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Nov 28, 2018 / 5:42 | story:
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Paul Manafort, former president of Donald Trump's campaign, leaves the Federal District Court after a hearing in Washington.
Breakdown of an Advocacy Agreement with former Trump campaign president, Paul Manafort, and an explosive British report on alleged contacts that he could have had with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange , have thrown a new element of uncertainty in the Trump – Russia investigation.
On Tuesday, a day after the prosecutors accused Manafort of having lied to them several times, thus canceling his agreement to say everything in exchange for a lighter sentence, he categorically denied the rumor that he had met Assange secretly around March 2016. It's the same thing. month Manafort joined the Trump campaign and Russian hackers began trying to penetrate the email accounts of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
The events brought Manafort back into the spotlight of the investigation, raising new questions about what he knows and what prosecutors claim he could try to cover up as they were investigating. the interference of Russian elections and a possible coordination with Trump's badociates in the campaign that sent the famous businessman to the White House.
All the while, Manafort's lawyers informed Trump's lawyers of what their client told investigators, an unusual arrangement that could give Trump ammunition in his feud against special advocate Robert Mueller.
"They share with me things that concern our part of the business," said Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, at the Associated Press.
Giuliani also said that Trump, who recently stepped up his attacks on Mueller, was enraged by the treatment of Manafort.
Other personalities involved in the investigation, including Trump himself, are struggling to step up attacks and charges against prosecutors who are quietly working behind the scenes.
In addition to denying that he had ever met Assange, Manafort, currently in prison, said he had told the truth to Mueller's attorneys during his interrogation. And WikiLeaks said that Manafort had never met Assange, offering to bet the London newspaper The Guardian on "a million dollars and head of his editor".
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Nov 28, 2018 / 5:37 am | story:
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An airliner is flying above the steam and white smoke emitted by the Huaneng Group's Beijing power plant, the last coal-fired power plant to be shut down on March 18, 2017, as the Chinese capital converted to clean energy, such as thermal energy.
Three years after signing a historic climate agreement in Paris, world leaders met again to agree on the details.
The euphoria of 2015 has given way to a serious realization that it would be difficult to get an agreement between nearly 200 countries, each with their own political and economic claims – as evidenced by the President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris agreement. citing his mantra "America First".
"Seen from the outside, it's an impossible task," said Polish Vice-Minister of the Environment, Michal Kurtyka, about the talks he will head to Katowice on 2 to December 14th.
At the top of the agenda will be the finalization of the so-called Paris Regulation, which determines how countries must account for their greenhouse gas emissions, communicate them transparently to the rest of the world and reveal what they are doing. They do it to reduce them.
Seasoned negotiators convene the meeting, which is expected to attract 25,000 participants, "Paris 2.0" because of the high stakes at stake in Katowice.
Forest fires from California to Greece, droughts in Germany and Australia, tropical cyclones Mangkhut in the Pacific and Michael in the Atlantic. According to scientists, this year's extreme weather provides insights into future disasters if global warming continues.
A recent report from the International Panel of Experts on Climate Change warned that time was running out if the world wanted to reach the most ambitious goal of the Paris agreement, namely to maintain global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). The planet has already warmed to about 1 degree C since the pre – industrial era and is expected to warm up again by 2 to 3 degrees by the end of the century, unless drastic measures are needed. be taken.
The conference will have "quite significant consequences for humanity and how we will take care of our planet," Kurtyka told the Associated Press agency before the talks.
Experts agree that the Paris targets can only be achieved by reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to zero net by 2050.
But the Paris deal allowed countries to set their own emissions targets. Some are on the right track, some are not. Overall, the world is heading in the wrong direction.
Last week, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said that average concentrations of carbon dioxide had reached a new record in 2017, while the level of other heat-trapping gases, such as methane and nitrous oxide, also increased.
This year, anthropogenic emissions are expected to increase by another 2%, as coal-fired power generation in Asia and Africa continues, while carbon-absorbing forests are slashed faster than they can regenerate.
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Nov 28, 2018 / 5:35 | story:
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President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Biloxi, Miss.
President Donald Trump has tested the limits of his presidential authority and political power by threatening to scrap all federal subsidies to General Motors because of mbadive cuts planned in the United States.
