Новости за 16.01.2020

As the US Senate formally opened the impeachment trial on whether to remove Donald Trump from office, a nonpartisan congressional watchdog on Thursday dealt the Republican president a blow by concluding that the White House violated the law by withholding security aid approved for Ukraine by US lawmakers.

The US Senate on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to approve a new North American trade pact, handing President Donald Trump a second trade win in as many days just as his impeachment trial was set to begin.

French director Christophe Ruggia was charged on Thursday and placed under judicial supervision after 48 hours in police custody, the Paris public prosecutor's office said, over accusations of sexual assault on French actress Adèle Haenel when she was a minor.

Angela Merkel with two black eyes and a nasty gash on her nose, Brigitte Macron with a sliced lip, Hillary Clinton with a puffed eye bruised shut: the scarred faces of international female figures are displayed on the streets of Milan in a poster campaign against gender violence by Italian artist AleXsandro Palombo.

Thousands of striking workers poured into streets across France on Thursday for a sixth day of mass demonstrations, as French trade unions also blocked ports and disrupted power production, searching for a way to force President Emmanuel Macron to ditch a planned pension overhaul as the impact of transport strikes weakens.

French workers' and employers' unions have until April to find a way to balance out the country's pension schemes. If they fail, the government will reintroduce the controversial "pivot age" in its reform plan, which would force all French citizens to work until the age of 64 to be eligible for a full pension.

President Vladimir Putin nominated a new prime minister on Wednesday 15 January after the shock resignation of Dmitry Medvedev, who has been at the head of the government since 2012. Medvedev will be succeeded by Mikhail Mishustin, who until now was a barely known tax chief with no political clout.

Turkey is beginning to send troops into Libya in support of the internationally recognised government in Tripoli, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday, days before a summit in Berlin which will address the Libyan conflict.

France’s longest continuous transport strike has shaved up to 0.1 percentage points off fourth-quarter growth in 2019, the central bank said Wednesday as the showdown over pension reforms entered its 42nd day.

Dozens of fighters and civilians were killed in Syria's Idlib province as the government pressed a deadly offensive Thursday towards a key town in the country's last rebel bastion.