Новости за 13.04.2016

BERLIN - German authorities say they have arrested three young men suspected of giving money to members of the Islamic State group and planning to fight for it.

MARIETTA, Georgia - Lawyers in the case of a Georgia man accused of intentionally leaving his toddler son in a hot SUV to die are scheduled to begin questioning potential jurors.

UPPER MARLBORO, Maryland - A man charged with murder in a shooting outside a Maryland police station that led to an officer's death is scheduled to appear in court along with his two brothers, who allegedly filmed the incident and are also charged.

BEIRUT - Back in Syria, the young women were told they would get well-paid jobs at restaurants and hotels in Lebanon. But when they arrived, their belongings and mobile phones were taken away, and the women were locked up in two hotels north of Beirut and forced into prostitution.

DAMASCUS, Syria - Syrians in government-controlled areas headed to polling stations Wednesday to elect a new 250-member parliament that is expected to serve as a rubber stamp for President Bashar Assad.

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Ride-hailing app Uber on Wednesday launched a motorbike taxi service in the Indonesian capital where Southeast Asian rivals Go-Jek and Grab are already battling for dominance.

MANCHESTER, England - Danny Willett's journey to the green jacket began 16 years ago when he signed up with some friends for an inner-city golf scheme, designed to get kids off the street and give them something constructive to do.

AIKEN, South Carolina - Silent tears stream down Lakeya Hicks' face as she recalls Oct. 2, 2014, a day that should have been a happy memory as she and her husband drove the car they had recently and proudly purchased. Instead, her recollection is filled with brutality and embarrassment.

LONDON - Prolific playwright Arnold Wesker, who drew on his Jewish heritage to create works that captured the dialogue and struggles of the working class, has died. He was 83.

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - A South Carolina bill limiting transgender people's bathroom choices is up for discussion Wednesday, a week after Republican Gov. Nikki Haley and state business leaders called the proposal unnecessary.

MANILA, Philippines - U.S. and Philippine authorities say American troops involved in a bar brawl with Filipino policemen face possible disciplinary sanctions in an incident earlier this month the local military says has no bearing on ongoing large-scale combat exercises by the treaty allies.

BRUSSELS - Belgian prosecutors say three people detained in the investigation into the attacks that killed 130 victims in Paris in November have been freed after extensive interrogation.

TERRE HAUTE, Indiana - Morgan John is passionate about finding creative purposes for used things other people would toss in the wastebasket.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee - Several country music artists and songwriters have condemned proposed laws that critics say discriminate against LGBT people, but anyone looking for reaction from the record labels and production companies on Nashville's Music Row has heard only the sound of silence.

BRUSSELS - Official figures show that industrial output across the 19-country eurozone fell by a monthly 0.8 percent in February but the sector remains on course to boost quarterly growth across the region.

INDIANAPOLIS - Tessa Embry has never thought of herself as obese. A catcher for her travel softball team, the eighth-grader is generally positive about her body image. Her mother describes her 14-year-old daughter as muscular and strong. Her doctor deems her perfectly healthy and fit.

NEW ORLEANS - Many questions remain about the death of former Saints' defensive end, Will Smith, but police have released new details that shed light on the incident, including that they found a weapon in the vehicle Smith was in the night he was shot.

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - An NAACP leader in the South Carolina county where a white police officer was sentenced to probation in the killing of a black motorist said officers need more training in how to deal with minorities.

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Rights groups are urging the U.S. to release secret files on Indonesia's anti-communist massacres of 1965-66, as the Southeast Asian country takes a tentative step toward a reckoning with one of the worst atrocities of the last century.

BERLIN - A European Parliament faction that includes Britain's governing party has ejected a lawmaker from the nationalist Alternative for Germany, which has drawn criticism over members' remarks suggesting that police could shoot refugees trying to enter Germany.

RALEIGH, North Carolina - Saying he received lots of "feedback and suggestions and opinions" about a law he signed that limits LGBT protections, North Carolina's governor has ordered anti-discrimination rules be expanded for state employees.

BAMAKO, Mali - A mine explosion in Mali has killed three French soldiers, in an unusually deadly incident for French anti-terrorist forces in the region.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Helicopters charged with rescuing two skiers trapped on an Alaska glacier for days waited out whiteout conditions, described by one pilot as trying to fly inside a pingpong ball.

BERLIN - A senior figure in one of Germany's governing parties is calling for an "Islam law" that would prevent foreign financing of mosques in the country.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Police in Amsterdam are holding a man whose arrest at Schiphol Airport sparked a major security scare.