6.Chile's President Michelle Bachelet apologized on behalf of the nation Friday to the Mapuche indigenous tribe for the "horrors" of post-colonial abuse they suffered. Considered the earliest inhabitants of parts of Chile, the Mapuche fought against the Spanish conquerors and later the Chilean army after the country's independence in the 19th century.
7.Artifacts connected to some of the most notorious US gangsters sold for more than $100,000at auction Saturday. A diamond pocket watch that belonged to Al Capone and was produced in Chicago in the 1920s,along with a handwritten musical composition he wrote in Alcatraz in the 1930s, were among the items that sold at the "Gangsters, Outlaws and Lawmen" auction. The watch fetched the most – $84,375 – according to Boston-based RR Auction.
8.One of the top surviving leaders of Cambodia's ruthless Khmer Rouge regime on Friday denied genocide charges and rejected being labelled a "murderer" in forceful closing remarks at a lengthy U.N.-backed trial. The Khmer Rouge's former head of state, 85-year-old Khieu Samphan, spoke angrily to the Phnom Penh chamber trying him and another senior cadre, 90-year-old Nuon Chea, over the regime's killings of Vietnamese and Muslim minorities as well as for other crimes against humanity.
Студенты переводят информацию на русский язык, обращая особое внимание на передачу реалий и имен собственных в соответствии с принятыми нормами межъязыковой передачи.
JERUSALEM: An Israeli human rights group disliked by the government welcomed Thursday the donation of prize money from the Man Booker International Prize won by David Grossman. The Israeli writer won the prize on Wednesday evening for his novel "A Horse Walks Into a Bar," along with his US translator Jessica Cohen, with the two splitting the £50,000 ($64,000,57,000 euros) award. Cohen announced at the awards she would donate "half of the award money" to the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, which campaigns against Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories. "For almost thirty years now they have been reporting on human rights violations committed in the occupied Palestinian territories," she said. "It is not easy to tell uncomfortable and unflattering truths, and it's certainly not easy to hear them, but it is essential, not only in literature but in life."B'Tselem spokesman Amit Gilutz welcomed the donation. "We are thankful to her and we
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are determined to continue on our mission, which is to resist the occupation until it ends," he said.
NEW YORK: Nearly half a century after John Lennon released "Imagine," his widow and artistic collaborator Yoko Ono will be listed as a co-writer. The announcement was made as the iconic 1971 ode to world peace was declared "song of the century" at a gala Wednesday in New York of the National Music Publishers Association. As Ono and their son Sean Lennon came up to receive a trophy, the association announced unexpectedly that Ono would join John Lennon on the songwriting credits. The gala was played a BBC interview with John Lennon in 1980, shortly before he was assassinated, in which he said that "Imagine" was inspired in part by lines in Ono's conceptual art book "Grapefruit."
NEW YORK: Former US president Barack Obama hailed Jay Z as a kindred spirit as the hip-hop mogul became the first rapper to enter the Songwriters Hall of Fame on Thursday. Obama made a surprise appearance by video to present the honor to Jay Z, who grew up as Sean Carter in a troubled housing project in Brooklyn and has gone on to become one of music's wealthiest entrepreneurs.
LOS ANGELES: A giant Bat-signal it up the side of City Hall in Los Angeles Thursday night to honor Batman actor Adam West, who played the superhero role in the 1960stelevision series. He died on Friday at age 88 following a battle with leukemia. The caped crusader helped protect the fictional Gotham City in a franchise that began as a DC Comics strip before also moving to television and film. When Gotham's authorities needed Batman's help, they projected a light beam with his logo into the sky. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and police chief Charlie Beck led Thursday's tribute. Hundreds of fans thronged the ceremony, many dressed up in costumes from the television series and films.
NEW YORK: When the universe was born, what did it sound like? The question underlies an inventive and challenging new exhibition in New York that explores the fundamentals of sound and how they relate to the quest to understand the self and the cosmos. The Rubin Museum of Art, the13-year-old institution devoted to India and the Himalayas, shakes off the visual bias of most exhibitions. Instead, visitors to "The World Is Sound," which opened Friday and runs until January 8, enter with their ears. While the exhibition show cases visual artifacts, such as an18th-century trumpet made of human leg-bone played in Tibetan funerals, the focus is on sound, which can be felt powerfully by putting on headphones, touching wall panels or even walking the spiraling six-floor staircase.
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NEW YORK: New York on Tuesday renamed a Manhattan street corner after Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor, Nobel peace laureate and humanitarian who died last year. The southwest corner of 84th Street and Central Park West on the Upper West Side was permanently renamed "Elie Wiesel Way" at a ceremony attended by city officials under the baking heat of an early summer heatwave. Wiesel, who was considered "the world's leading spokesman on the Holocaust," is remembered for his life's work in keeping alive the memory of the genocide of six million Jews during World War II. "His indelible faith in humanity is an everlasting example of courage and tolerance. His words serve as a beacon of hope against fear and oppression in uncertain times," said New York Mayor Bill de Blasio.
NEW YORK: Ken, the all-American, muscular male with luxuriant hair, is getting a makeover. Barbie's iconic boyfriend is breaking out 15 new looks, including man bun, cornrow sand freckles. Times are changing and doll manufacturer Mattel is playing catch-up as it also battles to boost declining sales. Ken's makeover was unveiled 18months after Barbie, the stereotypical blue-eyed blonde bombshell, was given three new body types-tall, petite and curvy. Mattel's Next Gen Ken will come in three body types-"broad", "slim" and "original," seven skin tones, eight hair colors and nine hairstyles, 56years after the first Ken doll hit themarket.
