Новости за 27.01.2016

North Charleston POPS! is taking on the music of Earth, Wind and Fire, Chicago and Blood Sweat & Tears in its "70s Rhythm and Blues" concert, a focus that should come pretty naturally for the ensemble.

PARIS, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told French business leaders on Wednesday that Iran was open for investment as he started a visit in France to revive business ties despite diplomatic differences.

MILAN, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Italy's biggest insurer Assicurazioni Generali is looking to pick a new chief executive by mid-February to replace Mario Greco, who is leaving for rival Zurich Insurance, a source close to the matter said on Wednesday.

Jan 27 (Reuters) - China's recent threat to impose sanctions on U.S. defense companies that sell arms to Taiwan should come as no surprise to American officials or corporate executives: Washington has been issuing sanctions of these sorts for years. It was only a matter of time before U.S. competitors started copying its tactics.

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Security forces killed 20 Kurdish militants in southeast Turkey while three Turkish soldiers died in a rebel attack, the military said on Wednesday, as authorities widened a curfew in the mainly Kurdish region's largest city, Diyarbakir.

BRASILIA, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff could release up to 60 billion reais ($15 billion) in fresh credit from state-run banks and a workers' pension fund to help lift the country out of a deep recession, two senior government sources said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - France has asked the European Union to consider new sanctions on Iran over recent missile tests, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed officials.

MADRID, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Spanish oil company Repsol wrote down the value of its oil reserves by 2.9 billion euros ($3.2 billion) on Wednesday due to a steep fall in energy prices, a move which it said would mean it would record a net loss of 1.2 billion euros for 2015.

WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - France has asked the European Union to consider new sanctions on Iran over recent missile tests, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed officials.

BERLIN (Reuters) - The first thing that Leith Khdeir Abbas, a 27-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker who arrived in Germany four months ago, plans to do after he makes the return journey on Wednesday is to kneel down and kiss the soil that he calls home.

(Reuters) - Four people who had returned from travel abroad have tested positive in New York state with infections with the mosquito-transmitted Zika virus, local health officials said on Wednesday.

(Reuters) - Four people who had returned from travel abroad have tested positive in New York state with infections with the mosquito-transmitted Zika virus, local health officials said on Wednesday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Brazilian striker Alexandre Pato arrived in London ahead of a loan move to Chelsea, the BBC reported on Wednesday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Newcastle United have completed the signing of Andros Townsend from Tottenham Hotspur on a five-and-a-half-year deal, the Premier League clubs said on Wednesday.

(Reuters Health) - Teens who try electronic cigarettes may be more than twice as likely to progress to traditional cigarettes as their peers who haven't used the devices, a recent U.S. study finds.

(Reuters Health) - Teens who try electronic cigarettes may be more than twice as likely to progress to traditional cigarettes as their peers who haven't used the devices, a recent U.S. study finds.

Jan 27 (Reuters) - Swiss bank HSZH Verwaltungs AG will pay more than $49 million to the U.S. Department of Justice to avoid possible prosecution for helping Americans evade taxes, the department said on Wednesday.

(Reuters) - Barcelona forward Neymar and his father must pay nearly 460,000 reais (79,250 pounds) to Brazil’s inland revenue in taxes owed from 2007 and 2008, a Sao Paulo federal judge ordered in a ruling made public on Wednesday.

A Mount Pleasant woman is accused of siphoning off nearly $218,000 from her former employer.

RECIFE, Brazil (Reuters) - Angela Rocha, a pediatrician in northeastern Brazil, measures the head of a child born with microcephaly, a tragic neurological complication linked to Zika, the mosquito-borne virus sparking a health scare across the Americas.

RECIFE, Brazil (Reuters) - Angela Rocha, a pediatrician in northeastern Brazil, measures the head of a child born with microcephaly, a tragic neurological complication linked to Zika, the mosquito-borne virus sparking a health scare across the Americas.

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Monkeys at the Singapore Zoo get special festive treats to celebrate the Lunar New Year and the Year of the Monkey. Rough Cut (No reporter narration)

Monkeys at the Singapore Zoo get special festive treats to celebrate the Lunar New Year and the Year of the Monkey. Rough Cut (No reporter narration)

Monkeys at the Singapore Zoo get special festive treats to celebrate the Lunar New Year and the Year of the Monkey. Rough Cut (No reporter narration)