Новости за 13.04.2016

AMMAN, Jordan - Jordan raided and shut down the headquarters of the country's original Muslim Brotherhood group on Wednesday.

PARIS - Tax officials from around the world are meeting in Paris to discuss the fallout from the mass leak of offshore account data from Panama firm Mossack Fonseca.

In this photo by Jason Corben, revelers in Bangkok douse each other with water on Wednesday, the first day of the annual water festival marking the Thai New Year. During Songkran, as the festival is known, people line the streets, armed with water guns and bowls of water, and douse anyone in sight.

BEIJING - Beijing summoned diplomats from the Group of 7 industrialized countries to protest a statement from their foreign ministers criticizing China's island-building activities in the disputed South China Sea, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.

BIRMINGHAM, England - On the verge of relegation after a miserable year in the English Premier League, Aston Villa says it will not be holding its annual player of the season awards.

LONDON - Three Leicester players have been nominated by their peers for England's player of the year award, after helping their team to the brink of the most unlikely Premier League title win in a generation.

TRENTON, New Jersey - A New Jersey judge has ruled that Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz meets the constitutional requirements to be president and may appear on the state's presidential primary ballot.

PHILADELPHIA - An animal welfare group said it hopes undercover video filmed inside a farm showing how poorly hens are treated will get more U.S. food sellers behind cage-free eggs.

TRIPOLI, Libya - The head of Libya's internationally-recognized parliament has criticized the U.N. envoy, accusing the international community of imposing a unity government that contradicts a U.N.-brokered agreement.

NEWTON, Kansas - Police say two 6-year-old boys took a joyride in a pickup truck through a central Kansas town, damaging five other vehicles and two mailboxes along the way.

BERLIN - Volkswagen said Wednesday that its top managers' bonuses will be cut significantly, citing the need to send a "signal" on executives' pay following the automaker's diesel emissions scandal.

BRUSSELS - The Latest on the investigations into last month's attacks in Brussels (all times local):

AIGLE, Switzerland - Italian cyclist Luca Paolini has been banned for 18 months after testing positive for cocaine at the Tour de France last year.

MANCHESTER, England - The prospect of Manchester City going into one of the biggest games in the club's history without Yaya Toure in the starting lineup would once have seemed unthinkable.

WARSAW, Poland - As Poland's Catholic Church prepares to celebrate 1,050 years as the national faith, a call by its bishops for a total ban on abortion has embroiled the church in a divisive and potentially harmful debate.

NEW YORK - Three presidential candidates call themselves New Yorkers. Bernie Sanders is from Brooklyn, Donald Trump is from Queens, and Hillary Clinton owns a home in Westchester and represented New York in the U.S. Senate. Despite these bonafides, the three contenders have been falling all over themselves to prove how much they love New York as the state's April 19 presidential primary nears. Sanders ate a hot dog on Coney Island, Trump visited the 9/11 museum and donated $100,000 to it, and... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK _ JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) on Wednesday reported first-quarter earnings of $5.52 billion.

MADRID - Spain's Interior Ministry says police have arrested at least four people for allegedly praising terrorism on social networks.

GARY, Indiana - Organizers expect about 300 people to attend a northwestern Indiana program aimed at promoting civility in politics and the community.

DAUPHIN ISLAND, Alabama - Officials on Alabama's Dauphin Island say the spring bird migration season is bringing flocks of tourists and nature lovers to the coastal area.

INDIANAPOLIS - State officials say nearly 10,000 electronic court documents have been filed since Indiana began a shift last summer toward statewide e-filing.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Oman's ruler has returned to the country after reportedly undergoing medical checks in Germany.

INDIANAPOLIS - Indianapolis will host the Dalai Lama this summer as Tibet's highest Buddhist priest plans a speaking event about world peace and tolerance.

MONTGOMERY, Alabama - The Republican leader of the Alabama Senate says he is shelving his education bill for the session after continued resistance to the idea of tying teacher evaluations to test score improvement.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The world's biggest operator of the double-decker Airbus A380 is buying a couple more.