Новости за 12.11.2017

A powerful earthquake followed by a strong aftershock rocked the Iran-Iraqi border Sunday, killing as many as 61 people. The 7.3 magnitude quake struck Sunday night outside the eastern Iraqi Kurdistan city of Halabja, very close to the Iranian border. It was felt as far away as Turkey and Israel. The initial jolt was followed by a 5.3 aftershock, sending panicked villagers fleeing from their homes. An Iranian news agency reports 61 deaths while at least four are reported dead in Iraq. Authorities... Читать дальше...

Rescue teams are working through the night looking for survivors after a powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake shook towns and villages near the Iran-Iraq border. Iranian state television reports more than 140 deaths and more than 800 injured. The Baghdad government did not immediately give word on damage or casualties in that country. The quake struck Sunday night outside the eastern Iraqi Kurdistan city of Halabja, very close to the Iranian border. It was felt as far away as Turkey and Israel.... Читать дальше...

Rescue teams are working through the night looking for survivors after a powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake shook towns and villages near the Iran-Iraq border. Iranian state television reports 129 deaths while the number of those killed in Iraq is still unclear. The quake struck Sunday night outside the eastern Iraqi Kurdistan city of Halabja, very close to the Iranian border. It was felt as far away as Turkey and Israel. The initial jolt was followed by a 5.3 aftershock, sending panicked villagers... Читать дальше...

A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Iran near its border with Iraq Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. At least six people in Iran have been reported dead, according to state television, which also reported that eight villages had been damaged by the tremors. The epicenter of the quake, which struck at a depth of 33.9 kilometers, was 32 kilometers southwest of Halabjah in Iraq.

A powerful earthquake followed by a strong aftershock rocked the Iran-Iraqi border Sunday, damaging a number of villages. The 7.3 magnitude quake killed at least 13 people, according to official news agencies in both countries. The quake struck Sunday night outside the eastern Iraqi Kurdistan city of Halabja, very close to the Iranian border. It was felt as far away as Turkey. The initial jolt was followed by a 5.3 aftershock. Authorities in both countries say they expect the damage reports... Читать дальше...

Two former U.S. intelligence officials slammed President Trump Sunday for saying believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin "feels that he and Russia did not meddle" in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Former CIA director John Brennan, in an appearance on CNN with James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, said Trump's initial indication that he believed Putin shows "that Donald Trump can be played by foreign leaders who are going to appeal to his ego and try to play upon his insecurities... Читать дальше...

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Venezuela's foreign debt renegotiation committee will meet with creditors at 2 p.m. (1800 GMT) on Monday at the government's "White Palace" in downtown Caracas, the finance minister said on Saturday. "Once again, we invite investors to register their participation in this meeting," Simon Zerpa, who is also the finance boss of state oil company PDVSA but is on a U.S. sanctions list for alleged corruption, said in a Tweet. Foreign investor sources had said Zerpa and committee head Tareck El Aissami... Читать дальше...

Iraqi security forces have found mass graves in an area recently retaken from the Islamic State group that could contain up to 400 bodies, an Iraqi official said Sunday. The bodies of civilians and security forces were found in an abandoned base near Hawija, a northern town retaken in early October, Kirkuk governor Rakan Saed said. He didn't say when authorities will start exhuming the bodies from the mass graves. Khalaf Luhaibi, a local shepherd who led troops to the site, said IS used to... Читать дальше...

Support for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives has fallen to the lowest level in more than six years, according to a poll on Sunday, as they prepare for more talks on a coalition deal with the environmentalist Greens and a pro-business party. The weekly Emnid survey for Bild am Sonntag newspaper showed only 30 percent would vote for Merkel's CDU/CSU bloc if there were a federal election this Sunday, down 1 percentage point. This is the lowest reading for the conservatives in this survey... Читать дальше...

South Africa's main opposition party said on Sunday it had asked the High Court to force President Jacob Zuma to disclose how much the state has spent on legal fees to fight corruption allegations against him. Democratic Alliance (DA) Federal Council Chairperson James Selfe said in a statement the opposition party had asked the court to direct the president to write to parliament within five days confirming the total amount spent. The DA walked out of a parliamentary session addressed by Zuma on Nov. Читать дальше...

Israel signaled on Sunday that it would keep up military strikes across its frontier with Syria to prevent any encroachment by Iranian-allied forces, even as the United States and Russia try to build up a cease-fire in the area. U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday affirmed joint efforts to stabilize Syria as its civil war wanes, including with the expansion of a July 7 truce in the southwestern triangle bordering Israel and Jordan. A U.S. State Department... Читать дальше...

Turkey is denying a report that it may have discussed a plot to seize a Muslim cleric living in the United States with a former Trump administration official. According to a Wall Street Journal story published Friday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating an alleged plan involving President Donald Trump's former National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, to kidnap Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish cleric who has lived in the U.S. since 1999.  According to the report, Flynn and his son were to... Читать дальше...

