Новости за 23.07.2015

DETROIT - Harley-Davidson is recalling more than 185,000 motorcycles in the U.S. because the saddlebags can come loose and fall off, increasing the risk of a crash.

NEW YORK - Silento, the 17-year-old rapper who's having a pop culture moment with the dance craze to his debut song, says he wants to be a role model to the young kids who have posted videos dancing to his tune.

SANAA, Yemen - Yemeni troops and local militias, backed by the Saudi-led coalition, seized full control of the strategic port city of Aden after repelling Shiite rebels from their last holdout in this southern city and were pushing on Thursday to solidify their gains, military officials said.

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey's state-run news agency says unknown attackers have fired at traffic police in Turkey's mainly-Kurdish southeast, killing one officer and seriously wounding a second.

LOS ANGELES - Jamaican singer OMI may seem like an overnight success, but his chart-topping summer hit, "Cheerleader," has been years in the making.

MADISON, Connecticut - Downtown Madison, Connecticut, has the feel of a beach town, though the beach itself is nearly 2 miles away.

BUCHAREST, Romania - Police in Romania have detained a former interior minister on charges of illegally receiving 185,000 euros ($203,000) from a businessman.

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee - Tennessee redshirt freshman lineman Charles Mosley has been arrested on a charge of driving under the influence.

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean automakers Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Motors have signed on as a domestic sponsor of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

DETROIT - Big profits from trucks and SUVs helped General Motors overcome a sales slowdown in China, economic problems in Venezuela and payments to ignition switch crash victims as the automaker's second-quarter net income rose sixfold to nearly $1.12 billion.

WYOMISSING, Pennsylvania - Penn National Gaming Inc. on Thursday reported second-quarter profit of $16.9 million.

NEWARK, New Jersey - After an expensive legal fight, a former prosecutor who sued Gov. Chris Christie's administration over his 2010 firing has been granted access by a judge to secret grand jury transcripts he says will help show he was terminated because he questioned the dropping of an indictment that involved a Christie donor who served on the governor's transition team.

DAVENPORT, Washington - A car on a Washington highway failed to negotiate a turn, crossed over the center line and slammed head-on into a semi-truck, killing four people, including an infant.

U.S. stocks are mostly higher after several companies reported earnings gains.

ROME - Popes and royals resided there in glorious splendor. An emperor dreamed in vain of doing so, too. Nowadays presidents live there.

Surging sales for new cancer, heart and hepatitis C medicines helped drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. beat Wall Street expectations, and it boosted its 2015 profit forecast.

BEIJING - The hardest part of Xu Guiyan's decision to sign a contract with the Baltimore Orioles organization was keeping the groundbreaking deal a secret.

WARSAW, Poland - Hundreds of Poland's police, firefighters and other uniformed workers have picketed the main government building to demand higher pay and modernization of their sectors.

VIENNA - Iranian Deputy Oil Minister Amir Hossein Zamaninia is telling potential European investors that Tehran is looking for foreign partnerships for oil and gas projects worth $185 billion (nearly 170 billion euros) by 2020.

Watchdog groups criticized the human rights records of China and Kazakhstan on Thursday, just over a week before the IOC decides on whether to award the 2022 Winter Olympics to Beijing or Almaty.

ELIZABETH, Indiana - State road crews have closed a portion of a southern Indiana highway that leads to a casino because of deteriorating pavement along the Ohio River roadway.

REIMS, France - The parents of a comatose French man whose family is divided over whether to continue care for him say doctors want protection for him and for themselves.

TOKYO - A Chinese envoy on Thursday warned Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe not to shirk responsibility for Japan's wartime aggression in his statement marking the 70th anniversary of the end of the hostilities.

ATLANTA - After the feel-good summer of 2014, the United States was eager to pick up another Gold Cup title and lock up its spot in the next Confederations Cup.

JOHANNESBURG - A video showing a South African and a Swedish hostage alive in Mali after three years, is a sign that their captors are willing to negotiate, the founder of a South African humanitarian organization said Thursday.