Новости за 05.04.2017

BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian monitoring group says the death toll from a suspected chemical attack on a northern town the previous day has now increased to 72 as activists reported renewed airstrikes on the town hit in the harrowing…

HELSINKI (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping is on a state visit to Finland, a stop-off en route to meet U.S. President Donald Trump.

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — ExxonMobil and partner Qatar Petroleum have signed a deal with Cyprus to carry out exploratory drilling off the east Mediterranean island's southern coast.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A powerful magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck northeastern Iran near the holy city of Mashhad on Wednesday, killing at least one person as residents fled onto the streets and aftershocks shook the region.

BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi provincial official says suicide attacks in Tikrit, north of Baghdad, have killed at least 22 people. The official, a member of the Salahuddin provincial council, says five suicide bombers on foot targeted a police patrol…

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — No doubt Florida's oceanfront Mar-a-Lago resort is an impressive site for a summit between the presidents of the U.S. and China. And it's a pretty nice business advertisement, too, for the owner of the luxurious,…

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — The Latest on the bomb explosion on the St. Petersburg subway (all times local):

WASHINGTON (AP) — Eager to show strength after a major provocation, President Donald Trump is forcefully denouncing a chemical attack he blames on Syrian President Bashar Assad but staying coy about how, if at all, the U.S. may respond.

TOKYO (AP) — Shares wavered Wednesday in Asia as regional markets appeared to shrug off the latest North Korean missile test. But trading was light ahead of U.S. data releases and meetings later in the week between President Donald Trump…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The military services are warning that their combat operations and training will be curtailed severely if Republicans and Democrats fail to end their bickering over the federal budget and pass only a stopgap spending measure, according to…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi provincial official says suicide bombings in Tikrit, north of Baghdad, have killed at least 22 people.

BRUSSELS (AP) — International donors are seeking to drum up billions of dollars in aid for war-ravaged Syria, as the U.N. Security Council readies for an emergency meeting over a suspected deadly chemical attack there.

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a vehicle carrying census workers in eastern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six people — two data collectors and four soldiers who were escorting them, a government spokesman and police…

Lorde has revealed her latest single 'Green Light' was inspired by the hand movements of Florence + The Machine's Isabella Summers on the keyboard.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Not all athletes who suffer serious head injuries are able to overcome the physical and psychological wounds.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is talking in more urgent terms about North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons, as President Donald Trump's talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping approach. One senior administration official warned that the "clock has now…

MOCOA, Colombia (AP) — People were caught off guard when a devastating flash flood surged through a small city in southern Colombia, but not everyone was surprised.

ATLANTA (AP) — Forecasters expect severe thunderstorms to move across the Southeast on Wednesday, bringing a threat of tornadoes and large hail.

NEW DELHI (AP) — Police say a Muslim man has died days after he beaten by a mob of people in western India who suspected he was transporting cows for slaughter.

ROMAGNE-SOUS-MONTFAUCON, France (AP) — Carpenter Guy Ford liked to watch fish play in the currents around his ship as it sailed for Europe to offload untested troops for a war as horrendous as it was defining for the century to…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — State Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez emerged from a large field of candidates to gain a spot in a June runoff for an open U.S. House seat from Los Angeles and his likely opponent is former city planning…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Superintendent Tony Evers easily won a third term as Wisconsin's top education official over an underfunded conservative opponent dogged by questions over whether he broke state law by using a public school account to send campaign-related…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A hospital closure in Ruston will affect all 167 employees.

Chart-topping pop star Lady Gaga is to have her Coachella set live streamed on YouTube.

Little Mix love touring America because the fans there are "incredible", and "give them everything" whenever they get on stage.