Новости за 03.05.2016

The main militant group fighting for Corsica's separation from France said Tuesday it would end "military operations" in October, after staging attacks since the 1970s in its quest for independence.

A refugee who set herself on fire on the Pacific island of Nauru after being sent there by Australia was in a critical condition Tuesday, just days after an Iranian man died in a similar act of self-harm.

Electronics giant Philips announced Tuesday it was floating its lighting arm on the stock market in a "historic" initial public offering, aiming to spin off at least a quarter of the division's shares.

Cinq ans après son arrestation, le médecin pakistanais Shakil Afridi, qui aida la CIA à localiser Oussama Ben Laden, est toujours en prison. Selon ses proches, il est victime de manœuvres diplomatiques entre Washington et Islamabad.

Five sporting fairytales to rival Leicester City's against-the-odds Premier League triumph:

Thousands celebrated and millions around the world looked on in wonder as 5,000-1 underdogs Leicester City completed arguably the greatest fairytale in sporting history by becoming English Premier League champions.

German airline Lufthansa said Tuesday that one-off effects and price pressures pushed it into a loss in the first three months of the year, but it was nevertheless sticking to its full-year targets. 52739794

Commerzbank, Germany's second biggest lender, said on Tuesday that low interest rates and the difficult market environment weighed on profits in the first three months.

Negotiations for a vast US-EU trade pact, which aims to create a free-trade zone covering 850 million people, are likely to grind to a halt because of Washington's reluctance to make concessions, France's minister of state for trade warned Tuesday.

Rookie goalkeeper Matt Murray was the star as the Pittsburgh Penguins withstood a ferocious assault from the Washington Capitals to claim a 3-2 victory and take a 2-1 series lead on Monday.

Ordinary people feel that corruption has worsened in nine Arab countries and territories over the last year, especially crisis-hit Lebanon and war-torn Yemen, a study by graft watchdog Transparency International said Tuesday.

The chief organiser of the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea resigned Tuesday less than two years before the Games begin, citing urgent problems with his troubled shipping business.

L'émissaire de l'ONU Staffan de Mistura est attendu mardi à Moscou pour des discussions sur les moyens de rétablir le cessez-le-feu en Syrie. Celui-ci est gravement compromis après des jours de combats meurtriers.

French lawmakers on Tuesday begin examining the government’s hugely divisive plans to reform France’s labour market, which have triggered two months of street protests and led to clashes with riot police.

Cinq ans après son arrestation, l'ancienne star de la police lyonnaise Michel Neyret a comparu lundi devant le tribunal correctionnel de Paris pour corruption et trafic de stupéfiants. "Je me suis laissé déborder par la situation", a-t-il expliqué.

Chinese factory activity weakened further in April, a private survey indicated Tuesday, as muted demand and market weakness hit the struggling export-oriented sector.

"The children are afraid when there's a knock at the door. They fear they'll be taken away again," says Jaquline tearfully in broken Norwegian, recounting her battles with Norway's child welfare services which have been accused of unduly tearing families apart.

Efforts to salvage Syria's ceasefire were to shift to Moscow on Tuesday as the country's second city of Aleppo reeled from a week of fighting that killed hundreds of civilians.

Factfile on Real Madrid and Manchester City ahead of the Champions League semi-final, second leg between the clubs at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium on Wednesday:

Ecstatic fans rushed into the streets of Leicester as the outsiders won the Premier League in a triumph seen as the most astonishing in the history of English football.

The French government's hotly contested labour reform bill finally reaches parliament on Tuesday, having sparked two months of street protests that have often turned violent.

The dollar struggled at multi-month lows against the yen and euro on Tuesday following another weak batch of US data, while most stock markets rose in line with a strong lead from Wall Street.

Standing next to cages that once housed political prisoners, former Khmer Rouge foot soldier Tho Lon gets a surprisingly sympathetic hearing from a clutch of students, despite his work for a regime that wiped out a quarter of Cambodia's population.

From the chiseled, insouciant Robert Mitchum and the rugged, laconic Clint Eastwood to John Wayne, the most celebrated cowboy of all, Hollywood's Western icons are invariably strong, brooding -- and white.

China and Japan's economies are expected to slow sharply over the next two years but Asian growth will remain strong as domestic demand takes up the slack from weak global trade, the IMF said Tuesday.