Новости за 13.06.2016

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Monday addressed a protest rally in Jalandhar city of Punjab on Monday against the drug menace in the state and said that his party will solve the drug issue in a month time if it is voted to power.

One of the victims of the attack, Luis Vielma, worked at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando.

New Delhi: India has exported over 1.6 million tonnes of sugar so far in 2015-16 marketing year that started from October last, up 46 percent from the whole of previous year, according to industry body ISMA.

It's twenty years since Isabelle Huppert last appeared in a London theatre. She certainly makes up for lost time now, delivering a tour de force of extraordinary physical abandon and mesmeric skill in this three-and-half-hour mash-up of different takes on the legend of Phaedra, the woman who, in Greek myth, is seized by a fatal passion for her stepson, Hippolytus. The actress is barely offstage during this multi-media marathon production, by Polish director Krzyzstof Warlikowski, which comes to LIFT from the Odeon-Theatre de l'Europe in Paris.

VIENNA (AP) — Senior international officials are marking the 20th anniversary of the treaty banning nuclear testing and the U.N. organization created to enforce it with calls for holdout nations to bring the pact into force by ratifying it.

VIENNA (AP) — Senior international officials are marking the 20th anniversary of the treaty banning nuclear testing and the U.N. organization created to enforce it with calls for holdout nations to bring the pact into force by ratifying it. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon were among those urging the international community Monday to push for full ratification.

We don't go to "gay clubs" like Pulse to feel gay, have gay conversations, drink gay drinks and dance gay dances - lots of us go to gay clubs to try and forget that we're gay

Vigils were held across the U.S. and beyond for the 50 people who were killed in the shooting at gay nightclub Pulse.

Image source: Flickr user Evan Guest.

TOKYO (AP) — Four people foraging for edible wild plants or bamboo shoots were killed in bear attacks in a small area of northern Japan in three weeks, police said Monday, and are warning people to take precautions. On Friday, hunters shot and killed a female Asiatic black bear with a body length of 1.3 meters (4.3 feet) about 20 meters southwest of where the fourth victim was found dead, but Abukawa said it was unclear whether the dead bear had attacked the victims.

Oscar Pistorius arrived at court in Pretoria, South Africa, on Monday for sentencing in the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.

The chief executive of Wal-Mart’s struggling U.K. unit, Asda, will be leaving.

Police and firefighters suspended a frantic search early Monday for a teenager who officials believe jumped off a footbridge.

The drag queen stood before the crowd at a gay bar in Orlando on Sunday night — less than 24 hours after 50 people were shot and killed at a similar bar only a few miles away — without her dress, heels or wig. “I don’t really know what to say,” Darcel Stevens, the 55-year-old […]

As millions of Americans processed the news that a terror attack had left 50 people dead at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Donald Trump reignited a political debate. “Is President Obama going to finally mention the words radical Islamic terrorism? If he doesn’t he should immediately resign in disgrace!” Trump tweeted moments before President Barack […]

More than half of respondents to a new Brookings Institution survey support the U.S. accepting refugees from Syria and other Middle Eastern countries after security screenings. The survey found that 59% of Americans support accepting refugees, while 41% oppose it. That sentiment, though, includes a partisan divide, with just 38% of Republicans supporting taking in […]

Ominously dark clouds hung over London Heathrow as I landed in the U.K. at the start of the final two weeks of campaigning in the European Union referendum debate. I have crossed the Atlantic several times since Prime Minister David Cameron set June 23 for the vote on whether Britain should remain a member of […]

It’s called a remora, and you’ve probably seen it before. It attaches to fish and marine mammals all the time. But get this: It doesn’t attach with its mouth. It’s got a suction cup it wears as a hat.

While a bear is not a usual pet, a cub become one for this family

Find a candidate who's beyond belief, writes Andrew Malcolm

Let him talk about himself, his money and his body parts

And then watch as a Democrat wins, even a very flawed Democrat