Trump was unloaded on Twitter Tuesday, a day after GM announced the closure of five plants and the removal of 14,000 jobs in North America. Much of the job cuts would affect the Midwest, a politically crucial region where the president had promised a renaissance in the manufacturing sector. This was the latest example of the president's desire to try to interfere in the affairs of private companies and threaten the use of government power to try to force their business decisions.
"Very disappointed with General Motors and its General Manager, Mary Barra, having closed factories in Ohio, Michigan and Maryland, nothing is closed in Mexico and China," Trump tweeted. "The United States has saved General Motors, and that's the THANK YOU we have!"
He added that his administration "planned to remove all GM subsidies, including for electric cars".
Trump's tweets were published shortly after National Economic Council director Larry Kudlow said the White House's reaction to the automaker's announcement was "a huge amount of disappointment, or even to overflow with anger. " Kudlow, who met with Barra on Monday, said Trump had felt betrayed by GM.
"Look, we have gotten this deal, we have been working with you throughout the process, we have done other things with mileage standards, for example, and other related regulations," he said. Kudlow, referring to the trade recently negotiated between the United States, Mexico and Canada. agreement. "We did this to help you and I think his disappointment is that it seems like they've somehow turned their backs on him."
The White House's reprimand seems to contradict Republicans' longstanding opposition to picking winners and losers in the market. A day earlier, Trump had launched a vague threat to GM to preserve a key plant in the state-owned Ohio, where the company had announced the closure of its plant in Lordstown.
"It's Ohio, and you'd better come back soon," he said.
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Nov 28, 2018 / 5:25 | story:
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In this image made from a video taken on November 15, 2018, Knickers the steer, in the center of the back, is in an enclosure with a herd of cows in Lake Preston, Australia.
Knickers the steer is huge on the internet – to be huge.
The Holstein Friesian in black and white has gained fame on social networks and many proclamations of "Holy Cow!" After photos of the 194-centimeter (6-foot-4-inch) direction appeared above the head and shoulders over a herd of brown cows in the state of Western Australia.
Owner Geoff Pearson said that Mr. Knickers was too heavy to go to the slaughterhouse.
"We have a big turnover of cattle and he was lucky enough to stay here," Pearson said.
Australian media say Knickers is the country's highest flyweight and weighs around 1.4 tons.
Instead of becoming steaks and hamburgers, seven-year-old Knickers will live in the Pearson Fields in Lake Preston, southwest of Perth.
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Nov 28, 2018 / 5h19 | story:
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a meeting in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia on Tuesday, November 27, 2018.
Russia said Wednesday it will wait for the meeting between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump to continue as planned.
In an interview with the Washington Post on Tuesday, Trump said he could cancel the meeting with Putin in Argentina following Russia's seizure of three Ukrainian warships last weekend.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday that the meeting was taking place and that Russia had received "no further information from its American counterparts".
The long-running conflict between Russia and Ukraine came to light on Sunday, when Russian border guards fired on three Ukrainian ships and seized ships and the crew.
Trump said he would receive a "full report" from his national security team on Russia's recent actions in eastern Ukraine and the Black Sea. He said that he would decide on a course afterwards.
"Maybe I will not have the meeting," he says. "Maybe I will not even have the meeting."
Trump added, "I do not like this aggression, I do not want this aggression at all."
The comments were Trump's strongest so far in condemning Russia's recent actions in Ukraine, where tensions are mounting. But the White House aides were still preparing for Putin's meeting after Trump's comments.
The meeting between Trump and Putin should be just one of many high-level foreign policy commitments for the US leader during the two-day flash visit to Argentina. Trump is also expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping during his dinner this weekend, as part of a session that could be instrumental in determining whether and how the ongoing trade dispute between their countries could be resolved.
The White House warned Tuesday Xi against any attempt to wait for Trump in the ongoing negotiations, suggesting that the Chinese economy was not as resistant to a trade war as would be the ## 147 ## 39, American economy.
The warning of Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, preceded the broad base of the two leaders on Saturday night. Over the past year, the two countries have collected a series of tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars in reciprocal imports, with the latest round of US duties coming into effect at the beginning of the new year.
Xi said on Wednesday that the international community needed to build consensus to resolve the conflict between free trade and protectionism. In a speech to Spanish lawmakers, where he is making a state visit before attending the leaders summit of the Group of 20 in Argentina, he said the world was facing "instability, uncertainties and unprecedented topics in our history.
