Новости за 08.06.2017

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state has begun accepting applications for its new tuition-free college program. More than 3,000 people signed up for the Excelsior scholarship Wednesday, the first day the applications were available. They’ll be accepted through July 21. Applicants should know within a week whether they’re eligible to receive funding. The tuition […]

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Authorities in northeast Nigeria say at least six people are dead and dozens are wounded after Boko Haram extremists launched a series of attacks on the capital of Borno state. The jihadists attacked late Wednesday as evening prayers were ending, targeting four locations throughout Maiduguri. The violence came as soldiers were […]

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A decorated war veteran with two decades’ experience in military intelligence, Lt. Col. Faye Cuevas spent half her career providing intelligence support to U.S. counter-insurgencies in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa. Now she is using her expertise to fight a different kind of conflict: the war on wildlife poaching. […]

TUNKHANNOCK, Pa. (AP) — State Police say four people are dead in a murder-suicide in a northeast Pennsylvania supermarket. Troopers responded to a report of someone shooting people inside Weis Market in Eaton Township, about 25 miles northwest of Scranton, just before 1 a.m. Thursday. Troopers found the bodies of two males and two females […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — This city knows how to do big hearings — even Titanic ones. Dramatic congressional hearings are something of a Washington art form, a rite of democracy carefully crafted for the cameras. Suspense is building as fired FBI Director James Comey prepares to claim the microphone Thursday in an austere, modern hearing room […]

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Economic growth across the 19-country eurozone was higher than previously thought in the first quarter of the year, official figures showed Friday, further good news for policymakers at the European Central Bank as they deliberate whether to ease up on their efforts to stimulate the region’s economy. Eurostat, the European Union’s […]

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Opening statements are expected in the third trial of a newlywed bride accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill her husband. Prosecutors and attorneys for 34-year-old Dalia Dippolito are expected to present their statements Thursday to a jury of three men and three women. The case […]

BERLIN (AP) — Investor George Soros says he is confident that he will “prevail” against attacks by politicians in central and eastern Europe. The Hungarian-American billionaire, an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor, has emerged as one of the global figures hated by populists and nationalists who denounce his support for liberal causes. His detractors include the Hungarian […]

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — This year’s recipient of an award named for an Associated Press photographer killed in Afghanistan is a photojournalist who captures the quiet dignity of women and girls who have endured cruel practices such as child marriage, genital mutilation and acid attacks. New York-based freelance photographer Stephanie Sinclair will accept the […]

GANZHOU, China (AP) — When the police called, Deng Guilian was at an indoor playground watching her 3-year-old. It was 2:19 p.m., Tuesday, May 30. The man on the phone said her husband had been picked up on suspicion of making illegal recordings and taking illegal photographs. He told her she didn’t need to know […]

LONDON (AP) — Britain votes for a new Parliament and government Thursday after a campaign of three phases: the sleepy election, the surprising election and the security election. What initially seemed the dullest campaign in memory has been transformed through unexpected missteps, surprise developments — and deadly attacks that have pushed national security to the […]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is preparing to execute an inmate for the shooting deaths of three fast food restaurant workers during a 1994 robbery. Robert Bryant Melson, 46, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday evening at a south Alabama prison. State prosecutors said Melson and another man who used to work at […]

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Attorneys for a man convicted of killing his high school sweetheart, and whose story is at the center of the popular podcast “Serial,” will argue Thursday that he deserves a new trial after his conviction was vacated. Prosecutors and lawyers for Adnan Syed will present arguments before the Maryland Court of […]

Boeing is researching the possibility of commercial-passenger jets that will rely on artificial intelligence rather than pilots. Initial experimental flights, without passengers, are planned next year, with such systems taking over some of the pilot decisions.

Before this month’s Paris Air Show, Boeing executives showed the complex refashioning of its Everett manufacturing facility for the forthcoming 777X has made rapid progress and offered strong hints that a medium-range 797 plane is waiting in the wings.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s latest launches of several suspected anti-ship missiles were short-range and landed well short of past efforts, but they still served as a defiant message for its enemies that Pyongyang will continue to pursue a weapons program that has rattled its neighbors and Washington. The projectiles were fired Thursday […]

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — A young woman charged with leaking U.S. government secrets to a reporter poses no flight risk if she’s released from pre-trial confinement, her parents said, though they fear prosecutors will seek to use the case to send a tough message from the Trump administration. It will be difficult for 25-year-old Reality […]

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Richard Donner may have created the modern superhero movie with 1978’s “Superman” and revitalized the buddy comedy with “Lethal Weapon,” but his colleagues say his big-hearted kindness is what truly sets him apart. Actor Corey Feldman said Donner paid for his rehab years after they worked together on “The Goonies.” […]

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian police said Thursday they have arrested a man on suspicion of helping Indonesians to join Islamic militants who overran a city in the southern Philippines and two others who allegedly helped inspire a double suicide bombing in Jakarta. National police spokesman Martinus Sitompul said a man arrested Tuesday in the […]

CLEVELAND (AP) — LeBron James and Kyrie Irving couldn’t be stopped. J.R. Smith finally got started. The Cleveland Cavaliers were so much better than in the previous two games. They’re just not good enough to beat what may be one of the NBA’s best teams ever. The Cavaliers fell into a 3-0 hole in the […]

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — It was 10 a.m. and the newly promoted lieutenant was already sweating under his plastic face shield and black flak jacket. A few days before, the 28-year-old who goes by the name of Catire had watched a national guardsman get his arm broken at a protest. A week earlier, a friend […]

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A major church in Indonesia’s predominantly Christian Papua province says a riot in the provincial capital last month was sparked by the military burning Bibles, contradicting the police account of events. A report by the Evangelical Christian Church in Papua says a priest and another man from a local congregation took […]

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s top electoral court is considering whether to annul what is left of President Michel Temer’s term because of allegations his ticket received illegal campaign contributions. While the Superior Electoral Tribunal is the most immediate risk to Temer’s political survival, it’s only one of several. Temer, vowing to continue in […]

Amazon says it has lent more than $3 billion to small businesses peddling merchandise on its website through a program dubbed Amazon Lending. The program began in 2011 with the mandate to help these businesses grow their inventory.

BEIJING (AP) — U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry says America and China have “extraordinary opportunities” to work together on clean energy, amid global criticism of President Donald Trump’s decision last week to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement. In a meeting Thursday with Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli on the sidelines of […]