Новости за 29.10.2023

Hundreds of people on Sunday stormed into the main airport in Russia's Dagestan region and onto the landing field to protest the arrival of an airliner coming from Tel Aviv, Russian news agencies and social media reported. Authorities closed the airport in Makhachkala, capital of the predominantly Muslim region, and police converged on the facility. There were no immediate reports of injuries or arrests. Russian news reports said people in the crowd were shouting antisemitic slogans and tried... Читать дальше...

It hardly mattered that "Five Nights at Freddy's" was released simultaneously in theaters and on streaming this weekend. Fans flocked to movie theaters across the country to see the scary video game adaptation on the big screen, which made $78 million to top the North American box office, according to studio estimates Sunday. Universal Pictures bet on a day-and-date release on the weekend before Halloween, sending it to 3,675 theaters in the U.S. and Canada, while also making it available for Peacock subscribers... Читать дальше...

Since Israel activated the Iron Dome in 2011, the cutting-edge rocket-defense system has intercepted thousands of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip. The system has given residents a sense of security, and Israelis can often be seen watching the projectiles flying through the skies and destroying their targets overhead. But the current war with Gaza's militant Hamas group might be its stiffest challenge yet. In just two weeks, Hamas has fired 7,000 rockets toward Israel, according to the Israeli military. Читать дальше...

As Israel continued expanding its military operations in Gaza Sunday, the U.S. reiterated its calls for the protection of innocent human life. Separately, a U.S. military expert warns that Israel’s mission to destroy Hamas could prove almost impossible. VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias reports.

In the Mexican resort town of Acapulco, a desperate dash for basic needs is underway in the days since Hurricane Otis slammed ashore. The strength of the storm caught forecasters by surprise as area residents now seek food, fuel, and water to survive. VOA’s Arash Arabasadi has more.

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the country is entering the next phase of its operation to counter Hamas, IDF spokesperson urges residents away from Hamas strongholds, saying ‘our fight is with Hamas, not the people of Gaza' Israeli fighter jets strike some 450 Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip over past 24 hours, the IDF says, following airstrikes and ground troops surge into the besieged enclave For the second time in as many days, Tel Aviv... Читать дальше...

The death toll from Hurricane Otis, a Category 5 storm that battered the Mexican Pacific resort city of Acapulco, has risen to 43, said Guerrero Governor Evelyn Salgado in a social media post. As of Saturday, the Mexican government had reported 39 deaths with 10 people missing. The new tally of fatalities comprised 33 men and 10 women, Salgado said in a post on the platform X. She added that electricity had been restored to 58% of Acapulco, and that officials had visited 10,000 families in... Читать дальше...

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A passenger train derailed in eastern India late Wednesday, killing four passengers and injuring dozens, a government official said on Thursday. All 21 coaches of the North-East Express train, on its way to Assam state from New Delhi, derailed near Raghunathpur railroad station in Buxar district of Bihar state, Magistrate Anshul Agarwal said. Two of them overturned and rested on their sides. Local residents rushed to the scene and helped passengers exit the derailed coaches. Ambulances later... Читать дальше...

Authorities in Bangladesh detained a key opposition figure from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which called for a nationwide strike Sunday following a day of violent clashes with security forces. Media reports said at least three civilians died in the violence, which included an arson attack in the nation's capital, Dhaka, on Sunday. Dozens of others were injured during the strike. At least one police officer was killed and scores were injured Saturday when a massive rally by tens of thousands of opposition activists turned violent... Читать дальше...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on Sunday said Iran does not want war to "spread out" following the Oct. 7 attack by Palestinian militants of Hamas on Israel that killed at least 1,400 people, mostly civilians.  Israel has since bombarded the Gaza Strip with air strikes and begun ground operations with the aim of destroying the Iran-backed Islamist group Hamas and returning more than 200 people abducted to Gaza from Israel.  "We don't want this war to spread out," Amirabdollahian said during an appearance on CNN. Читать дальше...

U.N. agencies are warning that Pakistan’s planned expulsion of more than a million “undocumented” foreign nationals risks triggering a human rights catastrophe. They are appealing to Pakistani authorities to suspend these deportations as a November 1 deadline looms for the forcible return of 1.4 million Afghan nationals to Afghanistan where many will likely be at grave risk of human rights violations. “We are very worried that those who are deported face a whole host of human rights violations including torture... Читать дальше...

Thousands of supporters of Pakistan's main politico-religious party rallied in the capital, Islamabad, Sunday against Israel's bombing of Palestinians in Gaza, chanting anti-American slogans and accusing the U.S. of "backing the aggressor."  The extreme right party, Jamaat-e-Islami, had announced a march from Islamabad's famous Abpara intersection to the U.S. embassy in the high-security diplomatic enclave.  However, stern action by the authorities the previous night forced the religious party... Читать дальше...

