Qəzanın hansı səbəbdən baş verdiyi hələlik məlum deyil.
"Boeing-737" təyyarəsi
ABŞ-ın Detroyt şəhərinin beynəlxaq hava limanında iki "Boeing-737" təyyarəsi uçuş zolağında toqquşub. ANS PRESS-in məlumatına görə, fövqəladə hadisə nəticəsində heç kim zərər görməyib. Bu barədə hava limanının nümayəndələri xəbər verib.
Hadisə anı
Hava limanının rəsmiləri uçuş zolağında toqquşan təyyarələrdən birinin "American Airlines" digərinin isə "Southwest Airlines" şirkətlərinə məxsus olduğunu bildirib.
Laynerlərdən birinin qanadı ikincinin isə quyruq hissəsi zədələnib. Təyyarələr daxili reysləri yerinə yetirirmiş.
Hadisə zamanı təyyarələrin göyərtəsində sərnişinlər olub. Qəza zamanı yanacaq sızması qeydə alınmayıb. Qəzanın səbəbi hələlik məlum deyil.
Detroyt beynəlxaq hava limanı
Analoji hadisə keçən il Rusiyanın Xabarovsk hava limanında baş verib. “Aeroflot” aviaşirkətinə məxsus Boeng 777 təyyarəsi eniş-uçuş zolağına daxil olarkən An- 26 təyyarəsi ilə toqquşub. İnsident zamanı heç kəs xəsarət almayıb.
Moskvaya uçuş həyata keçirməli olan təyyarənin göyərtəsində 400 sərnişinin olduğu bildirilir. Digər layner isə yük daşımaları üçün nəzərdə tutulub. Sərnişinlərin hadisədən 2 saat sonra digər təyyarə ilə Moskvaya göndərildiyi açıqlanıb.
President Barack Obama on Thursday announced a historic visit to Cuba next month, speeding up the thaw in relations between the two Cold War former foes but igniting opposition from Republicans at home.
In the first U.S. presidential trip to the Caribbean nation in nearly 90 years, Obama will meet with Cuban President Raul Castro, entrepreneurs, and "Cubans from different walks of life" during the trip on March 21 and 22, the White House said.
After decades of animosity following Cuba's 1959 revolution, the two countries agreed in 2014 to move to reopen ties.
It was diplomatic feat that is likely to be a highlight of Obama's foreign policy legacy along with the reaching of a nuclear deal with another long-time U.S. foe, Iran.
Although the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba remains in place, a presidential visit carries huge symbolic value and prestige.
"Next month, I'll travel to Cuba to advance our progress and efforts that can improve the lives of the Cuban people," Obama wrote on Twitter.
The Havana visit is likely to spark debate on Cuba policy in the campaign for the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election, particularly in the swing voting state of Florida, where many anti-Castro Cuban-Americans live.
"Pitiful that Obama rewards Castros with visit to Cuba while conditions for the Cuban people are getting worse," said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Cuban-American Republican congresswoman from south Florida.
Two candidates in the Republican race, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, are conservative sons of Cuban immigrants and have criticized Obama for renewing ties with Cuba.
Obama said that while the United States still has concerns about human rights in Cuba, it has already made significant progress in renewing relationships.
"We still have differences with the Cuban government that I will raise directly. America will always stand for human rights around the world," Obama said.
Obama had previously said he would visit the neighboring Communist-ruled nation if he were able to meet with political dissidents. The last sitting U.S. president to visit Cuba was Calvin Coolidge in 1928.
EMBARGO REMAINS
His administration has taken steps to expand commerce with the island nation, only 90 miles (145 km) from Florida.
Tourism has already surged. Airbnb, an online home-rental site, said U.S. rentals of homes in Cuba are booming. The countries have agreed to restore airline flights, and companies ranging from tractor manufacturers to telecommunications firms are assessing the market.
Obama still seeks to pressure U.S. lawmakers to remove the decades-old embargo on Cuba but Republicans control Congress and are unlikely to act soon.
