Новости за 07.12.2017

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A higher education task force has approved a plan to move seven of Oklahoma's community colleges under the authority of larger governing boards. The Oklahoman reports that the recommendation was approved Wednesday by the state's 60-member task force on the future of higher education. The proposal will be presented to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education as early as February. The affected schools include Carl Albert State College, Eastern Oklahoma State College and Murray State College. Читать дальше...

At least 19 Palestinians were wounded by Israeli troops Thursday when protests erupted a day after President Trump recognized Jerusalem as capital of the Jewish state, according to reports. The clashes occurred in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. Six people were wounded – four by live fire and two by rubber...

What are the most significant ☲ causes of FOAMY URINE ☲ in pregnancy? In what situation is this phenomenon dangerous for a pregnant woman and her child?

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that a decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) this week to ban the Russian team from next year’s Winter Olympics had been deliberately taken to sour the pre-election mood. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev takes part in the awarding of new cars to Russian Olympic medallists returning home from the 2016 Rio Olympics in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia, August 25, 2016. REUTERS/Maxim ShemetovMedvedev was referring... Читать дальше...

Situated on the broadcasting gantry within Anfield’s main stand, Oliver Miller offers his view on Liverpool’s Champions League match against Spartak Moscow. Oliver’s view from the gantry Liverpool thrash Spartak to reach the Champions League knockout round in style Christmas decorations adorned the Anfield façade – the first sign that the football-packed festive period has arrived – and Spartak Moscow wasted no time in offering Liverpool their gifts. The golden rule when playing a game... Читать дальше...

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man who was acquitted of rape has pleaded guilty to threatening to kill the prosecutor and the detective involved. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports 35-year-old Jared Kuntz of Bozeman pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of intimidation in an agreement that recommends a five-year sentence with the Department of Corrections. The agency would determine his placement. Kuntz was acquitted of the 2012 rape but convicted of a misdemeanor for giving alcohol to the 18-year-old woman. Читать дальше...

U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura says he will assess progress in the Syrian peace talks next week and decide whether it is worth continuing the political process or whether it has run its course for now.  De Mistura says he has been informed by the Syrian government delegation that it will rejoin the peace negotiations on Sunday.  The delegation quit the talks Friday to, as it said, “consult and refresh” with Damascus. But before leaving, the head of the Syrian delegation said... Читать дальше...

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Fergie discussed a period in her life during which she found herself "hallucinating on a daily basis."

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee has hired Alabama defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt as its head coach, capping a tumultuous search that cost an athletic director his job as the Volunteers attempt to recover from one of their most disappointing seasons. The school scheduled a news conference for 6:05 p.m. Thursday to introduce Pruitt. Pruitt's hiring comes six days after former Tennessee football coach Phillip Fulmer was named athletic director and put in charge of the coaching search. Fulmer took over for John Currie... Читать дальше...

Eli Cain scored 17 points, Brandon Cyrus added 16 and DePaul cruised to an 85-57 win over Central Connecticut on Wednesday night.

Hope Solo took to Facebook to announce her candidacy for president of U.S. Soccer. Hope Solo announced on Thursday that she is running for the presidency of the U.S. Soccer Federation. Solo made the announcement on her Facebook page, in which she laid out a four-pronged platform and detailed some of the struggles she and her family experienced in paying for her to play youth soccer. She also criticized what she described as the USSF's approach of valuing profits above all else. A spokesperson for... Читать дальше...

Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. We’re now several months into the Trump administration, and activists have scored some important victories in those months. Yet there is always more to be done, and for many people, the question of where to focus and how to help remains. In this series, we talk with organizers, agitators and educators, not only about how to resist, but how to build a better world.

For six seconds on the day of the eclipse, a woman looked at the sun without protecting her eyes. She tried again for 20 seconds, this time using eclipse glasses, but the damage was done. Four hours later, her vision was blurry, she could only see black — and her eyes have now provided the first glimpse of what happens on the cellular level when you look straight at the sun.

There are a lot of hated people in military history and no one is more hated than a turncoat. Even the troops on a traitor’s new side will never trust them entirely — after all, they turned their back on their own country for personal gain.  How trustworthy can they be?

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• Sen. Al Franken is widely expected to resign on Thursday.
• Democrats have taken an admirably swift approach to force him out of the Senate.
• Despite some gripes from the Democratic base, high ethical standards are good for a party.

The first accusations against Democratic Sen. Al Franken came just three weeks ago. With his widely expected announcement Thursday that he will resign from the US Senate, Democrats will have gone from accusation... Читать дальше...

A man who three years ago had made the crossing from Sicily to Malta on board the catamaran carrying almost 1.5 kilos of cannabis grass in his luggage, was handed a seven-year jail term and a €23,000 fine by the Criminal Court on Thursday. Kenny Johnson, a 33-year old Nigerian tile layer with an Italian identity card,  pleaded guilty instead of undergoing a trial by jury. He was arrested shortly after making the trip from Pozzallo on November 26, 2014 when officers from the Drug Squad became suspicious... Читать дальше...

Last week, the city’s award-winning alternative newspaper was purchased by a shadowy entity. Immediately, most of the staff was fired. Then things got weird.

VIENNA (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Thursday that Ukraine was the sole sticking point keeping the United States and Russia from forging a closer relationship, suggesting that all other disputes were secondary. "The issue that stands in the way is Ukraine," Tillerson said. The assessment from America's top diplomat notably played down other areas of dispute, particularly Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election. U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA and FBI... Читать дальше...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is facing mounting pressure from the West for his failure to fight high-level corruption that helped drive pro-EU protests and topple a Russian-backed government in 2014.

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• Learning how to communicate with people from other cultures is critical in international business.
• Some cultures express negative feedback differently than others.
• When a boss tells their employee "we can try" one of their ideas, it could mean three different things depending on which country they're in.

Each culture has different styles of communicating that affect how language is interpreted.

In the world of international business... Читать дальше...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia became the 26th nation to legalise same-sex marriage on Thursday, prompting cheers and singing from a packed parliament public gallery in a country where some states ruled homosexual acts to be illegal until just 20 years ago. Liberal MP Warren Entsch lifts up Labor MP Linda Burney as they celebrate the passing of the Marriage Amendment Bill in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra December 7, 2017

A tragic story about a napping morgue employee in Macomb County, Michigan, who was cremated by accident after a co-worker mistook him for a car crash victim was making the rounds on social media Wednesday evening. Screenshots of the story, featuring the ABC News logo and what appeared to be a photo of something labeled as a funeral home were prominently featured in the story. In less than 24 hours, a tweet featuring screenshots of the story got more than 29,000 retweets and 36,000 likes on the website... Читать дальше...

Old Trafford is known for its cricket, but you wouldn’t normally associate that sport with Anfield.  However, Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Dominic Solanke defied that tradition to take part in the LFC World Big Hitters Challenge as part of the LFC World launch in Mumbai.  The players were set the challenge of hitting a tennis ball as far as they could on the Anfield turf using a cricket bat with some hilarious results.  But who emerged victorious in the challenge? Click on the video below... Читать дальше...