Новости за 24.02.2017

Since last year’s UK referendum, Sterling has been the subject of heated debate among market participants and observers. GBP volatility has remained elevated and moves have been knee-jerk to say the least. We are going to have a look at the EUR vs. GBP pair in particular, in an effort to make sense of what’s priced in and where it might be heading.

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Puerto de San José (Guatemala) (AFP) - Guatemala's navy on Thursday dispatched a vessel to watch over a Dutch "abortion ship" carrying activists vowing to help women circumvent the country's longstanding prohibition on terminating pregnancies.

"The military will not permit this group to carry out its activities in the country," the military said in a formal complaint to the prosecutor's office issued on instructions from President Jimmy Morales.

The group... Читать дальше...

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BEIJING — China on Friday said it had no intention of using currency devaluation to its advantage in trade, responding to an assertion from US President Donald Trump that China was the "grand champions" of currency manipulation.

Trump said in an interview with Reuters on Thursday he had not "held back" in his assessment that China manipulated its yuan currency, just hours after his new Treasury secretary pledged a more methodical approach to analyzing Beijing's foreign-exchange practices. Читать дальше...

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• A software bug means private messages, password, and account details from some of the world's biggest sites have been exposed.
• Google security researchers found the bug in Cloudflare's software.
• Developers and security experts say Cloudflare is underplaying the problem.

A major software bug means that passwords from the world's biggest sites, including Fitbit, OKCupid, and Uber have been leaking for months.

Security researchers revealed... Читать дальше...

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The Hague (AFP) - With anti-Islam Dutch MP Geert Wilders topping the polls ahead of next month's elections, one small group is hoping to buck the trend: the country's first party led by immigrants.

Denk, or "think" in Dutch, wants to fight what it calls "institutional racism" by setting up a national register of racist phrases and expressions; replacing the idea of "integration" with "acceptance" and calling for an official apology for the country's past links to the slave trade. Читать дальше...

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WASHINGTON — Both the transgender teen who sued to use a boys bathroom and the Virginia school board that won't let him still want the Supreme Court to issue a definitive ruling in their ongoing dispute, even after the Trump administration retreated from an Obama-era policy on bathroom use.

The big issue for both sides is whether the main federal law barring sex discrimination in education protects high-school senior Gavin Grimm and other transgender students. Читать дальше...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is giving himself too much credit for sending criminal foreigners out of the country and saving money on fighter planes. He's getting too much credit from one of the few women with a top White House job for elevating women in the administration.

A look at some statements Thursday by Trump and presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway:

TRUMP: "We're getting gang members out, we're getting drug lords out... Читать дальше...

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A suicide bomber killed 29 people, most of them rebels, on Friday near the Syrian town of Al-Bab, which they had taken from the Islamic State group just hours earlier, a monitor said.

The bomber blew up a vehicle packed with explosives in Susian, eight kilometres (five miles) northeast of the strategic town which the Turkish-backed rebels overran on Thursday after weeks of fighting, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The blast devastated two adjacent rebel command... Читать дальше...

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LONDON (Reuters) - Oil investors have placed the biggest bet in history that prices will rise, as the world's largest exporters cut output to reduce a glut in supply, and the futures market is suggesting for the first time in a year that they could be onto a winner.

Fund managers now hold more Brent oil futures and options contracts than at any time on record, equivalent to some 480 million barrels of oil and nearly double the amount held just two months ago.

Rainbow

Israel-based ad blocking company Shine has spent the last 18 months or so selling in its "nuclear weapon" to thwart off the apparent ad tech threat: a network-level solution that lets mobile carriers block ads at a network level.

Recently, Shine had shown signs of softening its somewhat antagonistic approach.

Now it's dropping it altogether.

On Friday, Shine announced it had stopped selling ad blocking solutions to mobile carriers and it was rebranding to "Rainbow."

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At a press conference on Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he does not see the media as the enemy. His view differs from that of President Donald Trump, who recently called a handful of news organizations the "enemy of the American People."

“I don’t view you guys as the enemy. I view that you have a job to do,” McConnell told reporters during a press conference on Thursday.

The Kentucky senator said that he "expects adversarial questions" from the press. Читать дальше...

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Conservative provocateur James O'Keefe's on Wednesday promoted what he said would be a "WikiLeaks-style" release of secret recordings captured from inside CNN's Atlanta headquarters.

The footage released on Thursday was met with little fanfare.

The political activist released the first batch of his recordings that were allegedly taken in 2009. Nearly 120 hours of audio were uploaded to his organization's website, Project Veritas, with little... Читать дальше...

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New satellite photography from the South China Sea confirms a nightmare for the US and champions of free navigation everywhere — Beijing has placed reinforced surface-to-air missiles in the Spratly Islands.

