Новости за 21.12.2016

MELBOURNE, Australia — Australian Open organizers say they will offer 50 million Australian dollars ($36.2 million) in prize money for the 2017 tennis tournament, including $A3.7 million ($2.68 million) each to the men’s and women’s singles champions.

LONDON — Four members of a gang that robbed a string of cash machines with explosives have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from 10 to 11 years each.

GREFILLAH, Jordan — A witness says that in the latest deadly attack in Jordan, security forces walked into an ambush at a militants’ hideout.

BEIJING — An international aid agency is warning of a potential humanitarian crisis as Mongolia grapples with another unusually harsh winter that’s decimating livestock and sending temperatures to minus 56 degrees Celsius (minus 70 Fahrenheit), with worse still to come.

KINSHASA, Congo — Security forces in Congo have killed at least 26 demonstrators and arrested scores more amid protests against President Joseph Kabila’s hold on power, a rights group says.

ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia — Mongolia’s foreign minister says the Dalai Lama will no longer be allowed to visit his country after a visit by the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader prompted protests from China and a suspension of talks on a major loan.

BENGHAZI, Libya — Libya’s state-run National Oil Corporation says major pipelines and fields in the west have been reopened in a move that restores a key component of the North African country’s oil exports, stymied since the country’s 2011 civil war.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The adage goes, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.”

But what about a beer by its label?

The artwork on craft beer bottles is as diverse as the breweries themselves. Even Greenbush Brewing Co. head brewer Jake Demski says that although the beer itself is his top consideration, a good bottle label can influence his purchases.

“I may say, ‘That’s a cool label,’ and I might try that over something with a plain label,” he says.

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WALTON, Ind. — Tate Robertson loves rocking out on the drums, pounding along to the beat and sensing the vibrations from the thumps and thuds. He usually shakes his head back and forth while drumming along, showing off his strands of blue-green hair.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Sweden’s central bank has left its key interest rate unchanged at a record minus 0.50 percent but says it will expand its bond-purchase program by 30 billion kroner ($3.2 billion) during the first half of 2017.

LOS ANGELES — A 34-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and a woman believed to be a nurse and former reality TV show contestant has been found dead in a grave in his Los Angeles-area backyard, police said.

TOKYO — A court in Singapore found a former private banker guilty Wednesday of trying to obstruct investigations linked to the indebted Malaysian State Fund 1MDB.

PARIS — France’s military chief is urging the next president to ratchet up defense spending to better confront Islamic extremists and authoritarian states that increasingly rely on military muscle.

BEIRUT — Syrian activists say the last buses meant to evacuate rebels and civilians from Aleppo have been delayed for nearly 24 hours. Reasons for the delay aren’t clear.

WASHINGTON — No one knew what was in the baggie. It was just a few tablespoons of crystalline powder seized back in April, clumped like snow that had partially melted and frozen again.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Police in Bahrain briefly clashed with residents of a besieged town that is home to a Shiite cleric on Wednesday, arresting at least two youths before withdrawing from the area, witnesses and activists said.

MOSCOW — The lower chamber of the Russian parliament calls for heightened security measures for Russian diplomats abroad following the assassination of the ambassador to Turkey.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The federal government will be pouring nearly a quarter-billion dollars into several dozen projects aimed at tackling the effects of drought in the West and restoring watersheds that provide drinking water to communities around the nation.

MBALE, Uganda — Seth Yonadav swaggered along a dirt path in rural Uganda, pointing toward the new synagogue where young men wearing yarmulkes lingered.

BERLIN — German investigators were searching Wednesday for the killer or killers in Monday’s attack on a crowded Berlin Christmas market after a man arrested soon after the rampage was released for lack of evidence and the Islamic State group claimed responsibility.

BEIJING — Chinese weather forecasters and state media say the dense, gray smog that has smothered much of China, closing schools and grounding planes, may finally soon give way.

BAGHDAD — Islamic State militants in Mosul are deliberately targeting civilians who refuse to join them as they retreat ahead of advancing Iraqi forces involved in a large-scale government operation to retake the militant-held city, an international watchdog said on Wednesday.

No matter where the Edmonton Oilers travel, captain Connor McDavid is confronted by the same questions and comparisons to the opposing team’s star.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Fined, ejected and then retrieved from the locker room, DeMarcus Cousins capped a tumultuous day with his dominant performance on the court.

BEIJING — Global stock markets were mixed in a narrow range Wednesday after U.S. stocks hit record levels despite attacks in Germany and Turkey.