Новости за 26.07.2016

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia has beefed up security at Nusa Kambangan prison island as authorities prepare to execute people convicted of drug crimes for the third time since President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo was elected in 2014. The head of prisons in Central Java province said Tuesday that about 1,000 police have been sent to Cilacap,

SRINAGAR, India — Authorities on Tuesday lifted a curfew in most parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir’s main city after a 17-day security lockdown, but shops and businesses remained shut due to a strike called to protest Indian rule in the Himalayan region. Police and paramilitary soldiers removed steel barricades and layers of barbed wire from the

NEW DELHI — Two Indian competitors have proclaimed their innocence after testing positive for banned steroids just days before they were to leave for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. Wrestler Narsingh Yadav, who was to represent India in the 74-kilogram category at the Olympics, said his food supplements were spiked, causing the positive test.

LOS ANGELES — Authorities say a Los Angeles police officer was shot and wounded late Monday night in the Watts section of the city. The shooting occurred around 11 p.m. PDT in the Nickerson Gardens public housing project, and police searched the area for suspects. The Los Angeles Times reports that the officer was struck

The 26-year-old man accused of carrying out a mass stabbing Tuesday at a Japanese facility for the mentally disabled that left 19 people dead had written a letter in February to parliament’s lower house speaker, outlining what was similar to Tuesday’s attack, and expressing his disturbing views. A translation follows: Dear Lower House Speaker Tadamori

MOSCOW — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says recent agreements between Russia and the United States should encourage moderate Syrian opposition to leave areas occupied by the al-Qaida’s branch in Syria, thus helping to implement a truce. Lavrov made the comments to Russian news agencies on Tuesday after his talks with U.S. Secretary of State

Never before have Kenya’s fabulously successful runners gone to the Olympics in such a negative light. Kenya has a doping problem, no doubt, but seemingly not on the same scale as Russia . There’s no indication that the East African country has a state-sponsored conspiracy to hide cheating. While Russia’s anti-doping program appears corrupt —

VIENTIANE, Laos — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said progress is being made with Russia on a potential military partnership that could strengthen a faltering truce in Syria despite grave doubts expressed by the Pentagon and joint chiefs of staff. Speaking Tuesday after meeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Laos, Kerry made no

LONDON — BP’s second-quarter earnings fell 45 percent as lower oil prices hit the British energy company. Underlying replacement cost profit, which excludes one-time items and fluctuations in the value of inventories, fell to $720 million from $1.3 billion in the same quarter a year earlier, the company said in a statement released Tuesday. BP’s

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Tuesday denied claims by Washington that three senior al-Qaida figures are based in the Persian country, the official IRNA news agency reported. Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi was quoted as saying that Iran doesn’t have “any information about their presence on its soil.” He also reiterated Iran’s commitment to fighting

TOKYO — A former employee killed 19 people at a home for the mentally disabled early Tuesday morning in Sagamihara, a city 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Tokyo. Mass killings are relatively rare in Japan, but they have happened before: March 20, 1995: Doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo disperses sarin nerve gas on Tokyo subway

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Two suicide bombers detonated explosives-laden cars on Tuesday outside the U.N. Mine Action Service offices and a Somali army checkpoint in Mogadishu, killing 13 people, including seven U.N. guards, Somali police officials said. The two blasts took place near the African Union base, Somali police chief Gen. Mohamed Sheikh Hassan said at

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The United Arab Emirates might not seem like an obvious spot to begin and end a globe-spanning flight promoting renewable energy. It is OPEC’s fourth biggest oil producer, after all, where gas guzzlers rule the road and the air conditioning is always on — not just at its indoor

SEOUL, South Korea — Hyundai Motor Co. has reported a tenth straight quarterly profit decline due to weak demand for passenger sedans and higher marketing expenses for its luxury brand, despite improved China sales. South Korea’s largest automaker said Tuesday that its April-June quarterly net income was 1.76 trillion won ($1.55 billion), down 1.5 percent

PARIS — Two new suspects have been detained in the investigation into the Bastille Day attack in Nice that killed more than 80 people. The Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that two men have been in custody since Monday in southern France. The prosecutor’s office would not elaborate on what the men are suspected of.

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — Most of the roughly 20,000 evacuees forced out by a wildfire have been cleared to go home, but firefighters still had huge work ahead in taming a massive wildfire northwest of Los Angeles. A week of triple digit temperatures awaited the army of some 3,000 firefighters battling flames in rugged hills

SAGAMIHARA, Japan — The sound of sirens pierced the night, waking residents in a normally quiet, semi-rural neighborhood outside of Tokyo. Some thought it may be an accident, or perhaps a resident at the nearby home for the mentally disabled had fallen ill. The truth was shocking: A deadly knife attack that left 19 dead

BERLIN — Top security officials in Germany called Tuesday for tougher security screening of asylum-seekers and also announced that more police officers will be hired following four attacks in the country — two of them claimed by the extremist Islamic State group. Horst Seehofer, the interior minister of Bavaria — where three of last week’s

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Ethan Dean will be living his dream on Tuesday. The six-year-old has a garbage truck bedspread and pillow. He has garbage truck toys. He’s had a garbage truck birthday party. Now, thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, he’s going to experience what it’s like to be a garbage truck driver. The boy who

NEW DELHI — Police in Bangladesh’s capital raided a five-story building Tuesday that was used as a den by suspected Islamic militants, killing nine of them, the country’s police chief said. Authorities were investigating to see which group the men belonged to, but evidence showed they likely were from the banned local group Jumatul Mujahedeen

FORT MYERS, Fla. — A couple of doors down from Club Blu, where a young man and a 14-year-old boy were killed while attending a teen party, shop owner Idis Edouard hoisted a rod above his head to gently move a girl’s blue dress aside. “The bullet was there,” he said, pointing to a spot

TOKYO — The Latest on a knife attack at facility for the handicapped outside Tokyo (all times local): 2:25 p.m. Kyodo news service has released a letter that Satoshi Uematsu, the suspect in the killing of 19 people at a facility for disabled people, allegedly was trying forward to Tadamori Oshima, the lower house speaker

SAGAMIHARA, Japan — A young Japanese man went on a stabbing rampage Tuesday at a facility for the mentally disabled where he had been fired, police said, killing 19 people months after he gave a letter to Parliament outlining the bloody plan and saying all disabled people should be put to death. When he was

LONDON — Anheuser-Busch InBev has increased its cash offer for SABMiller to 45 pounds ($58.98) per share after pressure from investors who had seen the value of the bid drop as the pound declined following Britain’s vote to leave the European Union. The maker of Budweiser increased the offer Tuesday by one pound a share,

SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants had the best record in baseball heading into the All-Star break. Since then, it’s been mostly downhill for manager Bruce Bochy’s ballclub. Coming off its worst road trip of the season, San Francisco rediscovered its power stroke in its return to AT&T Park with a pair of big home runs