Новости за 29.02.2016

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from farm groups challenging a federal plan that limits pollution in the Chesapeake Bay.

GENEVA (AP) — The Opel Astra has been named "Car of the Year" by nearly 60 journalists ahead of the start of the Geneva auto show, a boon for the European operations of General Motors.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks started off in neutral as traders weighed corporate earnings and inaction by the world's leading economic policymakers.

BEIRUT (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday that a shaky cease-fire in Syria is holding "by and large" despite sporadic fighting that continued across Syria and growing accusa…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian police on Monday arrested a woman who was seen waving the severed head of a small child outside a Moscow subway station. She is suspected of killing the child when it was…

CALAIS, France (AP) — Under the eye of hundreds of riot police, workers began pulling down tents and makeshift shelters in the sprawling camp in Calais on Monday, dismantling the fragile struc…

LONDON (AP) — Dozens of flights have been delayed or diverted at London's Gatwick Airport after its one runway was closed because of a suspected oil spill.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's democracy champion and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa says he might sue a history institute to court over documents it released that purport he was a communist-e…

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BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the conflict in Syria as a fragile cease-fire enters its third day (all times local):

LONDON (AP) — Global stock markets were weighed down Monday by the failure of the world's leading economic policymakers to announce any new measures to boost the global economy. Some relief em…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya wildlife authorities say they have deployed a tracking team to investigate reports that two lions were spotted outside Nairobi National Park near a residential area.

DETROIT (AP) — A retired judge who handled Detroit's bankruptcy has been appointed to run the city's deeply troubled school system.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Thousands of Hungarian parents kept their children home from school on Monday to protest the government's education policies.

WOODBRIDGE, Va. (AP) — An Army staff sergeant charged with killing his wife and a northern Virginia police officer who was on her first day on the job is set to appear in court.

ATLANTA (AP) — Weather researchers say they expect about 40 scientists from around the nation to participate in "VORTEX Southeast," an upcoming study of the unique characteristics of tornadoes…

IDOMENI, Greece (AP) — The Latest on Europe's migration crisis (all times local):

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian moderates have won a majority in parliament and a top clerical body charged with selecting the next supreme leader, dealing a major blow to hard-liners in the first…

PARIS (AP) — French authorities are investigating the death of a woman whose decomposing body was found in the garden of an Airbnb rental in suburban Paris.

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — The brother of a slain southwest Ohio pastor was expected to be charged Monday in the fatal shooting that occurred at the pastor's church office as services were winding do…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Investor Warren Buffett says he can't predict how having interest rates negative for a prolonged period will affect the economy because it has never happened before.

BEIJING (AP) — In a step to shore up slowing economic growth, China freed up more money for lending Monday by cutting the amount its banks are required to hold in reserve.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire Warren Buffett says the U.S. economy appears weaker than he thought it would be as recently as last fall, but that doesn't change his optimistic long-term view o…

BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev (TAM'-ehr-luhn tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) passed the U.S. citizenship test and denied terrorism links just months before he and his brother detonat…

IDOMENI, Greece (AP) — Macedonian police fired tear gas and stun grenades Monday as several hundred Iraqi and Syrian refugees, frustrated at days of delays in crossing the Greek-Macedonian bor…