"I think we are at a crossroads," said Xi. "In economic terms, we must decide whether we will follow the economic globalization and the free market or whether we will choose unilateralism and protectionism."
National Security Advisor John Bolton said Trump would also meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Argentine President Mauricio Macri, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the trip was an opportunity for the president to strengthen relations with other world leaders and promote a global economic system based on "free, fair and reciprocal trade". ".
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Nov 27, 2018 / 8:59 pm | story:
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Tymaeus Orfanos, on the left, and Marc Orfanos, on the right, the brother and father of Tel Orfanos, victim of the shooting, was caught in the act by Susan Orfanos, the mother of Tel, who wears a shirt with the names of all the victims, after a press conference on the status of the victim. The investigation at Thousand Oaks, California on Tuesday, November 27, 2018.
The gunman who killed 12 people in a crowded bar in southern California fired more than 150 bullets but stopped shooting to ambush police arriving, killing one, the police said on Tuesday.
Investigators said they still did not know why 28-year-old Ian David Long attacked the staff and customers of Borderline Bar and Grill in the suburbs of Thousand Oaks, a suburb of Los Angeles.
There is no evidence that Long was radicalized or targeted anyone at the bar. Although Long had already been a customer, the owner did not know him, investigators said.
They painted a clearer picture of the chaos that followed when Long opened fire while most people in their twenties were dancing to country music.
Long threw smoke grenades into the group of revelers, obstructing what they could see. He used a flashlight equipped with a laser sight on his .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol while he shot, killing 12 of the 13 people who were hit.
He stabbed one of the victims with a bullet around the neck, without anyone knowing why, said a coroner.
Some people lay on their friends to protect them while the bullets were flying, while others smashed the windows of the bar to escape.
"As you can imagine, it was a terrifying experience for everyone present," said Bill Ayub, Sheriff of Ventura County. "Confusion and chaos can only begin to adequately describe the situation."
The first two officers to arrive at the scene, the sheriff's Sgt. Ron Helus and a highway policeman saw at least 100 people flee the bar and were ambushed, Ayub said. Long had entered a tactical position and shot at them when they entered, killing Helus, a 29-year-old veteran from the department who was about to retire.
The first reports of the survivors caused confusion. Some of those wounded during the escape took refuge in a nearby bar and authorities initially feared that another shootout had occurred there. The survivors also gave different descriptions of the shooter, letting the police believe that there was more than one armed man.
Long, who was not hit by police fire, was killed in a fatal blow. The former gunner and veteran of Afghanistan released on social media, during a break in shooting, that he wondered if people would think that he was crazy.
He had the ability to kill many more than 12 people. Of the seven 30-cycle magazines Long had, five remained unused, Ayub said. It is illegal to buy and own such magazines in California, but you can easily buy them in neighboring states.
The mother of one of the victims, Telemaque "Tel" Orfanos, said that she had gone to the press conference to make sure that her son would be more than one. a statistic.
Susan Schmidt-Orfanos said she was putting all her energy into working for gun control measures. His son had survived mbad shooting last year in Las Vegas before being killed at Borderline.
"There is no place to put my anger," she says. "We must put an end to armed violence so that no other family will be afflicted and broken as we are, that's where my anger is going to go."
The investigators interviewed hundreds of witnesses and collected sockets, surveillance videos and other evidence, as well as items seized from Long's home, including digital media, said Paul Delacourt, deputy director. from the FBI office in Los Angeles. Most of the evidence collected by the FBI is being badyzed in his laboratory in Quantico, Virginia.
The detectives hope that the objects in the house will help them understand why Long led the attack and that the evidence provided by the bar better explains how he conducted it.
"There is a process of interviewing people and obtaining the information that investigators have and consolidating them to establish a timetable, and if we can know what the motivation is for this attack," said Captain Garo Kuredjian, Sheriff of Ventura County.
Their work persisted despite a forest fire that erupted just hours after the shooting, forcing FBI investigators and sheriff detectives to evacuate. "They have not missed a beat," said Kuredjian.
The neighbors said that Long was uncomfortable with them and even called 911 in April. The deputy ministers who responded to the survey found that Long behaved angrily and irrationally, but a mental health specialist who met him did not think he was to be hospitalized.
Two of Long's former coaches in high school described his behavior as aggressive and disturbing during his teenage years.
