Новости за 22.02.2016

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Four people have been arrested after they were caught with 1,200 donkey hides in Botswana, unravelling an export syndicate linked to China, where the hide is valued for med…

LONDON (AP) — With its red, white and blue banners, patriotic slogans and ubiquitous country songs, the presidential campaign marching through South Carolina and Nevada seems like an all-Ameri…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Amid the raucous cheering at Temple University basketball games, two new voices have joined the crowd — and they're speaking Mandarin.

PANMUNJOM, North Korea (AP) — Tensions have increased significantly along the Demilitarized Zone since North Korea's recent nuclear test and rocket launch, a North Korean military official tol…

NEW YORK (AP) — Energy stocks are leading an early rally on Wall Street after the price of crude oil surged.

BERLIN (AP) — Alaa Ammar fled Syria to escape not just civil war but also the threat of persecution as a gay man. Yet when he arrived in The Netherlands last spring, he did not find the safe h…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Latest on the migrant crisis in Europe (all times local):

BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group on Monday released the last of some 230 Assyrian Christians kidnapped a year ago in Syria after the receiving millions of dollars in ransom, Christian off…

NEW YORK (AP) — Lumber Liquidators' stock is plunging in premarket trading Monday as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now says people exposed to certain types of the company's la…

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A former Miss America contestant died early Monday, a week after her car spun off a New Jersey highway and crashed into trees.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook acknowledged to employees Monday that "it does not feel right" to refuse to help the FBI hack a locked iPhone used by a gunman in the San Bernardino m…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was meeting Monday with representatives of some of the protesting farmers who have staged blockades of the country's highways for the …

VIENNA (AP) — The head of the U.N. nuclear agency warned Monday of the dangers of nuclear material falling into the hands of terrorists and urged world nations to apply an agreement meant to m…

OLYMPIA, Wash. — A Senate panel is beginning its formal hearings into its inquiry into the erroneous early release of prisoners in Washington state.

Recent reports of criminal activity from our local law enforcement agencies.

JOAO PESSOA, Brazil (AP) — A 16-member team of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is starting work on a "case-control" study aimed at determining whether the Zika virus really…

HAVANA (AP) — Cuban President Raul Castro says he is assigning 9,000 military personnel to efforts to keep the Zika virus out of Cuba, calling on the entire country to help kill the mosquito t…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish state archive released documents Monday which allegedly show that democracy leader and former president Lech Walesa collaborated with the communist secret police…

HELSINKI (AP) — A Swedish think-tank says global arms exports increased 14 percent during the five years to 2015, with the U.S. retaining top position after its sales grew 27 percent from the …

IDOMENI, Greece (AP) — Greece's government warned Monday it expected a growing number of stranded migrants and asylum seekers after neighbor Macedonia further restricted border access at the w…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Residents of the Syrian capital expressed skepticism on Monday about reports that a "provisional agreement" has been reached for a truce, a day after a wave of Islamic S…

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Moroccan officials and state media say authorities in the country dismantled a 10-person terrorist cell operating under Islamic State "supervision" that was plotting immi…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As authorities look for the reasons why a Michigan man allegedly embarked on a mass shooting spree over the weekend, the ride-hailing service Uber is addressing his record…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The world champion of the ancient board game Go, South Korean Lee Sedol, expects to prevail in a match with Google's computer program AlphaGo next month, but he's not…

BERLIN (AP) — The leader of a rising German nationalist party is rejecting accusations that her rhetoric has helped stoke anti-migrant hatred, and says her party offers a "very necessary" opti…