Новости за 08.07.2016

BEIRUT Air strikes killed 23 people at a holiday spot in Syria's Idlib province while at least 25 died when rebels shelled government-held areas of Aleppo city on Friday, the last day of a 72-hour ceasefire announced by the Syrian army, a war monitor said. A riverside area in the town of Darkush, near the Turkish border, in western Idlib province was targeted in the air strikes. Idlib province and city are under the control of rebel groups including the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON Hillary Clinton has found herself in the middle of a fight within the U.S.

NEW YORK The benchmark S&P 500 stock index traded above its record close on Friday as Wall Street rallied after a much-larger-than-expected print in jobs growth confirmed the U.S. economy has regained speed after a first-quarter lull. The S&P traded less than four points away from the all-time intraday high of 2,134.72 reached in May 2015

Three of the five Dallas police officers killed in a sniper ambush on Thursday night were publicly identified by officials or relatives and included a newlywed and a Navy veteran of three tours in Iraq.

WARSAW The United States said on Friday that continued aggression by Russia would provoke a response by NATO and a greater alliance presence in Eastern Europe.

WASHINGTON The United States expelled two Russian officials on June 17 in response to an attack by a Russian policeman on a U.S. diplomat in Moscow earlier in the month, the State Department said. "On June 17, we expelled two Russian officials from the United States in response to this attack,” State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters, declining to provide further details about the expulsions.

NEW YORK Crude prices inched up in choppy trading on Friday but Brent notched its largest weekly drop in nearly six months, as strong U.S.

WARSAW NATO leaders agreed on Friday to deploy military forces to the Baltic states and eastern Poland for the first time and increase air and sea patrols to reassure allies who were once part of the Soviet bloc following Russia's seizure of Crimea from Ukraine. The 28-nation Western defence alliance decided to move four battalions totalling 3,000 to 4,000 troops into northeastern Europe on a rotating basis to display its readiness to defend eastern members against any Russian aggression.

WARSAW U.S. President Barack Obama expressed concern on Friday over Poland's moves to shackle its constitutional court, in unusually blunt comments calling on the former communist EU country's government to do more to protect democracy.

Tata Steel ( TISC.NS ) has put the process of selling its major British assets on hold because of the uncertainty caused by the Brexit vote and also surrounding pension liabilities and will now also look at forming a joint venture, the company said.

Virgilio Martinez's flagship restaurant Central in Lima is currently ranked fourth globally by The World's 50 Best list.

Donald Trump's 'Make America Great Again' hats proudly tout that they are "Made in USA". Not necessarily, always the case, an Associated Press review found.

Cameron has named Julian King to replace Jonathan Hill, commissioner for financial services and capital markets in Brussels

Spanish investigators on Friday dropped a fraud and corruption case against Brazilian superstar Neymar and his father in relation to the player's 2013 transfer to Barcelona.

Post ambush in the Dallas shooting incident, Dallas police wrongly apprehends an innocent man, and tweets his picture claiming him of being a 'suspect'.

Union Minister Maneka Gandhi said that the ministry’s attempt to check trolling will not imply online policing or blanket patrolling of the internet.

Fenerbahce are set to sign the fiery Slovakian international defender Martin Skrtel on a free transfer from Liverpool, the Istanbul giants said on Friday.

Why have Hillary and Trump taken an understated route for the Dallas shooting? It's simple, isn't it? They want to keep everyone happy. Trump and Clinton cannot afford to antagonise either the black voters or can they not support the law enforcement officials.

The UN-backed Medicines Patent Pool signed licences for the production of generic drugs.

Kerala's new LDF government in its first budget has introduced a 'fat tax' that will impose 14.5 percent tax on fattening food products sold in fast food chains.

Australia opener David Warner says flat pitches rather than bats with thicker edges are the reason batsmen have the upper hand in Test cricket.

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) have suspended Kithuruwan Vithanage from all forms of the game for one year after finding him guilty of misconduct and breaching the International Cricket Council's (ICC) Code of Conduct.

The perception of an armed black person has not changed much since the days of slave rebellions, said the Rev Kenn Blanchard, a former firearms instructor who runs BlackManWithAGun.com.

North Korea on Friday said that US sanctions on its leader Kim Jong-un for human rights violations are a "declaration of war" and has threatened to retaliate with the "toughest countermeasures" unless Washington withdraws them.

As the video of a man throwing a dog from a building in Chennai leads to outrage, the focus needs to be to pressurise the Union government to alter the law.