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US assured that it Huthis fired their ships in the Red Sea

Yemeni rebels of the separatist movement in the port of Aden. Archival photo

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -. RIA Novosti, Alexei Bogdanovsky US assured that it was the Yemeni rebels fired Huthis their ships in the Red Sea, told reporters, a senior US official.

"We have no doubt that it Huthis fired the missiles on our ships," - the official said in a conference call, talking about the response by the US strikes in Yemen. Previously, the Pentagon has evasively answered the question of who exactly fired the American ships.

Huthis in Yemen called "unacceptable" the blows inflicted by the United States

"We emphasized that these attacks (the US in Yemen - Ed.) Were taken in self-defense, we respond to the provocation the militia-Huthis.", - The official said.According to him, the US is not going to support actions led by Saudi Arabia coalition against Huthis or start a broader military action.

On the eve of the US hit three radar-controlled Huthis in Yemen on the Red Sea coast. According to the statement of Washington, radar data were used for the recent attacks on American ships and other ships Mason. Yemeni Huthis previously stated that rockets attacked the US warship had not been started up from their territory.

In Yemen in 2014 of armed conflict, in which on the one hand engage the rebels - Shiite movement "Ansar Allah" (Huthis) and loyal to ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh of the army, and on the other - the government forces and militias loyal to President Abd Rabbo Mansur Hadi.

India to mount diplomatic offensive against Pak at BRICS meet

Benaulim (Goa), Oct 14 (PTI) Seeking to further isolate Pakistan on terror, India will mount a major diplomatic offensive against it and push for stepped up cooperation, including support for a comprehensive global convention to tackle the menace, when it hosts the annual summit of BRICS, a 5-nation grouping representing nearly half of the world's population.

The summit, being attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin, his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and leaders of Brazil and South Africa, is likely to deliberate on a range of key issues including confronting threat of terror and boosting trade and investment.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the leaders will discuss ways to address "pressing international and regional challenges that stand in the way of our goals".

"I am optimistic that the BRICS Summit will strengthen intra-BRICS cooperation and advance our common agenda for development, peace, stability and reform," the Prime Minister said in a Facebook post.

The five BRICS countries represent over 3.6 billion people, or half of the world population and they have a combined GDP of USD 16.6 trillion.

India is likely to push for unity among the BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) members to remove the logjam at the UN on the Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism (CCIT) for effectively dealing with terror. Initiated by India, the CCIT is stuck at the UN due to lack of agreement among its members about the definition of terrorism.

India is also expected to push for enhanced cooperation among BRICS nations in the area of counter-terrorism.

Preceding the BRICS summit, Modi is likely to raise the issue of terrorism with Putin and other leaders tomorrow when a series of bilateral meetings are slated at the seaside venue.

Addressing a press conference today, India's envoy to Russia Pankaj Saran, replying to a question on Russia's recent military exercise with Pakistan, said India expected Moscow to reflect on its concerns.

As the top leaders of the grouping meet within weeks of Uri attack by Pakistan-based terrorists, India will be forceful in its demand at BRICS Summit as also the BIMSTEC outreach meet being held the same day, for intensified efforts to tackle terrorism, including action against countries providing safe havens to terrorists and arming them.

"Representing nearly two thirds of humanity together, we hope to tap the potential for cooperation and the dividends this will bring," Modi said on the first-ever BRICS-BIMSTEC Outreach Summit.

India has made strong references both at UNGA as well as G-20 regarding Pakistan's continued support to cross-border terrorism. .

अमेरिका ने भारत एवं पाकिस्तान के बीच वार्ता, सहयोग की अपील की

वाशिंगटन, 14 अक्तूबर :भाषा: अमेरिका ने भारत एवं पाकिस्तान के बीच हाल में पैदा हुआ तनाव कम करने के लिए दोनों देशों से वार्ता एवं सहयोग बढ़ाने की अपील करते हुए कहा है कि उन्हें अपने ‘‘विवादास्पद मसले’’ सुलझाने के लिए ‘‘सुलह समझौता करने का दृष्टिकोण’’ अपनाना चाहिए।

अमेरिकी विदेश मंत्रालय के उप प्रवक्ता मार्क टोनर ने कल अपने दैनिक संवाददाता सम्मेलन में कहा, ‘‘इस मामले में हमारा आम नजरिया यह है कि हम भारत एवं पाकिस्तान के बीच वार्ता और सहयोग बढ़ते देखना चाहते हैं।’’ टोनर ने कहा, ‘‘सच कहूं तो इससे दोनों देशों को लाभ होगा। इनमें निश्चित रूप से सुरक्षा मामले शामिल हंै। हम तनाव कम होते देखना चाहते हैं और हम दोनों देशों के बीच सहयोग बढ़ते देखना चाहते है।’’ उन्होंने कहा कि कश्मीर पर अमेरिकी की स्थिति में बदलाव नहीं हुआ है। कई वषरें के युद्ध के बाद एक स्थिर एवं सुरक्षित अफगानिस्तान को उभरते देखना भारत एवं पाकिस्तान दोनों के हित में होगा।

