Новости за 10.08.2016

GUATEMALA CITY — A former Guatemalan soldier suspected of helping carry out a massacre of more than 160 people in 1982 during the country’s civil war was deported from the United States on Wednesday after a court refused his plea to stay because he fears for his life. Santos Lopez Alonzo, 64, was flown back

RIO DE JANEIRO — Even defeat ultimately felt like victory for Yolande Bukasa and Popole Misenga. The two refugees, originally from Congo, competed in judo Wednesday at the Olympics, and they showed that despite losing their country and their families, their spirit remained strong. Bukasa went out in the first round after losing to 11th-seeded

HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. — About 300 people attended a candlelight vigil in Tennessee at the Hendersonville home where an 11-year-old girl was shot and killed by her father. An arrest affidavit says 29-year-old Timothy Batts told police he shot his daughter Timea Batts thinking she was an intruder after she came home from school on Monday.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The heavens will be bursting with shooting stars this week. Thursday night into early Friday, the annual Perseid (PUR’-see-ihd) meteor shower is expected to peak with double the normal number of meteors. Scientists call this an outburst, and they say it could reach up to 200 meteors per hour. Prime viewing

MOSCOW — The Russian military said Wednesday that fighting in Aleppo will cease for three hours daily to allow humanitarian aid deliveries, but it was unclear whether rebels had agreed. A U.N. official, meanwhile, said a break in fighting for at least 48 hours was needed to get sufficient aid into the city. Lt. Gen.

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BRASILIA, Brazil — Argentina has been eliminated from the Olympic soccer tournament after a 1-1 draw against Honduras, which advanced to the quarterfinals along with Portugal. Two-time Olympic champion Argentina needed to win to reach the knockout round, but it wasn’t able to defeat Honduras in Brasilia on Wednesday. Antony Lozano scored for Honduras in

WASHINGTON — The federal government last month recorded the biggest monthly budget deficit since February, and the deficit so far this budget year is running 10 percent higher than a year ago. The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the deficit came in at $112.8 billion in July, highest since February’s $192.6 billion but down from

MIAMI — The National League’s only living seven-hit men have met at Marlins Park. Rennie Stennett visited the ballpark Wednesday so he could congratulate San Francisco Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford, who had seven hits in Monday’s 14-inning victory at Miami. The seven-hit game was the first since Stennett went 7 for 7 for the Pittsburgh

RIO DE JANEIRO — They are buddies, Usain Bolt and David Rudisha, two runners who both made loud statements at the last Olympics. Off the track, one of them speaks louder — and much more often — than the other. Even though Rudisha, the 800-meter Olympic champion from Kenya, refers to Bolt as his brother

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Oman’s government has shut down a newspaper and detained three of its journalists over a story alleging improper interference in a court case, activists said Wednesday. The daily Arabic newspaper Azamn stopped publishing after an Information Ministry order, activists said. Its website now simply announces it has shut down with

DETROIT — The Michigan appeals court has upheld a $5.2 million verdict for two black state troopers who said they were rejected for promotion because of their race. Darzeil Hall and Lamarr Johnson each passed special training to become firearms examiners, but they weren’t promoted within the forensic science division and returned to their previous

RIO DE JANEIRO — Alev Kelter’s Olympics were over, so she and her U.S. women’s rugby teammates could finally go out for some celebratory passion fruit caipirinhas. Oh, and to party with Matthew McConaughey. True story: After finishing fifth at the Rio de Janeiro Games, the rugby team had gone through its post-Olympics debriefing meeting

RIO DE JANEIRO — Skies and pools both darkened Wednesday as the sun-splashed Rio Games gave way to gray clouds and murky green waters. The Rio de Janeiro Olympics were drenched in rain and continued questions Wednesday about why the diving well and water polo pools look so much like neglected aquariums. The third day

NEW YORK — Alex Rodriguez’s tempestuous relationship with New York Yankees fans comes to an end Friday when he plays his last game in pinstripes and he is making his exit without much of the adulation lavished on some hometown stars. Despite 351 home runs for the Bombers, and just four short of 700 for

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Police in North Carolina say two people were shot during a robbery and a suspect was later shot by officers after a two-county chase that ended when the suspects crashed their getaway vehicle into a utility pole. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said in a statement that officers found the two shooting victims when they

OMAHA, Neb. — Longtime Omaha World-Herald sports writer Steve Pivovar has died. He was 64. Sue Pivovar said her husband died at a hospital Wednesday. He had battled kidney cancer for nine months and, more recently, pneumonia. Steve Pivovar worked more than 40 years for the World-Herald . The Omaha native covered a wide range

RIO DE JANEIRO — Alba Torrens scored 32 points to lead Spain to an 89-68 win over China Wednesday as the Spaniards improved their position in women’s basketball group play behind the undefeated U.S. and Canada. Astou Ndour added 21 points, and guard Leticia Romero, who plays at Florida State, added 16. Spain (2-1) moved

MINNEAPOLIS — Ilhan Omar spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp as a young girl, fleeing with her family from civil war in Somalia. Two decades later, after forging a new life in Minnesota, she appears on the brink of becoming the nation’s first Somali-American state legislator. Omar, a 33-year-old community activist, cried as

INDIANAPOLIS — A motorist whose pickup truck crashed into and killed two highway construction workers has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Jordan Stafford of Fortville learned his sentence Wednesday after a jury last month found him guilty of two counts of reckless operation of a vehicle in a highway work zone. Marion Superior

BOSTON — Members of Norman Rockwell’s family have launched an online petition urging the Norman Rockwell Museum in Massachusetts to stop selling a biography of the illustrator they say is fraudulent. The Change.org petition started by Rockwell’s granddaughter and son says Deborah Solomon’s biography “American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell” would be

LAKE CHARLES, La. — The southwest Louisiana coroner who reopened the investigation of a 1962 death says he’s “100 percent sure” that the 22-year-old woman was killed, rather than the victim of an accidental drowning. Dr. Terry Welke was the first witness in the trial of 76-year-old Felix Vail, who has pleaded innocent to a

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The body of a man recovered from a Norwegian waterfall has been formally identified as missing Utah attorney Kent Richard Hart, police in Norway said Wednesday. Police spokesman Pal Mikkelrud said DNA samples and the fact that Hart was the only person reported missing near the Hivjufossen waterfall in Hallingdal led to

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged a group of businessmen on Wednesday to inform authorities about companies or business people they suspect of supporting a U.S.-based Muslim cleric accused of orchestrating Turkey’s failed July 15 coup, saying they deserved “no pity.” The statement was likely to fan concerns over Turkey’s large-scale crackdown