In New York, several dozen people staged pickets in restaurants to protest police brutality and racial discrimination. They went to popular restaurants in Manhattan and read out the names of African Americans who have died in recent months at the hands of law enforcement officers, reports ...

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on the air of the American television channel CBS that the decision to withdraw all US troops and coalition forces from Afghanistan in two years could be revised. US President Barack Obama has promised to complete the withdrawal of American troops from Afghan territory ...

The latest of Peter Jackson's three Hobbit films topped the box office for the third consecutive week in the US and Canada. Over the past week, tickets were sold for $ 21,9 million. The second highest grossing film is the Disney version ...

In a new Islamic State propaganda video, a British hostage describes life in the Islamic city of Mosul as “ordinary”. John Cantley, held by IS fighters, says in an eight-minute video posted on jihadist websites that "everything is as usual in Mosul." Cantley says that residents of the second largest ...

A US health worker with possible exposure to the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone will be monitored at a hospital in Nebraska. According to the director of the bio-isolation department at the University of Nebraska, the patient is "not sick or contagious." The patient will be under observation for 21 days. IN…

North Korea is outraged by the US imposition of new sanctions in connection with the accusations of hacking Sony Pictures computers. DPRK state television quoted a spokesman for the North Korean Foreign Ministry as calling the sanctions "hostile and repressive." The statement also noted that the sanctions "will only strengthen Pyongyang's desire to protect ...

The US Court of Appeal refused the latest request from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers to postpone the hearings in his case to a later date. Tsarnaev is accused of organizing the Boston terrorist attacks of 2013, which killed three people and left more than 260 wounded. ...

The American prosecutor's office will not bring charges for the death of former White House press secretary James Brady John Hinckley Jr., who attempted the assassination of US President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981. Brady received a severe gunshot wound to the head when Hinckley opened fire with a pistol on ...

It is difficult to prepare for the unknown: who could have foreseen the annexation of Crimea a year ago, a sharp drop in oil prices and the bloody crimes of the "Islamic State"? As the former head of the Pentagon Donald Rumsfeld once said: “... There are unknown unknowns - these are things that we do not ...

Today, if you want, you can buy anything, including the American Dream. With 500 thousand dollars in his pocket, a foreigner can open a business in America, hire ten workers and get a “green card” within six months. Immigrant Investor Program