For years now, China has been building artificial islands in the South China Sea and militarizing them with radar outposts and missiles.

The latest move seems to have been years in the making, so it’s not in response to any particular US provocation... Читать дальше...

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg weighed in on the reactions to President Donald Trump's first month in office in a pair of interviews published Thursday.

Ginsburg, who called Trump a "faker" in the throes of a bitter election, had more critical words for the Trump administration — though she avoided calling the president out by name.

During an NPR-moderated event in Washington, Ginsburg hinted at Trump's travel ban, touting what she said "makes... Читать дальше...

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"You can still fix it," Jenner said in a video she posted to Twitter. "You made a promise to protect the LGBTQ community."

Former Donald Trump supporter and defender, Caitlyn Jenner, has taken issue with the president's latest executive decision to lift federal guidelines that said transgender students should be allowed to use public school bathrooms and locker rooms matching their chosen gender identity, in favor of state legislation on the issue.

Jenner tweeted a video addressing President Trump on Thursday evening... Читать дальше...

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"You can still fix it," Jenner said in a video she posted to Twitter. "You made a promise to protect the LGBTQ community."

Former Donald Trump supporter and defender, Caitlyn Jenner, has taken issue with the president's latest executive decision to lift federal guidelines that said transgender students should be allowed to use public school bathrooms and locker rooms matching their chosen gender identity, in favor of state legislation on the issue.

Jenner tweeted a video addressing President Trump on Thursday evening... Читать дальше...

Most of the attention being paid to the two memoranda from the Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly that implements President Trump’s executive order on Immigration has focused on the elements of the directives that are clear and unambiguous.

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Billionaire business mogul Mark Cuban would be competitive in a prospective presidential race against President Donald Trump, according to a new poll.

The poll, set to be released Friday by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling, found that Cuban, if he were to seek the presidency and be Trump's Democratic opponent, would trail the sitting president by a single percentage point. The poll showed Trump with a 41% to 40% advantage over Cuban in the neck-and-neck race. Читать дальше...

Henry County Sheriff's Office via AP

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors on Thursday charged a 51-year-old man with murder and attempted murder after he allegedly opened fire in a crowded suburban Kansas City bar, killing one man and injuring two others, but authorities declined to say if the attack was racially-motivated.

A bartender at Austins Bar and Grill in Oathe, Kansas, said that Adam Purinton, 51, used "racial slurs" before he started shooting on Wednesday night as patrons were... Читать дальше...

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The former Arizona congresswoman who survived being shot in the head at a 2011 "Congress on your Corner" event said lawmakers should "have some courage" and face constituents at town hall meetings.

Gabrielle Giffords, who became a voice for stronger gun regulations after the notorious Tucson shooting, spoke up Thursday after Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert invoked her case as a reason to skip in-person town hall meetings.

In a letter to his constituents... Читать дальше...

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Uber insiders have made an avalanche of revelations about the company's allegedly dysfunctional culture in recent weeks, culminating with former engineer Susan Fowler's shocking tell-all of alleged sexual harassment.

Uber has publicly acknowledged Fowler's statements and vowed to investigate, although Uber investors, Mitch and Freada Kapor, are not satisfied with that. They worry that the insiders chosen to look into the matter represent "yet another example of Uber's continued unwillingness to be open... Читать дальше...

AFP

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian police said on Friday a preliminary report showed the murder of Kim Jong Nam was carried out with a highly toxic chemical known as VX nerve agent.

The police said swabs were taken from the eye and the face of a North Korean national by the chemistry department of Malaysia.

VX nerve agent, or S-2 Diisoprophylaminoethyl methylphosphonothiolate, is chemical weapon classified as a weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations.

Kim... Читать дальше...

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Steve Bannon, the man seen as the power behind Donald Trump’s throne, has declared that the president will take the US back from a “corporatist, globalist media” that opposes his brand of economic nationalism.

Conservative gathering will be forced to reckon with the nationalist populism that has become the dominant force in rightwing politics in the US.

Trump is “maniacally focused” on fulfilling his campaign pledges, Bannon warned, predicting a... Читать дальше...

A Google employee wasn't supposed to receive an email titled "OTTO FILES."

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Have you had your iPhone 6 shut down randomly with 30% battery left? You're not alone.

Many Apple users have been reporting this annoying battery bug, but there was seemingly no fix for it — and Apple refused to acknowledge it was an issue.

Until now.

Apple says in a statement first reported by TechCrunch that it fixed the bug in the most recent version of iOS 10.2.1., which was released on January 23. 

Here's Apple's comment on the matter, provided to Business Insider... Читать дальше...