टोनर ने कहा, ‘‘निस्संदेह भारत एवं पाकिस्तान के बीच कई विवादपूर्ण मसले हैं लेकिन हम क्षेत्रीय सुरक्षा के हित में दोनों को प्रोत्साहित करेंगे कि वे एक दूसरे के प्रति सुलह समझौते का दृष्टिकोण अपनाएं और क्षेत्र की भलाई के लिए इनमें से कुछ मसलों को सुलझाने पर काम करें।’

Two new women say Trump groped them as campaign reels

By Steve Holland and Dan Whitcomb | GREENSBORO, N.C./LOS ANGELES

Two more women came forward on Friday with allegations that Donald Trump had groped them, including a contestant on his reality show, "The Apprentice," as the Republican presidential candidate said accusations of sexual misconduct against him were part of a plot to discredit him a month ahead of the election.

The new accusations come as Trump slips further behind Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in national opinion polls ahead of the Nov. 8 election. A Reuters/Ipsos survey this week showed him lagging Clinton by 8 percentage points among likely voters.

Summer Zervos, who competed on the television show's fifth season in 2006, gave a news conference with celebrity attorney Gloria Allred in Los Angeles, saying Trump tried to get her to lie down on a bed with him when she met him in 2007 to discuss a possible job.

"He then asked me to sit next to him. I complied. He then grabbed my shoulder and began kissing me again very aggressively and placed his hand on my breast," said Zervos.

Separately, the Washington Post published an interview with a woman who said Trump put his hand up her skirt in a crowded New York nightclub in the early 1990s in an unwanted advance, when she had never even met him.

"He did touch my vagina through my underwear, absolutely," Kristin Anderson said in a video interview on the newspaper's website. “It wasn’t a sexual come-on. I don’t know why he did it. It was like just to prove that he could do it," she told the paper. Anderson could not immediately be reached for comment.

The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the new allegations. But at a campaign rally on Friday afternoon, Trump angrily denounced the allegations that have been made about him by a series of women in recent days, calling the women "sick" and saying that all the accusations were fabricated.

"I don’t know who these people are. I look on television, I think it’s a disgusting thing and it’s being pushed, they have no witnesses, there’s nobody around," Trump said at the rally in Greensboro, N.C..

"Some are doing it for probably a little fame, they get some free fame. It’s a total set-up. Now suddenly after many, many years, phony accusers come out less than a month before one of the most important elections in the history of our country," he said.

Trump's White House campaign has been scrambling to recover from the release a week ago of a 2005 video in which he bragged about groping women and making unwanted sexual advances. While Trump said the video was just talk and he had never behaved in this way, multiple women subsequently went public with allegations of sexual misconduct against the New York real estate magnate going back three decades.

SUPPORT FROM PENCE

Earlier on Friday, Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence defended Trump. "Stay tuned. I know there's more information that's going to be coming out that will back his claim that this is all categorically false," Pence told CBS show "This Morning."

Pence did not give any details about what information would be forthcoming. Trump also said on Thursday that he would make public information showing the allegations against him were false, without giving details.

In denying the allegations, Trump has said The New York Times, which published two women's claims, and other media, along with Clinton, are engaged in a vicious campaign to stop him from winning the election.

The Times reported on Wednesday that two women said they had endured unwanted groping or kisses from the former TV personality. Several other women made allegations of sexual aggression by Trump in various media outlets following that report.

Reuters could not independently verify the incidents. The Times said on Thursday it stood by its story and rejected charges the article was libelous after a lawyer for Trump threatened legal action and demanded a retraction.

Trump on Friday mocked one of the women cited in the Times article, Jessica Leeds. "Yeah, I’m going to go after. Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you. You don’t know. That would not be my first choice." Leeds, who is now 74, alleged that Trump groped her on a flight to New York, in or around 1980.

He called Natasha Stoynoff, a reporter who wrote in People magazine that Trump kissed her and pinned her against a wall, a "liar" and told the rally to "check out her Facebook page, you'll understand."

DISPUTES WITH MEXICO

Trump also accused Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim - the top shareholder in The New York Times Company - of helping to generate the reports of sexual misconduct.

He said Slim, as a donor to the Clinton Foundation charity who also holds a 17.35 percent stake in the Times, has an interest in helping her White House campaign.

"He’s given many millions of dollars to the Clintons and their initiatives," Trump said. "Reporters at the New York Times, they’re not journalists, they’re corporate lobbyists for Carlos Slim and for Hillary Clinton," he said.

Arturo Elias, Slim's spokesman and son-in-law, said Slim had "absolutely no contact" with the newspaper's reporters or editors on their Trump campaign coverage and "zero" contact with the paper's news operations.

New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said in a statement, "Carlos Slim is an excellent shareholder who fully respects boundaries regarding the independence of our journalism. He has never sought to influence what we report."

Trump's allegation about Slim was the latest chapter in a running series of skirmishes he has had with Mexico and Mexicans.

