Новости за 27.04.2016

JAKARTA, Indonesia - The Indonesian government's decision to investigate massacres in 1965 is being met with wariness by rights groups, some of which are refusing to share information about mass graves until the government shows how it will conduct the probe.

NEW ORLEANS - Real estate heir Robert Durst will soon learn whether a federal judge will accept a 7-year-and-one-month sentence on a weapons charge that's kept him in Louisiana pending a murder trial in California.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Qatar's largest bank says it is investigating an alleged data breach involving customers' information.

TOKYO - Japanese video-game maker Nintendo Co. reported a 24 billion yen ($216 million) loss for January-March Wednesday, bigger than the loss it reported the previous year.

BEIRUT - A network of activists monitoring the Syria conflict says militants from the Islamic State group have seized five villages from Syrian rebels close to the Turkish border.

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel's office says the head of Germany's spy agency is stepping down and will be replaced by a Finance Ministry department head.

PARIS - The French prosecutor's office said that key Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam was transferred to France Wednesday morning and was to go before investigating judges for eventual charges.

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's Olympic committee on Wednesday unveiled long-sleeved shirts and pants it says will help protect the country's Olympic athletes from the mosquito-borne Zika virus at this year's games in Rio de Janeiro.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - On April 27, 2011, a series of tornadoes killed hundreds of people, injured thousands and reduced countless buildings to rubble across a swath of the U.S.

JERUSALEM - Israeli police say they have shot a Palestinian couple after the woman attempted to stab security forces on the outskirts of Jerusalem.

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas - The nation's midsection prepared for another day of foul weather Wednesday after a series of storms brought huge hail and high winds, but not as many tornadoes as had been feared.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil ASA has swung to a profit of $611 million in the first quarter as reduced costs helped offset low crude prices.

SAN CLEMENTE, California - For those who could stand the smell, and stifle their gags, it was something to behold - the sad but riveting sight of a 40-foot whale lying dead on its side on a Southern California beach known for its surfing.

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland - A French official who was suspended in the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic figure skating judging scandal is running in the International Skating Union's presidential election.

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea said Wednesday that North Korea has built a half-size mock-up of the South's presidential palace at a firing range in what looked like preparations for a live-fire drill.

PHOENIX - Now that a judge has dismissed charges against the man arrested for last summer's freeway shootings in the Phoenix area, his attorneys are calling on the court to release all previously sealed documents.

BEIJING - A Tibetan male character from the "Doctor Strange" comic books presented such a political minefield to Marvel that they have cast a Caucasian woman in the film.

BERLIN - A closely watched survey shows German consumer confidence is on the rise, indicating there is an expectation Europe's largest economy will regain momentum in the coming months as increased employment, income growth and moderate inflation help domestic demand.

DHARMSALA, India - Lobsang Sangay has been re-elected as prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile in voting held last month.

BERLIN - Hundreds of flights have been canceled in Germany after government workers started short-term strikes affecting eight cities' airports ahead of a new round of wage negotiations.

ANTIOCH, California - There was an emergency in Room 14. Three girls injured, one with a broken thighbone and maybe something more serious. Snapping on sterile gloves and kneeling before the worst-off patient, two 17-year-olds went to work.

LONDON - Barclays plc said Wednesday that first-quarter earnings fell 7 percent, dragged down by businesses it intends to sell.

MANILA, Philippines - Philippine police forensic experts were checking if a headless body of a Caucasian man found by villagers in a southern province is that of a Canadian hostage beheaded this week by Muslim extremists, officials said Wednesday.