Новости за 07.11.2020

Joe Biden, the US president-elect, has cast himself as a moderate with the experience and empathy required to offset Donald Trump’s disruptive presidency. Having battled adversity throughout a career scarred by personal tragedy, he says he feels the pain of a nation unnerved by economic crisis, civil unrest and a deadly pandemic.

Authorities in Ivory Coast have arrested opposition leader Pascal Affi N’Guessan as part of a growing crackdown on those who challenged the president's re-election to a third term, opposition party officials said Saturday.

Ethiopian lawmakers voted Saturday to replace the current government of the federal state of Tigray, after the army launched air strikes to destroy military assets in the region in a worsening internal conflict. Fears are mounting over the prospect of civil war after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed this week sent federal troops and aircraft into the region with which Addis Ababa has been embroiled in a bitter feud. While communication remained blacked out in Tigray, reports of dead and wounded soldiers mounted in neighbouring Amhara region... Читать дальше...

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer lashed out at the Premier League's scheduling after Manchester United fought back to beat Everton 3-1 on Saturday, saying his struggling team were "set up to fail". Man-of-the-match Bruno Fernandes scored twice after Bernard had given Everton the lead, before Edinson Cavani opened his account for United, easing the pressure on the beleaguered United boss. United started the match at Goodison Park a lowly 15th in the Premier League table, smarting after defeat to Arsenal and an embarrassing loss to Istanbul Basaksehir. Читать дальше...

President Donald Trump has made repeated and unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud ever since the US began counting votes on Tuesday. But a mission from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), which monitors major elections in all of its member countries including the United States, said they saw no evidence of fraud. Who are these international monitors and what do they do?

Lionel Messi started on the bench for Barcelona's La Liga game against Real Betis on Saturday, the first time the Argentinian has been rested by new coach Ronald Koeman. Koeman's assistant Alfred Schreuder said before the match: "We're not talking about an injury, he's just not fresh. "He has played a lot of games. Koeman has said if you're not 100 percent fresh, it's better you start on the bench." Messi has made a slow start to the season by his own high standards. He is yet to score a goal from open play this term... Читать дальше...

Anthony Watson has been ruled out of England's Autumn Nations Cup opener against Georgia next weekend because of an ankle injury. Watson started the 34-5 victory over Italy that clinched the Six Nations title a week ago but the Lions back has been left out of a 36-man training squad to undergo treatment with his club Bath. Jack Singleton has also returned to Gloucester for treatment on a hamstring injury, while George Ford and Mark Wilson will continue their rehabilitation programmes at England's Teddington training base. Читать дальше...

KTM rider Pol Espargaro will start from pole for Sunday's European MotoGP after setting the fastest time in Saturday qualifying at Valencia. His fellow Spaniard Alex Rins (Suzuki) and Japan's Takaaki Nakagami (Honda-LCR) join him on the front row. Championship leader Joan Mir, who like Espargaro has never won in the premier division, will start from the second row. Mir leads Fabio Quartararo by 14 points but only 32 points separate the top six after a roller-coaster season truncated by the coronavirus... Читать дальше...

Third seed Daniil Medvedev battled past Milos Raonic on Saturday to reach his first final of the season at the Paris Masters, where he will face either Rafael Nadal or Alexander Zverev. The Russian edged out the big-serving Raonic 6-4, 7-6 (7/4) for his third victory from as many meetings with the Canadian. The 24-year-old Medvedev, who won both the Cincinnati and Shanghai Masters last year, is looking for his eighth career title. All seven of his previous tournament successes have also come on hard courts. Читать дальше...

Several hundred protesters gathered in the Iraqi capital on Saturday afternoon to demand US troops leave the country in accordance with a parliament vote earlier this year. "We will choose resistance if parliament's vote is not ratified!" read one of the banners at the demonstration, which took place near an entrance to the high-security Green Zone, where the US embassy and other foreign missions are located. Others carried signs bearing the logo of Hashed al-Shaabi, a state-sponsored network... Читать дальше...

Luca Marini will join his illustrious half-brother Valentino Rossi on the MotoGP grid next season. Marini and fellow Moto2 rider Enea Bastianini have been signed by Ducati's satellite Esponsorama team for the 2021 season, replacing Johann Zarco and Tito Rabat. Both Marini, a maternal half-brother to seven time champion Rossi, and Bastianini, will be hoping to move up to the top division as Moto2 champion. Marini currently races for Rossi's Sky Racing VR46 team and he will continue to wear those colours after a Sky deal with Ducati. Читать дальше...

Ethiopia moved Saturday to replace the leadership in the country’s northern Tigray region, where clashes between regional forces and those of the federal government have led to fears that a major African power could slide into civil war. Neither side appeared to welcome the dialogue that experts say is needed to avert disaster.

Nine days after a terrorist wielding a knife killed three people at the Notre-Dame Basilica in Nice, French Prime Minister Jean Castex presided over a national tribute to the victims of the attack.

Thousands of people took to social media in October to share an amateur video that they believed showed Iranian tourists standing at the summit of a mountain watching exchanges of rocket fire between Azerbaijan and Armenia, who are locked in conflict over the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh. But actually, the video shows a military exercise staged by the Russian army in November 2019.

An international gymnastics competition in Tokyo must succeed with thorough measures against coronavirus infections as "a model" for the delayed Olympic Games, star athlete Kohei Uchimura said Saturday. Sunday's competition will feature teams from Japan, the United States, Russia and China, and is the first major international sporting event in the Japanese capital since Tokyo 2020 was postponed in March. "For the sake of the Olympics, I think this competition must be successful no matter what," Uchimura told reporters. Читать дальше...

Crystal Fleming, professor of sociology and African studies at Stony Brook University

Maya Contreras, political strategist

Brazil's carbon emissions surged last year because of rising deforestation in the Amazon, jeopardizing the country's commitments under the Paris climate accord, an environmental group warned Friday. The South American country spewed a total of 2.17 billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere in 2019, an increase of 9.6 percent from 2018, said the Brazilian Climate Observatory, a coalition of environmental organizations. That coincided with the first year in office for President Jair Bolsonaro, a... Читать дальше...