[ad_1] RIYADH/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Saudi King Salman on Tuesday ordered that women be allowed to drive cars, ending a conservative tradition seen by rights activists as an emblem of the Islamic kingdom’s repression of women. The kingdom has been widely criticized for being the only country in the world that bans women from driving, despite
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[ad_1] (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump ramped up his fight with the National Football League on Tuesday, calling on the league to ban players from kneeling in protest at games while the national anthem is played. “The NFL has all sorts of rules and regulations. The only way out for them is to set
[ad_1] MESAGNE (BR). Proseguono gli eventi nella città di Mesagne: giovedì 28 settembre 2017 alle ore 17, presso Cabiria Circolo Arci in piazza Orsini del Balzo n°9, si terrà l’open day di Hata Yoga con l’insegnate Maria Roberta Greco, allieva del Maestro Dhyan Nirman, Roberto Boschini, diplomata presso la scuola di formazione professionale Il piccolo
[ad_1] SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Broken electricity poles and streetlights list into the middle of highways. Satellite images show an island devoid of light. Cellular phone service is non-existent. Hurricane Maria’s devastation of the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico last week left the entire island and its 3.4 million residents without power.
[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 ended flat on Tuesday and the Nasdaq posted modest gains as technology shares bounced from sharp losses in the prior session and comments from Fed Chair Janet Yellen boosted expectations of a December rate hike. Yellen said the Fed needs to continue gradual rate hikes and it
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Republican attempt to dismantle Obamacare fell apart in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday for the second time in two months in a serious defeat for President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda. The party was unable to win enough support from its own senators for a bill to repeal the 2010 healthcare
[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – James Dyson, the billionaire British inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, said on Tuesday his company was working on developing an electric car to be launched by 2020. Dyson said he was spending 2 billion pounds ($2.7 billion) to exploit his namesake company’s expertise in solid-state battery technology and electric motors
[ad_1] di BEATRICE GALLUZZO – E’arrivato oggi al termine il programma europeo di ricollocamento migranti dall’Italia e dalla Grecia nato nel 2015, un progetto teso a rendere sostenibile l’impatto dei flussi migratori sui paesi di frontiera, ma che è stato realizzato solo in parte, un po’ a causa della ritrosia degli altri Paesi a offrire
[ad_1] SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Tuesday his administration was doing a “really good job” helping Puerto Rico recover from the devastation of Hurricane Maria, amid complaints that federal aid has been too slow to reach the U.S. territory. Trump also agreed to boost federal disaster aid to the
[ad_1] “Nell’annunciare che non avrei accettato l’invito di Bruno alla riunione da lui indetta per discutere delle problematiche della Santa Teresa, sono stato facile profeta in quanto, sin da subito, l’avevo ritenuta come un’inutile perdita di tempo in un luogo politicamente inadeguato e con un presidente di fatto dimissionato dagli eventi e dai suoi stessi
[ad_1] DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syria’s government has produced much more power in recent months as the army recaptured natural gas fields from militants, the electricity ministry said on Tuesday. Bassam Darwish, head of the electricity ministry’s planning unit, told Reuters that the amount of gas the petroleum ministry provided to fuel power plants has nearly
[ad_1] BRIGHTON, England (Reuters) – A baby gurgles in the background, posters defend workers’ rights and between DJ decks and a well-stocked bar of an old nightclub, dozens of young activists flesh out their demands that Britain’s Labour Party become a wider movement for the left. Across the road, in the southern seaside town of
[ad_1] “Ho visto i risultati delle elezioni tedesche e non mi sfuggono, da questi risultati, le difficoltà che arrivano da quel voto” ha dichiarato il presidente del Consiglio, Paolo Gentiloni, durante l’incontro con i volontari del Servizio Civile” Confido nella cancelliera Merkel: continuerà nel suo impegno europeista”. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Life has been tough for Shania Twain in the past decade, but the Canadian country-pop artist who ruled the charts in the late 1990s is hitting a high note again in her career. Twain, 52, will release her first studio album in 15 years this week after a long struggle
[ad_1] di ANTONIO GAZZILLO – Dopo aver appreso i risultati delle elezioni in Germania, è stato analizzato l’identikit dell’elettore che ha sovvertito le gerarchie dei partiti in Parlamento: maschio tra i 30 e i 40 anni, che viene dall’ex Ddr ed è probabile che non abbia votato alle precedenti elezioni. Si è formato quindi un
