Новости за 11.12.2015

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's inability to decide where to build a new airport runway after 25 years of deliberation is the latest major infrastructure delay that risks hurting investment in the world's fifth largest economy.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Moves by Britain to delay, once again, a decision on where to build a new airport runway to serve the London area highlights Europe's difficulties in keeping up with emerging countries when it comes to creating vital airport capacity.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Moves by Britain to delay, once again, a decision on where to build a new airport runway to serve the London area highlights Europe's difficulties in keeping up with emerging countries when it comes to creating vital airport capacity.

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A hand grenade was hurled at a mosque in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on Friday and the blast injured at least six people, witnesses said.

GENEVA, Dec 11 (Reuters) - A fund manager accused of recklessly funnelling client money to disgraced financier Bernard Madoff before the U.S. money manager's swindle was revealed was acquitted at his trial in Geneva on Friday.

DowDuPont's $130 bln merger will lead to a three-way breakup of the U.S. titans of corporate America. The promised financial benefits sound optimistic, though. Breakingviews editors explain.

DowDuPont's $130 bln merger will lead to a three-way breakup of the U.S. titans of corporate America. The promised financial benefits sound optimistic, though. Breakingviews editors explain.

DowDuPont's $130 bln merger will lead to a three-way breakup of the U.S. titans of corporate America. The promised financial benefits sound optimistic, though. Breakingviews editors explain.

DowDuPont's $130 bln merger will lead to a three-way breakup of the U.S. titans of corporate America. The promised financial benefits sound optimistic, though. Breakingviews editors explain.

FRANKFURT, Dec 11 (Reuters) - German financial market watchdog Bafin has watered down its criticism of Deutsche Bank in a draft final report of the regulator's investigation into the manipulation of benchmark interest rates, Der Spiegel magazine said on Friday.

WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said on Friday that her party could not support a measure to renew expiring tax breaks and warned that it must be separated from a $1.15 trillion government spending bill needed to avoid a government shutdown next week.

ROME, Dec 11 (Reuters) - With foreign powers firmly focused on battling Islamic State forces in Syria and Iraq, Italy is trying to drag international attention back to Libya to secure a deal there aimed at ending four years of violence and chaos.

Dec 11 (Reuters) - A band of powerful storms that hit the Pacific Northwest of the United States this week was expected to ease on Friday, though more wet weather was still on the way and local officials warned of renewed mudslides and flooding following the record rainfall.

PARIS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Poor countries could be barred from seeking compensation for losses and damages from rising seas, worsening storms and other climate impacts under a proposal in the latest draft of a new global climate change deal expected to be agreed this weekend.

Dow and DuPont agree to merge in an all-stock deal that values the combined company at $130 billion. Both companies had been under pressure by activist investors. Shartia Brantley reports.

Dow and DuPont agree to merge in an all-stock deal that values the combined company at $130 billion. Both companies had been under pressure by activist investors. Shartia Brantley reports.

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's justice minister set conditions on Friday for the extradition of a suspect in the Rwandan genocide, saying Rwanda needs to respond to its own requests that suspects now on Rwandan soil be extradited to Congo.

KINSHASA, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's justice minister set conditions on Friday for the extradition of a suspect in the Rwandan genocide, saying Rwanda needs to respond to its own requests that suspects now on Rwandan soil be extradited to Congo.

LONDON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - With the first U.S. interest-rate hike in a decade widely expected within days, investors are questioning whether European stock markets can withstand the aftershocks.

PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - Mauritius is investigating an Islamic State video which purports to show a Mauritian man urging people from the tiny Indian Ocean island to travel to the Middle East and join the Islamist group, a senior official said on Friday.

PARIS, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Countries targeted by Islamic State will probably soon have to crush the group in Libya, France's prime minister said on Friday, as rival Libyan factions neared signing a United Nations-backed unity agreement.

BUENOS AIRES, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Argentina's new government is negotiating with a group of Wall Street banks for a credit line worth up to $7 billion to bolster its low foreign reserves and help it lift capital controls, a banking source said on Friday.

(Reuters) - Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure has held off fierce competition from Algeria's Yacine Brahimi, the 2014 winner, and Gabon's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to pick up the BBC African Footballer of the Year for 2015.

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Electronic cigarettes and water pipes will be banned in the Netherlands for children under 18 from next year, the government said, after finding that the devices were more damaging to health than expected.

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Electronic cigarettes and water pipes will be banned in the Netherlands for children under 18 from next year, the government said, after finding that the devices were more damaging to health than expected.