Новости за 18.04.2016

PRAGUE - The Czech government has approved a plan to keep troops in Afghanistan and Mali until at least 2018.

GREENWOOD, South Carolina - A South Carolina judge says members of the American Legion can press their lawsuit seeking to bring long-delayed integration to a World War I memorial that separates the soldiers' names by race.

ORCHARD PARK, New York - Buffalo Bills backup defensive tackle Corbin Bryant has signed his qualifying offer.

"Hard Light" (Minotaur Books), by Elizabeth Hand

RIO DE JANEIRO - Dipa Karmakar has become the first female gymnast from India to make the Olympics.

BOSTON - Toronto first baseman Chris Colabello showed up at his locker the morning after getting beaned by Steven Wright to find a gift waiting for him from the Boston right-hander.

MARATHON, Florida - A new customs checkpoint is opening at Florida Keys airport in preparation for more traffic involving the island chain and Cuba and other international destinations.

CHICO, California - A 108-year-old woman believed to be the oldest living female military veteran is set to be honored with a flight aboard a World War II-era biplane.

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia - Slovenian club Olimpija Ljubljana has fired coach Marko Nikolic for making a racial slur.

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DHAKA, Bangladesh - Bangladesh investigators have determined that at least 20 foreigners were involved in the cybertheft of $101 million from the Bangladesh central bank's account in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a senior investigator said Monday.

GREENSBURG, Indiana - More than 500 stop signs are being replaced in the southeastern Indiana city of Greensburg in a highway safety project.

BLOOMINGTON, Indiana - Indiana University has made changes to the original design of an outdoor amphitheater that is going to be built on its campus in Bloomington.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana - Rolls-Royce and Purdue University are forming a $33 million jet-engine research and development program to create next-generation aircraft propulsion systems.

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee - Tennessee coach Rick Barnes has added Michael Schwartz to his staff.

HOUSTON - The Latest on heavy rains and flooding in the Houston area (all times local):

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Organizers of a major Gulf Coast sailboat race are making safety improvements a year after the annual regatta ended in death on Alabama's Mobile Bay.

NEW YORK - Hotels are getting more aggressive in their fight to get travelers to book reservations directly with them instead of through online travel agencies such as Expedia and Priceline.

NEW YORK - Kawhi Leonard has won his second straight NBA Defensive Player of the Year award after helping the San Antonio Spurs have the league's best defense.

U.S. homebuilders' confidence held steady in April, reflecting an overall optimistic outlook in the market for new homes even as a gauge of current sales fell slightly.

GENEVA - As Charlie Chaplin finished out his long life on his bucolic Swiss manor, the former silent film star worried about drifting into oblivion, his connoisseurs say.

NEW YORK - The winners of the Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, letters, drama and music are set to be announced in New York City.

NEW YORK - Amazon is taking on Netflix and Hulu with a stand-alone video streaming service.

PHILADELPHIA - An old penitentiary-turned-historic-site that becomes a haunted house attraction each Halloween and provides a look back on a bygone era of corrections is taking a new direction with a hard look at today's prisons and America's high rate of incarceration.

BOSTON - The Latest on Monday's 120th running of the Boston Marathon (all times local):