They told The Associated Press that they had repeatedly complained of Long to school administrators, had insisted that he needed to "keep up" with the school. He even helped and expelled the team after badaulting him. They say that another coach has been reinstated long after claiming that his dismissal could jeopardize his goal of joining the army.
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Associate Press Writer Brian Melley contributed to this report from Los Angeles.
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November 27, 2018 / 8:44 pm | story:
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DOSSIER – In this archive photo of 11 April 2017, a glbad of the bus of the Dortmund team is damaged after an explosion before the football game in the quarter-finals of the Champions League between Borussia Dortmund AS Monaco in Dortmund, Germany. The Dortmund court is expected to pronounce its sentence on Tuesday, November 21, 2018 against a German accused of placing explosives on stock options in Dortmund.
A German court on Tuesday sentenced a man for 28 counts of attempted murder during the bus attack of the Borussia Dortmund football team last year and sentenced him to 14 years in prison.
The Dortmund State Court found the defendant guilty of 28 attempts of murder as well as bodily harm and triggering an explosion, according to German privacy rules, in accordance with the rules. German privacy protection, reported the dpa news agency.
Dortmund defender Marc Bartra and a police officer were injured when three explosions hit the bus of the team, who left a hotel in the West German city for a match of the Champions League on 11 April 2017.
Tuesday's verdict ended an 11-month lawsuit featuring the player and Dortmund coach Thomas Tuchel.
Prosecutors claimed that W. had taken out a loan to bet that Borussia Dortmund's shares would lose value, then bombed the bus and attempted to disguise the attack on Islamist terrorism. Dortmund is the only German football club whose shares are listed on the stock exchange.
The explosions broke a window of the bus and hit Bartra with a shrapnel, leaving the group without the Spanish defender for about a month after being operated on for a broken wrist.
The verdict did not respond to the prosecutors' call for a life sentence. However, defense lawyers had argued that W. should only be convicted for triggering an explosion and being sentenced much less severely.
In January, the defendant stated that he had perpetrated the attack but had no intention of killing or injuring anyone. This 29-year-old German citizen told the court that he was attempting to simulate an attack and had designed the explosives in such a way as to "cause no harm to the people".
The court did not buy this explanation.
"The accused has anticipated the possibility that people may be killed," said Judge Peter Windgaetter in pronouncing the verdict. "He could not have controlled the direction of the blast."
"His goal was to send a signal as strong as possible, resulting in a drop in the course of action," added Windgaetter.
The suspect built the bombs himself with the help of metal pins, some of which were flying over 200 meters during the explosions, which he triggered remotely from the hotel. He was arrested 10 days after the attack.
The bombing took place as the Dortmund team prepared for a Champions League match against Monaco. The match was postponed until the following day, when Dortmund lost 3-2.
The club did not comment on the verdict.
"Today we are focusing solely on the match," club spokesman Sascha Fligge said of the UEFA Champions League match against Club Brugge on Wednesday. "The question was handled internally a long time ago."
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November 27, 2018 / 8:30 pm | story:
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Migrants run under the tear gas launched by US agents, among photojournalists covering Mexico. The border, after a group of migrants crossed the Mexican police at the Chaparral checkpoint in Tijuana, Mexico, on Sunday, November 25, 2018. The mayor of Tijuana declared a humanitarian crisis in his border town and said to have asked the United Nations for help in dealing with the 5,000 or so Central American migrants who arrived in the city.
While Mexico is struggling to cope with more than 5,000 Central American migrants settled in a sports complex in the border town of Tijuana, the government of President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced Tuesday that he would be willing to host them on Mexican soil they seek asylum in the United States – a key demand from US President Donald Trump.
Mexico's new foreign minister also called on the Trump government to contribute to development projects aimed at creating jobs in Central America to stem the flow of migrants from this impoverished region, suggesting an appropriate figure starting at $ 20 billion of dollars.
"We can not determine how quickly people are questioned" by US officials as part of the asylum process, said new External Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard at a press conference in Mexico. US border inspectors handle fewer than 100 asylum claims a day at the main Tijuana border crossing in San Diego, which is causing a delay of several thousand people.
"So, what should we do?" Ebrard asked. "Prepare to badume that a good deal of them will be in this region of Mexico in the coming months."
"We have to help the local authorities" to house and feed the migrants, he said, adding, "This is not a bilateral negotiation – it's something we have to do."
