Новости за 19.04.2016

CINCINNATI - The Cincinnati Reds have scratched right-hander Alfredo Simon from his scheduled start against the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday night because of biceps tendinitis.

MOSCOW - The president of the World Jewish Congress has thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for his efforts to fight anti-Semitism in Russia.

TULSA, Oklahoma - The Oklahoma at Tulsa softball game has been postponed because of heavy rain in the Tulsa area.

STILLWATER, Oklahoma - Three-time NCAA wrestling champion Alex Dieringer of Oklahoma State has been named the Big 12 Wrestler of the Year and OSU coach John Smith is the Big 12 Coach of the Year.

SANTIAGO, Chile - Patricio Aylwin, a lanky law professor who played a decisive role in restoring Chile's democracy after 17 years of brutal dictatorship and was later elected president, died on Tuesday. He was 97.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Dutch police and prosecutors took down an encrypted communications network Tuesday believed to have been used by criminals in the Netherlands and possibly overseas.

JUBA, South Sudan - South Sudan's rebel leader Riek Machar has not returned to the capital as planned because the government did not clear a flight for his top general, a rebel spokesman said Tuesday.

NORMAN, Oklahoma - The Oklahoma State at Oklahoma college baseball game is being postponed because of rain and inclement weather.

More than a month of spring football practice has helped a few teams in the Southeastern Conference's Western Division find a new starting quarterback.

CAIRO - Egypt's Interior Ministry says militants have attacked a police vehicle with a rocket-propelled grenade in the restive northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, killing three policemen and wounding eight.

SKOPJE, Macedonia - Nearly 2,000 prisoners in Macedonia have called on President Gjorge Ivanov to grant them partial pardons reducing their sentences, after he pardoned dozens of members of the country's political elite last week over a wiretapping scandal.

RALEIGH, North Carolina - North Carolina State has added three future home-and-home series with FBS opponents.

GREENSBORO, North Carolina - The Atlantic Coast Conference has hired veteran official Bryan Kersey as its coordinator of men's basketball officiating.

ORCHARD PARK, New York - The Buffalo Bills have further depleted their depth at linebacker by cutting Tony Steward.

PARIS - France is reorganizing its police special forces, responding to allegations that rivalries between the three major branches of law enforcement hampered the response to the attacks in November.

WARSAW, Poland - Environmental groups lodged a complaint Tuesday with the European Commission over a Polish government plan for extensive logging in Europe's last primeval forest, saying they were forced to take that step after running out of options in Poland.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has used the official opening of the International Criminal Court's new headquarters to renew calls for more countries to join the world's first permanent criminal tribunal and cooperate in its investigations.

BERLIN - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, speaking a day after an attack on a bus in Jerusalem that wounded at least 21 people, says his administration rejects violence against civilians.

BERLIN - Police in southern Germany say a woman found by officers during an eviction may have been held captive by her mother for years.

WASHINGTON - Rockwell Automation Inc. named Blake Moret as president and chief executive, replacing Keith Nosbusch, who has served in those roles since 2004.

LONDON - Boaty McBoatface may be sunk.

NEW YORK - When actress and playwright Claudia Shear was first approached to turn a novel for young adults into a Broadway musical, she was slightly stunned.

BAMAKO, Mali - The international Red Cross says it has lost contact with a three-person team working in a part of northern Mali where multiple Islamic extremist groups are present.

LISBON, Portugal - An appeals court in Portugal has overturned the libel conviction of a former Portuguese detective who published a book alleging the parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann were involved in their daughter's disappearance, the parents' lawyer said Tuesday.

KOKOMO, Indiana - County board members in Indiana have amended an ordinance allowing the widow of a deputy killed while on duty to keep his service weapon.