Новости за 02.02.2018

Italian shipbuilding company Fincantieri announced Friday it had reached an agreement with France to buy 50 percent of the French shipyard STX.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned Mexico on Friday to be wary that Russia does not interfere when it elects its next president in July.

Poland’s Senate passed a law on February 1 banning people from linking the Polish state to the Holocaust. Some historians see it as a disturbing piece of legislation, and it has triggered strong reactions in Israel.

Republican legislators released Friday a highly contentious memo alleging that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice abused their powers to spy on President Donald Trump's election campaign.

Rights groups and relatives of victims asked the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Friday to rule against a pardon for former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori who was jailed for human rights abuses.

US Republican Memo: F24's Philip Crowther reports from Washington

The US military wants to revamp its nuclear arsenal and develop new low-yield atomic bombs, largely in response to Russian actions in recent years, the Pentagon says in a policy statement released Friday.

As the NFL continues to grapple with American football's enduring concussion crisis, safety advocates say the next frontier in curbing long-term brain injuries is to phase out tackling for children under the age of 14.

French center Joakim Noah's future with the New York Knicks was thrown into further doubt Friday as the team said he would remain away indefinitely, US media reported.

Education is the sole response to the global rise of extremism, French President Emmanuel Macron told a conference in Senegal on Friday where he pledged €200 million ($248 million) to support an international education fund.

Venezuela's ruling Socialist Party on Friday confirmed that President Nicolas Maduro is its official candidate in a snap election due before the end of April.

Australian Open champion and world number one Caroline Wozniacki lost 7-6 (7/2), 6-3 to local player Daria Kasatkina in the quarter-finals of the St Petersburg Ladies Trophy on Friday.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday that it was "absolutely essential" for key players to hold "serious" talks on North Korea's nuclear crisis to build on a thaw in relations between Pyongyang and Seoul.

Italy's under-21 coach Luigi Di Biagio has been asked to take temporary charge of the senior team until a full-time replacement is found, the Italian federation said on Friday.

State prosecutors in Paris urged investigating magistrates on Friday to file rape charges against Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, following claims by two women that he assaulted them in French hotel rooms in 2009 and 2012.

Four UN rights experts urged Iran Friday to ensure three Christians due to go on trial this weekend get a fair hearing, warning that the religious minority faces "severe discrimination" in the country.

Borussia Dortmund have opted to register new striker Michy Batshuayi, but not Swiss centre-back Manuel Akanji, for their Europa League squad, according to the list released on Friday by UEFA.

Lindsey Vonn can claim a hat-trick of downhill victories in Garmisch-Partenkirchen this weekend in the women's final World Cup tune-up before the Winter Olympics.

Poland's prime minister on Friday said that finding a way out of a diplomatic row with Israel and the US triggered by Warsaw's controversial Holocaust bill was a "do or die moment" for him.

As talks to release the thousands of detainees in Syria fail again and again, FRANCE 24 met with Families for Freedom, a group of Syrian women who aim to raise awareness of their plight.

The UN's highest court drew new maritime boundaries between Costa Rica and Nicaragua on Friday seeking to end a decades-long frontier dispute, and ordered Managua to pay compensation for environmental damage.

Sabrina Wanjiku Simader is set to make history in Pyeongchang, South Korea, as the first female alpine skier to compete for Kenya in the Winter Olympics.

Canadians will soon be singing a new tune after parliament passed a bill to change the lyrics of the national anthem to make it gender neutral.

An independence push by southern separatists who have seized the Yemeni government's de facto capital has laid bare deepening fault lines and shifting alliances in the war-plagued country.

Ahead of New York Fashion Week the industry is unveiling new professional guidelines to combat the kind of sexual harassment and assault allegations plaguing some of the world's most renowned fashion photographers.