Новости за 12.08.2016

EAST CHINA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The Latest on the fire at a power plant in Michigan (all times local): 9:40 a.m. A utility says fire crews have extinguished a blaze at a power plant along the St. Clair River in Michigan. DTE Energy Co. issued the update Friday morning about its St. Clair Power Plant

MARIETTA, Ga. — A Georgia man has been sentenced to four years in prison for setting his family’s dog house on fire in suburban Atlanta while the dog was inside. WSB-TV reports (http://2wsb.tv/2bces6U) a Cobb County jury convicted 23-year-old Caleb Lanier of felony animal cruelty and another charge for intentionally burning the female pit dog.

BERLIN — The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency says it has put the Identitarian Movement, a group that rails against “mass immigration” and calls for “an end to the Islamization of Europe,” under observation. Hans-Georg Maassen, the head of the BfV agency, told news agency dpa in comments published Friday that it sees “evidence

HAMPTON, N.H. — An oversized rubber duck that was stolen from a New Hampshire family’s home five years ago has returned, shrouded in a cloud of mystery and global intrigue. The Portsmouth Herald reports (http://bit.ly/2aGAVbF ) the Troiano family began receiving cryptic postcards and pictures of the duck in locations all over the world soon

BEIJING — China’s auto sales growth accelerated in July, an industry group said Friday, while General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. reported record demand for the month. Sales in the world’s biggest auto market rose 26.3 percent to 1.6 million units, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said. Total vehicle sales, including trucks and

RAPID CITY, S.D. — JetBlue says more than 20 passengers and crew members were injured when turbulence rocked their flight from Massachusetts to California, forcing the aircraft to be diverted to South Dakota. Flight 429 was traveling from Boston to Sacramento on Thursday with 145 passengers and five crew members on board when it was

BEIJING — Japan’s Sharp Corp. says its proposed acquisition by the Taiwanese company that assembles Apple’s iPhones will go ahead soon after Chinese anti-monopoly officials gave their approval, clearing the last regulatory obstacle. A share issue to complete the $3.5 billion acquisition by Taiwan’s Foxconn will take place “as soon as possible,” Sharp said in

LONDON — One of three London schoolgirls who traveled to an area controlled by the Islamic State group in Syria to become “jihadi brides” is believed to have been killed in an air strike, a lawyer for her family says. Tasnime Akunjee told the BBC that Kadiza Sultana’s family had been told that she died

LONDON — Dozens of train managers on Eurostar services under the English Channel have walked off the job in a dispute over working conditions. The company says the strike is having only a minor effect on its schedule. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union plan seven days of strikes over two weekends. A

INDIANAPOLIS — The coma lasted for six weeks. Andrea Vellinga didn’t know that. She was lying in a hospital bed. She didn’t know that, either. All she knew was that a woman had walked in with a gloriously beautiful bouquet of roses, declaring with tears running down her face: “These are for my miracle patient.”

LOS ANGELES — The writer, director, producer and star of “The Birth of a Nation” says the Sundance Institute offered him encouragement and support when he needed it most. “They are the family I never had in this industry,” Nate Parker said as he accepted the organization’s Vanguard Award at a fundraising dinner Thursday night

SEOUL, South Korea — Amid a continuing nuclear standoff and virtually no interactions between each country politically, some North and South Koreans are making an exception — among their athletes at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. The countries’ interactions in Rio began when South Korea’s 17-year-old gymnast Lee Eun-ju took a selfie with North Korea’s

PUEBLO, Colo. — Three years into the nation’s hemp experiment, a 20-acre farm in southern Colorado exemplifies the crop’s hazy potential. Hemp could be enormously profitable, but right now there are just as many questions as answers for Will and Ally Cabaniss, two Florida natives who moved to southern Colorado to embark on the hemp

SAN FRANCISCO — Gurbaksh Chahal’s rise from a high school dropout to a 25-year-old Internet mogul who sold his startup for $300 million landed him on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and “Extra” in segments touting him as a highly eligible bachelor. That image began crumbling when prosecutors charged him with dozens of felonies in 2013,

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The flamboyant alleged head of the Philadelphia Mafia family is scheduled to be in a Florida court Friday to determine whether he should be held without bond and sent to New York City to face racketeering charges. Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino, 54, is scheduled to appear before a federal magistrate judge

NEW DELHI — A stream of cars, motorcycles and pedestrians passed by an injured man struck by a delivery truck on a New Delhi street, leaving him to die, news reports said Friday. Closed-circuit TV footage showed the man being hit by the small truck at 5:40 a.m. Wednesday as he walked along the side

TOKYO — Japan searched Friday for eight Chinese crewmembers missing after their fishing boat collided with a cargo ship off disputed islands in the East China Sea, government officials said. The Japan Coast Guard’s search came one day after six other crewmembers were rescued. Their boat apparently sank after colliding with a Greek-flagged ship Thursday

NEW DELHI — Once bustling with hundreds of party supporters and supplicants from far-flung towns, the headquarters of India’s Congress party wears a deserted air these days. Gone are the people seeking favors. Gone are the milling party workers who shouted slogans when they spotted a leader walking into the white colonial-era bungalow in the

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Eagles coach Doug Pederson is preparing for starting right tackle Lane Johnson to be suspended by the NFL. Johnson reportedly is in line for a 10-game suspension for violating the league’s performance enhancers policy. He previously served a four-game ban in 2014 for using a banned medication that he said he had

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A strong magnitude-7.2 earthquake struck Friday in the Pacific Ocean near the island nations of Vanuatu and New Caledonia, but authorities said there was no threat of a tsunami. The United States Geological Survey said the quake hit Friday afternoon 109 kilometers (68 miles) east of New Caledonia’s Hunter Island, at

BERLIN — Germany’s foreign minister is calling for U.N.-supervised humanitarian access to the contested Syrian city of Aleppo and says a unilateral three-hour daily cease-fire isn’t enough. The Russian military, which is fighting alongside Syrian government forces in the civil war, has promised a daily, three-hour cease-fire for Aleppo to allow humanitarian aid into besieged

CHILMARK, Mass. — When President Barack Obama goes on vacation, he plays a lot of golf. And when he plays, he likes to hang out with big-name basketball players. Five days into his family vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, the president has spent four of them hitting the links. While the president rarely plays basketball anymore,

BANGKOK — Thailand was hit by a rapid succession of explosions Thursday and Friday in five central and southern provinces. Eleven blasts went off within 18 hours of each other, and eight of them went off within an hour and a half of each other. At least four people were killed and dozens wounded. Police

The latest Olympic hero for China is not even a gold medalist. Fu Yuanhui is popular for simply being herself — unafraid to show her unfiltered, wacky facial expressions and candid words. Her smile lit up the deck as she took a victory lap with the bronze medal around her neck for her performance in

RIO DE JANEIRO — Winning a gold medal in soccer, and not worrying about anything else, is no longer good enough in Brazil with the country holding the Olympics. The country wants to win as many events as it can and finish in the top 10 in the number of overall medals won. A tall