Новости за 25.08.2016

NEW YORK — In a new project with National Geographic, Barack Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. president to project himself into virtual reality — in this case, a 360-degree representation of Yosemite National Park. The 11-minute VR video, narrated by Obama, is one part paean to the wonders of America’s national parks and one

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. — The National Park Service wants to demolish a run-down cottage at a South Carolina plantation once owned by one of the nation’s founding fathers. The agency is taking comments on plans to remove the caretaker cottage at the Charles Pinkney National Historic Site. The site outside Charleston preserves part of a

MADRID — A small Spanish town has come under fire for alleged cruelty to animals after a video showing young calves being taunted, stabbed and eventually killed in the town’s festival was much criticized on social media. The town of Valmojado, located southwest of Madrid, issued a statement Thursday defending the spectacle as a legitimate

BELGRADE, Serbia — The Latest on Europe’s migration crisis (all times local): 6:15 p.m. The United Nations refugee chief is urging Greece to improve shelter quality, sanitation and security in its refugee camps. U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi says camp conditions pose severe security risks to their most vulnerable residents, particularly women and

LONDON, Ky. — Authorities have arrested a 40-year-old Laurel County man they say fed methamphetamine to two dogs that later died. Local news outlet report that officials arrested Benjamin Burdette Tuesday afternoon on charges including animal cruelty and wanton endangerment. According to an arrest citation, Laurel County Sheriff’s Office deputies were dispatched to Burdette’s home

NASHUA, N.H. — A New Hampshire state trooper involved in the videotaped beating of a man after a two-state car chase is set to plead guilty to several charges. Thirty-one-year-old Andrew Monaco was arrested in July on charges stemming from his use of force in the arrest of Richard Simone Jr. on May 11 following

ANKARA, Turkey — Kurdish rebels opened fire Thursday at security forces protecting a convoy of vehicles carrying Turkey’s main opposition party leader in the northeast, killing a soldier and wounding two others, officials said. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the Republican People’s Party, told the state-run Anadolu Agency that he was safe and had been taken

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Dollar Tree Inc. (DLTR) on Thursday reported fiscal second-quarter net income of $170.2 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier. On a per-share basis, the Chesapeake, Virginia-based company said it had net income of 72 cents. The results matched Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of eight

In this photo by Chiang Ying-ying, Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech at a military exercise in southern Taiwan. She and other observers wore flak jackets and helmets as Taiwanese forces carried out a live-fire demonstration that simulated an attempt by Chinese forces to land on the island. The president said the participating soldiers

DETROIT — A member of the U.S. Olympic sailing team says he’s recovered a bag of expensive gear that was stolen from his truck after he returned to his Detroit home. Bora Gulari tells WWJ-AM that the sailing gear, worth $10,000, and Olympics memorabilia were discovered in a yard on Detroit’s east side. He’s only

PARIS — The mayors of London and Paris are criticizing local French bans of body-covering burkini swimsuits, saying women should wear what they want to the beach. Burkini bans in several French coastal towns this summer have prompted a debate in France and outrage among many people abroad. London Mayor Sadiq Khan, the city’s first

MOSCOW — China is facing a one-year ban from weightlifting over repeated doping cases in a move which threatens to stop some of the world’s top athletes from competing internationally. The International Weightlifting Federation confirmed Thursday that three failed retests of drug test samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics will lead to China’s automatic ban

NAIROBI, Kenya — The National Olympic Committee of Kenya was disbanded by the government on Thursday and an investigation launched into alleged mismanagement of the country’s team at the Rio de Janeiro Games. The problems faced by the team in Rio damaged the morale of athletes, Kenya sports minister Hassan Wario said. Those problems included

WASHINGTON — Slightly fewer people filed for U.S. unemployment benefits last week, a sign the American job market remains healthy. THE NUMBERS: The Labor Department said Thursday that applications for jobless aid slipped by 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 261,000. The less volatile four-week average dropped by 1,250 to 264,000. Overall, the number of people

LONDON — British lawmakers on Thursday demanded that social media do more to police users who promote extremism, arguing that companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter are “consciously failing” to stop radicalization online. Social media companies are leaving cyberspace “ungoverned and lawless,” allowing the forums to become the lifeblood of the so-called Islamic State, according

BERLIN — An armed anti-government extremist trying to prevent his eviction was wounded in an exchange of gunfire with police Thursday in an eastern German town. Authorities said two officers also suffered minor injuries — one a gunfire graze on the neck, the other a bite wound — as about 100 officers were deployed against

CAIRO — From the day he was imprisoned more than 100 days ago, Egyptian rights lawyer Malek Adly has been locked in solitary confinement with almost no communication with the outside world, sleeping on a bare floor in conditions his lawyers say amount to torture. Adly has not been formally charged with a crime, but

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s Senate on Thursday began deliberating whether to permanently remove President Dilma Rousseff from office, the final step in a leadership fight that has paralyzed Congress and cast a pall over a nation in the midst of a severe recession. Brazil’s first female president is accused of illegally shifting money between

BATON ROUGE, La. — The Latest on Louisiana flooding (all times local): 10:30 a.m. Experts in Louisiana say some sugarcane fields remain flooded, with water unable to drain into full rivers and bayous. Sugarcane specialist Kenneth Gravois (GRAV-wah) of Louisiana State University says farmers have been able to plant only 15 to 20 percent of

WASHINGTON — Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods surged in July, lifted in part by the biggest increase in orders in a key investment category since January. Orders for durable goods jumped 4.4 percent in July, rebounding from a 4.2 percent plunge in June, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. The changes in both

DUBLIN — Medtronic’s campaign to lower costs pumped up its profits during the first-quarter. The medical device company’s profit rose a 13 percent to $929 million, or 66 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $1.03 per share. The results beat Wall Street expectations by 2 cents, according to a

GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. — Dollar General Corp. (DG) on Thursday reported fiscal second-quarter profit of $306.5 million. The Goodlettsville, Tennessee-based company said it had net income of $1.08 per share. The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of eight analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.09 per share.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is nominating current World Bank President Jim Yong Kim for a second term leading the 189-nation international lending organization. In making the announcement Thursday, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew praised Kim for using his first term at the World Bank to effectively address “today’s most pressing global challenges in innovative ways,

JOHANNESBURG — A Bengal tiger rescued from what activists have called “the worst zoo in the world” arrived in South Africa for a new home Thursday, after living in a small cage in Gaza alongside another tiger’s stuffed corpse. The nine-year-old male, known as Laziz, arrived by plane. His handlers said he was in good

SALEM, Mass. — Police in Salem are investigating the detonation of an explosive placed inside a news box for an LGBT newspaper as a possible hate crime. The explosion of the Rainbow Times box along the Essex Street mall was reported early Tuesday. Police say it shook the downtown area and was heard up to