Новости за 31.03.2016

In a recent column R.L. Schreadley unleashed a volley of fire against one of his favorite targets: Hillary Clinton, the leading Democratic candidate for president.

To use a "baseballism" — our president needs to have his eye on the ball when radical Islamists are perpetrating terrorist acts around that world and potentially endangering my kids and grandkids.

If you think all major contentious issues before the law have been settled the right way, then having only eight Supreme Court justices should suit you just fine. That is the lesson from Tuesday’s 4-4 gridlock on an important First Amendment case.

By the time Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg took office in January, 115 homeless people were living in tents under an I-26 overpass off Meeting Street.

BY BILL FRIST and

BY GEORGE F. WILL

BY LEONARD PITTS JR.

Caitlin Judd Batten, 32, of North Charleston, is the odds-on favorite to win her second Marcus Newberry Award as the top local finisher in the Cooper River Bridge Run this year.

DAILEY, Dorothy K., 98, of Mount Pleasant, a business owner and widow of Robert Dailey, died Wednesday. Arrangements by McAlister-Smith’s Mount Pleasant Chapel.

CHINN, Jimmie, North Charleston

Much has changed about the Cooper River Bridge Run’s Kids Run over the past dozen years, having evolved into a full-blown festival that is not only about fitness but entertainment, toys and charity.

I learned something the evening of St. Patrick’s Day, something that wasn’t even fueled by alcohol and which I imagine has been readily apparent to most for some time — that past normal business hours, the Market area dries up like a chip and is pretty much dead. Or at least such appeared to be the case that...

BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

(Reuters) - Former European Footballer of the Year Pavel Nedved has stepped in to fill the boots of England's David Beckham as ambassador for the burgeoning Chinese Super League.

HONG KONG, March 31 (Reuters) - A unit of China's Guosen Securities, one of the country's largest brokerages, has defaulted on a Hong Kong-traded yuan bond, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing a document seen by the paper.

By Nichola Saminather March 31 (Reuters) - Singapore led declines across southeast Asian stock markets on Thursday, as the boost from a U.S. Federal Reserve statement this week scaling back expectations for interest rate hikes faded. Singapore's Straits Time Index slid 1 percent, on track for a quarterly loss of 1.3 percent. The Philippines lost 0.8 percent and Malaysia 0.2 percent, shrinking gains for the quarter to 4.2 percent and 1.4 percent respectively. Thailand's SET sli

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations on Wednesday said it has widened an investigation of allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse by foreign peacekeepers in Central African Republic and notified authorities in France, Gabon and Burundi about the charges.

BEIJING, March 31 (Reuters) - China's economic growth is likely to slow to around 5 percent annually between 2021-2025 from an expected annual rate of 6.5 percent in the next five years, a senior Chinese central bank official was reported by official media as saying on Thursday.

BUENOS AIRES, March 30 (Reuters) - Argentina's President Mauricio Macri won the support of the Senate for a settlement with bondholders on Wednesday, live TV images showed, marking the end of a 14-year battle with creditors.

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador plans to boost prison security and deploy more troops in the streets to battle a rising wave of gang violence that has pushed murder rates to record levels, President Salvador Sanchez Ceren said on Wednesday.

(Reuters) - Flamboyant Irish featherweight Conor McGregor will get another chance to prove himself as a welterweight after being granted a rematch with Nate Diaz on the UFC 200 card in Las Vegas on July 9.

(Reuters) - World number one Novak Djokovic rolled into the semi-finals of the Miami Open with a 6-3 6-3 romp over Tomas Berdych on Wednesday as he continued his pursuit of a fifth title in six years on Key Biscayne.

SAO PAULO, March 30 (Reuters) - Brazil's state-run Eletrobras, Latin America's largest electricity utility, posted on Wednesday a net loss of 10.438 billion reais ($2.85 billion) for the fourth quarter, due to impairments and provisions for potential legal liabilities.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon plans to transfer about a dozen inmates of the Guantanamo military prison to at least two countries that have agreed to take them, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, the latest move in President Barack Obama's final push to close the facility.

HONG KONG, March 31 (Reuters) - A unit of China's Guosen Securities, one of the country's largest brokerages, has defaulted on a Hong Kong-traded yuan bond, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing a document seen by the paper.