Новости за 17.10.2016

NEW YORK — Preschoolers can explore an updated version of Elmo’s World when the new season of “Sesame Street” debuts next year. Sesame Workshop says it’s making new episodes of the popular segment for the first time since 2009. Also returning is Tony Award-winning performer Bill Irwin, who played Elmo’s friend, Mr. Noodle. Sesame Workshop

RIO DE JANEIRO — At least 18 inmates died in two separate Brazilian penitentiaries during clashes between rival gangs, and authorities were investigating a possible connection between the uprisings, police said Monday. At least 10 of the prisoners died in a mutiny in the northern state of Roraima, while eight others perished in a similar

NEW YORK — It took nearly four decades to find and try a suspect in the haunting disappearance of first-grader Etan Patz. The trial itself spanned three months of testimony and 18 days of deliberations before a jury finally deadlocked. Now it’s about to unfold all over again. Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Maxwell Wiley

LONDON — People making threats against a woman challenging the British government over its European Union exit plans will face “the full vigor of the law,” a High Court judge said Monday. Financial entrepreneur Gina Miller is the lead claimant in a lawsuit arguing that the government can’t trigger Britain’s exit from the EU without

TORONTO — An Ontario judge hearing arguments on an attempt to bar the Cleveland Indians from using their team name and “Chief Wahoo” logo during Monday’s night playoff game in Toronto asked the plaintiff’s lawyer how the game would be played if the name and logo didn’t appear. The legal challenge by indigenous activist Douglas

NORTH JUDSON, Ind. — A business that organizes trade show exhibits has announced that it’s moving from the Chicago suburbs to North Judson in northern Indiana. Romeoville, Illinois-based Outstanding Tradeshow Exhibit Services plans to spend $1.2 million to buy, renovate and equip a 74,000-square-foot facility. OTES founder and president Nan Wellman says that “fiscally, Indiana

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnia’s Central Election Commission said Monday that final election results showed that a Bosnian Serb has been elected mayor of Srebrenica, a town known for the Bosnian Serb massacre of over 8,000 Muslims in 1995 that international courts defined as genocide. Srebrenica ended up in the Serb part of Bosnia following the

VIENNA — The house where Adolf Hitler was born will be torn down and replaced with a new building that has no association with the Nazi dictator, Austria’s government announced Monday as it moved to eliminate the property’s pull as a place of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis. The plan still has to be formalized in legislation

GENEVA — FIFA has blocked rock concerts from being staged in World Cup stadiums in the weeks before the 2018 tournament kicks off in Russia. FIFA passed a rule “to ensure that the field of play is of the highest quality, it shall not be used for a non-football event” for two months before a

LONDON — Tense relations between Britain and Russia came under further strain Monday as Kremlin-backed broadcaster RT accused the U.K.’s NatWest bank of shutting down its accounts without explanation. The editor of the government-funded television channel, Margarita Simonyan, tweeted: “They’ve closed our accounts in Britain. All our accounts. ‘The decision is not subject to review.’

AMMAN, Jordan — Rights activists in Jordan called Monday for stiffer punishment for violence in the family, after four women and a man were killed in “honor crimes” in just over a week. Jordan has reformed its penal code, but loopholes allow judges to hand down lenient sentences, particularly if the family involved declines to

DALLAS — The Big 12’s university presidents and commissioner Bob Bowlsby are meeting in Dallas to discuss the possibility of adding teams to the conference. A news conference is planned for 5:30 p.m. Monday with Bowlsby and Oklahoma President David Boren. The Big 12 has been analyzing expansion options for the last three months, but

MANDAN, N.D. — “Democracy Now” reporter Amy Goodman plans to plead not guilty to a riot charge stemming from her coverage of a protest against the construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota. Prosecutor Ladd Erickson dismissed a criminal trespass charge against Goodman on Friday. Defense attorney Tom Dickson said Monday that

SANFORD, Fla. — A Florida man who fired at George Zimmerman’s vehicle during a road-rage confrontation has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. The Orlando Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/2elGjhx ) that at the sentencing hearing Monday morning, Zimmerman said 38-year-old Matthew Apperson showed no regard for human life during the May 2015 confrontation, and even

Major U.S. stock indexes wavered between small gains and losses in early trading Monday, as investors pored over the latest batch of company earnings news. Energy stocks were down the most as crude oil prices headed lower. Utilities bucked the downward trend and were trading higher. KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average was up

NEW YORK — Bette Midler is going back to the beginning of her career — the divine beginning. The Grammy- and Emmy Award-winner is re-releasing a deluxe version of “The Divine Miss M,” her 1972 debut album that included the hits “Do You Want To Dance,” ”Chapel Of Love,” ”Friends” and “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.”

NIAMEY, Niger — Gunmen attacked a prison in Niger that holds jihadists early Monday and were repelled by security forces who killed an attacker, Niger’s interior and public security minister said. Two guards were also wounded in the attack around 4:30 a.m. at Koutoukale prison, which holds prisoners from extremist groups from northern Mali and

LUXEMBOURG — Talks to convince a small Belgian region to back and save a wide-ranging trade deal between the 28-nation European Union and Canada could spill over into this week’s EU summit of leaders. Under the EU’s complicated approval system, the fate of the trans-Atlantic deal depends on all regions in Belgium approving the deal,

JOHANNESBURG — South African protesters demanding free university education broke windows, forced open doors and threw human excrement in an effort to disrupt the resumption of classes, said a university official. The University of Cape Town re-opened Monday after closing because of security concerns, but police were on campus and used a stun grenade to

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NEW YORK — The best thing young players can do for their basketball careers is not play too much basketball. They should participate in other sports and delay specializing in just basketball until they are at least 14 years old. They should also take at least one day off from organized competition each week and

BANGKOK — For Thailand’s royalists — and there are millions of them — King Bhumibol Adulyadej will probably long remain embedded as a potent, father-like figure who guided them through turbulent decades and espoused ideals of national harmony, labor on behalf of the poor and the virtues of an agrarian society vanishing in the wake

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Philippines ambassador to the United Arab Emirates says a wanted man named by President Rodrigo Duterte as a major drug kingpin has been arrested in the Arab country’s capital. Ambassador Constancio Vingno Jr. told The Associated Press on Monday that Rolando “Kerwin” Espinosa Jr. was arrested Sunday night in

ROME — IOC President Thomas Bach has taken note of the “political reasons” behind the withdrawal of Rome’s bid for the 2024 Olympics. The Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) released a letter from Bach to CONI president Giovanni Malago that referred to the city council’s vote against the bid following staunch opposition from Mayor Virginia Raggi.

MADRID — Neymar will sign a three-year contract extension with Barcelona on Friday, a deal that will keep the Brazil forward with the Spanish club until 2021. Barcelona and Neymar had made the announcement of the agreement in July. The previous contract was to end in 2018. The new deal will run through June 2021,