Republican Senator Jeff Flake from Arizona, who supports ending the sanctions, said the Obama visit could help open Cuba up to the world.
"For Cubans accustomed to watching their government sputter down the last mile of socialism in a '57 Chevy, imagine what they'll think when they see Air Force One," said Flake.
"Just think of the progress that can come from one day allowing all freedom-loving Americans to travel to Cuba," Flake said in a statement.
In Havana on Thursday, news of the trip was welcomed.
"Peace reigns in this hemisphere," said Jorge Felix, a home painter. "These are two countries who have confronted each other for fifty something years, and on this occasion the visit of the U.S. president to Cuba is reason for happiness and rejoicing," he said.
"We are going to give him a box of Habanos," for a real taste of Cuba, said Luis Fernandez, a retired cigar roller, referring to a Cuban cigar brand.
First lady Michelle Obama will also go on the trip, which is taking place during the president's final year in office.
(Additional reporting by Patricia Zengerle, Susan Heavey and Megan Cassella; Editing by Mohammad Zargham, W Simon and Alistair Bell)
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a news conference after the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Rancho Mirage, California February 16, 2016.
A maid leaves a room after cleaning it at the Home Inn budget hotel in Shanghai January 5, 2008.
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(Reuters Life!) - For married women who can't figure out why they always have so much housework researchers may have the answer -- husbands.
A new study from the University of Michigan shows that having a husband creates an extra seven hours of extra housework a week for women. But a wife saves her husband from an hour of chores around the house each week.
"It's a well-known pattern. There's still a significant reallocation of labor that occurs at marriage -- men tend to work more outside the home, while women take on more of the household labor," said Frank Stafford, of the university's Institute for Social Research (ISR), who directed the study.
"And the situation gets worse for women when they have children," he added in a statement.
Stafford's findings are based on 2005 time-diary data from a study on income dynamics that has been conducted since 1968 at ISR.
The researchers studied diaries to assess how people spent their time and questioned men and women about how much time they spend cooking, cleaning and doing basic work around the house.
They found that young single women did the least amount of housework, at about 12 hours a week. Married women in their 60 and 70s did nearly twice that amount, while women with more than three children spent 28 hours a week cleaning, cooking and washing.
But it's not as bad as it used to be. In 1976 women did an average of 26 hours of housework a week, while men did about six, according to the study,
(Reporting by Patricia Reaney; editing by Belinda Goldsmith)
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush speaks to voters at a campaign stop at the Summerville Country Club in Summerville, South Carolina, February 17, 2016.
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Republican Jeb Bush's presidential campaign has added an Ohio political veteran to his team as a national political adviser.
A Bush aide said on Wednesday that Bob Paduchik, who was the Ohio campaign manager for the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns of Jeb's brother George W. Bush, is joining the Bush campaign.
Paduchik also managed Ohio Republican Senator Rob Portman's campaign for the Senate in 2010, among other political jobs in the state.
In addition, the Bush team said that Bush, fighting for a strong showing in the South Carolina Republican primary on Saturday, had secured the help of long-time Virginia Republican fundraiser Bobbie Kilberg.
Kilberg had been helping the presidential campaign of Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who dropped out of the race after finishing far back in the pack in the Feb. 9 New Hampshire primary.
(Reporting By Steve Holland; Editing by Richard Pullin)
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Pope Francis in Rome on Thursday after returning from his visit to Mexico.Credit Alessandra Tarantino/Associated Press
Updated, 1:17 p.m. | Donald J. Trump said it was “disgraceful” that Pope Francisquestioned his faith on Thursday and suggested that his presidency would be the answer to the Vatican’s prayers because he would protect it from terrorists if elected.
As he returned to Rome after his six-day visit to Mexico, Francis said, “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian,” in response to a question about Mr. Trump aboard the papal airliner.
Mr. Trump condemned that remark during a campaign rally in South Carolina, describing himself as a good Christian and arguing that Francis does not understand America’s immigration crisis.
