Новости за 08.06.2017

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Brussel is één van de overgebleven kandidaat-gaststeden voor de huisvesting van het International Broadcast Centre (IBC) tijdens het EK voetbal

Brussel is één van de overgebleven kandidaat-gaststeden voor de huisvesting van het International Broadcast Centre (IBC) tijdens het EK voetbal

Home Minister Rajnath Singh will meet the Chief Ministers of four northeastern states bordering Myanmar here on Monday to review the security situation and will also visit the border areas by chopper, an official said.

U.S. crude oil prices fall, pushing the commodity closer to technical levels that could trigger a downturn.

Lionel Messi wants to remain with Barcelona, where he has played since the age of 13, for the rest of his career.

Lionel Messi wants to remain with Barcelona, where he has played since the age of 13, for the rest of his career.

Lionel Messi wants to remain with Barcelona, where he has played since the age of 13, for the rest of his career.

It’s arguably the biggest fight of the year, and after the smoke has cleared from the world middleweight title showdown between champ Gennady Golovkin and Saul Canelo Alvarez, the winner will be entitled to not only pound-for-pound bragging rights, but also a nice break from what could well be a tough, tough fight.

The witness table where former FBI Director James Comey will face the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee and testify on June 8 about his meetings with President Trump sits at the ready in Washington, D.C. Photo by Jim Bourg/Reuters

AP Photo/Alex Brandon

The day after President Donald Trump abruptly fired FBI Director James Comey, he sent a letter to his former colleagues at the bureau, encouraging them not to dwell on it.

The letter, obtained by CNN's Shimon Prokupecz, also urges FBI staff members to continue the agency's mission of "protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution."

"I'm not going to spend time on the decision or the way it was executed," Comey said in the letter. "I hope you won't either. Читать дальше...

[News24Wire] Pakistan threw Pool B of the ICC Champions Trophy wide open when they beat the Proteas by 19 runs on the DLS method in a rain-shortened match at Edgbaston on Wednesday evening.

Israel says seven Arabs were arrested over a plot to kill army officers for Gaza's Islamic militant Hamas rulers to avenge the killing of one its members. The Shin Bet security service said Thursday one of the suspects was asked to avenge Mazen Faqha, a senior Hamas figure, killed in March. Hamas blamed Israel for his killing and last month put to death three Palestinians it said were involved after a weeklong trial.    Israel sentenced Faqha to nine terms of life imprisonment for directing suicide bombing attacks. Читать дальше...

LONDON (AP) — Singer Phil Collins has been rushed to the hospital after a fall in his London hotel room left him with a severe gash near his eye that required stitches.

LONDON (AP) — Singer Phil Collins has been rushed to the hospital after a fall in his London hotel room left him with a severe gash near his eye that required stitches.

LONDON (AP) — Singer Phil Collins has been rushed to the hospital after a fall in his London hotel room left him with a severe gash near his eye that required stitches.

LONDON (AP) — Singer Phil Collins has been rushed to the hospital after a fall in his London hotel room left him with a severe gash near his eye that required stitches.

LONDON (AP) — Singer Phil Collins has been rushed to the hospital after a fall in his London hotel room left him with a severe gash near his eye that required stitches.

Mark Thomson

Security, Asia

The Chinese Communist Party exercises sovereignty over 1.4 billion people. In doing so, it suppresses free speech, regulates political activity and exercises a pervasive program of propaganda in education, the arts and the news media. There are no elections of the sort we are familiar with, the judiciary has limited independence, and the internet is closely monitored and tightly censored.

Things have been worse: the first 40 years of CCP rule were... Читать дальше...

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Astana will attract much more attention from the Kremlin than former FBI Director James Comey’s hearing in the US Congress, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday.

Former FBI Director James Comey is testifying on the Trump-Russia probe at the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is Comey's first public appearance since Trump fired him on May 9.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Astana will attract much more attention from the Kremlin than former FBI Director James Comey’s hearing in the US Congress, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday.

Former FBI Director James Comey is testifying on the Trump-Russia probe at the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is Comey's first public appearance since Trump fired him on May 9.