Новости за 19.04.2016

CHARLESTON, South Carolina - The latest round in the controversy over licensing tour guides in historic cities is scheduled to play out in a federal courtroom in South Carolina.

BRUSSELS - Japanese drinks group Asahi says it has reached an agreement with brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev to buy the Peroni, Grolsch and Meantime brands and related businesses, excluding certain U.S. rights.

MONACO - Bulgarian triple jumper Gabriela Petrova has had her provisional doping suspension lifted after a change in the guidelines regarding the banned substance meldonium.

HOLLYWOOD, Maryland - A visitation is being held for a firefighter who was fatally shot while responding to a call for help at a home in a Maryland suburb of Washington.

RALEIGH, North Carolina - Two rock bands have become the latest to cancel concerts in North Carolina because of the state's new law on LGBT rights.

BEIJING - A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for selling 150,000 classified documents that revealed key secrets about military and government data encryption to an unidentified foreign spy agency, state broadcaster CCTV said Tuesday.

LONDON - British boxer Nick Blackwell says he will retire from the sport after collapsing following his fight against Chris Eubank Jr. in March.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - International sports federations expressed concern Tuesday over problems with venues for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, including power failures at the gymnastics arena this week.

FRANKFURT, Germany - A survey of investment analysts shows confidence rose in the German economy thanks to somewhat better economic news out of China.

INDIANAPOLIS - A multi-story graphic depicting an Indy car and the Indianapolis 500's Borg-Warner Trophy will greet visitors to downtown Indianapolis during the month of May.

ONEONTA, Alabama - A judge has ruled that a young Alabama wife must testify against her husband, a former high school teacher who's being charged because of their relationship.

DUESSELDORF, Germany - A court has dismissed a complaint from Qatar against a former German soccer federation president who called the Emirate a "cancerous growth of world football."

BEIJING - Taiwan says its delegation was ejected from a meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's steel committee after China complained, part of an apparent hardening of Beijing's attitude toward the island it claims as its own territory.

MINAMIASO, Japan - In this mountainous Japanese town known for its hot springs, prized beef and Jersey milk cows, more than 2,000 people have taken refuge from earthquakes at school gymnasiums and community centers, surviving on rock-hard biscuits, cold rice balls and bread.

MADRID - The Spanish government is setting a new budget deficit target of 3.6 percent of GDP for 2016 and says the figure won't fall below the EU ceiling of 3 percent until 2017, a year later than planned.

MOSCOW - Gianni Infantino is visiting 2018 World Cup host Russia for the first time since he was elected FIFA president in February.

ATHENS, Greece - The European Commission says it will be providing 700 million euros in emergency humanitarian funding for Greece until 2018 to help it deal with the massive refugee crisis that has seen tens of thousands of people stranded in the country - the first time such funding has been used to help a European Union member.

FRANKLIN, Indiana - After more than a decade of fighting Interstate 69 and then watching it plow through their land anyway, a south side couple thought they were done.

KABUL, Afghanistan - Armed militants in Afghanistan staged a coordinated assault on a key government security agency in the capital Tuesday morning, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 320. The Taliban has claimed responsibility.

KABUL, Afghanistan - The Latest on the militant assault on an Afghan government security compound in Kabul (all times local):

SEATTLE - Patrick Shunn and Monique Patenaude worried about getting on the wrong side of the man who lived a little ways up an old logging road from their 21-acre spread along the Stillaguamish River.

MANTA, Ecuador - The Latest on the deadly earthquake in Ecuador (all times local):

SAN FRANCISCO - Just about everything went wrong for the Giants' bullpen Monday night, and not only because San Francisco coughed up a couple of late leads.

BALTIMORE - When Freddie Gray died April 19, 2015, and riots erupted, Baltimore and its residents were forced to confront issues that had plagued them for decades, community leader Ericka Alston said.

BOSTON - Bill Cosby's wife will answer more questions under oath in a defamation lawsuit filed by seven women who contend the comedian branded them liars after they went public with sexual assault allegations against him.