Новости за 31.10.2016

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A judge will dismiss the charges against Buffalo Sabres forward Evander Kane stemming from scuffles with women in a bar if he stays out of future trouble, according to a prosecutor who described the athlete’s behavior as “arrogant, boorish and surly, but not criminal.” The arrangement is contingent on the 25-year-old player

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City police say a 3-year-old boy who died last week was accidentally shot by his 5-year-old brother. Police say Jermone L. Green was shot Thursday at the townhouse where he lived. Efforts to revive him were unsuccessful. Investigators are trying to determine how the 5-year-old got hold of the gun.

NEW YORK — “Cutting through the noise” is a phrase often uttered around Hollywood, where mammoth marketing budgets are routinely expended to reach moviegoers distracted by a million other entertainment options. But few things have ever generated as much “noise” as the election. Releasing a movie amid the cataclysmic clash between Hilary Clinton and Donald

KIGALI, Rwanda — Rwanda’s government on Monday said 22 French senior military officers helped to plan and execute the 1994 genocide, in which more than 800,000 people were killed. The French officers were involved both as perpetrators and accomplices, Rwanda’s National Commission for the Fight against Genocide said in a statement Monday. “The refusal to

MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Virginia State Police say they’ve charged a man with reckless driving after a crash injured more than 22 people in a Martinsville Speedway parking lot after a NASCAR race. Police said in a statement Monday that the unnamed driver of a car that hit pedestrians in the congested handicapped parking lot after

SALEM, Mass. — Authorities say a drunken driver struck a woman and her 10-year-old twin daughters as they were crossing a street during crowded Halloween festivities in Salem, Massachusetts, the site of the 17th-century witch trials. Police say the victims were heading to a parking garage Sunday night when they were struck by a car

INDIANAPOLIS — Republican Senate candidate Todd Young presents himself as a squeaky clean, detail-oriented Marine who Indiana voters can trust to help “clean up” Washington, D.C., and be a responsible steward of tax dollars. Yet public documents detailing both his personal and campaign accounts seem to paint a picture at odds with the image Young

JERUSALEM — A Palestinian gunman opened fire on a West Bank checkpoint on Monday, wounding three Israeli soldiers before forces shot and killed him, the Israeli military said. Palestinian security officials identified the shooter as Mohammed Turkman, a 25-year-old police officer from the northern West Bank. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they

LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigerian government officials, soldiers and police are raping and sexually exploiting women and girl refugees from Boko Haram, instead of protecting them, Human Rights Watch said in a report Monday. Shortages of food, medicine and clothing in refugee camps compounds the vulnerability of victims who include many unaccompanied girls and women orphaned

LADYSMITH, Wis. — The man suspected of fatally shooting a sheriff’s deputy in western Wisconsin has an extensive criminal record, court records show. Douglas Nitek, 43, is accused of killing Rusk County Sheriff’s Deputy Dan Glaze Saturday night as the officer investigated a report of a suspicious vehicle in a field not far from the

BEDFORD, Ind. — The southern Indiana city of Bedford faces a lawsuit from a resident who says its new yard signs law infringes on his political expression. The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed the lawsuit Monday in federal court on behalf of Samuel Shaw. Shaw says he had several political signs in his

RIO DE JANEIRO — Nearly 2 ½ months after the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, hundreds of workers still haven’t been paid and are planning to sue the local organizing committee to get their money. Among those late getting paid are about 100 freelance contractors who worked as stadium announcers, show producers and DJs, and several

UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J. — A slave cemetery in New Jersey has been rededicated following restoration efforts after it was damaged during Superstorm Sandy. The Rev. Ella Hayes was among those who presided over the rededication Sunday of the Hopper Slave Cemetery in Upper Saddle River, The Record reported (http://bit.ly/2f39XKO). Hayes said the “bittersweet” rededication

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — An Ethiopian official said 2,000 people have been detained and later released under the country’s state of emergency that was declared on October 8, 2016. The remarks came amid local media reports that thousands of people are being detained across some parts of the country that have witnessed some of the

JERUSALEM — When Ali Nimr drove drunk at night past Israeli police operating in his Jerusalem neighborhood, the officers sprayed the Palestinian’s car with gunfire, fearing he was an attacker, according to his indictment. Nimr’s brother-in-law, in the front seat next to him, was killed. Now Nimr is on trial for negligent homicide in his

BEIRUT — Syria’s military said Monday that it is determined to repel an attack on the government-controlled western part of Aleppo as it continued to battle insurgents in intense battles on the city’s edge. The military said in a statement that opposition fighters have killed 84 people, mostly women and children, since launching their offensive

HELSINKI — Finland says it will start to operate the world’s first icebreaker powered by liquefied natural gas on Tuesday as the number of LNG-powered vessels is steadily increasing in the Nordic country that is surrounded by the Baltic Sea and is heavily reliant on maritime transport. The state-owned operator Arctia Ltd. said on Monday

LONDON — Bank of England Governor Mark Carney announced Monday that he will extend his term in office by one year and stay in the position through June 2019, a decision that may help settle speculation about his future guiding Britain’s monetary policy. In a letter to Treasury chief Philip Hammond, Carney said he was

Duke is in a familiar place to open the college basketball season. The Blue Devils are the runaway choice for No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason Top 25 on Monday. It is the eighth time Duke has held the preseason No. 1 ranking. North Carolina has the most preseason No. 1s with nine and

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A federal judge on Monday tentatively approved a $151 million settlement involving two companies sued over a 2014 chemical spill that contaminated drinking water in southern West Virginia. U.S. District Judge John Copenhaver approved the proposed deal after more than two hours of closed-door negotiations on the wording of the class-action agreement.

WASHINGTON — Six days before Americans choose a new president and Congress, the Federal Reserve is expected Wednesday to leave its benchmark interest rate alone but possibly signal that it expects to raise it in December. From job growth to home purchases, the U.S. economy has been demonstrating its resilience seven-plus years after it began

LOS ANGELES — New research suggests oil drilling decades ago may have triggered earthquakes in the Los Angeles region, including the 1933 quake that killed more than 100 people. If confirmed, it would be the first time oil operations have been linked to a deadly quake in the United States. Scientists from the U.S. Geological

NEW YORK — Zika virus ravages the testes of male mice, sharply reducing sperm counts and fertility, says a study that raises a new specter about its threat to people. Experiments found testes of infected mice shrank about 90 percent by weight, while their output of useful sperm fell by three-quarters on average, and often

PARIS — By the end of the week, Andy Murray could become the top-ranked player in the world for the first time in his career. Ever since he first reached No. 2 in the tennis rankings seven years ago, the 29-year-old Murray has been trying to catch the likes of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and

STOCKHOLM — World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg, who is credited with helping at least 20,000 Hungarian Jews escape the Holocaust, has been pronounced dead by Swedish authorities, 71 years after he disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The Swedish diplomat is believed to have died in Soviet captivity, but when and how remains unclear. Wallenberg was