[ad_1] “Ad agosto 2017, rispetto al mese precedente, entrambi i flussi commerciali sono in espansione, con un incremento più marcato per le esportazioni (+4%) che per le importazioni (+2,5%)” si legge in una nota dell’Istat “L’incremento congiunturale delle vendite verso i paesi extra Ue è esteso a tutti i raggruppamenti principali di industrie. L’energia (+16,4%)
[ad_1] (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday charged 10 people including four college basketball coaches and financial advisers with bribery and fraud in connection with college recruiting. Those charged include Chuck Person, associate head coach at Auburn University; Anthony Bland, associate head coach at the University of Southern California; Lamont Evans, assistant coach at Oklahoma
[ad_1] “E’ una proteina-farmaco liberata dalle staminali del cervello l’ingrediente segreto che fa di queste cellule neurali una promessa contro la sclerosi multipla: Si chiama TGF-β2” hanno dichiarato il team dell’Irccs ospedale San Raffaele di Milano guidato da Gianvito Martino, direttore scientifico dell’Istituto e a capo dell’Unità di Neuroimmunologia, in uno studio pubblicato sul ‘The
[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – Sufficient progress has not yet been made in Brexit talks to allow negotiations to move to the next phase of discussing the future relationship including trade, European Council President Donald Tusk said on Tuesday. After a meeting in Downing Street with British Prime Minister Theresa May, Tusk said he welcomed a
[ad_1] PARIGI – Un mare di fischi, slogan e qualche fumogeno: non è stato certo ben accolto il presidente francese Emmanuel Macron alla Sorbona in occasione del suo discorso sulla ‘nuova Europa’ è stato accolto da una dura contestazione di alcune centinaia di studenti che lo attendevano davanti alla facoltà. “Macron vattene, l’università non è
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Older, but certainly not wiser, Will, Grace, Karen and Jack return in television comedy “Will & Grace” this week, aiming to again test social and political boundaries but mostly to make audiences laugh. The 1998-2006 Emmy-winning series about a gay attorney who shares a New York apartment with his straight
[ad_1] KARANGASEM, Indonesia (Reuters) – Some tourists are having second thoughts about visiting the tropical Indonesian resort island of Bali after repeated warnings that its highest volcano could erupt at any time, half a century after it killed more than 1,000 people. Strong volcanic tremors rumbling underground and billowing white smoke over the scenic Mount
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to be grilled by Congress on Tuesday over a 2016 hack of the regulator’s corporate filing system that has shaken investor confidence in its cyber defenses. The hearing by the Senate Banking Committee, which had been scheduled prior to the
[ad_1] FRANCAVILLA FONTANA (BR). Proseguono gli eventi culturali nella città di Francavilla Fontana: mercoledì 27 settembre 2017, alle ore 18:30 presso la libreria Ubik in via Regina Elena n°83, si terrà l’incontro con il regista, conduttore e attore Umberto Rey che presenterà il suo ultimo libro “Il testamento di Don Liborio – Padre d’Italia” edito
[ad_1] BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said China needed to “guarantee fair and reciprocal treatment for U.S. firms” as he tried to strike an upbeat tone on a visit to Beijing amid trade tensions between the two countries. Ross told Premier Li Keqiang on Monday that the United States hoped for “very
[ad_1] BEIJING (Reuters) – Ant Financial, the payment affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, said it will create a joint venture this year with CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd to operate its payment app in Hong Kong, ending Ant’s solo management of the service. The new venture will allow Ant Financial’s Alipay to offer services via
[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – French driver Pierre Gasly will make his Formula One debut at the Malaysian Grand Prix this weekend after being drafted in by the Toro Rosso team in place of under-performing Russian Daniil Kvyat. The Red Bull-owned team said the switch, for an unspecified number of races, “gives us an opportunity to
[ad_1] (ANSA) di MARIAGRAZIA DI RAIMONDO – Il lavoro dei repubblicani di smantellare la riforma sanitaria di Obama è stato ancora una volta accantonato. Il progetto di legge messo a punto da senatori Lindsey Graham e Bill Cassidy avrebbe dovuto abolire l’Obamacare, però non ha ottenuto i voti necessari, così i Repubblicani perdono l’autorità di
[ad_1] GROVE, England (Reuters) – A Formula One racing team is employing technology that helps racing drivers survive high speed crashes to create a new device that keeps newborn babies safe during emergency transportation. The device, known as the Babypod 20, is made from carbon fiber – the same material used in Formula One cars’
[ad_1] ATLANTA (Reuters) – Georgia is scheduled on Tuesday to execute a man for the 1990 shotgun murder of his sister-in-law, as lawyers for the inmate argue the lethal injection should be halted because his conviction was tainted by a juror with racist views. Keith Tharpe, 59, who is black, is due to be executed