011 to 2015 two Nigerian businessmen conspired with others to pay bribes to the minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, who steered lucrative oil contracts to companies owned by them. The proceeds were laundered in and through the United States, and were used to... Читать дальше...

Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo say a group of men armed with guns and knives attacked the capital's main market, killing at least two people and wounding six police officers. A police spokesman, Pierrot Mwanamputu, said unidentified assailants killed the administrator of Kinshasa's central market, as well as a police officer. He said six other officers were seriously injured in the attack and taken to a nearby hospital. The spokesman said the situation is now under control and one of the attackers has been arrested. Читать дальше...

U.S. President Donald Trump has wrapped up a visit to France, where he was the guest of honor Friday at this year’s Bastille Day celebrations and commemorations. It also marked the centennial of America’s entry into World War One. For France, hosting Trump was deeply symbolic at a time when Western European leaders are increasingly alarmed at what they perceive as the U.S. administration's isolationist and protectionist tendencies. VOA Europe Correspondent Luis Ramirez reports.

While a U.S.judge expanded the rules for coming to the U.S. under the travel order Thursday, some groups remain in limbo, including children without family who come to the U.S. to live with guardians known as foster parents. The refugee agency that serves the Unaccompanied Refugee Minors Program says it doubts the new ruling affects. As Arash Arabasadi reports the would-be parents continue to wait.

EU officials hope the British government shows more sense of urgency about a Brexit deal when its negotiators come to Brussels on Monday for a first full round of talks aimed at smoothing Britain's departure. "The hard work starts now," the European Union's chief negotiator Michel Barnier said Wednesday, again sounding a note of alarm that London has yet to provide detailed proposals on a range of key issues, with barely a year left for bargaining. A year after the referendum vote to leave the bloc propelled her to power... Читать дальше...

Western powers on Friday urged Kosovo's newly elected lawmakers to move ahead in forming a government, more than a month after an election. A statement from the embassies of France, Germany, Italy, Britain and the United States said new parliamentarians "are responsible for the formation of a new government." The biggest grouping — ethnic Albanian former leaders from Kosovo's war of independence against Serbian troops in 1998-99 — holds only 39 seats in the 120-seat parliament and cannot create the new Cabinet on its own. Читать дальше...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that he hoped for further dialogue with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump after their meeting in Hamburg earlier this month on the fringes of the G20 summit. "If the dialogue were to go on, as you've said in this sense, in a humanitarian sense, there is the chance to hope that the dialogue develops further," Putin said during a meeting with workers from the Lebedinsky mine in the Belgorod region. The meeting was aired by the Russia 24 TV channel. Читать дальше...

The top Democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives' antitrust subcommittee has voiced concerns about Amazon.com Inc.'s $13.7 billion plan to buy Whole Foods Market Inc and is pushing for a hearing to look into the deal's potential impact on consumers. The deal announced in June marks the biggest acquisition for the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has not said what it will do with Whole Foods' stores and other assets, but analysts and investors worry the move could upend the landscape for grocers... Читать дальше...

A ticking sound runs throughout "Dunkirk" like an omnipresent reminder that time is running out for the 340,000 British and Allied soldiers marooned on the French beach and surrounded by Germans. It's a tick-tock effect woven into the score that originated, fittingly, from Christopher Nolan's own stopwatch. Nolan is cinema's great watchmaker: a filmmaker of Swiss precision capable of bending and shaping time to suit his grandiose, metronomed movies. Having already reversed time ("Memento") and warped its fabric ("Interstellar")... Читать дальше...

More than four years after it was imposed, Russia's ban on adoptions by Americans is back in the news, rekindling frustration and sadness among some of those affected by it. Chuck Johnson, CEO of the National Council for Adoption, worries that any efforts by President Donald Trump's administration to get the ban lifted might now be more complicated because of revelations regarding Donald Trump Jr. The younger Trump, explaining a meeting last year with a Russian lawyer, initially issued a statement saying the subject was the adoption ban... Читать дальше...

Poland's most powerful politician insisted Friday that "radical changes" are necessary to heal the nation's judiciary and vowed to push ahead despite vehement protests from Poland's opposition and European bodies. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, head of the ruling populist Law and Justice party, was referring at a news conference to new regulations that give lawmakers power over the body that chooses judges and to a draft law that would empower the justice minister to appoint or dismiss Supreme Court justices. Читать дальше...

A look at the best news photos from around the world.

Iraq's military may try to eradicate the Islamic State terror group's remaining forces by simultaneously attacking the terror group on multiple fronts in the hopes of taking advantage of infighting and a weakened leadership. The strategy would be a bold one given the casualties Iraqi forces suffered while trying to retake Mosul. The U.S. Defense Department estimated IS forces inflicted a 40 percent casualty rate on Iraq's elite Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) in the nine months it took for them to reclaim the city. Читать дальше...

Rwanda's president is already claiming victory in next month's election. President Paul Kagame told supporters at his first campaign rally Friday that the results of the vote were known in 2015, when more than 4 million Rwandans petitioned Parliament to change the constitution to allow him to run again. Kagame said his critics cannot change the will of the people. "You can choose not to hear the truth but you cannot deny what your eyes show you here today," he said. "Pretending not to know the... Читать дальше...

A cholera epidemic in Yemen, which has infected more than 332,000 people, could spread during the annual haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia in September, although Saudi authorities are well prepared, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. The pilgrimage draws 2-4 million Muslims every year, including 1.5-2 million foreigners, raising the risk from diseases such as dengue, yellow fever, Zika virus and meningococcal disease as well as cholera, the WHO said. "The current highly spreading outbreak of cholera in Yemen... Читать дальше...

The Republican-led House decisively approved a defense policy bill on Friday that declares climate change a national security threat, demands rigorous oversight of the Pentagon's cyber operations and rejects the Trump administration's bid to close military bases. Lawmakers voted 344-81 on Friday to pass the sweeping legislation. The bill authorizes $696 billion in defense spending for the 2018 fiscal year, including nearly $30 billion more for core Pentagon operations than President Donald Trump requested. Читать дальше...

Five countries in East Africa face dire food insecurity after a third poor rainy season in a row, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said Friday. Areas in five countries - Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda - received less than half of their normal seasonal rainfall. "The current phenomenon encompasses an area of about 1 million square kilometers, which is roughly twice the size of France," FAO economist Alessandro Costantino told VOA's Africa division. The extended... Читать дальше...

Two tourists were killed and four other foreigners wounded by an attacker armed with a knife at an Egyptian Red Sea holiday resort, Egypt's Interior Ministry and security sources said on Friday. The attacker swam from a nearby public beach to access the Sunny Days El Palacio resort in Hurghada, the ministry and sources said. He was arrested. The motive for the attack is under investigation Egypt is fighting an Islamist insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula and militants have previously attacked tourism targets. Читать дальше...

Host Mil Arcega talks with VOA’s Julie Taboh about the ongoing quest of traveler Mikah Meyer, who is one-third the way through his 3-year world record quest to visit all 412 of America’s national parks.

Host Mil Arcega talks with VOA White House correspondent Pete Heinlein and VOA National correspondent Jim Malone about the revelations this week by Donald Trump, Jr. of a meeting in June 2016 between a Russian lawyer and representatives of the Trump campaign, purportedly to share damaging information about Hillary Clinton.

Host Mil Arcega talks via Skype with VOA Middle East correspondent Heather Murdock in Erbil, and VOA National Security correspondent Jeff Seldin in Washington about the Iraqi Army’s declaration of victory this week over Islamic State militants in Mosul.