Новости за 12.12.2019

GOP Congress members slammed their Democrat counterparts for unfair treatment during the impeachment process. During Thursday’s Judiciary Committee hearing, a debate erupted after ranking Republican Doug Collins tried to schedule a "minority day of hearings."

(Reuters) - Italy's Fashion Chamber (CNMI) announced on Thursday a collaboration with the British Fashion Council which will bring part of London's Fashion week to Milan's men's fall-winter

After last week’s deadly shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola, the Pentagon said it’s planning to step up the vetting process for foreign military students. On Thursday, a Defense Department spokesman said the screening process for new students will be strengthened and no new students will be accepted until it is in place.

On Thursday, Congress members reportedly negotiated a tentative spending deal, which will keep the government funded and avoid a shutdown. The White House has yet to approve the estimated $1.4 trillion budget, but the deal was expected to be finalized and released next week.

President Trump is delivering on his promise to expand paid family leave. On Thursday, the president touted a provision of the upcoming annual defense budget that will provide all federal workers with 12 weeks of paid parental leave.

The commander of Libyan rebels is announcing the final push by his forces to liberate the nation’s capital. On Thursday, Libyan National Army Commander Khalifa Haftar said his forces have started a decisive push to remove the UN-backed government from Tripoli.

The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed a resolution to condemn the Armenian genocide by Turkey. On Thursday, lawmakers voted to officially recognize and commemorate the genocide, which took place in the Ottoman Empire back in 1915.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has secured a large conservative majority in Parliament following the U.K.'s snap general election on Thursday. According to preliminary results from BBC, Johnson's Conservative Party is on course to get 368 seats in Parliament, which is up from the current 298 seats.

A high-level North Korean defector is reportedly warning President Trump he is being tricked by Kim Jong-un. In a recent letter to the president, the unnamed defector said the North Korean leader has no desire to denuclearize.

By Kevin Yao BEIJING (Reuters) - China will keep economic policies stable while making them more effective in 2020 to help achieve its annual growth target, the Xinhua news agency said after a meeting

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By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major League Baseball (MLB) will remove marijuana from its list of banned substances and players who test positive for opioids, fentanyl, cocaine and synthetic THC

By Balazs Koranyi and Francesco Canepa FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Christine Lagarde struck a more upbeat tone on the economy in her first news conference as head of the European Central Bank on Thursday

ATHENS (Reuters) - The head of Libya's eastern-based parliament on Thursday said he disagreed with an accord between Libya and Turkey establishing maritime boundaries which has infuriated Athens.

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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer, who lost the October election to Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, announced on Thursday in the House of Commons that he has

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Aviation Administration chief Steve Dickson is meeting with Boeing's chief executive Dennis Muilenburg later Thursday on the fate of the grounded 737 MAX,

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Thyssenkrupp is hoping to win contracts for a planned factory Tesla plans to build near Berlin, a board member of the German conglomerate told a business daily.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - New Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin brushed aside the media frenzy over her appointment as the world's youngest serving head of government at age 34, pledging a sharp focus on

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rising real estate prices helped drive U.S. household wealth to $113.8 trillion in the July through October period, a report by the Federal Reserve showed on Thursday.

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday said her country's military justice system needed to be given the chance to work and asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to

By Dhara Ranasinghe and Yoruk Bahceli (Reuters) - Euro zone bond yields rose sharply on Thursday after the United States and China appeared close to a trade deal and the European Central Bank's new

GENEVA (Reuters) - World Trade Organization (WTO) judges will complete decisions on three pending appeals for which hearings have been held - despite the collapse of the Appellate Body earlier this

BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China and the United States are in close communication on trade, officials in Beijing and Washington said, days before tit-for-tat tariffs are due to go into effect.

By Shreyashi Sanyal (Reuters) - Wall Street hit record levels on Thursday after President Donald Trump tweeted that the United States was "very close" to a trade deal with China and on a report that