Новости за 06.04.2018

Hundreds of Palestinians began protesting at the fence dividing the Gaza Strip and Israel, forging ahead with a repeat of a major demonstration last week that turned deadly.

Infertility affects one in six couples in the U.S. Sensing a lucrative market, investors are pouring money into the fertility industry.

President’s attacks on e-commerce company stem from its CEO’s ownership of the Washington Post, which the American leader says writes unfair stories about him, say people close to the White House.

Amazon.com is considering whether to use Alexa to launch a person-to-person payments feature, a move that would push the retailing giant into new competition with Venmo and big banks’ payments efforts.

NXP Semiconductors is trading roughly 10% below Qualcomm’s offer, reflecting investors’ concerns about the deal going through, but the discount ignores NXP’s leading market position.

A court sentenced former South Korean President Park Geun-hye to 24 years in prison for her involvement in a corruption scandal that led to her ouster from office and ensnared some of the country’s top officials and business leaders.

The credibility of the country’s democracy is in question after Prime Minister Najib Razak’s government backed a series of moves that have curtailed opponents’ ability to compete.

Analysts say the vote will be dominated by a scandal at a government-backed investment fund that has rocked Najib Razak’s administration for years.

The Trump administration has detailed $50 billion of tariffs on Chinese imports ranging from television sets to grenade launchers. China has vowed to respond in kind. Is a full-scale trade war now inevitable?

The U.S. space agency and Boeing have agreed to turn the initial test flight of the company’s commercial crewed capsule into an operational mission, the latest sign that officials are hedging their bets on when American spacecraft will start regularly ferrying astronauts to the international space station.

The State Department’s dressing down is unlikely to upset relations between the two countries. The U.S. increasingly regards Vietnam as a useful ally in countering China’s expanding influence across strategic parts of Southeast Asia and the South China Sea.

Popular leftist leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sentenced to 12 years in prison for his conviction last year on charges of corruption and money laundering.

The Atlantic parted ways with conservative commentator Kevin Williamson after he was criticized on social media for caustic antiabortion comments he made in 2014.

President Donald Trump threatened a major escalation in trade tensions with Beijing on Thursday, saying he was considering imposing tariffs on an additional $100 billion in imports from China.

Target has agreed to pay more than $3.7 million and overhaul job-screening guidelines for hourly workers to resolve a civil-rights class-action complaint that alleged the company’s policies regarding criminal-background checks were too broad and discriminated against African-Americans and Latinos.

Recent stock-market swings have many investors scrambling to profit from the return of turbulence after a prolonged period of tranquil stock trading.

Samsung Electronics said first-quarter operating profit will be its highest ever, topping analyst estimates and continuing the company’s string of record results.

Netherlands’ government moves to scrap a law adopted just three years ago that allows frequent plebiscites.

A German court on Thursday ruled to allow Catalonian separatist leader Carles Puigdemont free on bail, paving the way for his extradition to Spain to stand trial for his role in last autumn’s independence drive.

Delta Air Lines Inc. on Thursday said hundreds of thousands of customers could have had their credit-card information compromised in a cyberattack on a vendor that ran a chat function on the carrier’s website.

The President needs to show some loyalty to his leading reformer.

You can relax about that invading horde of poor Central Americans.

New York’s Governor continues his steady march to the left.

We disagree about some aspects of his legacy, but the role of faith is indisputable.

The bureau still won’t comply with an eight-month-old subpoena from Congress.