Новости за 02.03.2016

TUNIS, Tunisia - Tunisian security forces have killed five heavily armed men in an hours-long firefight after they crossed into the country from Libya with a larger group.

SALEM, Oregon - Oregon's governor on Wednesday signed trailblazing legislation that will raise the minimum wage to nearly $15 in six years and do so through a three-tiered system that has not been tried anywhere else in the country.

WASHINGTON - Electronic cigarettes are prohibited on any domestic or foreign airline flying to, from or within the United States under a final rule the government issued Wednesday.

BRUSSELS - Following Donald Trump's breathtaking string of Super Tuesday victories, politicians, editorial writers and ordinary people worldwide were coming to grips Wednesday with the growing possibility the brash New York billionaire might become America's next president_a thought that aroused widespread befuddlement and a good deal of horror.

CALAIS, France - Six Iranian migrants have sewed their mouths shut to protest the mass evictions and destruction of a large swath of a migrant camp in northern France in a desperate bid to bring attention to their plight.

NEW YORK - The government has for the first time reached its goal of giving 5 percent of federal contracting dollars to small businesses owned by women.

DETROIT - Toyota is adding 331,000 cars worldwide to an existing recall of passenger air bags made by Japanese supplier Takata Corp.

NEW YORK - The Tribeca Film Festival unveiled the first half of its annual slate of films Wednesday, a record third of which are from female directors including Sophia Takal and Ingrid Jungermann.

INDIANAPOLIS - Gov. Mike Pence has met with executives from a company planning to close two Indiana factories, but said afterward he didn't want to give any false hope of the 2,100 jobs staying in the state.

CANDIA, New Hampshire - A New Hampshire state representative has been accused of trying to lure a 14-year-old girl into a sexual encounter.

SCOTTSVILLE, Kentucky - A man who called himself The Reverend dialed 911 to say he was the father of the human race.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas - No charges will be filed after an incident at Texas A&M University in which black high school students touring campus reported being subjected to racial slurs and taunts, the university said Wednesday.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - The IOC has identified 43 potential candidates for a special team of refugee athletes who will compete at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

CLAREMONT, California - A creative writing instructor from Indiana is this year's winner of Claremont Graduate University's $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is looking for a few good computer hackers.

GROTON, Connecticut - Feral cats are stalking a submarine base in Connecticut, and officials say anyone caught feeding the felines will face disciplinary action.

DORAL, Florida - Rory McIlroy is shaking up his putting technique by going to a cross-handed grip for the Cadillac Championship, and he plans to stick with it.

EULESS, Texas - The Latest on a slain North Texas police officer who was shot and later died (all times local):

WASHINGTON - Debris that washed up in Mozambique has been tentatively identified as a part from the same type of aircraft as the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a U.S. official said Wednesday.

JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania - A suspended Pennsylvania priest has been sentenced to nearly 17 years in prison for sexually assaulting poor street children during missionary trips to Honduras.

WINCANTON, England - Barely a year after first sitting on a horse, Olympic cycling champion Victoria Pendleton earned her first win as a jockey on Wednesday to potentially set her up for a ride at the prestigious Cheltenham Festival.

BERLIN - Volkswagen on Wednesday rejected allegations that it didn't go public early enough with information on its emissions-rigging scandal.

BARCELONA, Spain - Formula One newcomer Gene Haas got a taste of how frustrating Formula One can be, when his Mexican driver Esteban Gutierrez spent Wednesday stuck in the team garage while rivals clocked lap after lap in perfect sunny conditions.

ATLANTA - Rapper and actor A$AP Rocky will host MTV's reimagined Woodies this month.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A former Nobel Prize winner in Argentina says President Barack Obama should skip his planned March 24 visit to the country because it's the 40th anniversary of a coup that installed a military government that had U.S. backing.