Новости за 04.05.2016

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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's parliament has approved a law on setting up a panel to monitor discipline for law enforcement officials, one of the last hurdles remaining before the country wins visa-free access to Europe for its nationals.

The 28-nation European Union depends on Ankara's cooperation to maintain a March pact that has helped stem the flow of refugees and migrants arriving from Turkey, from which more than a million people reached Greece and Italy last year. Читать дальше...

Volunteers in opposition-held areas of Syria are forced to improvise as they carry out one of the world's most dangerous tasks: dismantling cluster munitions, land mines and explosive booby-traps as they work to make battle-torn areas safe for civilians to return.

Kieron Pollard is destined to re-join the Cape Cobras at PPC Newlands, the venue where he has produced some of his greatest T20 knocks in the Ram Slam T20 Challenge.

The Congress of the South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said the establishment of a new labour federation by its former general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi was a just a dud.

Yes, I do mind!

WASHINGTON, May 3 (Yonhap) -- The United States and South Korea should seriously consider having Seoul develop nuclear weapons and jointly manage the arsenal if the security situation on the Korean Peninsula continues to worsen, a senior South Korean e

Prince’s former assistant, Mariah Brown, has said that Prince appeared to be completely healthy and energetic just moments before his death – hinting that she doesn’t believe that Prince died a natural death.  Brown says that Prince never drunk alcohol and didn’t do any drugs, “he was a very, very healthy person. … That man has more energy than me, and anyone I know,” she told the Associated Press. “The whole death didn’t make sense to me. … He never came across as sick, or anything like that, ”... Читать дальше...

Almost a week after she was found raped and murdered at her home in Kerala's Ernakulam district, the cops on Wednesday released a sketch of a suspect in the barbaric rape and murder case.

Spanish bishops are defending the country's film industry by announcing that watching films illegally online is a sin.

Nine months ago the odds being offered on Leicester City winning football's Premier League title were identical to the odds on Elvis Presley being found alive this year: 5000-1.

The ancient Russian city embraces new technologies

UPDATE: 6:21 a.m. EDT — The European Commission Wednesday backed the visa waiver for Turks paving way for the European Union and European Parliament to deliberate on the move by June end, according to media reports. The EU proposed the deal to Ankara on condition that the latter take back refugees who reached Greece via the Aegean Sea. Original story:

RICHMOND, Virginia - The Supreme Court of Virginia has ruled that a person doesn't need to pay alimony to a former spouse if the payee is in a new relationship with a member of the same sex.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Alaska town's first liquor store in more than 40 years has opened, and the police chief there worries he won't have enough officers to handle an expected spike in alcohol-related calls.

A COURT session into the 60 Minutes Beirut kidnap case has been postponed amid negotiations for the release of four remaining prisoners.

The Stormers and Western Province will lose the services of Nic Groom at the end of the season.

The UK's biggest payday lender - Wonga - saw its losses double last year as tougher regulation in the industry continued to bite.

Beverage giants SABMiller and Coca-Cola have agreed to set up two R400m development funds in order to secure antitrust approval from SA authorities.

Oil prices edged up on Wednesday as an uncontrolled wildfire near Canada's oil sands region reduced production there, but overall markets were weighed down by slowing economic growth in Asia and the United States.

An eight-grader students was apprehended by cops after he was reported to police by the school for attempting to use a $2 dollar bill to pay for his chicken nugget lunch as a school in Houston.  School officials, cafeteria workers and police did not realise that the $2 dollar bill was, in fact, legal tender. The unusual $2 dollar bill was first issued in the early 20th century and was produced up until 1966 where it was discontinued, apart from a reissue ten years later. The bills have a picture... Читать дальше...

Sainsbury's reports a fall in annual underlying profits as the supermarket price war continues to hurt the retailer.

Boxing SA's sanctioning committee's ultimatum that all South African champions due for mandatory defences must do so by the end of this month or face forfeiting their titles has put junior lightweight Jasper Seroka in a spot of bother.

With U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas ending his presidential campaign Tuesday night, a November showdown between New York businessman Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seems all but certain. While exit polls show voters are mostly worried about the economy, the presumptive Republican nominee’s controversial campaign statements about torture, the Geneva Conventions and NATO have put the American diplomatic and military issues at the center of the presidential election  — at a critical moment for civil-military relations.