SPAIN: Authorities in the Balearic Islands, home to the party resorts of Ibiza and Magaluf, on Wednesday asked Spain and the European Union to ban alcohol on flights and in airports as they battle "anti-social tourism".
Студенты переводят на русский язык международные новости, обращая внимание на прецизионную информацию, имена собственные, передачу реалий и используя прием речевой компрессии.
CHINA: China's Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo died on Thursday after a battle with cancer, remaining in custody until the end as officials rebuffed international pleas to let the prominent dissident receive treatment abroad. The veteran of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests died aged 61, more than a month after he was transferred from prison to a heavily-guarded hospital to be treated for late-stage liver cancer. Liu's death puts China in dubious company as he became the first Nobel Peace Prize laureate to die in custody since German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, who passed away in a hospital while held by the Nazis in 1938. International tributes poured in as Germany, which had offered to treat him, called him a "hero" of democracy. Human rights groups accused President Xi Jinping's government of "cruelty".
FRANCE: French President Emmanuel Macron rolled out the red carpet to welcome Donald Trump to Paris on Thursday for an overseas trip the White House hopes will offer respite from a growing scandal back home. The US president is to be Macron's guest of honour during celebrations for Bastille Day on Friday, France's national day, which will also celebrate the 100thanniversary of US involvement in World War I.
SAUDI ARABIA: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held talks on Wednesday with four Arab states boycotting Qatar as part of a round of intense shuttle diplomacy aimed at resolving the regional crisis. Tillerson flew into Saudi Arabia where he met King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whose country leads a four-state alliance that has cut ties with Qatar over accusations it supports extremism.
RUSSIA: A Russian billionaire on Wednesday blasted claims in emails released by Donald Trump Jr that he was a potential middleman for alleged incriminating Kremlin material on Hillary Clinton, as Moscow again denied any role in the scandal. The emails have thrust US leader Donald Trump's eldest son into the
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centre of a growing firestorm over whether the president's allies colluded with Moscow in its alleged efforts to tilt last year's election in the Republican's favour.
USA: Billionaire philanthropist Michael Bloomberg and the governor of California announced on Wednesday a plan to quantify efforts by US states, cities and businesses to drive down greenhouse gas emissions. Bloomberg, the world's tenth richest person, leads more than 1,000companies, organisations, state and local authorities who pledged to honour the Paris climate accord, after Donald Trump announced a US exit from the190-plus nation pact.
BERLIN: Germany's longest serving post-war leader Helmut Kohl, the father of national reunification and an architect of European integration, died Friday at the age of 87. Kohl helped a Germany that was split during the Cold War between a capitalist west and a communist east make the traumatic transition to a unified democracy.
THE HAGUE: The International Criminal Court chief's prosecutor Wednesday called for the "immediate arrest and surrender" of Muammar Gaddafi's son Seif al-Islam, who was reportedly set free by a militia in Libya. An arrest warrant issued by the Hague-based ICC against Seif in 2011"remains valid and Libya is obliged to immediately arrest and surrender Mr Gaddafi... regardless of any purported Amnesty law in Libya".
Студенты переводят предложения на русский язык. В качестве предварительного домашнего задания им может быть предложено составление тематических глоссариев (астрономия, агрохимия, ядерная физика и т. д.).
BEIJING: China successfully launched on Thursday its first X-ray space telescope to study black holes, pulsars and gamma-ray bursts, state media reported. A Long March-4B rocket carried the 2.5-ton telescope into orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi Desert at 11:00 am (3:00 GMT), according to the official Xinhua news agency. The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), named Insight, will allow Chinese scientists to observe magnetic fields and the interiors of pulsars and better understand the evolution of black holes. It will also help scientists search for gamma-ray bursts corresponding to gravitational waves and study how to pulsars can be used for spacecraft navigation,Xinhua said.
STRASBOURG: More than one million people have signed a petition demanding the EU ban the Monsanto weedkiller glyphosate over fears it causes cancer,
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campaigners said Thursday. The petition comes as the European Union is deciding whether to renew the licence of the controversial herbicide produced by the US agro-chemicals giant. Glyphosate is used in the best-selling herbicide Roundup. "In less than five months, more than one million EU citizens have joined our call for a glyphosate ban," said David Schwartz, coordinator at the European Citizens Initiative, which is behind the petition. "European citizens aren't fooled by the pesticide industry's lobbying efforts or the faulty science it's peddling," he added.
WASHINGTON: Chinese scientists have pulled off a major feat with one of the sub-atomic world's weirdest phenomena: photons that behave like twins and experience the same things simultaneously, even over great distances. The spacebased technique developed by the researchers and reported in the journal Science holds potential for revolutionizing telecommunications and perhaps someday developing a hack-proof internet. The principle is called quantum entanglement, in which photons or neutrons are created in such a way that they are linked and behave as if they were one entity, even if they are physically separated.