“For a religious leader to question a person’s faith is disgraceful,” Mr. Trump said.
The Trump campaign also released a statement from the candidate, defending his hard-line policies on immigration and saying the pope was out of line.
“No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man’s religion or faith,” Mr. Trump said, going on to claim that the pope was being used for political purposes by the Mexican government. “They are using the pope as a pawn and they should be ashamed of themselves for doing so, especially when so many lives are involved and when illegal immigration is so rampant.”
Mr. Trump went on to say that he would defend Christianity more aggressively than current political leaders.
“If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows is ISIS’ ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been president because this would not have happened,” Mr. Trump said.
Other members of Mr. Trump’s campaign also pushed back against the pope. Dan Scavino, his social media director, posted an image of Vatican City andnoted that it is surrounded by a wall.
And Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University and a supporter of Mr. Trump, said that the pope had crossed a line.
“Jesus never intended to give instructions to political leaders on how to run a country,” Mr. Falwell told CNN.
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Pope Francis, while flying back to the Vatican from Mexico, said that anyone who wants to build a wall along the Mexican border is not a Christian.
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The Turkish prime minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, alleged that Wednesday’s attack, which left 28 dead, was carried out by a Syrian Kurdish fighter with links to the People’s Protection Units (YPG), a Kurdish militia that has been supported by the US in the fight against Islamic State in northern Syria. The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) assisted with the attack, Davutoğlu said.
“We collected intelligence all night,” Davutoğlu told reporters in Ankara. “The perpetrators have been fully identified. The attack was carried out by YPG member Salih Necer, who came in from Syria.”
Fourteen people have been held in connection with the attack.
Davutoğlu said Turkish intelligence had established where the militants had crossed into Turkey and how their networks were organised.
“This information will be given to all countries, primarily the five permanent members [of the United Nations security council],” Davutoğlu said, once more underlining Turkey’s opposition to the YPG’s participation at UN-brokered Syria peace talks in Geneva.
“The evidence that shows that the YPG is a terrorist organisation will be given to all countries … Just as we don’t sit down with al-Qaida and Islamic State, we cannot sit down with the YPG either. Those that see Turkey’s enemy as their friend will lose Turkey’s friendship.”
The Turkish government has lashed out at its western allies, foremost the US, over their refusal to designate the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union (PYD) and its armed wing, the YPG, as a terrorist organisation.
The head of the PYD denied allegations that it or the YPG was involved. “We have never heard of this person Salih Necer,” Salih Muslim told Agence France-Presse. “These accusations are clearly related to Turkish attempts to intervene in Syria.”
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said the evidence pointed to the Syrian Kurdish group. “Despite the fact that their leader says they have nothing to do with this, the information and documents obtained by our interior ministry and all our intelligence organisations shows that [the attack] was theirs,” he said.
On Thursday morning a bomb detonated by remote control hit security forces travelling in a military vehicle on a road linking Diyarbakır to the district of Lice. The military said six people died and one was seriously injured.
Turkish artillery in the south of the country shelled positions of Kurdish fighters in Syria for the fifth day in a row on Wednesday, despite calls from both the US and Russia to cease all hostilities towards the YPG in Syria.
Turkish military also conducted airstrikes against several PKK targets in northern Iraq.
Cemil Bayık, the leader of a Kurdish umbrella organisation that includes the PKK, said in an interview with the pro-Kurdish Firat News Agency that he did not know who was behind the attack in Ankara. But he suggested that Kurdish militants, angered by Turkish military operations in the country’s south-east, may have acted independently.
Security analyst and al-Monitor columnist Metin Gürcan said such an attack would set a dangerous precedent, as it would suggest “a sort-of Isis-style franchising, involving semi-independent Kurdish networks. It would be a sign of decentralisation of PKK violence – an attack not directly ordered by the organisation, and not claimed by them.”
