Новости за 27.09.2015

BANGUI, Central African Republic - Hospital workers in Central African Republic say at least 36 people have been killed in sectarian violence in the capital this weekend.

CAIRO - Egypt said Sunday that 55 of its citizens are among the more than 700 people who died in a crush of Muslim pilgrims during this year's hajj in Saudi Arabia.

PORTLAND, Maine - As waters warm off the coast of New England, black sea bass are moving north and, fishermen say, threatening the region's most valuable aquatic species: the lobster.

BERLIN - German media reported Sunday that Volkswagen was warned years ago about the use of illegal tricks to defeat emissions tests.

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin sharply criticized U.S. military support for Syrian rebels, describing it as not only illegal but counterproductive, in an interview broadcast Sunday before his meeting with President Barack Obama.

JERUSALEM - Christian schools in Israel said Sunday they would end a nearly monthlong strike over cuts in government funding after reaching an agreement with the Education Ministry.

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico - Three boy scouts and their pilot are alive after a small plane crash in New Mexico.

CHARLESTON, West Virginia - Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship heads to trial Thursday on numerous counts of conspiracy and lying to federal financial regulators. He's the highest-ranking executive charged in the April 2010 underground explosion that killed 29 men at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, West Virginia.

KABUL, Afghanistan - Islamic State gunmen attacked checkpoints in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing three police in the group's first attack on the country's security forces, Afghan officials said.

CHARLESTON, West Virginia - Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship hits the courtroom for a criminal trial Thursday, facing charges that he conspired to break safety laws and lied to financial regulators about safety practices at the site of the deadliest U.S. mine explosion in more than four decades.

LOUDON, New Hampshire - Furniture Row Racing has picked up the 2016 option on Martin Truex Jr's contract.

ALCANIZ, Spain - Jorge Lorenzo took the lead at the start of the Aragon MotoGP on Sunday and held on for victory after Marc Marquez's early fall to move closer to points leader Valentino Rossi in the title race.

Marseille's miserable start to the season continued with a 2-1 home defeat Sunday to newly promoted Angers.

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Nepal started imposing restrictions on the movement of vehicles on Sunday as a blockade of cargo trucks trying to enter the country from neighboring India continued to severely limit supplies of fuel and other essential commodities.

PARIS - Six French jet fighters targeted and destroyed an Islamic State training camp in eastern Syria, President Francois Hollande said Sunday, making good on a promise to go after the group that the president has said is planning attacks against several countries, including France.

JOHANNESBURG - Rebels in Sudan's Darfur region ambushed a South African unit that is part of a U.N.-African Union peacekeeping mission on Sunday, killing one soldier and seriously injuring another, the South African military said.

CHISINAU, Moldova - Some 20,000 people have protested against Moldova's government, days after the International Monetary Fund said it would not negotiate a new loan agreement with the pro-European leadership which says it needs the money to pay salaries and pensions.

ATLANTA - Georgia is preparing to execute the lone woman on the state's death row.

ROME - Roma will be without forwards Francesco Totti and Edin Dzeko for up to four weeks after both were injured during Saturday's 5-1 drubbing of Carpi.

MOSCOW - Zenit St. Petersburg's Brazilian striker Hulk claimed he was racially abused during a match against Spartak Moscow in the Russian Premier League.

BERLIN - A member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's party has proposed a radical solution for Berlin's troubled new airport: tearing it down and starting from scratch.

RICHMOND, Virginia - One of the first things riders are required to do after crossing the finish line at the world championships is turn right, follow the bright red signs and report to doping control.

LONDON - British police have arrested two teenagers on suspicion of arson after a fire damaged one of Europe's biggest mosques.

MILAN - Heidi Klum gently, but persistently cajoled her boyfriend Vito Schnabel buy her a giant plastic snail at the 7th annual Milan amfAR auction, nudging up the price of the sculpture and helping raise a Milan record of $1.6 million for the charity.

JERUSALEM - The Israeli military says it has suspended an officer after soldiers were caught on camera assaulting a pair of Agence France-Press journalists in the West Bank.