[ad_1] LOS ANGELES/ PARIS (Reuters) – Paris moved within a hair’s breadth on Monday of formally being chosen to host the 2024 Summer Olympics after rival candidate city Los Angeles agreed to accept the consolation prize of the 2028 Games in a rare two-way contest between the cities. Both cities were competing for the 2024
Month: July 2017
[ad_1] UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – George and Amal Clooney said on Monday they would help 3,000 Syrian refugee children go to school this year in Lebanon, where the United Nations says 200,000 children are not receiving an education after fleeing the war in neighboring Syria. The Clooney Foundation for Justice said it has teamed up
[ad_1] MONTREAL (Reuters) – Qatar Airways is expected to have access to three contingency routes over international waters in early August, after a UN-led meeting on Monday discussed air corridors for Doha following a rift with its neighbors, a source familiar with the matter said. The closed-door meeting with the UN aviation agency’s governing council
[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Pennsylvania man arrested last June on the New Jersey side of the Holland Tunnel with an arsenal of guns in his truck pleaded guilty to two weapons-related charges in a deal with prosecutors, his attorney said on Monday. John Cramsey, 52, of Zionsville, Pennsylvania, entered the pleas at Hudson
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. congressional committee on Monday asked for input from Google parent Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), Facebook Inc (FB.O), Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O), Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and other major companies on a proposed rewrite of rules governing consumer internet access, according to an email reviewed by Reuters. Last week, the House of Representatives
[ad_1] TORONTO (Reuters) – North American conservationists are scrambling to find out why North Atlantic right whales are dying in unprecedented numbers, with nine deaths in Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence in two months, according to Canadian authorities. The nine deaths make 2017 the deadliest year for the endangered marine mammal since scientists began tracking
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump fired his communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, on Monday over an obscene tirade, just over a week after naming him to the job, sources familiar with the decision said, in the latest staff upheaval to hit the Republican’s six-month-old administration. Scaramucci’s departure follows one of the rockiest weeks
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Charter Communications Inc’s (CHTR.O) shares surged to a record high on Monday after a source said Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) was considering an acquisition offer, even as Charter shot down the possibility of it being the acquirer in any merger with SoftBank’s U.S. wireless carrier, Sprint Corp (S.N). A source familiar
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Spotify now has 60 million paying subscribers, adding 10 million subscribers in less than five months, a spokeswoman for the music streaming company said on Monday. The spokeswoman declined to comment on a report in the Financial Times that the Swedish company was eyeing a listing as soon as the fourth quarter,
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, is leaving the job after little over a week, the White House said on Monday, in the latest staff upheaval to hit the Republican’s six-month-old presidency. Days after Scaramucci launched a profanity-laced tirade against fellow aides, the New York Times and Politico reported
[ad_1] PARIGI – Si è spenta questa mattina l’attrice Jeanne Moreau. Una delle massime rappresentanti del cinema francese e simbolo della Nouvelle Vague, Jeanne Moreau ha permesso al cinema di fare della sua immagine l’espressione di un intero immaginario. Quello di una cultura mimetizzata nella realtà e negli angoli delle strade, addentrata inesorabilmente nei vissuti
[ad_1] KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian Finance Minister Oleksandr Danylyuk denied on Monday an accusation of tax evasion from a lawmaker that has led to an investigation by prosecutors. Danylyuk, a former investment manager who has also served as a deputy head of President Petro Poroshenko’s administration, said “all taxes were paid on money I earned”.