Lopez Obrador, who won the landslide victory of July 1 in the general election and takes office on Saturday, built his political career on the defense of the poor. He is now faced with the difficult task of placating Trump on the issue of migrants while maintaining Mexico's long-standing position of demanding better treatment of migrants.
Ebrard told reporters Tuesday that one of the administration's key objectives was to secure a US commitment to development projects in Honduras, where the vast majority of migrants in the caravan, as well as neighboring countries, Guatemala, El Salvador and elsewhere in Central America.
"What are we negotiating with the United States? We want them to participate in the project I just mentioned" to create jobs in Central America. When asked what the US contribution should be, Ebrard suggested that this figure be at least $ 20 billion.
"Mexico alone is going to invest in our territory at the next administration, more than $ 20 billion, and any serious effort on our brothers in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala should be on a similar amount," he said. Ebrard.
Ebrard's statements came as worried residents of Tijuana closed a school adjacent to a sports complex where thousands of migrants had been camped for two weeks.
The move came after US border officials fired tear gas into Mexico to fend off a group of migrants who had crossed the border over the weekend. The incident prompted Mexican authorities to strengthen the presence of police around the shelter.
Citing fears for the safety of their children, the parent badociation of elementary school students Gabriel Ramos of Milan bought his own lock and closed the doors of the school. A sign said that the school would remain closed until further notice.
Carmen Rodriguez said the parents had called on the authorities to do something since the migrants' arrival, adding that her 9-year-old daughter would not return to school before they left.
"We ask that they be relocated," Rodriguez said, noting that some migrants had contacted the school yard to ask for money from the children and use the bathrooms of the school. # 39; school. Some even smoked marijuana around its peripheral walls, she said.
She added that parents are worried about the new convergence of anti-migrant protesters on the sports complex, as they did last week. "If they come here and there is a confrontation, we will be caught in the middle," she said.
Migrants themselves were urgently exploring their options as they increasingly felt that they had little hope of succeeding in the United States or seeking to cross the border illegally.
Most were discouraged after US agents fired tear gas at the group of migrants attempting to travel to the United States on Sunday. They saw in clashes and official reaction affecting their chances of joining the National Institute of Migration of Mexico in the United States, that 98 migrants were being deported after attempting to cross the US border. The country's interior ministry said about 500 people had tried to cross the border, while the US authorities had 1,000.
There was a regular queue Tuesday in front of a tent housing the International Organization for Migration, where officials were offering badistance to those wishing to return to their home country.
Officials also reported more interest from migrants wishing to begin the process of staying in Mexico. An employment fair matching migrants and outlets in Baja California has seen an increasing number of inquiries.
"What happened to us yesterday is hurting everyone," said Oscar Leonel Mina, a 22-year-old father from San Salvador, following the border dispute on Sunday.
Mina, his wife and their young daughter avoided the protest and were happy to have done so after hearing others tell what had happened, he said.
Events led Mina to rethink her family's plan to travel to the United States. He says he heard about Rosarito, a seaside town popular with American tourists about 40 minutes drive south of Tijuana.
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Wall Street investors are seduced by an emerging technology company.
This has nothing to do with displaying selfies or looking for a soul mate. Instead, the company earns billions of dollars selling cloud computing services and other technical services to offices around the world.
Say hello to Microsoft, the 90s home computing powerhouse that is currently experiencing a renaissance moment – eclipsing Facebook, Google, Amazon, and other technology favorites of the last decade.
And now, she's about to outdo Apple as the world's most valuable publicly traded company.
Yes, this Microsoft. As other tech giants stumble, its continued resistance is bearing fruit.
Le fait que Microsoft soit même sur le point d'éclipser Apple – et l'a fait brièvement à quelques reprises cette semaine – aurait été inconnu il y a quelques années à peine.
Cependant, sous la direction de Satya Nadella, PDG de Microsoft, Microsoft a trouvé la stabilité en s'éloignant de son système d'exploitation Windows phare et en privilégiant les services de cloud computing avec contrats à long terme.
"Microsoft semble avoir enfin franchi le cap et devenir un acteur viable du cloud computing", a déclaré Daniel Morgan, gestionnaire de portefeuille principal chez Synovus Trust. "Ils ont très bien quitté le poste de travail."
