Новости за 15.08.2018

Paul Manafort lied to keep himself flush with cash and later to maintain his luxurious lifestyle when his income dropped off, prosecutors told jurors Wednesday in closing arguments at the former Trump campaign chairman's fraud trial.

Italy's government blamed the firm that operated the collapsed Genoa bridge for the disaster that has claimed at least 39 lives, as rescuers dug through mountains of crushed concrete for survivors.

A suicide bombing in front of an educational centre in a mainly Shiite area in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Wednesday killed at least 48 people and wounded 67, according to Afghan officials.

A British man accused of a terror attack after driving into a barrier protecting the UK's Houses of Parliament faces an investigation for attempted murder, police said Wednesday.

Saudi Arabia's quota system determines how many pilgrims per country will go to Mecca. With Saudi’s involvement in regional spats, surrounding Muslim countries worry about what they see as an increasing politicisation of the religious ritual.

Three French nationals were killed in the bridge collapse in the Italian city of Genoa, the French foreign ministry said Wednesday, as the death toll rose to 39 and Italy blamed the company in charge of the country's motorways for the disaster.

Supporters of former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva marched on Brasilia on Tuesday to rally behind his attempt to take part in the upcoming October presidential elections, despite serving a prison sentence for corruption.

Italy’s transport minister said on Wednesday that the government would conduct a safety audit on ageing bridges and tunnels across the country, after the Morandi Bridge in Genoa collapsed on Tuesday, killing at least 35 people.

Forty children were among 51 people killed in a Saudi-led coalition air strike on a bus in rebel-held northern Yemen, the Red Cross said Tuesday, after thousands protested at a mass funeral.

Part of Genoa's Morandi motorway bridge collapsed on August 14, killing at least 35 people and sparking a huge rescue operation. Experts say that the bridge has been riddled with structural problems since its construction in the 1960s.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said Turkey would boycott US electronic goods like the iPhone in retaliation for punitive sanctions from Washington that have led to a plunge in the value of the lira.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said Turkey would boycott US electronic goods like the iPhone in retaliation for punitive sanctions from Washington that have led to a plunge in the value of the lira.

More than 300 "predator" priests in Pennsylvania are accused of abusing over 1,000 children across seven decades, a grand jury said Tuesday in a devastating report that decried a systematic cover-up by the Catholic Church.