Новости за 18.04.2016

SYRACUSE, New York - Two Syracuse football players were stabbed several times in an altercation at the university's south campus, and a former teammate has been charged in the assault.

LONDON - The longest-reigning monarch in British history turns 90 on Thursday, but Queen Elizabeth II is not planning a major, fireworks-filled celebration to mark the happy occasion.

BAGHDAD - More followers of an influential Iraqi Shiite cleric on Monday joined a rally in central Baghdad to press lawmakers to vote on a Cabinet shakeup proposed by the prime minister amid a simmering political crisis that could jeopardize the country's fight against the Islamic State group.

LISBON, Portugal - Spain's Caixabank is making its second attempt in just over a year to take control of Banco Portugues do Investimento, launching a crossborder takeover bid Monday that valued the Portuguese bank at 1.62 billion euros ($1.83 billion).

MILAN - Exactly one year after a fishing boat crowded with smuggled migrants capsized, sinking to the Mediterranean Sea floor with some 800 people trapped inside, Italy is launching efforts to raise up the ship and bring it to a Sicilian port.

AMMAN, Jordan - Jordan says it is recalling its ambassador to Iran for consultations, suggesting the decision is linked to continued tensions between Tehran and Jordan ally Saudi Arabia.

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's president is to visit Iran early next month for what would be the two countries' first summit talks, her office said Monday.

MELBOURNE, Australia - Former Olympic champion Grant Hackett has issued an apology following reports the swimmer groped a male passenger who reclined the seat in front of him during a flight home from the Australian Olympic trials.

MANILA, Philippines - The Australian ambassador and Philippine presidential candidates condemned the leading contender's remark at a campaign rally last week that he "should have been the first" to rape an Australian missionary who was assaulted and killed by prisoners in 1989.

BLOOMINGTON, Indiana - What Abigail Guthrie thought was an incident of bad birthday luck turned into a fantastic, but nerve-wracking, surprise.

WINCHESTER, Indiana - The rooms on the second floor of the Randolph County Infirmary are painted in red light as the sun sets in Winchester. The dimming glow catches on warped glass, wispy curtains and the odd shapes protruding from the decayed walls of the hospital.

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey's state-run news agency says police have detained 101 people suspected of having financial links to U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of attempting to overthrow the government.

BOSTON - With the top American marathoners resting for the Rio Olympics, Neely Spence Gracey could be the best U.S. hope for a podium finish in Boston on Monday.

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia has convened an unprecedented two-day discussion of anti-communist massacres in 1965-66 that brings together survivors and representatives of the military which is blamed for orchestrating the atrocities.

RICHMOND, Virginia - A coalition of several hundred religious leaders is urging Virginia lawmakers to reject a proposal to conceal the identities of pharmacies supplying drugs to be used in executions.

BEIJING - Police in northern China say an argument between construction workers escalated into a demolition derby-style clash of heavy machinery that left at least two bulldozers flipped over in a street.

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon misled Congress with inaccurate and vague information about sexual assault cases that portrayed civilian law enforcement officials as less willing than military commanders to punish sex offenders, an Associated Press investigation found.

BAGHDAD - Defense Secretary Ash Carter arrived in Baghdad Monday to talk to Iraqi leaders about beefing up Iraqi forces working to retake the northern city of Mosul, a critical goal in the effort to defeat the Islamic State group.

YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi vowed Monday to push for constitutional amendments to build a true democracy in the Southeast Asian country as it emerges from decades of military control.

BEIJING - China's navy dispatched a military plane to one of the country's manmade islands in the disputed South China Sea, the Defense Ministry said, in what is believed to be the first openly acknowledged mission of its kind.

PORTOVIEJO, Ecuador - It was supposed to be a family reunion to celebrate a young relative's start of college. But the gathering ended in tragedy when a collapsing building crushed 17-year-old Sayira Quinde, her mother, father and toddler brother in their rusting Chevy Blazer.

LOS ANGELES - Blake Griffin is back to his old ferocious self just in time for the playoffs.

JERUSALEM - After Israel's war against Gaza militants in 2014, Arab countries led the way in pledging reconstruction aid to the devastated seaside enclave. But a new report released Monday by the World Bank shows that Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and other Arab donors have delivered only a small fraction of what was promised.

Sunday was a truly rare day in NBA history.

SYDNEY - Actor Johnny Depp's wife Amber Heard pleaded guilty Monday to providing a false immigration document amid allegations she smuggled the couple's dogs to Australia, but managed to avoid jail time over what was dubbed the "war on terrier" debacle.