Gürcan criticised the “toxic politics of polarisation” driven by the Turkish government, arguing that Erdoğan relied on this polarisation in order to secure the necessary majority for his project of an executive presidency. “The [Ankara] attack will further feed this deep [division that runs through] Turkish society, it will exacerbate the conflict that has become increasingly difficult to manage for the government.”
The bombing prompted Davutoğlu to scrap a planned trip to Brussels on Thursday to discuss Europe’s migrant crisis. Erdoğan also shelved a trip to Azerbaijan.
Wednesday’s car bomb detonated when a convoy of military buses carrying dozens of soldiers stopped at traffic lights in central Ankara, sparking panic and chaos. Plumes of smoke could be seen from all over the city rising from the scene, close to the headquarters of the Turkish military and the parliament.
Those attacks were blamed on Islamic State, as were two other deadly bombings in the country’s Kurdish-dominated south-east in 2015.
Turkey is waging an all-out assault on the PKK, which has repeatedly attacked members of the security forces with roadside bombings on their convoys in the south-east.
The PKK launched an insurgency against the Turkish state in 1984. It was initially fighting for Kurdish independence although now its aim is more focused on greater autonomy and rights for Turkey’s largest ethnic minority.
The banned ultra-left Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) has also staged a string of usually small-scale attacks in Istanbul over the past few months.
Exclusive: Leaked file shows widening differences over bid to reform treaty as UK officials concede PM may fail in original demand to underpin reforms
Downing Street has made plans for David Cameron to return to London immediately on Friday if the summit concludes with an agreement. Photograph: Kacper Pempel/Reuters
A leaked copy of the final draft of the blueprint for Britain’s new terms of EU membership suggests that David Cameron heads to Brussels with no certainty over one of his key demands – and signs that differences are widening.
The series of documents, which were circulated in Brussels early on Thursday morning, confirm that the European council president, Donald Tusk, has failed to win agreement among EU leaders to cement some of the reforms in a change to the Lisbon treaty.
In the drafts, which were sent to EU capitals late on Wednesday and which have been seen by the Guardian, any mention of revising the treaty appears between square brackets – the device used in international negotiations to show there is no agreement on that issue.
The drafts also show that differences in some areas are widening rather than narrowing. The unease in France that Britain is seeking to secure special protections for the City of London, by giving non-eurozone members a greater ability to stall financial regulation, is highlighted by the appearance of square brackets in an early section in the first document on a proposed new rulebook for eurozone and non-eurozone countries.
The influence of east European countries, which have grave concerns about proposed restrictions to child benefits and in-work benefits, is highlighted by a section on the welfare changes. A key sentence that would have restricted the child benefit curbs to Britain has been taken out, suggesting that the new rules will apply across the EU uniformly. This will be very poorly received by the Visegrad group of countries in eastern and central Europe – Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
The documents were circulated as British officials conceded that the prime minister may fail in his original demand to cement the reforms in a change to the EU treaty and EU diplomats said a “war room of lawyers” had been brought in to assist all 28 national leaders. British officials said that securing treaty change headed a list of “outstanding things” that the prime minister had yet to secure in his negotiations, which he launched soon after the Conservatives’ general election victory last year.
Failure to reach consensus
Tusk, who is chairing the summit, has failed to win consensus among EU leaders for treaty change in two key areas. These are the prime minister’s call to give the UK an opt-out from the EU’s commitment to create an “ever closer union of the peoples of Europe”, and to guarantee protections for non-eurozone member states.
A failure to underpin the reforms would represent a setback for Cameron, who pledged last year to secure “full-on treaty change”. Downing Street insists that an agreement among the EU’s 28 leaders would be “legally binding” and would be lodged at the UN regardless of whether treaty change is agreed.
Angela Merkel speaks to the German parliament. Photograph: Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock
But there will be nerves among pro-EU Tories that Cameron could enter a referendum campaign with Eurosceptics claiming there was uncertainty over whether his reform package could be challenged in the European court of justice.
