Новости за 10.08.2017

U.S. President Donald Trump stiffened his resolve against North Korea Thursday, saying that if Pyongyang initiates warfare "things will happen to them like they never thought possible." In his latest bellicose warning, Trump said that his earlier comments vowing to inflict "fire and fury" on the reclusive communist regime for its nuclear weapons development program maybe were not "tough enough." Asked what would be tougher, Trump told reporters at his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, "You'll see. Читать дальше...

At least three people were wounded Thursday after a car packed with explosives blew up in Mogadishu. Somali authorities said the car exploded at Maka al-Mukaramah, Mogadishu's busiest street, minutes after it was stopped by intel forces. A Somali official who asked not to be named told VOA, "The alleged attack was thwarted when security forces who were closely following the car in the city prevented it from proceeding." The official said the target of the suspected attack was not yet clear. Читать дальше...

Mexican authorities say they have caught an alleged female drug gang leader linked to much of the violence in the Caribbean resort city of Cancun. The government said in a statement late Wednesday that federal police and marines caught Leticia Rodriguez in the central state of Puebla. Mexico's most popular beach destination has been hit by violence in recent months. In January, gunmen attacked the state prosecutors' office in Cancun, killing four people. The Jalisco New Generation cartel has also been reported to be active in Cancun.

A top retiring Indian official on Thursday embarrassed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government by saying Muslims were feeling insecure under his rule following attacks on them by Hindu hardliners on mere suspicion that they were killing cows considered holy by majority Hindus. In an interview with state-run Rajya Sabha television channel broadcast Thursday, Hamid Ansari said intolerance was growing in India with Hindu hardliners questioning the nationalism of Muslims who comprise... Читать дальше...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday declared the opioid epidemic a national emergency and said his administration was drafting papers to make it official. "The opioid crisis is an emergency and I'm saying officially right now it is an emergency," Trump told reporters in New Jersey. "We're going to draw it up and we're going to make it a national emergency. It is a serious problem, the likes of which we have never had." Trump spoke about a week after a White House commission on the opioid... Читать дальше...

A hundred teenage girls from seven countries are gathered the Malawi University of Science and Technology in the country's Thyolo district for a Women in Science camp. Experts from Intel Corp. and Google are teaching the girls — from Rwanda, Uganda, Liberia, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi and the U.S. — to develop mobile phone apps. It's one of several lessons offered at the two-week camp, which runs through August 14. The hope is that these teens will go on to pursue studies and careers in science... Читать дальше...

President Donald Trump is facing his greatest foreign policy challenge to date in dealing with a nuclear-potent North Korea. But the test comes at a difficult time politically for the president.  Recent polls show that Trump’s standing at home has weakened because of doubts about his leadership and his stalled domestic agenda. The president dominated the headlines this week with his blunt warning in the midst of more nuclear saber-rattling from North Korea. “They will be met with fire, fury and frankly... Читать дальше...

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U.S. military experts are lining up on either side of a debate on whether to supply lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine, a move that would mark a turning point in U.S. policy on Kyiv's 3-year-old conflict with Russian-backed separatists. Supporters of the move, which is under active consideration by President Donald Trump's administration, argue that it is long overdue. The current policy of supplying only non-lethal military gear has neither deterred Russian aggression nor created an opening... Читать дальше...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has determined there is reasonable cause that the civil rights of Somali-American Muslims were violated when agri-business giant Cargill refused to allow them to pray at a meatpacking plant it owns in the western state of Colorado. The finding was reached almost two years after about 150 workers walked off the job after supervisors informed them they could no longer pray during lunch breaks. Cargill, the largest private company in the U.S., then... Читать дальше...

Guam’s governor says his Pacific island is concerned but not in a panic in the face of new threats by North Korea to launch ballistic missiles toward the U.S. territory located about 3,400 kilometers from Pyongyang. Speaking to VOA, Eddie Calvo says that at the same time he feels the island is adequately protected and that people should go on with their daily lives. “Our civil administration together with our local Joint Region Marianas in the military command, and also in discussions with Washington... Читать дальше...

An annual conference is being held at the U.S. Naval War College to discuss empowering women in conflict prevention and peace. The fifth-annual Women, Peace and Security Conference is taking place at the college's campus in Newport on Thursday and Friday. It's the only U.S. military academic program specifically related to the topic, according to the war college. About 70 leaders from academia, the military and non-governmental organizations are attending. The inaugural conference was held... Читать дальше...

Mexico could pull back on cooperation in migration and security matters if the United States walks away from talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Mexican economy minister said in a newspaper report published on Thursday. Ildefonso Guajardo, who will take part in the first round of NAFTA talks with U.S. and Canadian officials in Washington on Wednesday, told the Reforma daily that new tariffs on Mexican exports to the United States were unacceptable. "If they do not treat [us] well commercially... Читать дальше...

