Новости за 20.08.2016

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Singapore swimmer Joseph Schooling left Rio de Janeiro known as the man who defeated Michael Phelps. And as a millionaire.

STUART, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff's office says a college student caught biting a victim's face after stabbing the man and his wife in a random attack dared deputies to test him for drugs.

JUNGLES OF PUTUMAYO, Colombia (AP) — Deep in the country's southern jungles, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia are preparing for a peace deal that they and the government say could be just weeks away. Associated Press journalists recently visited…

PHELAN, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on California wildfires (all times local):

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man accused of slamming his fiancée's 8-year-old son onto the floor for not cleaning his room has been ordered to stand trial in the boy's death.

LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Coach Jay Gruden decided Friday to give Kirk Cousins the night off and start Colt McCoy at quarterback in the Washington Redskins' preseason game against the New York Jets.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A man who helped translate conversations between Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte, his teammates and armed security guards at a gas station says a gun wasn't pointed at them during the encounter.

ST. AMANT, La. (AP) — Louisiana continues to dig itself out from devastating floods, with search parties going door to door looking for survivors or bodies trapped by flooding so powerful in some cases it disturbed the dead and sent…

BOSTON (AP) — Kanye West's pop-up clothing store has opened in downtown Boston.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Libertarian presidential candidate and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson is courting voters in his home state with a weekend political rally as he pushes to break through the two-party political barrier.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Tight end Kyle Rudolph's two most productive seasons for the Minnesota Vikings were those in which he played every game.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Maggie Steffens and the U.S. women's water polo team stood on the top step of the podium and belted out the national anthem through a mixture of smiles and tears.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — With her arms raised in victory, coach Silvia Neid ran onto the field to join the celebration of Germany's first Olympic gold medal — even jumping onto the players' dogpile.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Britain was thoroughly outplayed, yet weathered everything the star-studded Netherlands team could muster.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals didn't have a postseason prayer. Until, that is, a praying mantis showed up in their dugout.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Paralympics will go ahead in Rio next month but organizers say deep budget cuts mean one venue will close down, facilities will be dismantled and the workforce will be reduced.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The latest on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):

BEIJING (AP) — China and Myanmar said Saturday that they have pledged to forge closer ties as "blood brothers," as Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi got set to wrap up a visit to Beijing, her first diplomatic trip since…

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (AP) — For pundits and politicos baffled by the appeal of a wealthy New York businessman to the struggling white working class in Appalachia and Rust Belt mill towns, J.D. Vance's book "Hillbilly Elegy" is offering some insights.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Communist rebels in the Philippines have fought one of Asia's longest-running insurgencies. Although less numerous and less violent than Muslim separatist rebels in the country's south, the Maoists have outlived successive Philippine administrations and held out…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry is arriving in Africa on Monday for talks in Kenya and Nigeria on countering terrorism before visiting Saudi Arabia to discuss the conflict in Yemen.

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Mosques are going up, women are covering up, and shops selling alcoholic beverages are shutting down in a changing Algeria where, slowly but surely, Muslim fundamentalists are gaining ground.

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says his country is willing to accept a role for Syrian President Bashar Assad during a transitional period in Syria.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Saturday that a senior North Korean diplomat who recently defected to South Korea is a criminal and "human scum," in its first official response to the defection.