If Cameron loses the referendum, he would face immediate pressure to resign. If he wins, his supporters will say he deserves a place among the list of transformational prime ministers after securing Scotland’s place in the UK in one referendum and settling Britain’s membership of the EU in another.
The uncertainty over treaty change came amid quiet confidence in Whitehall that Cameron will secure agreement from the EU’s 27 other leaders for his new terms for Britain’s EU membership. The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, said on Wednesday that Cameron’s demands were “comprehensible and justified”.
As well as the two demands on ever closer union and protections for non-eurozone countries that require treaty change, Cameron is seeking to impose restrictions on child benefit and in-work benefits for EU migrants. On Wednesday it was announced that the total number of workers in the UK from the rest of the EU had risen above two million for the first time.
Johnson keeps Cameron waiting
Downing Street has made plans for Cameron to return to London immediately if the summit concludes on Friday lunchtime with an agreement. The prime minister would chair a cabinet meeting at which the government would formally endorse a deal. But the meeting would also lead to the lifting of collective cabinet responsibility, allowing a group of ministers, currently headed by the work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, to campaign to leave the EU.
The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has kept the prime minister waiting about whether he intends to support the campaign to keep Britain in a reformed EU. He told Cameron at a meeting in Downing Street that he had not yet been won round to a plan to reassert the sovereignty of parliament in a process that will take place outside the formal EU negotiations.
Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street after talks with David Cameron. Photograph: Frank Augstein/AP
Tusk will open the formal part of the summit at 5.45pm with a round table discussion about the UK’s demands. Tusk will then park the UK negotiations to allow EU leaders to turn to the other main item on the agenda over dinner – the migration crisis.
The summit will reconvene at 10am on Friday as an informal European council. This will allow Martin Schulz, the president of the European parliament, to attend. The parliament has to agree to the welfare changes in secondary legislation.
In addition to the concerns about treaty change British officials said that the outstanding issues boiled down to:
Making sure all leaders agree to the demand to protect non-eurozone countries, essentially ensuring that the eurozone cannot change the regulations for the City of London without UK agreement.
Ensuring that Britain is allowed to restrict in-work benefits to EU migrants through an emergency brake. The prime minister wants this to last for four years, though Tusk has said this should be phased out after one year.
Upholding restrictions to child benefit to ensure that it is paid at a rate linked to indices in the migrant’s home country. Cameron concedes that this will not apply retrospectively.
‘English breakfast’
According to officials and diplomats involved in preparing and attending the summit, the expectations are of a tense eveningon Thursday. The summit is expected to run through the night until Friday morning, when leaders might assemble to finalise a deal over an “English breakfast”.
Others talked of it running into the weekend. “There’s an appetite to try to get there and take as long as it takes,” said one diplomat. Tusk said he wanted to resolve the British question conclusively at the summit: “It is my goal to do the deal this week.”
The east Europeans have rejected the proposed terms of how child benefits are paid to their citizens working in Britain while their children reside at home. They want the new rules to apply only to new arrivals in Britain, an idea to which Cameron is resistant, and they want the new regime ringfenced so that it applies solely to Britain. This is generally viewed, even by the Britons, as legally impossible.
The restriction on child benefits, by way of indexing payments to where a child is based, would appear to be optional and at the discretion of the member state paying the benefit. The measure would only apply to child benefits, with the document explicitly stating it would not be used for other payments such as old-age pensions.
Another sticking point, the graduated payment of in-work benefits once an emergency brake is in place, also remains in the draft although precise terms have yet to be agreed.
The documents confirm that Britain meets the criteria to request the emergency brake immediately. In particular one of the documents notes that the UK “has not made full use of the transitional periods on free movement of workers which were provided for in recent Accession Acts”, leading to the government’s concerns over an “exceptional inflow of workers from elsewhere in the EU over the last years”.
The triggering of the four-year safeguard mechanism, which can be requested by a member state when its public services and welfare system are under exceptional pressure due to high migration, is assessed by the European commission and approved by other member states through the council.
All the measures in the agreement would be implemented if the UK voted to remain in the EU.
