Новости за 16.02.2016

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are climbing Tuesday and building on their gains from late last week. Strong quarterly reports are boosting companies including Hormel Foods and Restaurant Brands Intern…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Canadian Pacific plans to ask federal regulators for preliminary approval of the structure of its proposed takeover of Norfolk Southern railroad.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The home of a late Philadelphia mob boss has been nominated to become a city historical landmark, 35 years after he was shot to death in a car in front of it.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A judge questioned jurors Tuesday as a former BP rig supervisor went on trial for a misdemeanor pollution charge from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster in the Gulf…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Auditors have reported finding unchecked squalor including rodents, vermin, mold and fire hazards in New York homeless shelters, faulting inadequate state oversight.

BEIRUT (AP) — Russia on Tuesday denied its warplanes carried out strikes on a Syrian hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders that killed at least nine people, as Syrian government forces…

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — He was a teacher at an Islamic school, known in his hometown in northwestern Somalia as a talkative, religious man with a sense of humor.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Oil powerhouses Russia and Saudi Arabia joined Qatar and Venezuela in pledging Tuesday to cap their crude output if other producers do the same, aiming to ha…

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says it may be necessary to use controversial methods like genetically modified mosquitoes to wipe out the insects that are spreading the Zika virus…

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is recalling about 200,000 Saab and Saturn cars in the U.S. and Canada to replace the Takata driver's air bag inflators.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Car, truck and bus maker Daimler AG has given CEO Dieter Zetsche a three-year extension of his contract, a few days after the company reported record annual profits.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight years after the financial crisis, the world is coming to grips with an unpleasant realization: serious weaknesses still plague the global economy, and emergency help ma…

U.S. homebuilders are feeling less confident about their sales prospects ahead of the spring home-selling season, though they remain positive overall that the housing market will continue to i…

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Dallas Cowboys cornerback Brandon Carr is encouraging athletes to help his hometown of Flint, Michigan, amid the city's crisis with lead-tainted water.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Latest on Pope Francis' visit to Mexico (all times local):

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Hundreds of letters that a Polish Cardinal and later Pope John Paul II wrote to a woman philosopher document a "difficult" and "courageous" friendship of 32 years and sug…

CAIRO (AP) — Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a veteran Egyptian diplomat who helped negotiate his country's landmark peace deal with Israel but then clashed with the United States when he served a sing…

NEW YORK (AP) — Pfizer will book a charge of nearly $785 million after its Wyeth subsidiary reached a deal to resolve some litigation over the calculation of Medicaid rebates for its severe he…

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Four U.S. journalists arrested in Bahrain while covering the anniversary of the island nation's 2011 uprising were charged, released and flew out of the country Tuesday,…

MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has called on the country's embattled prime minister to resign, a move that would break apart the fragile ruling coalition.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The arrests and killings of four African-American men accused of raping a white woman in Groveland, Florida, in 1949 is considered one of the great miscarriages of justice…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The decision by the Pentagon to allow women to serve in all combat jobs has put new focus on an often-forgotten U.S. institution: the Selective Service.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — UN Security Council announces that former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has died.

LONDON (AP) — The latest on the turmoil in global financial markets (all times local):

OAKVILLE, Ontario (AP) — Restaurant Brands International on Tuesday reported a fourth-quarter profit that beat expectations, as a key sales figure rose at Burger King and Tim Hortons.