Новости за 20.11.2016

LOS ANGELES — Harry Potter spinoff “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” cast a spell over audiences, summoning $75 million according to studio estimates Sunday and unseating “Doctor Strange” from the top spot.

BEIRUT — Footage obtained by The Associated Press shows the moment a children’s hospital in northern Syria was hit by an airstrike.

HOMESTEAD, Fla. — The Latest on NASCAR’s season finale (all times local):

LIMA, Peru — The Latest on President Barack Obama’s final official foreign trip (all times local):

HOMESTEAD, Fla. — It’s NASCAR championship day!

The Sprint Cup champion will be decided Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch, Joey Logano and Carl Edwards are the finalists racing for the title. The best finisher among the four drivers will be the 2016 champion.

Johnson is trying to match Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty with a NASCAR-record seven championships. Busch is trying to repeat following his remarkable run to the 2015 title.

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BENGHAZI, Libya — Activists and medics say tribal clashes that erupted in southern Libya after three young men turned a pet monkey loose on a high school girl have killed at least 20 people.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Police in Fort Wayne have issued a statewide Indiana Amber Alert for a 13-year-old girl from Fort Wayne who they say they believe is in “extreme danger.”

LITTLEFIELD, Texas — This corner of rural West Texas is as reliant on farming, boom-and-bust oil cycles and declining segments of a bygone manufacturing economy as it is reliably red in the voting booth.

JOHANNESBURG — The pangolin, a scaly anteater coveted by poachers, might have a new champion: rats that will be trained to sniff out trafficked pangolin parts in shipments heading from Africa to Asia.

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Democrats saw their hopes for a resurgence dashed under the weight of Donald Trump’s landslide victory and Republicans gaining complete control of the state’s government.

KOKOMO, Ind. — A new solar park in Kokomo that will produce 7 megawatts of energy is expected to be operational next month.

With new albums to promote, the timing is perfect for Sunday’s American Music Awards, where performers include top pop stars such as Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars and The Weeknd.

WINDSOR HEIGHTS, Iowa — When officials in the Des Moines suburb of Windsor Heights began talking about installing sidewalks to improve safety and encourage outdoor activities, they anticipated some grumbling from residents who liked the look of uninterrupted, lush lawns.

DORTMUND, Germany — Borussia Dortmund striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang celebrated his winning goal against Bayern Munich on Saturday night with three pushups, leaving fans at the stadium and those watching at home perplexed.

LONDON — Britain’s economy could face a slowdown because of the uncertainty caused by the decision to leave the European Union, the government’s finance minister said Sunday.

QUETTA, Pakistan — The Islamic State group has claimed the killing of four members of Pakistani security forces who were shot dead by gunmen on a motorcycle in the southwestern city of Quetta.

FRANKFURT, Germany — Eleven rounds into the season, four-time defending champion Bayern Munich looks unusually vulnerable after losing the Bundesliga lead to newcomer Leipzig.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Henrik Stenson won the Race to Dubai title for the second time in four years on Sunday, and Matthew Fitzpatrick claimed the biggest victory of his short career at the World Tour Championship.

BOSTON — It didn’t take a divisive presidential election to get Mark Chester interested in immigrants. Chester has been celebrating immigrants for years, making it his mission to photograph two people from every nation.

GLASGOW, Scotland — Russia’s failure to acknowledge it operated a state-sponsored doping program, continued obstruction of testing and cyberattacks on the World Anti-Doping Agency were denounced on Sunday.

TUNIS, Tunisia — Grieving mothers from the impoverished heartland, a Muslim researcher and a Jewish agronomist all testified publicly in recent days about killings, torture and other abuses under Tunisia’s former authoritarian leaders, part of a wrenching effort by the fledgling democracy to come to terms with the country’s past.

JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday tried to downplay a brewing scandal over the purchase of German submarines, saying his only consideration in ordering the deal was fortifying the country’s security.

BEIRUT — The Syrian government on Sunday refused a U.N. proposal to grant the eastern districts of Aleppo autonomy as part of an approach to restore calm to the war-torn city.

LONDON — British coast guards say some crew members are being removed from a cargo ship that is taking on water in the English Channel as a storm lashes England’s south coast.

NAIROBI, Kenya — Police officers have killed four suspected extremists in Kenya’s volatile Mandera County, a border region hard-hit by recent attacks by the Somali extremist group al-Shabab.