Новости за 18.06.2017

The USS Fitzgerald, a U.S. Navy destroyer, collided with a Japanese cargo ship Friday night in a highly trafficked shipping lane south of Tokyo. The accident is under investigation. Photo: European Pressphoto Agency

The U.S. will get a read on the housing market with existing- and new-home sales releases, a number of Fed officials will give their first public comments following their decision to raise interest rates, and a purchasing managers index could show the eurozone economy lost some momentum in June.

Amazon’s planned $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods unites two maverick businessmen who will now have to blend very distinct approaches to make the deal a success.

The Brazilian government said it has suspended tear gas sales to Venezuela in response to its neighbor’s deadly repression of protests.

President Donald Trump’s meeting with corporate chiefs Monday is their latest opportunity to help shape economic policy—but often they find there are limits to their influence.

Boeing and Airbus have seen a slowdown in new orders for large aircraft. But at the Paris Air Show, which kicks off Monday, they are stressing that a years-long backlog will keep production lines busy and cash flowing in.

Donald Trump’s trade policy has so far been more bark than bite: dramatic rhetoric about shaking up the old order. That may change as soon as this week, when the president bares his “America First” teeth with more ferocity, advancing plans to curb steel imports in the name of “national security.”

Wisconsin has gone from a completely unremarkable golf state to a frequent host of major events and a destination for golf travel.

Some 100 fledgling companies will seek funding from legacy players during a special, weeklong event at the air extravaganza.

The company’s commercial plane chief said it is studying the existing market gap between single- and twin-aisle aircraft, though time is needed to ‘do it right.’

A day before negotiations between the U.K. and the European Union begin, Prime Minister Theresa May faced a ballooning crisis at home, with critics accusing her of fumbling the government’s response to a London apartment tower fire.

A North Korean official said that Otto Warmbier, the U.S. student released by North Korea last week in a coma after a 17-month detention, was “not an ordinary citizen of America,” adding that he was punished because he had sought to overthrow North Korea’s government.

With the rise of automated digital advertising, marketers get the benefits of scale, low prices and precise targeting. But it also comes with the risk of your brand winding up in the wrong place. Those “brand safety” issues are becoming a recurring headache.

Forest fires in central Portugal have killed at least 57 people, many of whom died trapped in their cars as flames engulfed a road.

Taliban militants attacked a police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least eight policemen and injuring several others, Afghan officials said.

For more than a year, American diplomats held talks with Madame Choi Sun Hee, hoping to free U.S. hostages and even establish a diplomatic channel to constrain North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs.

China is staking a claim to supplanting the U.S. as a Pakistan’s most influential ally with tens of billions of dollars of investment, an embrace that promises Pakistan economic benefits and saddles it with debt—ensuring the relationship will last.

The European Union is set to extend economic sanctions on Russia in the coming days, but the bloc’s efforts to isolate Moscow over the Ukraine crisis are fading, even as Washington looks to toughen its stance.

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Iraqi forces pushed into Mosul’s historic Old City, in what is expected to be the final and most intense phase of the fight to retake the country’s second-largest city from Islamic State control.

The bodies of the seven sailors were recovered from inside the USS Fitzgerald as the investigation into what caused the collision off the coast of Japan continues.

A strong explosion rocked one of the busiest shopping centers in Colombia’s capital Saturday, killing three people and injuring nine others, authorities said.

Brazilian President Michel Temer vowed to sue the billionaire ex-chairman of meatpacking giant JBS, after being accused by him of running “the biggest and most dangerous criminal organization of this country.”