Новости за 27.03.2016

BAGHDAD - Influential Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr met with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi Sunday night after beginning a sit-in in Baghdad's highly fortified Green Zone intended to be a show of force following his calls to combat government corruption.

CAL-NEV-ARI, Nevada - Buying your own town is as easy as buying 500 acres of vacant land located just 70 miles south of Las Vegas from the founder of a place called Cal-Nev-Ari.

KEY BISCAYNE, Florida - Two-time champion Victoria Azarenka overcame five double-faults and held every service game to beat qualifier Magda Linette 6-3, 6-0 Sunday at the Miami Open.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri - Firefighters grappling with the biggest wildfire in Kansas history got a welcomed Easter assist from pre-dawn snowfall over the hardest-hit area, though the looming prospect of flame-fanning winds threatened to undermine the effort.

NEW YORK - Here are some things to know about Jim Harrison, who died Saturday at age 78:

PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida - Steven Matz pitched one-hit ball for 5 2/3 innings, David Wright and Michael Conforto homered and the New York Mets tied the split-squad Washington Nationals 4-4 Sunday.

LEXINGTON, Kentucky - Chantel Osahor and Kelsey Plum always believed they could help make Washington a championship-caliber program.

AMMAN, Jordan - Jordan will get a cheap $100 million loan to help create 100,000 jobs for Syrian refugees and its own citizens, the World Bank president said Sunday.

NEW YORK - Japan's space agency says communication has failed with a newly launched, innovative satellite with X-ray telescopes meant to study black holes and other space mysteries.

INDIANAPOLIS - The city of Carmel is planning to widen the Monon Greenway through its downtown in an effort to keep the trail from being overcrowded by new businesses in the area.

LONDON - England goalkeeper Jack Butland fractured his ankle in Saturday's friendly victory over Germany and is a major doubt for the European Championship.

SOUTH BEND, Indiana - A developer has announced plans to build a bigger Marriott hotel than originally planned next to the site of the former College Football Hall of Fame.

VIERA, Florida - Gio Gonzalez pitched six innings in his longest outing this spring and the split-squad Washington Nationals beat the Atlanta Braves 7-2 Sunday.

SAN FRANCISCO - A British tourist who was stabbed in the head during a robbery in San Francisco died after being hospitalized for more than a month, police said.

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona - The San Francisco Giants say catcher Buster Posey was a late scratch from Sunday's game against the Chicago White Sox because of hip tightness.

TAMPA, Florida - Jacoby Ellsbury was hitless in three at-bats after missing a week with a right wrist injury as the New York Yankees lost 5-2 to the Minnesota Twins on Sunday.

WASHINGTON - The Atlanta Braves acquired infielder/outfielder Tyler Moore from the Washington Nationals on Sunday in exchange for minor-league first baseman Nate Freiman.

MIAMI - Hundreds of family, friends and members of the Baltimore Ravens paid respects to Tray Walker, the Ravens cornerback who died after being injured in a dirt bike crash in northwest Miami-Dade.

FORT MYERS, Florida - Boston's first three hitters - Mookie Betts, Dustin Pedroia and Xander Bogaerts - combined for seven hits, three runs and two RBIs to lead the Red Sox to a 5-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday.

KOKOMO, Indiana - Two days of services are set to begin for an Indiana sheriff's deputy who was fatally wounded during a gunfight while trying to arrest a man.

NEW YORK - Jim Harrison, the fiction writer, poet, outdoorsman and reveler who wrote with gruff affection for the country's landscape and rural life and enjoyed mainstream success in middle age with his historical saga "Legends of the Fall," has died at age 78.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Dutch police arrested a 32-year-old Frenchman in the port city of Rotterdam on Sunday at the request of French authorities who suspect him of "involvement in planning a terror attack," prosecutors said.

NEW YORK - New York is putting an end to most paper prescriptions for medicine as the nation's toughest electronic-prescribing law takes effect.

NEW YORK - Top hats with bunny ears and elaborate costumes have gotten a showing in New York City's Easter Parade.

IDOMENI, Greece - A protest by hundreds of migrants, egged on by activists to demand that the border between Greece and Macedonia be opened, passed without any serious incidents on Sunday.