Новости за 02.10.2018

Iraq’s parliament elected veteran Kurdish politician Barham Salih president on Tuesday after months of political deadlock, with 219 of its 329 lawmakers voting for him.

Interior Minister Gerard Collomb issued a direct challenge to French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, telling a newspaper he wanted to step down despite the president having rejected his resignation less than 24 hours earlier.

After heroically delivering a message in World War I, French pigeon Le Vaillant died of gas poisoning. A century later, it looks as though he and the thousands of other animals killed in the conflict will now be remembered with a monument in Paris.

Britain’s Boris Johnson on Tuesday launched a blistering attack on Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan at a fractious party conference that came as Brussels pressed London for a compromise on leaving the EU.

France said on Tuesday there was no doubt Iran’s intelligence ministry was behind a June plot to attack an exiled opposition group’s rally outside Paris and it seized assets belonging to Tehran’s intelligence services and two Iranian nationals.

Scientists Arthur Ashkin of the US, Gérard Mourou of France and Donna Strickland of Canada have won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics for breakthroughs in the field of lasers, the award-giving body said on Tuesday.

Some 200 police officers raided the headquarters in northern France of a Shiite Islamic association and the homes of its leaders who are suspected of supporting "terrorist organisations", security sources said.

The centre-right Coalition Avenir Quebec is on track to win power for the first time in Canada's Quebec province, turning the page on nearly 15 years of liberal rule and allowing the party to make good on its promises to curb immigration.

Britain will not offer European Union citizens preferential immigration status after Brexit, the government said Tuesday, announcing a system designed to give migrants with skills the U.K. needs priority over low-skilled migrants.

Britain will end preferential access for European Union workers after Brexit, Prime Minister Theresa May announced on Tuesday, saying she wanted to attract high-skilled immigrants wherever they were from.

The bodies of dozens of students have been pulled from their landslide-swamped church on the island of Sulawesi, officials said Tuesday, as the death toll from last week's devastating quake and tsunami jumped to 1,234 people.

The bodies of dozens of students have been pulled from their landslide-swamped church in Sulawesi, officials said Tuesday, as the death toll from last week's devastating quake and tsunami on the island of Sulawesi jumped to 1,234 people.

A year after a banned referendum on secession from Spain, tens of thousands of Catalan protesters piled pressure on the region's separatist government Monday during an anniversary marked by road and rail blockades and late-night clashes with police.