PARIS: An odd-looking electric boat taxi whose inventor believes it could be an eco-friendly transport solution for cities worldwide was put to the test in Paris for the first time Friday. The brainchild of French yachtsman Alain Thebault, the aerodynamic Sea Bubble made no noise and no waves as it took a star turn on the River Seine with Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo aboard.
BRUSSELS: The EU unveiled a blueprint to safely regulate drone traffic in Europe by 2019 in order to tap the growing commercial potential for unmanned aircraft technology. The blueprint from the European Commission, the EU executive, covers allowing drones to operate in high density under the supervision of fleet operators. "Drones mean innovation, new services for citizens, new business models and a huge potential for economic growth," EU Transport Minister Violeta Bulc said. "We need the EU to be in the driving seat and have a safe drone services market up and running by2019," she said in a statement.
WASHINGTON: Drones could help save the lives of heart attack victims by delivering defibrillators faster than an ambulance can arrive at the scene, according to a report Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. By reducing the crucial intervention time after a heart attack, drone delivery of the easy-to- use kit could raise the chances of survival of cardiac arrest victims, said the report compiled by Swedish researchers. For the study, the Swedish Transportation Agency equipped a drone with a defibrillator weighing 1.7lbs and deployed it at a
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fire station just north of Stockholm. Eighteen test runs were carried out to locations within a6.2 mile radius, with a median distance of two miles. The average time for the drone to arrive at the scene was 5:21 minutes against 22:00 minutes for an emergency medical services vehicle. In every case, the drone arrived quicker than an ambulance, on average slashing 16.39 minutes off the response time.
WASHINGTON: NASA revealed Monday 10 new rocky, Earth-sized planets that could potentially have liquid water and support life. The Kepler mission team released a survey of 219 potential exoplanets -planets outside of our solar system – that had been detected by the space observatory launched in 2009 to scan the Milky Way galaxy. Ten of the new discoveries were orbiting their suns at a distance similar to Earth's orbit around the sun, the so-called habitable zone that could potentially have liquid water and sustain life. Kepler has already discovered 4,034 potential exoplanets, 2,335 of which have been confirmed by other telescopes as actual planets. The 10 new Earth-size planets bring the total to 50 that exist inhabitable zones around the galaxy. "This carefully-measured catalogue is the foundation for directly answering one of astronomy's most compelling questions – how many planets like our Earth are in the galaxy?" said Susan Thompson, a Kepler research scientist and lead author of the latest study.
Студенты переводят слова и выражения на русский язык. В качестве второй части задания можно предложить студентам сделать перевод дефиниций или дать свое собственное определение данным лексическим единицам. Это предложение может служить примером составления тематического списка. Особое внимание следует обратить на правильное произношение экзотических для английского языка имен собственных.
1.Militant (someone or something that supports a particular political or social cause in an aggressive, violent or extreme way).
2.ISIS (shortened form IS) (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria; belief in Sharia Law; believes their sect of Islam is the only acceptable religion; was formed during April 2013 and has evolved in one of the main jihadist groups fighting government forces in Syria and Iraq).
3.Tora Bora (a mountain cave complex in Afghanistan, known to be a
stronghold location of the Taliban).
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4. Al-Qaeda (a radical Sunni Muslim organization dedicated to the elimination of a Western presence in Arab countries and militantly opposed to Western foreign policy).
5. Osama bin Laden (the founder of Al Qaeda).
6.Taliban (an Islamic militant group operating in Afghanistan and western Pakistan. In the late 1990s it made a government in Afghanistan).
7.The Koran (the Islamic sacred book, believed to be the word of God as dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel and written down in Arabic).
8.Islamic caliphate (is a form of Islamic political-religious leadership which centers around a caliph–i.e. "successor"–to Muhammad).
9.Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS).
10.Bioterrorism (terrorism or terrorist acts that involve the release of toxic substances in order to cause, fear, injury or death in order to meet a political or social goal).
11.Daesh (an Arabic acronym for IS).
12.Jihadist (or jihadi) (a person involved in a jihad; an Islamic militant)
13.Suicide bomber (an individual who personally delivers explosives and detonates them to inflict the greatest possible damage, killing himself or herself in the process).
14.Surveillance (the careful watching of someone, especially by an organization such as the police or the army).
15.Ransom (the money that has to be paid to someone so that they will set free a person they have kidnapped).
16.Jihad (a holy war which Islam allows Muslims to fight against those who reject its teachings, waged on behalf of Islam as a religious duty).
17.Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (known to his supporters as Amir al-Mu'minin, Caliph Ibrahim is emir, proclaimed as caliph, of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant).
18.Raqqa (is a city in Syria claimed by the Islamic State).
19.Ramadan (the ninth month of the Muslim year, during which strict fasting is observed from sunrise to sunset).
20.Radical extremists (one who advocates or resorts to measures beyond the norm, especially in politics).
21.Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) (is a homemade bomb constructed
and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action).
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