Новости за 27.02.2016

Iran started counting tens of millions of votes on Saturday after hotly contested elections that could see reformists speed up Tehran's opening to the world or long-dominant hardliners reassert the Islamic Republic's traditional anti-Westernism.

Près de 58 % des électeurs iraniens ont voté pour renouveler le Parlement et l'Assemblée des experts, chargée de nommer le Guide suprême, selon une estimation. Il faudra peut-être plusieurs jours pour découvrir le nouveau paysage politique iranien.

Carlos Pages knows how to take precautions before he opens a crate; the last thing the wildlife inspector wants is to find a deadly cobra loose -- again -- at Miami International airport.

Calm prevailed Saturday across much of war-ravaged Syria on the first day of a landmark ceasefire, as a task force led by Moscow and Washington prepared to begin monitoring the truce.

China's normally reclusive central bank chief Zhou Xiaochuan is an unusually prominent presence at the G20 finance ministers meeting in Shanghai, racing from seminar to news conference to spread positive messages about the world's second-largest economy.

The Democratic presidential nomination race shifts to South Carolina Saturday, with Hillary Clinton banking on the black vote to beat Bernie Sanders and gain momentum ahead of the multi-state "Super Tuesday" contests next week.

A US appeals court handed Samsung a win over Apple in a long-running patent fight, overriding a jury verdict ordering it to pay $119.6 million to the iPhone maker.

France's countryside comes to Paris on Saturday as the agricultural expo kicks off, the annual opportunity for urbanites to channel their inner peasants and politicians to burnish their farm cred.

Hall of Famer Andy Bathgate, who set every major New York Rangers scoring record, has died, the National Hockey League team announced. He was 83.

Iran was expected to announce preliminary results Saturday from elections for parliament and a second poll to pick a powerful group of clerics who appoint the country's supreme leader.

Haiti's interim leader Jocelerme Privert named a former Central Bank governor as prime minister to help pull the country out of a paralyzing electoral crisis.

In their secret jungle camps, Colombia's Marxist rebels used to learn how to fight. Now their leaders are trying to teach them how not to.

Germany is putting on trial several former members of the Nazi SS this year -- but seven decades after the war, they are in their 90s and unlikely to end up behind bars.

Une démonstration de force: c'est l'objectif d'Hillary Clinton contre Bernie Sanders samedi à la primaire présidentielle démocrate de Caroline du Sud, quatrième Etat à voter, et prélude du "super mardi", le 1er mars.

Malgré la crise alimentaire qui frappe le Zimbabwe et l'économie en ruine du pays, le président Robert Mugabe, doyen mondial des chefs d'Etat en exercice, organise samedi un grand festin pour célébrer son 92e anniversaire.

Les premiers résultats d'un double scrutin déterminant qui s'est tenu vendredi en Iran étaient attendus samedi, le président modéré Hassan Rohani et ses alliés réformateurs espérant l'emporter face aux conservateurs pour pouvoir poursuivre leur politique d'ouverture.

Crise, tension, déprime, le Salon de l'Agriculture qui s'ouvre samedi à Paris en présence de François Hollande, n'a pas le coeur à la fête et les politiques qui se risqueront dans la "plus grande ferme de France" sont prévenus: ça peut chauffer dans les allées.

Marilyn Nevalainen was just 15 years old, and pregnant, when she left Sweden with a jihadist recruit, though she did not realise what a mistake she had made until she was in Iraq.

Guns fell silent across Syria on Saturday after a landmark UN-backed ceasefire came into effect, the first major truce in five years of civil war that have claimed more than 270,000 lives.

The White House has pressed Chinese President Xi Jinping to expand his non-militarization pledge to cover the entire South China Sea, despite Beijing's recent military activity in the area.

New FIFA supremo Gianni Infantino faces a major battle to overcome the doubts of sponsors and critics that corruption-tainted world football is serious about reform.

Louis van Gaal has upset plenty of Manchester United fans already this season and may do so again by resisting calls for teenager Marcus Rashford to start against title-chasing Arsenal in the Premier League on Sunday.

A hard-fought 19-10 victory over France might not have been convincing, but it means Wales remain in the running for the Six Nations title, according to coach Warren Gatland.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp will be bidding to secure his first trophy for the club and Manchester City counterpart Manuel Pellegrini potentially his last in Sunday's League Cup final.

"Fatima", César du meilleur film, et le franco-turc "Mustang", deux oeuvres placées sous le signe de la diversité, ont été largement récompensés vendredi à la 41e cérémonie des César aux côtés de Catherine Frot et Vincent Lindon.