Une brève période de négociation lundi était la première fois depuis plus de huit ans que Microsoft valait plus que Apple. Microsoft a de nouveau dépbadé brièvement Apple mardi, avant qu'Apple ne termine avec une valeur de marché de 827 milliards de dollars, seulement 0,5% de plus que les 822 milliards de Microsoft.
Apple est la société la plus prospère au monde depuis la première place accordée à Exxon Mobil au début de la décennie. Microsoft n’a pas été au sommet depuis le sommet du boom des entreprises Internet en 2000.
Microsoft est redevenu un concurrent en grande partie parce que les actions d’Apple ont chuté de 25% depuis début octobre, alors que Microsoft n’a pas fait pire que le reste du marché boursier. Toutefois, le fait qu’elle n’ait pas connu de difficultés témoigne de sa concentration sur les clients commerciaux au cours des dernières années.
Il y a quelques années à peine, les perspectives de Microsoft paraissaient sombres. La société dépendait des droits de licence du système d’exploitation Windows utilisé dans les ordinateurs personnels, mais les gens dépensaient plutôt de l’argent pour les derniers smartphones. En 2013, les ventes de PC ont plongé de 10% à environ 315 millions d’euros, soit la pire chute d’année sur un an, selon les sociétés de recherche Gartner et IDC. Cela n'a pas aidé que l'effort de Microsoft visant à rendre les PC plus semblables à des téléphones, Windows 8, ait été largement contrecarré.
Mais le redressement a commencé lorsque la société Redmond, Washington, a promu Nadella en tant que PDG en 2014. Il a succédé à Steve Ballmer, PDG de Microsoft, qui se moquait initialement de l'idée que les gens seraient prêts à payer 500 USD ou plus pour les iPhones d'Apple.
Ce pari a porté ses fruits. Windows est maintenant une fraction décroissante des affaires de Microsoft. Bien que la société exploite toujours des entreprises axées sur le consommateur, telles que Bing Search et Xbox, elle a privilégié les services destinés aux entreprises, tels que sa ligne de messagerie Office et ses autres logiciels pour le lieu de travail, ainsi que de nouveaux ajouts tels que LinkedIn et Skype. Mais sa plus forte croissance a eu lieu dans le nuage, en particulier la plate-forme de nuage appelée Azure. Le cloud computing représente désormais plus du quart des revenus de Microsoft et Microsoft rivalise avec Amazon en tant que principal fournisseur de ces services.
Le fait de moins dépendre de la demande des consommateurs a aidé Microsoft à se protéger des turbulences de la saison des vacances et de l’agitation de la guerre commerciale entre les États-Unis et la Chine affectant Apple et d’autres sociétés de technologie.
Le président Donald Trump a amplifié ces préoccupations tarifaires lorsqu'il a déclaré au Wall Street Journal, dans un article paru lundi dernier, que de nouveaux tarifs pourraient affecter les iPhones et les ordinateurs portables importés de Chine.
Le fabricant d'iPhone avait déjà vu son stock baisser après avoir annoncé des résultats trimestriels mitigés plus tôt ce mois-ci, alors que l'industrie de la technologie craignait la situation face à des menaces telles que la hausse des taux d'intérêt, l'augmentation de la réglementation gouvernementale et l'intensification de la guerre commerciale entre Trump et la Chine. .
Apple a également effrayé les investisseurs avec une décision inattendue de ne plus divulguer le nombre de iPhones vendus chaque trimestre. Ce mouvement a été largement interprété comme un signe qu'Apple prévoit de nouvelles baisses des ventes d'iPhone et tente de le masquer.
Alors que les smartphones ont provoqué le ralentissement des ordinateurs personnels il y a plusieurs années, les ventes de smartphones eux-mêmes ont maintenant stagné. Cela est dû en partie au fait qu’avec moins d’innovations par rapport aux modèles précédents, davantage de personnes choisissent de conserver les appareils plus longtemps avant de procéder à la mise à niveau.
Morgan a déclaré que Microsoft surperformait ses concurrents technologiques en partie à cause de ce qu’il ne fait pas. Il n’est pas soumis à un contrôle réglementaire aussi poussé que Google et Facebook qui ont faim de publicité, ce qui a suscité la controverse au sujet de leurs pratiques de collecte de données. Contrairement à Netflix, il n’est pas à la recherche d’un nombre décroissant d’abonnés internationaux. Et bien qu'Amazon ait également une forte activité dans le cloud, il dépend toujours davantage de la vente au détail en ligne.