Senior officials from 10 Southeast Asian countries, including some of the world’s fastest-growing, expect joint progress at summits in the Philippines this week on trade, investment and security with help from major world powers. But analysts say they are unlikely to get too far. Heads of state from members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) arrived one by one Sunday for a series of summits in Manila through Tuesday. They came to sign a free-trade agreement with Hong Kong and... Читать дальше...

Senior officials from 10 Southeast Asian countries, including some of the world’s fastest-growing, expect joint progress at summits in the Philippines this week on trade, investment and security with help from major world powers. But analysts say they are unlikely to get too far. Heads of state from members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) arrived one by one Sunday for a series of summits in Manila through Tuesday. They came to sign a free-trade agreement with Hong Kong and... Читать дальше...

Asia experts say they do not expect President Donald Trump to raise human rights issues and concerns about extrajudicial killings when he meets Monday in Manila with Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte. "I'm sure he will not take it up," Duterte himself said Sunday. Human rights groups have expressed alarm over allegations that Philippines police have killed at least 3,000 suspected drug users and dealers in a countrywide crackdown - one of Duterte's major campaign promises. Trump told Duterte... Читать дальше...

U.S. President Donald Trump landed in Manila Sunday for summits with eager but suspicious Southeast Asian leaders.   Trump’s Air Force One reached Manila shortly before 6 p.m. local time after about 3,500 Filipino protesters tried to march on the U.S. Embassy. The protesters shouted for Trump to leave and accused the U.S. government, a former Philippine colonizer of about 50 years, of looking for overseas wars. “We know America has been launching war all over the world, in all the third-world... Читать дальше...

U.S. President Donald Trump landed in Manila Sunday for summits with eager but suspicious Southeast Asian leaders.   Trump’s Air Force One reached Manila shortly before 6 p.m. local time after about 3,500 Filipino protesters tried to march on the U.S. Embassy. The protesters shouted for Trump to leave and accused the U.S. government, a former Philippine colonizer of about 50 years, of looking for overseas wars. “We know America has been launching war all over the world, in all the third-world... Читать дальше...

Asia experts say they do not expect President Donald Trump to raise human rights issues and concerns about extrajudicial killings when he meets Monday in Manila with Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte. "I'm sure he will not take it up," Duterte himself said Sunday. Human rights groups have expressed alarm over allegations that Philippines police have killed at least 3,000 suspected drug users and dealers in a countrywide crackdown - one of Duterte's major campaign promises. Trump told Duterte... Читать дальше...

President Donald Trump says he will have “a major statement” on trade when he returns to Washington following a 12-day, five-nation trip to Asia. Speaking on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in the Philippines Monday, Trump said “We’ve made a lot of big progress on trade.” He added that his Asia trip has generated $300 billion “in sales to various companies, including China.” However, he offered no details on the coming trade announcement. His comments came at a trilateral meeting on the sidelines... Читать дальше...

For most of his life, Hamidul Hassan says he has struggled to find an identity. As a Muslim Rohingya living in Myanmar, he had no passport, lacked the freedom to worship his religion, was not free to travel and had no formal education. He says his only hope for a future was to leave the only country he ever knew. So, in 2012, he fled to neighboring Bangladesh before reaching Malaysia. When he eventually arrived off an airplane as a refugee resettling in the United States in 2015, he spoke no English. Читать дальше...

The crackdown by military forces on the ethnic Muslim Rohingya population in Myanmar has forced hundreds of thousands from their homes and across international borders to seek refuge. Those fleeing from Myanmar, including Rohingya, now account for the largest number of refugees resettling in the United States. Their unique dialect has made resettlement and integration challenging and has fueled demand for those who can help guide them through their new life in America.

Emirates Airlines agreed to buy 40 Boeing 787-10s in a deal worth more than $15 billion. The purchase was announced Sunday at the Dubai Air Show by the largest airline in the Middle East. Deliveries of the wide-body, twin-engine planes are set to begin in 2022. Boeing's website says the aircraft typically carries 330 passengers with a range of 11,900 kilometers.   The manufacturer says the 787 is 25 percent more fuel-efficient than the aircraft it replaces. Also, Azerbaijan Airlines announced a $1.9 billion deal for more 787s... Читать дальше...

Emirates Airlines agreed to buy 40 Boeing 787-10s in a deal worth more than $15 billion. The purchase was announced Sunday at the Dubai Air Show by the largest airline in the Middle East. Deliveries of the wide-body, twin-engine planes are set to begin in 2022. Boeing's website says the aircraft typically carries 330 passengers with a range of 11,900 kilometers.   The manufacturer says the 787 is 25 percent more fuel-efficient than the aircraft it replaces. Also, Azerbaijan Airlines announced a $1.9 billion deal for more 787s... Читать дальше...

Voters in Slovenia cast ballots Sunday in a presidential runoff, with President Borut Pahor’s bid for re-election facing a tough challenge from an ex-comedian who’s now the mayor of a northern town.   Pahor, a veteran politician known for his frequent use of social media, led by a large margin after the first round of voting on Oct. 22. But his runoff opponent, Marjan Sarec, has since narrowed the gap, and the latest polls predict a close race.    The president in Slovenia holds no executive powers... Читать дальше...