Новости за 29.10.2015

SAN DIEGO - A Navy official says two sailors suffered minor injuries during a training exercise in rough seas off the Southern California coast.

JOHANNESBURG - Conservationists have long warned of increasing threats to Africa's populations of rhinos, elephants and other wildlife. Now add vultures to the list.

NEW YORK - Last season, Broadway got a play about Queen Elizabeth II. This season, it's her son's turn.

NEW YORK - Altria Group Inc. on Thursday reported a boost in third-quarter profit as higher tobacco product prices helped drive revenue.

NEW ORLEANS - Only 2 miles from the French Quarter, crews are carving a professional golf course into one of the nation's oldest and largest public parks amid outcry over the post-Katrina gentrification of New Orleans.

VIENNA - Syria berated Saudi Arabia Thursday in bitter comments foreshadowing difficulties ahead for talks gathering key players and focused on ending the conflict.

NEW YORK - For decades, breast cancer has been less common in black women than white women, yet killed black women at a higher rate.

BRUSSELS - The European Union has suspended sanctions against Belarus following smooth elections there and the government's decision to release political prisoners.

ISTANBUL - As extremist violence and political uncertainty cast a shadow over Turkey, voters are looking for Sunday's parliamentary election to usher in stability. But in a deeply polarized country, the most likely result is more confusion.

LARAMIE, Wyoming - Wyoming guard Marquelle Dent has been selected the Mountain West preseason player of the year.

NEW YORK - A year after receiving huge sums to respond to Superstorm Sandy, the American Red Cross experienced a 32 percent drop in charitable donations in 2014. It fell from ninth to 21st place among the nation's best-supported nonprofits, its lowest ranking since The Chronicle of Philanthropy began an annual survey in 1991.

ELSMERE, Delaware - Police in a Delaware town are calling on drug dealers to snitch on their competition.

JERUSALEM - Israeli forces on Thursday shot and killed two Palestinians, including one who stabbed a soldier, Israeli authorities said, the latest in a string of clashes in the volatile West Bank city of Hebron.

LAS VEGAS - MGM Resorts says it earned $66.4 million in its third quarter, a turnaround from a loss a year ago.

DAYTON, Ohio - An Ohio county will pay $165,000 to settle a lawsuit over a body mix-up at a morgue that led to one man being incorrectly cremated and another entombed in his place.

WHITE HOUSE, Tennessee - Here are the latest developments in the search for a man accused of shooting at law officers in Tennessee and Kentucky (all times local):

WASHINGTON - It's hard to miss Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in the crowd of conference delegates.

BAGHDAD - After a night of intense rain storms pummeling Baghdad, a joke shared on social media on Thursday assures Iraqis they don't need to go far to catch a migrant boat to Europe.

In this photo by Ajit Solanki, a laborer makes firecrackers with bare hands in Ahmadabad, India. Fireworks factories in India typically pay workers $5 a day or more, while the cheapest firecrackers cost about $2 for a packet of 10 and the bigger, noisier ones can sell for up to $10. Firecrackers will be in huge demand during the festival of lights, Diwali, which starts Nov. 11 and is the country's biggest festival.

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - A South Carolina sheriff says he acted swiftly but carefully in firing a school resource officer caught on video flipping a disruptive student out of her desk and tossing her across the floor. In the wake of the firing, though, questions remain about whether the officer should have been in the classroom in the first place, and where the former deputy goes from here.

HONOLULU - Officials are investigating a possible shark attack in waters off Hawaii that left a 10-year-old boy seriously injured.

CONCORD, New Hampshire - The lawyer for the graduate of an elite New Hampshire prep school who was convicted of sexually assaulting a younger student as part of a sordid campus practice of sexual conquest is using letters from his parents and classmates in a plea for probation instead of prison.

TOMS RIVER, New Jersey - Three years ago, Superstorm Sandy slammed the New Jersey shore, destroying homes, splintering boardwalks, wrecking businesses and displacing thousands of people. Three years later, several thousand still cannot get back home due to bureaucratic red tape with government aid programs, disputes with contractors and insurance companies, and just not having enough money to complete the job. A recurring theme among these people is their sense of having been forgotten three years after the storm. Читать дальше...

LONDON - The chairman of Britain's Iraq war inquiry pledged in a letter released Thursday that his long-awaited report will be published next summer, disappointing the prime minister and families of slain service personnel who were hoping that it would happen sooner.

TOKYO - Former major leaguer Jason Standridge pitched six scoreless innings and South Korean slugger Lee Dae-ho hit a two-run homer as the Softbank Hawks beat the Yakult Swallows 5-0 on Thursday to win the Japan Series in five games.