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Les Kroell Family Singers, au centre, chantent "Silent Night" avec le chœur de Trinity Wall Street et le Trinity Youth Chorus lors d'une célébration de l'anniversaire de la chanson à l'église Trinity, le mardi 27 novembre 2018 à New York. "Silent Night", l'une des chansons les plus célèbres de la saison de Noël, est célébrée à l'approche de son 200e anniversaire. Écrite et chantée en Autriche en décembre 1818, la chanson a été interprétée pour la première fois aux États-Unis en 1839 au Hamilton Memorial sur le site de l’église par une famille de chanteurs itinérants.
One of the most famous Christmas songs was celebrated on Tuesday as it nears its 200th anniversary, with a concert at the New York Church where "Silent Night" would have been sung in the United States for the first time and where a priest was the first to publish an English translation of Austrian singing.
La représentation du chant par les chanteurs autrichiens Kroll de la famille autrichienne et des ensembles de l'église Trinity a eu lieu au mémorial Alexander Hamilton dans le cimetière de la Trinité. The singers stood in front of the memorial in the dark courtyard as spectators gathered and car horns rang in the streets nearby.
Les chanteurs de Kroll ont ouvert la chanson avec des vers en allemand, suivis des chanteurs de la Trinité avec des vers dans des langues comprenant le français, l'espagnol et enfin l'anglais. After the outdoor performance, they went inside the church, where the Austrian group sang other songs before ending with another rendition of "Silent Night".
La chanson résonne avec le public en raison de sa mélodie simple et de son message direct, a déclaré Elisabeth Frontull, membre du groupe Kroll.
"You sing it from the bottom of your heart, that's why this song is so popular," she said.
Event organizers said they believed the song would have been sung for the first time at the Trinity Church's site in 1839 by the Rainer family singers, a group of singers itinerant Austrian.
"Silent Night" debuted as a musical piece in December 1818, with lyrics by Joseph Mohr, a priest, and music by Franz Xaver Gruber, in Oberndorf, Austria.
In 1859, a Trinity priest, John Freeman Young, published the first English translation of three verses of the song, including the well-known first verse that ended with "Sleep in Heavenly Peace".
It has become one of the most recorded songs in the world and declared as part of the cultural heritage of Austria.
On the occasion of its anniversary, Austrian tourism organizations have organized a number of events in this country, including concerts and exhibitions.
Sigrid Pichler, spokesman for the Austrian Tourism Office in New York, said the Trinity concert – a historic church and tourist attraction that survived the destruction of the nearby World Trade Center in 2001 – was the only one event organized in this state
"It deeply affects the hearts of people," she said. "It's a very simple song, it carries a message of eternal peace.This is also something that the whole world has to hear."
Un homme s'est fracturé le poignet alors qu'il faisait du deltaplane en Suisse, mais cela aurait pu être bien pire.
Une vidéo téléchargée sur YouTube lundi, intitulée SWISS MISHAP, montre que la première expérience d'un homme en vol libre est terriblement fausse.
La vidéo commence par un avertissement indiquant que la vidéo «pourrait déranger certains, y compris ma femme».
La séquence montre deux personnes qui s'apprêtent à décoller sur le deltaplane, mais un harnais non attaché est visible.
Alors que le pilote du deltaplane décolle, le pbadager non attaché glisse sur le toboggan et s’accroche à ses mains.
For the two minutes and 14 seconds before the pilot is able to get them both back to solid ground, the pbadenger hangs on for his life, as they fly over the picturesque Swiss countryside.
They finally get close enough to the ground for the man to let go and make a rough landing.
In the video, the man writes he suffered a fracture in his right wrist when he landed which required surgery, and he also tore a tendon in his bicep from holding on for as long he did.
“It beats the alternative,” he writes.
The video has been viewed more than 3.5 million times since it was uploaded Monday.
The man says he plans to try hang gliding again, as he didn't get to enjoy his first flight.
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South Korea's Prosecutor General Moon Moo-il, third from left, meet with about a dozen former inmates in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018. On Tuesday Moon apologized over what he described as a botched investigation into the enslavement and mistreatment of thousands of people at a vagrants' facility in the 1970s and 1980s nearly three decades after its owner was acquitted of serious charges.