Trump kicked off his campaign last year accusing Mexico of sending rapists and drug dealers to the United States and promised to build a wall along the southern U.S. border that he said he would make Mexico pay for.

He also pledged to tear up or revise the North American Free Trade Agreement. The Mexican peso slid to record lows in September when Trump was close to Clinton in opinion polls, but the currency has since climbed back.

(Additional reporting by Emily Stephenson, Doina Chiacu, Susan Cornwell, Michael O'Boyle, Anna Driver, Jessica Toonkel, Jeff Mason, Timothy Gardner; Writing by Roberta Rampton and Doina Chiacu; Editing by Alistair Bell and Frances Kerry)

Scientists have created a nano-material that produces alcohol from the air

Scientists are studying the structure of the catalyst, converting CO2 into alcohol

MOSCOW, Oct. 13 -. RIA Novosti Physicists in the US have created a special "nanotip" graphene and copper, which use electric current energy to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) in the ethanol molecule - the usual alcohol, according to a paper published in the journal ChemistrySelect.

"We actually accidentally discovered that this material works, how it works. Initially we just wanted to implement the first step of this reaction, but we quickly realized in the course of experiments, the catalyst is carried out all the reaction itself, without intervention from our side" - said Adam Rondinon (Adam Rondinone) National laboratory in Oak Ridge (USA).

In recent years, scientists are actively trying to find a way to atmospheric CO2 conversion into biofuels and other valuable substances. For example, in July this year physics from Chicago presented an unusual solar battery of nanomaterials, which directly uses light energy to cleave molecules of carbon dioxide and the production of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, from which you can get methane, ethanol and other biofuels.

Solar battery and installation of artificial photosynthesis

Physicists have created solar cells that convert CO2 into fuel

Rondinon and his colleagues have brought this process to its logical end, trying to find new and more effective ways of CO2 splitting into carbon monoxide and oxygen, without generating other reaction by-products which are useless or even prevent the production of biofuels from carbon dioxide.

As the main material for this catalyst, the scientists chose copper, whose electrochemical properties are ideal for the recovery of CO2 in the carbon monoxide and other molecules.

The problem is that the copper plate and the nanoparticles are converted to CO2 is not a single substance, but to several tens molecules whose presence and concentration dependent voltage, which is passed through the catalyst. This makes it virtually impossible for the industrial use of these splitters CO2.

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Physicists have learned to "break down" the water into hydrogen and nail polish

Physicists at the Oak Ridge solved this problem by using another promising nanomaterial - graphene. Crumpling the graphene sheets in a kind of "bunching", the scientists planted their folds copper nanoparticles, which led to the fact that CO2 molecules are cleaved in strictly designated areas - on the tops of graphene "nanotip".

This enabled US researchers to flexibly control what happens in the course of digestion, and cause CO2 to turn almost always in a conventional ethyl alcohol - on average, about 60% of the molecules of carbon dioxide is converted into ethanol.

Scientists do not know exactly what happens at these points, however, they suggest that graphene folds interfere with the complete restoration of the CO2 molecules and thereby prevent them to turn into ethylene, ethane and other hydrocarbons, as well as focus and redirect streams of electrons on the copper nanoparticles.

Scientists found that transforms man into an alcoholic

This technology for producing alcohol from the air, according to physicists, is almost completely ready for industrial application - the cost of such catalysts is low, and they can be produced in any quantity. As scientists believe, their invention can be used for storing surplus energy collected by solar panels or wind turbines, in the form of alcohol which can then be used as a biofuel for vehicles or as a working body for fuel cells.

The New York Times refused to withdraw an article about Trump and ready for trial

US presidential candidate Donald Trump in the debate

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 -. RIA Novosti, Alexei Bogdanovsky leading American newspaper New York Times has rejected the demands of the US presidential candidate of the Republican Party, Donald Trump, who demanded to withdraw the paper from the accusations against him, it said in a statement edition lawyers. The lawyers also say that the newspaper is ready to sue Trump.

The edition published on the eve of the story of two American women who accused Trump of harassment.

"You are asking us to" removed (article) from the web site and immediately issued a retraction and an apology, "We refuse to do it." - Said in a letter to lawyers New York Times lawyers Trump, which was published on Thursday.

Trump denies new accusations of molesting women

Lawyer paper lists a number of other charges against Trump, adding that the statements of women, published by the newspaper, not the only ones. "Nothing in this article did not have the slightest impact on the reputation that Mr. Trump himself has created his own words and actions," - said in a statement.

"We welcome the opportunity to correct his judgment (position)", - concluded the lawyers newspaper.

The video, in which Trump was published last week in vulgar terms boasts that women let him kiss her and grabbing her hands, because it "Star". On Wednesday, the New York Times newspaper and the Palm Beach Post published the statements of three women accused Trump that he had no authorization snapped their hands many years ago. Also journalist People published a detailed report, which stated that Trump attacked her during an interview. TV channel CBS unveiled a video 20 years ago, in which Trump promises a 10-year-old girl that would meet her in ten years.

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