Новости за 29.03.2016

BOYS TOWN, Liberia - At the height of the Ebola epidemic, smoke from the cremation of bodies would darken the sky here by early morning. The incinerator rumbled like a mini-earthquake, shaking the ground and neighbors' emotions.

PARIS - French President Francois Hollande says private security firms have hired an additional 3,000 people for the European Championship soccer tournament.

NEW YORK - Another pharmaceutical company is being targeted by lawmakers over drug pricing.

MADRID - Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica says its longtime chief executive will step down after 16 years on the job but plans to remain on the company's board.

WARSAW, Poland - Poland's president is traveling to Washington for a security summit but has no meeting scheduled with President Barack Obama. Observers in Poland say controversial government policies may be the reason.

ASHLAND, Pennsylvania - Police say a woman killed two roosters who kept coal miners company in central Pennsylvania because their crowing woke her up.

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea fired a short-range projectile from an area near its eastern coast on Tuesday, South Korean officials said, in what appears to be another weapons test seen as a response to ongoing military drills between Washington and Seoul.

In this photo by Eugene Hoshiko, people hold placards that read "Repeal War Law" during a protest in front of Japan's Parliament against a security law that took effect Tuesday. The law loosens constraints on Japan's military that were imposed after World War II and allows its troops to engage in overseas conflicts for reasons other than self-defense. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the law would help reinforce Japan's contribution to international cooperation. The protesters and opposition politicians... Читать дальше...

LOS ANGELES - Soundcloud is entering paid music streaming, hoping to turn its huge community of cover singers, dubstep remixers and wannabe stars into a bigger source of revenue.

DUMMERSTON, Vermont - An eight-generation family farm in Vermont isn't changing its tradition of doing business with the honor system, even after someone stole more than 63 gallons of maple syrup from their farm stand.

PHILADELPHIA - Taxi, limo and Uber Black drivers are threatening to boycott the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this summer unless lawmakers address Lyft and UberX services that have been operating illegally in the city since 2014.

ALTOONA, Pennsylvania - Police are trying to figure out who owns some jewelry found inside a new purse a woman purchased from a central Pennsylvania department store.

NEW YORK - A new exhibition explores the prolific career of Ukrainian-American artist Jacques Hnizdovsky, a master of intricate woodcuts and paintings depicting an array of stylized flora and fauna.

ABUJA, Nigeria - A Nigerian official says a girl suicide bomber arrested in Cameroon is not one of the 276 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram from a school in the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok nearly two years ago, but is from a nearby community.

NEW YORK - A rare 1776 broadside printing of the Declaration of Independence is coming to a New York City auction next week.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi officials say a suicide bombing in the capital has killed at least seven civilians and wounded 23.

DEKALB, Illinois - The Latest in the legal battle of a 76-year-old man who says he's been wrongfully imprisoned in the 1957 slaying of a 7-year-old Illinois girl (all times local):

KABUL, Afghanistan - A bomb has exploded under a bridge in Afghanistan's capital, killing one person and wounding nine others.

LISBON, Portugal - A political crisis gripping Brazil will deepen if a major ally quits President Dilma Rousseff's governing coalition, as expected, a top Brazilian judge said Tuesday.

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday that he has no plans to nix a consumption tax hike planned for next year, denying speculation that it will be postponed amid suggestions that Japan's economy won't be able to handle it.

BALTIMORE - Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and others have donated $125 million to create a cancer-fighting institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, the school said Tuesday.

PRAGUE - Chinese President Xi Jinping signed a strategic partnership during his visit to the Czech Republic on Tuesday, a sign of improving relations with a country that once was a critic of China's human rights record.

PARRIS ISLAND, South Carolina - Navy investigators say there are no apparent signs of foul play in the death of a Marine recruit who died after falling in a barracks stairwell at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot on Parris Island.

ANKARA, Turkey - The German ambassador to Turkey has been summoned to the foreign ministry over the broadcast by German television of a song that pokes fun at Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an official said Tuesday

PARIS - Woody Allen's latest film, "Cafe Society," will open this year's Cannes Film Festival.