Новости за 02.04.2017

PARIS — Lyon missed an early penalty and conceded a late equalizer in a 1-1 draw at 10-man Rennes in the French League on Sunday. Lyon failed to take advantage of having an extra man for nearly the whole game after Algerian defender Ramy Bensebaini was sent off in the fifth minute. The resulting spot

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s speaker of parliament said she is considering an emergency motion of no confidence against President Jacob Zuma after he fired the country’s widely respected finance minister last week. Baleka Mbete said Sunday that she cut short an overseas trip to deal with the “serious parliamentary issues” that have arisen since Zuma

CAIRO — Making his first official visit to Washington, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s meeting this week with U.S. President Donald Trump would be a significant step in the international rehabilitation of the general-turned-politician who was kept out of the Obama White House. But, analysts caution, there may not be much more that Egypt’s president could take from

NEW YORK — The taskmaster toddler of “The Boss Baby” dethroned Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” at the box office with a $49 million debut, handing its star Alec Baldwin what President Donald Trump might call a “huge” no. 1 opening. Paramount Pictures suffered another flop with its controversy-plagued “Ghost in the Shell.” The DreamWorks

TULSA, Okla. — A white Oklahoma police officer charged with manslaughter for fatally shooting an unarmed black man last year says the man’s race had nothing to do with her decision to fire her gun. Tulsa officer Betty Jo Shelby told CBS’s “60 Minutes” in an interview scheduled to air later Sunday that she used

MOCOA, Colombia — The Latest on the deadly river overflow in southern Colombia (all times local): 12:15 p.m. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says that at least 207 people have been killed in a water and mud avalanche in the country’s south, but the death toll is changing “every moment.” Santos spoke Sunday in his

MILAN — Even the best players make mistakes. Teenage goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma has been earning plaudits — and points for AC Milan — with fantastic performances this season. Not on Sunday when he committed an early error to gift Pescara the opening goal in a 1-1 draw in Serie A. Gabriel Paletta’s back pass seemed

WASHINGTON — It sounds like science fiction, but a cap-like device that makes electric fields to fight cancer improved survival for the first time in more than a decade for people with deadly brain tumors, final results of a large study suggest. Many doctors are skeptical of the therapy, called tumor treating fields, and it’s

SWANSEA, Wales — Swansea and Middlesbrough did little to alleviate their Premier League relegation worries with a 0-0 draw on Sunday. Swansea is only a point and a place above the relegation zone, while Middlesbrough is five points behind the south Wales club with a game in hand. The goalless draw highlighted the failings of

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — A concert venue owned by recording star Daryl Hall is suing a New York town, saying that measures taken to reduce the occupancy of the site would force the business to close. The Poughkeepsie Journal reports (http://pojonews.co/2oq6kFz) the dispute comes amid negotiations to build an outdoor stage at Daryl’s House, a venue

LONDON — British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has expressed regret for the disturbance caused when an activist tried to make a citizen’s arrest on a prominent Saudi general over alleged war crimes in Yemen. Britain’s Foreign Office said Sunday the incident was discussed during a call between Johnson and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.

SEYMOUR, Ind. — State officials are working on plans to widen a section of Interstate 65 to six lanes in southern Indiana. The project would add a lane for both northbound and southbound traffic on a 14-mile section between U.S. 50 in Seymour and Indiana 58 near Columbus. Indiana Department of Transportation spokesman Harry Maginity

TEWKSBURY, Mass. — Massachusetts authorities are looking for the suspect who stole a woman’s car while she was pumping gas in Tewksbury. Surveillance video posted to the police Twitter account shows the woman sprayed the suspect with gasoline and struggled with him before he drove away and dragged her several feet at a Circle K

BUTLERVILLE, Ind. — Indiana State Police say a southern Indiana man has been hospitalized with a non-life-threatening injury after exchanging gunfire with officers. Sgt. Stephen Wheeles says 25-year-old Charles L. Mays of Butlerville surrendered and was taken into custody about 7:45 p.m. Saturday following a 16-hour standoff. Wheeles says state and local officers responded to

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The Oscar winner “Moonlight” has won again, taking best film at the 28th annual GLAAD Media Awards. Barry Jenkins’ coming-of-age portrait was honored by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation at the awards held Saturday at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The group nominated only two films

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — At least nine civilian have been killed after an Afghanistan army commando unit detonated a cache of ordinance found in southern Helmand province. Omar Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor in Helmand, said Sunday that soldiers conducted an operation in which they found explosive and ammunition caches and detonated them. Rasoul Zazia,

JACKSON, Wyo. — Grizzly bears continue to expand their range amid an ongoing effort to turn over management of the bears from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to the states of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, a federal official said. “We’ve seen an 11 percent change in increasing range in just a couple of years,”

ST. LOUIS — A year after the NFL’s Rams abandoned St. Louis for Los Angeles, the city has a chance to again become a three-sport town if voters agree to help pay for a stadium for a new Major League Soccer franchise. Voters will decide Tuesday whether to designate $60 million from an existing business

BISMARCK, N.D. — Prolonged protests in North Dakota have failed to stop the flow of oil through the Dakota Access pipeline, at least for now, but they have provided inspiration and a blueprint for protests against pipelines in other states. The months of demonstrations that sought to halt the four-state pipeline have largely died off

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar — A sapphire rush has brought tens of thousands of people into the remote rainforests of eastern Madagascar, disfiguring a protected environmental area and prompting calls for military intervention. More high-quality sapphires have been found in the biodiverse area known as Corridor Ankeniheny-Zahamena in the past six months than were found in the

BELGRADE, Serbia — The Latest on Serbia’s presidential election (all times local): 9:00 p.m. An early projection by independent pollsters indicates that Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has won Serbia’s presidential election in the first round. The Ipsos Strategic Marketing agency projected that Vucic received more than 55 percent of the votes cast during Sunday’s election.

The Academy of Country Music Awards will unite Democrats and Republicans, according to Luke Bryan, the show’s host and a part-time comedian. The country star, hosting Sunday’s show for the fifth straight year, joked — as usual — about his duties at the country music party held annually in Las Vegas and airing live on

BOSTON — Training for the Boston Marathon has left Tommy Race feeling spent. His bank account, too: Race’s Boston adventure will cost about $2,000. “It’s a lot of money, but it’s also a vacation,” said Race, a high school math teacher from Bellingham, Washington. “For a runner like myself, I’d much rather throw down money

HELSINKI — You could be forgiven for thinking this year’s world figure skating championships took place in Japan, not Finland. The stands were full of red-and-white flags, Japanese skaters got huge cheers, and companies from the country dominated the advertising on the rink’s boards. That’s because Japan is firmly entrenched as skating’s spiritual home, with

GLASGOW, Scotland — Celtic clinched a sixth straight Scottish Premiership title on Sunday with eight games to spare, reinforcing the Glasgow club’s complete supremacy of the domestic game. Brendan Rodgers’ unbeaten side established an insurmountable 25-point lead by beating Hearts 5-0 on Sunday, a 28th victory in 30 league games. The only draws came away