Mouse embryos have been grown on the International Space Station and developed normally in the first study indicating it could be possible for humans to reproduce in space, a group of Japanese scientists said. The researchers, including Teruhiko Wakayama, professor of University of Yamanashi's Advanced Biotechnology Centre, and a team from the Japan Aerospace Space Agency (JAXA), sent frozen mouse embryos on board a rocket to the ISS in August 2021. Astronauts thawed the early-stage embryos using... Читать дальше...

Alan Mazzotti can see the Rocky Mountains about 30 miles west of his pumpkin patch in northeast Colorado on a clear day. He could tell the snow was abundant last winter, and verified it up close when he floated through fresh powder alongside his wife and three sons at the popular Winter Park Resort. But one season of above-average snowfall wasn't enough to refill the dwindling reservoir he relies on to irrigate his pumpkins. He received news this spring that his water delivery would be about half of what it was from the previous season... Читать дальше...

Transnational criminal gangs are using Southeast Asia’s booming and increasingly digital gambling industry as a shadow banking system to covertly move and launder ever more dirty money, United Nations officials have told VOA. Drawing on new research and analysis, including the latest intelligence from local law enforcement, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime believes the region’s casinos and online gambling sites now handle tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars in returns a year from illegal gambling... Читать дальше...

Indian officials say one person has died and at least 20 people were injured in a series of blasts Sunday morning at the Kalamassery Convention Center in Kerala, where a Jehovah’s Witness meeting was being held. The Times of India reports that 10 people are in a burn unit and two of them are on ventilators. One official said an IED device had been used in the explosions, according to the Times. Authorities say a national security team has been dispatched to the site to conduct a probe.

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Cheslin Kolbe was hunched over on a chair on the sidelines, his head buried deep inside his green and gold jersey for the moment he and South Africa became back-to-back Rugby World Cup winners and history-makers. The pocket-rocket wing — yellow-carded late on — couldn’t bear to watch the last, excruciating minutes of the final at Stade de France against New Zealand as the Springboks clung on to win by a point, just as they did against host France in the quarterfinals, and again against England in the semifinals. Читать дальше...

Vietnam's rainy season has hit low-lying central areas, causing flash floods, landslides, inundation of thousands of homes, and crop destruction.  Experts say the severe impacts of the monsoon season have become the new norm as rapid urbanization, upstream dams, and poor drainage systems exacerbate the country's vulnerability to climate change.   Areas from the northern to the southern parts of the country have struggled to cope with heavy rains through October, but a cluster of locales have been hit the hardest... Читать дальше...

Relatives of an Iranian teenager who died Saturday as a result of an alleged confrontation with police for violating the country's hijab law say they are preparing funeral arrangements under tight security in Tehran's Behesht-e Zahra cemetery, according to an Iranian human rights watchdog.  Citing information provided by family members of the late 17-year-old Armita Geravand, the Norway-based Hengaw rights group said early Saturday that authorities have forbidden the family from transporting her remains for burial in her native Kermanshah... Читать дальше...

A glittering crown on her head and a bouquet of flowers in her hands, Andreia Solange Sicato Muhitu beamed at being named the co-winner of the inaugural Mr. and Miss Albinism Southern Africa pageant.  The 28-year-old Angolan model has competed in beauty pageants in her home country since her teens and won some of them. But none made her feel more beautiful or purposeful as the pageant for people with albinism that was held this month in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare.  "I can be that inspiration for young girls... Читать дальше...

Rebels backed by the Islamic State group have killed two Ugandan soldiers in an attack that also left two civilians and a suspected assailant dead in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said Saturday.  Two truck drivers, a Kenyan, and a Congolese, were shot dead Friday night by IS-affiliated Allied Democratic Forces at a car park in Kasindi, Beni territory, said Barthelemy Kambale, a North Kivu provincial civil servant.  A fifth body was assumed to be an assailant, he told AFP.... Читать дальше...

Mexican officials on Saturday raised the death toll to 39 from Hurricane Otis, which struck the country's southern Pacific Coast, including the resort city of Acapulco, on Wednesday as a powerful Category 5 storm.  The probable cause of death for the 39 was "suffocation by submersion," Security Secretary Rosa Icela Rodriguez said in a recorded video message with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and posted to the platform X. She said the victims had not yet been identified and that investigations continue. Читать дальше...

Jeep maker Stellantis reached a tentative contract agreement with the United Auto Workers union on Saturday.  The Stellantis deal, which still must be ratified by members, leaves only General Motors without an agreement with the union.   Later Saturday night, the union walked out at a GM factory in Spring Hill, Tennessee, in an effort to increase pressure on the company to reach a deal.  The Stellantis deal mirrors one reached earlier this week with Ford. The union says the contract also saves jobs at a factory in Belvidere... Читать дальше...