Новости за 24.03.2016

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The Latest on the verdict in the case of Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic (all times local):

POUGHKEEPSIE, New York - Emergency officials say nearly 60 high school students have been treated after their crew boats capsized in high winds on a frigid New York river.

WARSAW, Poland - Poland's president has thrown his support behind the government's decision to renege on a deal to accept thousands of refugees amid security concerns raised by Tuesday's attacks in Brussels.

HOT SPRINGS, Arkansas - Oaklawn Park says it will offer the highest purses in the track's history for the final three weeks of racing season.

LONDON - West Ham's new home from next season will seat 60,000 fans after the capacity for soccer at London's Olympic Stadium was increased following strong demand for season tickets.

BRISBANE, Australia - The son of three-time Formula One champion Jack Brabham has been found guilty of the rape and indecent treatment of a young girl.

TOKYO - Five Japanese journalists accused Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government Thursday of pressuring broadcasters to reduce criticism of its policies, but also lamented what they called a failure by media to live up to their convictions.

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota - The Augustana University men's basketball team has advanced to the semifinals of the NCAA Division II basketball tournament.

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - Kyrgyzstan on Thursday accused Uzbekistan of building up its military presence at their shared border in retaliation for Kyrgyzstan's attempt to reclaim a water reservoir at a contested spot.

BUFFALO, New York - A former truck driver from New York state has been sentenced to life behind bars in a child sex abuse case less than two years after his brother was sentenced to more than 100 years for molesting children.

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey's military says its jets have carried out new airstrikes targeting Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri - Kansas City has a wide-open selection of bars to help the business traveler shake off that last meeting and down beverages poured from full-size bottles not found in the mini-bar.

CANBERRA, Australia - Authorities in Australia were tight-lipped Thursday about the circumstances surrounding the death of an experienced Qantas Airways Boeing 747 pilot, who crashed a small plane off the country's coast this week.

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi military backed by U.S.-led coalition aircraft on Thursday launched a long-awaited operation to recapture the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State militants, a military spokesman said.

LONDON - Rescue teams have found the bodies of two climbers who had been missing for more than a month on Britain's highest peak.

BEIJING - A top Chinese university may have been duped by a man who received gifts and attended fundraisers by posing as a scion of the Rothschild banking family, a school official said.

INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is facing a deadline to take action on a measure that would ban abortions because of fetal genetic abnormalities such as Down syndrome.

BANGKOK - Thai police said Thursday they arrested 15 Malaysians trying to smuggle millions of dollars of crystal meth and heroin stashed in luggage on a train bound for Malaysia.

LONDON - A British man has been arrested after posting anti-Muslim tweets following the Brussels attacks.

MADRID - Spain's court of arbitration for sport has upheld steeplechase runner Angel Mullera's two-year ban for failing to appear for a scheduled drug test.

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia says one of its patrol ships fired shots at two Taiwanese vessels suspected of illegal fishing only after they ignored repeated warnings to leave Indonesian waters in the Strait of Malacca.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealand has voted to keep its current flag by a margin of 57 percent to 43 percent in a nationwide poll that ended Thursday.

MOSCOW - Two days after industrial workers at a plant in eastern Russia threatened to go on hunger strike over unpaid salaries, the company is due to declare bankruptcy.

MOSCOW - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called Thursday for countries to boost efforts to fight the Islamic State group in Syria, Iraq and beyond in the wake of this week's deadly attacks in Brussels.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - A United Nations war crimes tribunal is passing judgment Thursday on former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, a landmark case against one of the alleged architects of Serb atrocities during Bosnia's 1992-95 war that left 100,000 dead.