The results of Kenya’s presidential election are expected Friday, as people continue to wait to learn the outcome of Tuesday’s presidential poll pitting incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta against opposition leader Raila Odinga.   As of Thursday afternoon, election officials were waiting to receive about 170 forms from the country’s 290 constituencies and about 1,000 forms from the 40,883 polling stations.   The chairman of Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, Wafula Chebukati, said... Читать дальше...

In a rebuke of President Donald Trump, Arizona Sen. John McCain declared Thursday that "America is adrift in Afghanistan" as he unveiled a war strategy of his own that includes more U.S. combat forces and greater counterterrorism efforts. McCain, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the U.S. needs to put strict conditions on continued assistance to Afghanistan requiring Kabul to demonstrate "measurable progress" in curbing corruption, strengthening the rule of law... Читать дальше...

A hundred teenage girls from seven countries are gathered in Malawi for a ‘Women in Science’ camp. Lameck Masina has the story from the Malawi University of Science and Technology in the Thyolo district of southern Malawi.

A 29-year-old Indian woman who was sold into sexual slavery as a teenager has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to rescue hundreds of thousands of other girls who are trapped in brothels and raped daily. In a two-page letter written in Hindi, the woman – who identifies herself as Tavi - described how she was duped and trafficked to a brothel in Mumbai when she was 17, and sold for sex for six years before police rescued her. The letter has made headlines in India, a country... Читать дальше...

U.S. lawmakers will have three weeks to raise America’s $20 trillion borrowing limit and avert a potential debt default when Congress gets back to work next month — the first such deadline to occur during the Trump administration.   If recent history is a guide, raising the debt ceiling will be anything but drama-free, with lawmakers demanding concessions in return for votes to prevent an outcome that could throttle global finances: the U.S. government unable to pay its bills.   The White House... Читать дальше...

A Russian activist freed from prison this week after serving a four-and-a-half-year term said he plans to keep pressuring President Vladimir Putin, and he is encouraging activists to boycott next year’s elections. Speaking Thursday at a press conference, Leftist Russian opposition figure Sergei Udaltsov said Russian elections are “dishonest” and called for a “consolidated boycott of the elections.” "The authorities change electoral law like a swindler. They cut off candidates they don't like from the polls,” he told reporters. Читать дальше...

U.S. President Donald Trump is intensifying a feud with Mitch McConnell, the president's party leader in the Senate and a pivotal player in advancing the president's agenda, over failed Republican efforts to dismantle the nation's Obama-era health care law. On three occasions in less than 24 hours, Trump targeted McConnell on Twitter, most recently on Thursday, as he urged McConnell to revive efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Earlier Thursday, Trump assailed McConnell... Читать дальше...

Dutch police arrested two suspects on Thursday as part of an investigation into the illegal use of a potentially harmful insecticide in the poultry industry, the Dutch prosecution service said. Millions of chicken eggs have been pulled from European supermarket shelves as a result of the scare over the use of the insecticide fipronil, and hundreds of thousands of hens may be culled in the Netherlands. Prosecutors said in a statement they had conducted raids at eight locations in the Netherlands and Belgium... Читать дальше...

Police in Zambia freed an opposition leader on Thursday after holding him in detention for a week on accusations of defaming President Edgar Lungu, an offense that carries a maximum five-year prison term. Police arrested United Progressive Party leader Saviour Chishimba last Thursday and said he would be charged with defaming the president. "We have discontinued the case," police spokeswoman Esther Mwaata-Katongo said in a statement, without giving any reasons. Chishimba hit the headlines in... Читать дальше...

South Africa's main opposition party submitted a motion to dissolve the nation's parliament on Thursday, which, if passed, would require fresh national elections. “The ANC is willing to do anything to protect President Jacob Zuma,” said John Steenhuisen, chief whip of the Democratic Alliance party. “South Africans need to be given the opportunity to make their voices heard at the polls.”   The dissolution motion comes hot on the heels of a no confidence vote which Zuma narrowly survived earlier this week. Читать дальше...

Iranian media say authorities have arrested six young people for promoting Zumba, the Latin-inspired dance exercises, and other types of exercise. The arrests are part of Iran's decades-long crackdown against influences of Western culture. In June, Iran banned Zumba and other exercises considered un-Islamic.   Thursday's report says the six included two women. They were arrested by the powerful Revolutionary Guard in the town of Shahroud, about 400 kilometers, or 250 miles, east of the capital, Tehran. Читать дальше...

Ugandan officials say a Rwandan refugee has been kidnapped by unknown people in the capital, Kampala. Apollo Kazungu, a government commissioner in charge of refugees, says Rene Rutagungira was known to refugee officials before the incident this week.   Ugandan police and U.N. officials did not immediately comment.   Over the years, some Rwandan exiles and refugees in Uganda have complained about the risk of abduction by Rwandan agents.   Douglas Asiimwe, a refugee officer, says it is not... Читать дальше...