Новости за 28.01.2016

A huit mois de grossesse, Yolanda Tobar, 19 ans, attend son tour au milieu d'une centaine de ventres arrondis dans un hôpital guatémaltèque : cette visite médicale de routine a pris un tour angoissant devant l'avancée du virus Zika en Amérique latine.

Le tabagisme chez les jeunes Australiens est à son plus bas grâce à une politique agressive de dissuasion menée par les autorités sanitaires, selon une étude publiée jeudi.

Manuel Valls a estimé jeudi que "la reprise va s'accélérer en 2016", ajoutant néanmoins que c'était "insuffisant", comme le "soulignent encore" les chiffres du chômage publiés mercredi et qui montrent un nouveau record en décembre.

En demi-finale de l'Open d'Australie, le numéro un mondial Novak Djokovic a très nettement dominé le Suisse Roger Federer en quatre sets (6-1, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3). Le Serbe retrouvera le Britannique Andy Murray ou le Canadien Milos Raonic en finale.

The death toll in a migrant boat sinking Thursday off the Greek island of Samos has risen to 24 people, including 10 children, the coastguard said.

Egypt was to receive three Rafale fighters from France on Thursday, a French embassy official said, six months after Paris delivered the first three of a consignment of 24 of the warplanes.

Russia is to spend 750 billion rubles (9 billion euros, $9.8 billion) to tackle the country's financial crisis, economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev said Thursday.

Le syndicat des arbitres a dévoilé jeudi ses "dix propositions au service du football professionnel" entre professionnalisation de la fonction, deux arbitres supplémentaires en Ligue 1, usage de la vidéo, instauration du carton blanc et diffusion des propos des arbitres pendant les matches.

La Fondation Abbé-Pierre, qui a publié jeudi son rapport annuel sur le logement, appelle les dirigeants à plus de "volontarisme politique". Plus de 15 millions de personnes en France sont touchées par la crise du logement, selon l'association.

African leaders face an unprecedented vote on deploying a 5,000-strong peacekeeping force to troubled Burundi despite the country's vehement opposition when they meet for their annual summit this week. VIDEOGRAPHIC

The death toll in a migrant boat sinking Thursday off the Greek island of Samos has risen to 18 people, with 17 others still missing, the coastguard said.

An 11th German victim has died of her injuries from a suicide bombing this month in the heart of Istanbul blamed on the Islamic State group, authorities in Berlin told AFP Thursday.

German heavy industry giant ThyssenKrupp is worried its full-year targets could be jeopardised if economic conditions, especially in the steel sector, don't improve, its chief warned in a newspaper interview Thursday.

Spain's unemployment rate registered a record fall last year, dropping nearly three percentage points to 20.90 percent, according to statistics published Thursday that confirm the country's economic recovery.

Britain's economy grew by 2.2 percent in 2015, slowing down after 2.9-percent expansion in the previous year, official data showed Thursday.

L'ex-président ivoirien Laurent Gbagbo a plaidé non coupable de crimes contre l'humanité à l'ouverture de son procès, jeudi, devant la Cour pénale internationale (CPI), de même que son coaccusé Charles Blé Goudé, ancien chef de milice.

Former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo pleaded "not guilty" to four charges of crimes against humanity at the start of his long-awaited trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on Thursday.

2016-01-28 10:35 GRAB PARSONS GBAGBO TRIAL

Shale is a sedimentary rock found in huge deposits across the world. Exploitable reserves are currently estimated at 206,000 billion cubic metres, roughly the equivalent of conventional gas reserves. Gas can be extracted from shale rock in a process known as fracking. VIDEOGRAPHIC

Seven members of Hamas' military wing were killed when a tunnel collapsed this week in the Gaza Strip, the Islamist movement said on Thursday.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called Thursday for a new relationship with France as he met business leaders on a trip to Paris to revive economic ties after sanctions on his country were lifted.

Italy is demanding Google pay over 200 million euros ($218 million) in back taxes following an inquiry into its tax arrangements by the financial police, a judicial source said Thursday.

Israel arrested a Palestinian parliamentarian from the Islamist group Hamas, the army said Thursday, raising the number of detained Palestinian lawmakers to seven.

A security exercise gone wrong saw tempers flare in a Paris airport after fake explosive devices were discovered by FedEx workers in a ripped package, sources said Thursday.

Réunie à Riyad depuis mardi, l'opposition syrienne a de nouveau reporté à jeudi sa réponse quant à sa participation aux négociations de paix pour la Syrie. Initialement prévues le 25 janvier, elles doivent commencer à Genève vendredi.