Новости за 04.04.2016

KIEV, Ukraine - Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko found himself in a political storm Monday after leaked documents from a Panamanian firm pointed to his offshore assets, with some adversaries calling for his removal from office.

PIKESVILLE, Maryland - A fire department official says a man was injured when a car exploded as he worked on it at a Maryland Transit Administration facility in Baltimore County.

PALOS VERDES ESTATES, California - Lawyers say there's a growing list of people who want to join a proposed class-action lawsuit that claims local surfers have used violence and intimidation to protect their Southern California surf spot from intrusion by outsiders.

"Kill 'Em and Leave" (Spiegel & Grau), by James McBride

NEW ORLEANS - A man convicted for his role in a gunfight that killed one bystander and left nine people injured on New Orleans' famous Bourbon Street was sentenced Monday to 60 years in prison, the maximum penalty.

NIAGARA FALLS, New York - The Maid of the Mist tour boats are back in the water at the base of Niagara Falls.

MOSCOW - Russian investigators say the body of an American student has been found on the outskirts of a Siberian village, a week after he vanished from a guesthouse in the middle of the night.

WANTAGH, New York - Forget Sylvester and Tweety: A real-life battle is brewing on Jones Beach over the natural tension between cats and birds.

GENEVA - A FIFA judge who helped ban Sepp Blatter for financial misconduct is now under investigation by his ethics committee colleagues after being named in an international probe of offshore accounts.

JONESBORO, Arkansas - Arkansas State and Memphis will play four football games in a home-and-home series beginning in 2020.

BOSTON - A federal judge has approved the sale of dozens of items belonging to Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger.

SAN FRANCISCO - Officials say a pair of thieves stole an autographed motorized scooter donated by San Francisco Giants outfielder Hunter Pence from the city's Make-A-Wish Foundation office.

LONDON - Nick Blackwell's promoters say the boxer has woken after a week in an induced coma since a British middleweight title fight and he is speaking to family members.

JERUSALEM - Israel's state electric company says that it has begun to scale back its electricity supply to Palestinian cities because of unpaid debt.

NEW YORK - Brocade said Monday that it plans to buy Ruckus Wireless for about $1.2 billion, in a deal that will help it offer Wi-Fi services to its customers.

WARSAW, Poland - A leaked report says the site for Pope Francis' July meeting with world youth in southern Poland poses a "high risk for the life and health of people."

NEW YORK - Former New York Knicks coach Derek Fisher will appear as a guest analyst on Turner Sports' NBA coverage this week.

FARGO, North Dakota - North Dakota State University All-American wrestler Hayden Zillmer is a step closer to a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The builder of what promises to be Qatar's largest mall says construction work has resumed two days after a fire broke out at the site.

STILLWATER, Oklahoma - Kristoffer Ventura tied for individual honors and Oklahoma State won the overall title at this year's Aggie Invitational in Bryan, Texas.

Air Products will book a pre-tax charge ranging from $900 million to $1 billion in its fiscal second quarter, as the industrial gas supplier leaves its energy-from-waste business.

NICOSIA, Cyprus - Cyprus' potential wealth from newly found offshore gas reserves could be used to partly fund a costly deal reunifying the ethnically divided island, the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots said Monday.

BERLIN - The German government says Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkey's premier discussed a poem read on a German TV show that they called "deliberately offensive" toward the Turkish president.

RACE: 48th Indianapolis 500

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Hundreds of people, including priests, environmental activists and fishermen, protested in Sri Lanka's capital on Monday, demanding the government halt a $1.5 billion Chinese-funded port city project.