[ad_1] MILANO – Vincitore di 6 premi Oscar (e 14 candidature) nel 2017, fra cui “Miglior colonna sonora originale” e “Migliore canzone originale”, 7 Golden Globe su 7 candidature, La La Land in concert arriva per la prima volta in Italia in due meravigliose location: il 5 ottobre al Gran Teatro Geox di Padova e
[ad_1] CASABLANCA, Morocco (Reuters) – Extracting venom from scorpions can be a dangerous, but rewarding, task. The poisonous secretion, while fatal to humans, contains hundreds of components that have potential uses in the health sector when they are broken down to a molecular level. In a bid to remove the venom safely, for both scorpion
[ad_1] di PIERO CHIMENTI – Lucifero non si è fatto attendere con le sue alte temperature in Italia. Le temperature in tutta la Penisola si attestano intorno ai 40°C, mentre le regioni che sentiranno maggiormente gli effetti di questa ondata di caldo eccezionale, appena giunta in Italia, saranno Sardegna e Sicilia ed in parte la
[ad_1] BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German lawmakers must balance conflicting demands at a national summit to discuss pollution from diesel vehicles this week, wanting to appear tough ahead of federal elections next month while trying to avoid damaging the car industry. Political leaders and car industry executives will meet in Berlin on Wednesday to discuss inner-city
[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – A British Royal Marine was jailed for 18 years on Monday after admitting that he worked as a bomb maker for dissident Irish Republican groups that violently oppose Northern Ireland’s peace process. While serving in Britain’s military, Ciaran Maxwell, a 31-year-old Northern Irish Catholic, made and stockpiled pipe bombs, anti-personnel mines,
[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie confronted a baseball fan who heckled him during a Sunday night game in Milwaukee, according to a video posted by local media, making the unpopular governor the target of another round of online jokes. The second-term Republican can be seen clutching a bowl of nachos
[ad_1] DI REDAZIONE – “Questo è il decimo anno. Dieci anni di musica sui monti. Dieci anni di condivisione con amici che stimo. Dieci anni di gioia in cui la natura incontra l’arte. Dieci anni di meraviglia a guardare il cielo da un punto privilegiato”. Li racconta così i suoi dieci anni del ‘Mi Rifugio
[ad_1] MOSTAR, Bosnia (Reuters) – Lorens Listo’s name may not headline the world’s sports pages, but on the streets of his native Mostar he is hailed as a champion among champions in a sport that is central to the Bosnian city’s identity: high diving. Mostar is home to the Stari Most, a 16th-century Ottoman peaked
[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – A British man was convicted on Monday of importing a lifelike child sex doll in what police said was a landmark case in the fight against a new form of sex crime against children. David Turner, 72, admitted having sex with the 3-foot-10-inch (1.17 metre) doll, described by the National Crime
[ad_1] HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s ruling Communist party said on Monday that a former executive of electricity firm Dien Quang Lamp should be sacked from her current position as a vice-trade minister as it continues a crackdown on corruption. Public defamation and dismissal of high-ranking officials are rare in the one-party state but have become
[ad_1] FRANKFURT/ZURICH (Reuters) – Specialty chemicals group Clariant (CLN.S) has hired Goldman Sachs (GS.N) as an additional adviser to help stave off an activist investor’s campaign to derail its planned merger with U.S. peer Huntsman (HUN.N). The Swiss company is facing pressure from White Tale Holdings, which holds more than 10 percent of its shares
[ad_1] ROMA – “#Istat Buone notizie sul lavoro. Meno disoccupati, anche tra giovani. Aumenta lavoro donne. Fiducia in risultati Jobs Act e ritorno crescita”. A scriverlo il premier Paolo Gentiloni su Twitter, commentando i dati diffusi questa mattina dall’Istat. Esulta per i dati anche la sottosegretaria alla Presidenza del Consiglio Maria Elena Boschi, la quale
[ad_1] TALLINN (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Monday assured the Baltic states of U.S. support if they faced aggression from Russia, telling them that Washington firmly backs NATO’s doctrine of collective defense. Pence’s comments to the presidents of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, ahead of Russian war games on their doorstep, were clearly
[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – Shares of Snap Inc (SNAP.N), owner of the Snapchat messaging app, fell 3 percent in premarket trading on Monday as a share lockup ended, allowing for sales by early investors and pushing it further below its March initial public offering price. Starting on Monday and extending into August, early investors,
[ad_1] di ILEANA CIRULLI – Secondo i dati provvisori, riferiti a questo giugno e diffusi oggi dall’Istat, il tasso di disoccupazione è sceso all’11,1%: in calo di 0,2 punti percentuali rispetto a maggio, collocandosi ai livelli rilevati ad aprile, che a loro volta equivalgono a quanto registrato nell’autunno del 2012. E’ scesa anche la disoccupazione
[ad_1] PARIS (Reuters) – Jeanne Moreau, the quintessential French actress whose mother was an English cabaret club dancer, has died at 89. Moreau, a petite chain-smoker who worked with most of the world’s top directors of the first few decades after World War Two, Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard and Wim Wenders among them. In one
[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – Britain does not intend to lower taxes far below the European average in order to remain competitive after Brexit but rather expects to keep a recognisably European economic and social model, finance minister Philip Hammond said. Hammond himself had suggested in January that Britain may have to change its economic model
[ad_1] KABUL (Reuters) – Militant group Islamic State on Monday claimed responsibility for an attack on the Iraqi embassy in Kabul that began with a suicide bomber blowing himself up at the main gate, allowing gunmen to enter the building and battle security forces. The assault comes a week after 35 people were killed in
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