Новости за 14.04.2018

Saudi Arabia is hosting its first-ever Arab Fashion Week, where skirts can’t go above the knee and cleavage is strictly forbidden.

In carrying out airstrikes in Syria, the U.S. and its allies were trying to maintain a careful balance: preventing the use of chemical weapons, without crossing Moscow’s red lines against toppling President Bashar al-Assad or targeting Russian forces.

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U.S., British and French forces struck sites associated with Syria’s chemical-weapons capabilities on Friday. Video footage shows the missile launches and resulting damage. Above, a Syrian soldier films the damage. Photo: AFP/Getty

The Trump administration’s close coordination with France and the U.K. to plan the strikes on the Syrian regime underscores an alignment between the U.S. and its European allies despite deep divisions over other issues.

U.S., British and French forces targeted sites associated with Syria’s chemical-weapons capabilities, a reprisal for an attack last week that killed at least 43 civilians and injured hundreds more.

Tronc Inc.’s largest shareholder, Michael Ferro, has agreed to sell his stake to a descendant of the McCormick family that built the company’s flagship newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, into a media powerhouse in the early 20th century.

After the Sandy Hook school shooting, Silicon Valley set out to make safer, technologically advanced weapons that could only be fired by their owners.

U.S. companies are scrambling to figure out how to sell more natural gas abroad. Tellurian Chief Executive Meg Gentle thinks she has a unique answer, but it is expected to cost $24 billion.

Hospitals and nursing homes are turning up the lights in some patients’ rooms, amid new research on how light affects mood, energy and sleep

The Syrian government’s allies strongly condemned the overnight airstrikes on Assad regime targets, with Iran’s supreme leader branding as “criminals” President Donald Trump, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron.

Many designers are ‘upcycling’—putting luxury spins on second-hand clothing, repurposing them under the mantle of sustainability to appeal to socially conscious customers

The uproar over how Facebook Inc. allowed a Cambridge University researcher to improperly harvest data on 87 million users has prompted a public clash between the social network and the 800-year-old institution.

The imprisonment of ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for corruption while many top Brazilian politicians remain in office despite graft charges against them is stoking fresh calls to end legal immunity for lawmakers and to try them in court.

A quadriplegic handcyclist explains how he prepares for the most famous 26.2-mile race in the U.S.

An exhibition at the Mullin Automotive Museum looks at the bespoke Art Deco vehicles of the 1920s and ’30s.

President Donald Trump said the recent suspected chemical attack in Syria was the crime of a “monster” and the strikes aim to deter the production and use of chemical weapons. Photo: AP

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President Donald Trump said airstrikes by the U.S., the U.K. and France targeted sites associated with Syria’s chemical-weapons capabilities, a reprisal for an attack last week that killed at least 43 civilians and injured hundreds more.

The U.S. will provide $16 million in aid to Venezuelans who have fled their homeland amid a growing humanitarian and economic crisis, Vice President Mike Pence said as he arrived in Peru for talks with Latin American leaders.

Having escaped to the U.S. after the 2014 mass kidnapping, a group of Nigerian students found themselves trapped all over again, paraded in front of TV cameras and charity events. The truth of what happened became twisted as they fell in thrall to a human-rights lawyer who stands accused of pocketing some of the funds they raised.

President Trump is prodding his military advisers to agree to a more sweeping strike in Syria than they consider prudent and is unhappy with options presented so far, administration officials said.