Новости за 29.03.2018

The International Olympic Committee announced Thursday that it has sent a delegation to the capital city of Pyongyang for two days of meetings with North Korean officials.

A moody noir pop-up, “Gemini” is writer/director Aaron Katz’s alluring, self-reflexive Los Angeles-set mystery that also doubles as a pictorial mash note to the city’s gleaming spaces and dreaming inhabitants.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was ordered Thursday to stand trial on charges of corruption and influence peddling in yet another humbling knockdown to the hard-charging conservative leader.

Relatives of scores of people killed in a fire at a Venezuelan police station detention facility waited Thursday for officials to turn over the remains of loved ones and demanded an explanation for one of the worst catastrophes in the nation’s notoriously overcrowded jail and prison system. .

College baseball recruiting needs a makeover. Too many recruiters are offering eighth-graders and ninth-graders scholarships with hopes they develop, only to discover by senior year there are better players and little money for the late bloomers.

Russia’s foreign minister says Moscow will expel the same number of diplomats from the nations that have expelled Russian diplomats over the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain.

Seldom in sport has such a seemingly innocuous incident, rubbing a piece of sandpaper on the side of a leather ball, had such severe consequences.

Hot on the heels of its collaboration with H&M, London-based fashion brand Erdem on Thursday launched an exclusive capsule collection with 24Sevres.com, the global luxury web site owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton.

Fleetwood Mac bassist John McVie has tuned up a sale in Honolulu, selling his home near the base of Diamond Head for $5.4 million.

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Relatives of 68 people killed in a fire at a Venezuelan police station jail waited Thursday for officials to turn over the remains of their loved ones, after having spent much of the previous day clashing with police and demanding answers.

The Sacramento Kings basketball team says it is partnering with Black Lives Matter and is creating an education fund for the children of Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man fatally shot by police in California’s capital city.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was taken into custody Tuesday in connection with allegations that he received millions of euros in illegal campaign financing from the regime of late Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi.

President Trump has taken aim at many targets over time and often says he’s just counter-punching his critics. Yet there’s one perceived foil he goes after time and again without provocation or much threat of a backlash – his predecessor, Barack Obama.

President Trump has taken aim at many targets over time and often says he’s just counter-punching his critics. Yet there’s one perceived foil he goes after time and again without provocation or much threat of a backlash – his predecessor, Barack Obama.

Negotiators from North and South Korea set a date — April 27 — and a location in the demilitarized zone along their border for a summit next month between their two leaders, which could foreshadow a meeting between the North’s Kim Jong Un and President Trump.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, who was shot five years ago by Pakistani Taliban militants for championing girls’ education, made a surprise return to her home country Thursday for the first time since the attack.

The family of an Arizona woman killed when she was struck by an autonomous Uber vehicle apparently has reached a financial settlement with the company.