Новости за 31.03.2016

TORONTO, March 31 (Reuters) - The financial health of Canadian pension funds declined in the first quarter of 2016, affected by volatile currency markets, weakness in equity markets and lower bond yields, consultancy Aon said on Thursday.

(Reuters) - Svetlana Kuznetsova held off a strong challenge from Switzerland's Timea Bacsinszky in searing afternoon heat to book her place in the Miami Open final with a 7-5 6-3 victory on Thursday.

MOUNT PLEASANT — A lawsuit over an office and parking deck planned near Shem Creek is going away, but the parties still disagree about whether the creek needs saving.

March 31 (Reuters) - What do a small-town paratrooper from Venezuela and a billionaire real estate mogul from New York have in common? Hugo Chávez and Donald Trump are both outsized personalities seeing themselves as the sole leaders capable of restoring their countries to greatness. They eschew political correctness and routinely speak in an informal, unscripted style, connecting directly with voters who have felt invisible. They are both polarizing populists and 17 years of Chavista government

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday advanced a proposal to ensure the privacy of broadband Internet users by barring providers from collecting user data without consent.

LONDON (Reuters) - Arsenal have only themselves to blame after a run of two wins in nine games in all competitions has left them with only an outside chance of winning any silverware, midfielder Mesut Ozil was quoted as saying on Thursday.

Charleston-based Evening Post Industries has acquired a Chicago company that produces content-marketing services to the media industry in North America.

BRASILIA, March 31 (Reuters) - Vice President Michel Temer is quietly assembling a team of respected economists to revive confidence in Brazil's battered economy with cautious spending cuts and privatizations should leftist President Dilma Rousseff be impeached, insiders say.

BAKU, March 31 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan saw a 6.3 percent drop in foreign direct investment last year, the central bank said on Thursday.

MUMBAI, March 31 (Reuters) - West Indies match-winner Lendl Simmons said he felt jittery going into Thursday's World Twenty20 semi-final against India at the Wankhede Stadium.

LIBREVILLE, March 31 (Reuters) - Gabon's long-serving parliament speaker stepped down abruptly on Thursday in the latest sign of eroding support within the ruling party for President Ali Bongo before elections in the Central African oil producer later this year.

COLUMBIA — A social science expert told a South Carolina judge that Charleston’s 9th Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson removed potential black jurors from cases at about seven times the rate she struck white jurors.

BRASILIA (Reuters) - A majority of Brazil's Supreme Court members voted on Thursday to uphold an injunction that moved a corruption investigation of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from to the Supreme Court from a lower court.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The latest allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation levelled against international peacekeepers in Central African Republic elicited expressions of disgust on Thursday from top United Nations officials and senior U.S. and French diplomats.

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Hosts India were left to rue two no-balls as Lendl Simmons combined luck and pluck to power West Indies to victory in their World Twenty20 semi-final at the Wankhede Stadium on Thursday.

The North Charleston man who drove his SUV through a wall after being fatally shot Wednesday morning had a started his criminal career with snatching the mayor’s daughter’s purse when he was 16.

(Reuters) - Double U.S. Open champion Curtis Strange believes Jordan Spieth may never repeat the scintillating form he showed in 2015 that sent him rocketing to number one in the world rankings.

BRASILIA, March 31 (Reuters) - A majority of Brazil's Supreme Court members voted on Thursday to uphold an injunction that moved a corruption investigation of former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from to the Supreme Court from a lower court.

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia and the United States imposed joint sanctions targeting the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, the two countries announced on Thursday.

Former College of Charleston pitcher Ryan Mau is making a return visit to the Lowcountry as the head baseball coach at Longwood University this weekend as his Lancers visit Charleston Southern in a Big South Conference series.

MUMBAI, March 31 (Reuters) - Hosts India were left to rue two no-balls as Lendl Simmons combined luck and pluck to power West Indies to victory in their World Twenty20 semi-final at the Wankhede Stadium on Thursday.

WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - China remains committed to its plans for nuclear reprocessing, its top nuclear industry official said on Thursday, despite concerns this could lead to a competitive buildup of plutonium stockpiles in Asia.