Новости за 12.09.2018

US President Donald Trump signed an order to allow sanctions to be levied on foreigners who interfere in US elections through hacking or spreading disinformation but reserved the final say in how to apply the measures.

Talks between French and British fisherman over rights to catch scallops have ended in failure, France’s agriculture ministry said on Wednesday, raising the risk of further tensions at sea.

French lawmakers have elected a close political ally of President Emmanuel Macron to head France's lower house of Parliament.

A survey of more than 1,000 people conducted this week found a 33 percent drop in the number who believe the United States remains a "trusted ally" of France under President Donald Trump since a similar survey in 2014.

Booksellers are furious a novel distributed only by Amazon has made it onto the long-list for one of France’s top literary prizes, saying it rewards the goliath that threatens both their livelihood and the country’s heritage.

A report on sexual abuse inside the Catholic Church in Germany says 3,677 people were abused by clergy between 1946 and 2014, two leading German media outlets said Wednesday.

Six people were detained in northern France this week over a string of attacks on butcher and fish shops by vegan activists, officials said Wednesday.

Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called on voters to back his chosen candidate, former Sao Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad. But with less than four weeks to go before the election, will voters respond?

Pilots and cabin crew at Ryanair in Germany staged a full-day walkout on Wednesday and threatened further strikes to put pressure on management in labour talks with Europe’s biggest low-cost carrier.

Singer Rachid Taha, giant of 1980s French rock, whose group Carte de Séjour remade the Charles Trénet classic "Douce France", died aged 59 of a heart attack on Tuesday night, said his family.

The European Parliament on Wednesday approved a controversial EU copyright law that hands more power to news and record companies against internet giants like Google and Facebook.

The EU parliament voted Wednesday to sanction Hungary for posing a "systemic threat" to EU values and the rule of law, initiating punitive action under the EU's rarely invoked Article 7, which could suspend Hungary's voting rights.

Coastal residents fleeing a potentially devastating Hurricane Florence encountered empty gasoline pumps and depleted store shelves as the monster storm neared the Carolina coast with 225 kph winds and drenching rain that could last for days.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday the two men Britain suspects of poisoning former spy Sergei Skripal with military-grade nerve agent are not criminals and have been identified as civilians.

Emmanuel Macron’s former security aide Alexandre Benalla said late Tuesday he would appear before a Senate’s inquiry into the affair that bears his name in a bid to avoid “legal proceedings”.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told the European Parliament on Tuesday he would not bow to EU "blackmail" as lawmakers prepared to vote on whether to punish Budapest for eroding democracy.

With a powerful hurricane nearing the Southeast coast, Donald Trump on Tuesday turned attention back to the government's response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico a year ago, deeming it "incredibly successful" despite a death toll of nearly 3,000.

Rockets were fired late on Tuesday in the direction of the airport in Libya's capital, residents said, forcing flights to be diverted, less than a week after the United Nations brokered a fragile truce between rival armed groups in Tripoli.