LONDON: Harry Potter turns 20 Monday when muggle readers in gowns and glasses from Indonesia to Uruguay will celebrate the birth of a global publishing phenomenon in 1997. "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (later renamed "Sorcerer's Stone" for the US market) introduced the boy wizard and a magical cast of supporting characters. Penniless single mother J. K. Rowling finally succeeded after a series of rebuffs from publishers, and the book became the first instalment of a seven-novel series that has sold 450 million copies worldwide and spawned eight blockbuster films. The Potter universe now encompasses theme parks in the United States and Japan and a permanent exhibition at London's Warner Bros Studios Far beyond Britain and English-language markets, the saga wove itself into the world's literary DNA.
Студенты переводят информацию на русский язык, обращая внимание на точность прецизионной информации. Упражнение рекомендуется для выполнения студентами, которые прослушали базовый курс делового английского языка.
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NEW YORK: Technology shares suffered another bout of weakness Thursday, leading the broader market lower amid unease over rising US interest rates and uncertainty about President Donald Trump's agenda. Analysts said lackluster data on US homebuilder sentiment and industrial production dented confidence in light of the Federal Reserve's decision Wednesday to raise the benchmark lending rate for the third time in six months, and signal an additional hike later this year. Trump's travails also weighed on the market following reports the US president is being investigated personally for obstruction of justice. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.1 percent to close the day 21,359.90. The broad-based S&P 500 dipped
0.2percent to end at 2,432.46, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index fell 0.5 percent to 6,165.50. In London, the FTSE 100 closed down 0.7 percent at 7,419.36 points. In Paris, the CAC 40 was down 0.5 percent at 5,216.88. In Frankfurt, the DAX 30 was down 0.9 percent at 12,691.81. Japan's Nikkei 225 stock index fell
0.3per cent 19,831.82 and South Korea's Kospisank 0.5 per cent to 2,361.65. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong dropped 1.2 per cent to 25,565.34, but Shanghai's Composite index rose 0.1 per cent lower to 3,132.49.
MOSCOW: Russia's central bank on Friday decreased its key interest rate to 9 percent from 9.25 per cent in line with its policy to gently invigorate the country's economy. "The Bank of Russia Board of Directors decided to cut the key rate to 9.00 percent per annum," the bank said in a statement. The cut follows a half-point decrease in late April. The board "notes that inflation is close to the target, inflation expectations keep declining, and economic activity is recovering," the bank said, adding that it will continue "moderately tough" monetary policy to keep inflation in line.
SINGAPORE: Two budget carriers under the Singapore Airlines (SIA) umbrella will merge into a single brand from next month, it was announced on Thursday, as the company consolidates to fend off growing competition. From July 25, Scoot and Tigerair will operate under the Scoot brand and will use a single website, check-in counter and flight designator code, their holding company Budget Aviation Holdings (BAH) said in statement. Scoot, a medium-to-long-haul carrier, and Tigerair, which operates short-to-medium haul routes, were brought under the BAH umbrella in May 2016 but continued to operate separately. The two airlines currently offer a combined network of 60 destinations in 17 countries, with a fleet
of 35planes as of March.
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LUXEMBOURG: Eurozone ministers said they were optimistic about reaching a bailout deal with Greece to unlock sorely needed rescue cash Thursday but warned Athens would have to wait for a deal on future debt relief. IMF chief Christine Lagarde and the eurozone's 19 finance ministers meet in Luxembourg with hopes riding high that the talks will secure the release of the latest tranche of Greece's 86-billion euro ($97 billion) bailout agreed in 2015. Athens is set to get a payout of 8.5 billion euros to meet debt payments due in July and avoid another summer of Greek crisis.
LE BOURGET: Boeing announced Monday what it claims will be the most efficient jet yet in the highly competitive civil aviation market as it tries to claw back market share from rival Airbus. "Today, it is our pleasure to officially announce the newest member of our 737 family, the 737 MAX 10" , Kevin McAllister, head of the company's commercial aviation division, told journalists as the Paris Air Show got under way. It quickly announced more than 100 orders worth some $13.5 billion (12.1 billion euros), although some were customers changing their selection of models from previous orders. The MAX 10 will be the largest of the updated 737 series, which competes head on with Airbus's A320 neo family. With the latest advances in engines and aerodynamics, they promise significant fuel savings to airlines, which have responded with hundreds of orders for single-aisle airlines that are the workhorses of their fleets. Airbus, which moved first to update its aircrafts used in most midrange flights, now has a 60 percent market share. The 737 MAX 10, which can carry up to 230 passengers, is the largest in the class, and Boeing said it would be five percent cheaper to operate than the Airbus A321 neo.
TAIPEI: Apple opened its first store in Taiwan on Saturday with more than a thousand shoppers flocking to the site located in the island's landmark skyscraper and tallest building, Taipei 101. The launch comes just weeks after the US tech giant unveiled a Singapore branch – its first in Southeast Asia – which it expects to be among the most popular Apple stores in the world. "This is an incredibly important region for Apple," the company said in a statement. Excited fans in Taiwan thronged upon the new store with its iconic glass facade and more than 100 iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple Watches and iPods laid out for customers to try.
Студенты переводят информацию на русский язык, уделяя особое внимание политкорректности подачи информации.
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