South Korea's top public prosecutor apologized Tuesday over what he described as a botched investigation into the enslavement and mistreatment of thousands of people at a vagrants' facility in the 1970s and 1980s nearly three decades after its owner was acquitted of serious charges.
The remarks by Prosecutor General Moon Moo-il were the government's first formal expression of remorse over one of the worst human rights atrocities in modern South Korea. They add pressure for parliament to pbad legislation to start a deeper inquiry into what happened at the now-closed Brothers Home, whose owner was exonerated from serious charges amid an obvious coverup orchestrated at the highest levels of government.
"The past government created a directive that had no base in laws and used state power to detain citizens at the Brothers Home confinement facility with the disguised purpose of protecting them; more than that (inmates) were subjected to forced labour, while experiencing brutal violence and other harsh violations of their human rights," Moon said, stopping several times during his statement while appearing to hold back tears.
"I accept with a heavy heart the results of our committee (on past cases) that the prosecution then caved into pressure from above and closed its investigation prematurely. Even on the charges that were included in the indictment, the defendants weren't properly punished during the trials. This was a process that cannot be described as democracy."
Moon delivered his apology in a meeting with about a dozen former inmates, most of whom were children when they were snatched off the street by police and city officials and locked up at Brothers Home. They spoke of their experiences at the facility, including slave labour and near-daily badaults, how their sudden disappearance ruined their families, and how they have struggled with their lives since.
"I have no friends because I couldn't go to school," said Park Sun-yi, who spent more than five years at Brothers Home after being snatched by police at the age of 9. "We have no families to go to at Chuseok," she said, referring to the Korean Thanksgiving.
No one has been held accountable for hundreds of deaths, rapes and beatings at Brothers Home that were documented by an Associated Press report in 2016 . The AP report was based on hundreds of exclusive documents and dozens of interviews with officials and former detainees, which showed that the abuse at Brothers Home was much more vicious and widespread than previously known.
Military dictators in the 1960s to 1980s ordered roundups to beautify the streets, sending thousands of homeless and disabled people and children to facilities where they were detained and forced to work. The drive intensified as South Korea began preparing to bid for and host the 1988 Summer Olympics. Brothers Home, a mountainside compound in the southern city of Busan, was the largest of these facilities and had around 4,000 inmates when its horrors were exposed in early 1987.
Kim Yong Won, the former prosecutor who exposed Brothers Home, told AP that high-ranking officials blocked his investigation under direction from the office of military strongman Chun Doo-hwan, who feared of an embarrbading international incident on the eve of the Olympics.
Death tallies compiled by the facility claimed 513 people died between 1975 and 1986, but the real toll was almost certainly higher. Kim's investigation records include transcripts of interviews of multiple inmates who said officials refused to send people to hospitals until they were nearly dead for fear of escape.
Kim, now a lawyer, wasn't able to indict Brothers Home owner Park In-keun or anyone else for widespread abuses at the facility and was left to pursue much narrower charges linked to embezzlement and construction law violations and confinement at a construction site in Ulsan where inmates were forced to work.
"The prosecutor general's apology is an important step toward fully revealing the truth of Brothers Home and compensating the surviving victims," Kim said.
Former Brothers Home inmates have received no compensation. They have been calling for a new investigation to establish the government's responsibility more clearly and create a base for compensation.
Seoul's previous conservative government had refused to revisit the case, saying that the evidence was too old and expressing concerns over financial burdens. But the prosecution has recently been reviewing its handling of Brothers Home and other past cases suspected of human rights violations or abuse of investigation power as it faces greater pressure for reform under liberal President Moon Jae-in.
Moon Moo-il, the top prosecutor, last week asked the Supreme Court to re-examine the trial of the late Brothers Home owner. Park In-keun, who died in 2016, had been acquitted in 1989 of charges linked to illegal confinement of inmates but served a short prison term for embezzlement and other relatively minor charges.
The court then ruled that Park was abiding by a 1975 government directive that instructed police and local officials to round up vagrants.
The Supreme Court has not decided whether to reopen the case. Moon's request for an "exceptional appeal" allows the court to correct grave mistakes in interpretation of law though it cannot impose new punishment on the defendant. If the court accepts the case, a finding that the government failed to protect the constitutional rights of the former inmates could boost their push for compensation.
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