Новости за 31.05.2018

EU leaders slam US move to impose tariffs

Walmart on Thursday unveiled a new concierge shopping service enabling customers to get quick deliveries and advice from a personal assistant, going upscale in the retail giant's battle with Amazon.

Italy’s prime minister-designate Giuseppe Conte announced Thursday his ministerial line-up after being handed a mandate for a second time to form a new populist government.

The World Health Organization has begun to use an unlicensed Ebola medication to help rein in an outbreak of the deadly virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Italy's new minister of economic development and joint deputy prime minister, Five Star Movement chief Luigi Di Maio has been derided as an empty-headed puppet by his opponents, but the telegenic young gun has lifted his party from anti-establishment insurgency to joint leaders of the country's new populist government.

'My goal was to stay alive,' says Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko

France 24's Josephine McKenna in Rome discusses new Conte government

Disgraced Hollywood powerbroker Harvey Weinstein is due back in court on June 5 to be formally arraigned after being indicted by a grand jury on rape and sex crime charges.

Italian anti-establishment and far-right parties finally won their bid for power Thursday after Giuseppe Conte was nominated prime minister by president Sergio Mattarella for the second time in a fortnight.

With his "Italians first" rallying cry and his tub-thumping against Islam and a "migrant invasion" Matteo Salvini has rebranded himself and his party to become both interior minister and joint deputy prime minister and bring Italy touching distance from its first eurosceptic government.

The world's largest known freshwater pearl, which once belonged to Catherine the Great, was sold Thursday in the Netherlands for 320,000 euros ($374,000), auction house Venduehuis said.

Three days after a Malian migrant was acclaimed as a hero for his daring rescue of a child in Paris, three foreign activists went on trial Thursday in southern France on charges for helping migrants enter the country.

Serena Williams battled back from a set and break down to defeat Australia's Ashleigh Barty 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to reach the French Open third round on Thursday.

Little-known academic Giuseppe Conte finds himself once again on the cusp of leading Italy's populist government-in-waiting less than a week after walking away from the post amid a row over a proposed eurosceptic economy minister.

Hundreds of opponents of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday marched through the centre of Istanbul to mark five years since mass rallies broke out in a major challenge to his rule.

Serena Williams battled back from a set and break down to defeat Australia's Ashleigh Barty 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to reach the French Open third round on Thursday.

British number three Cameron Norrie laughed off an Argentinian radio reporter's mistake in confusing him with action movie icon and martial arts star Chuck Norris, saying he supposes it's "an honour".

Serena Williams battled back from a set and break down to defeat Australia's Ashleigh Barty 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to reach the French Open third round on Thursday.

Google-owned Waymo is adding as many as 62,000 Fiat Chrysler minivans to its autonomous fleet in an expanded collaboration announced by the companies on Thursday.