Новости за 02.04.2017

JERUSALEM — A joint U.S.-Israeli missile interceptor meant to counter the type of medium-range missiles possessed by Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants became operational Sunday, completing Israel’s multi-layer defense system amid tensions on its frontiers with Syria and Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the unveiling ceremony for the David’s Sling system that defending the home

NEW YORK — Detective Paul Arroyo and Special Agent Peter D’Antonio are frustrated. For nearly nine months, the investigators have tried to find out how exactly a small, clear plastic bag full of readily available, highly explosive chemicals found its way to Central Park on July Fourth weekend. The homemade concoction blew up when a

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa police are hunting for a gang of armed robbers who blew up an armored cash-in-transit truck in busy traffic in Johannesburg, escaping with an undisclosed amount of money. Police spokesman Lungelo Dlamini said Sunday that police recovered the two vehicles used in the heist and are hunting for the suspects but

BERLIN — Police say a newspaper carrier in the northern German city of Lueneburg stabbed and killed a customer who had repeatedly complained about delivery problems. Police said Sunday that the 42-year-old paper man got into an argument with the 51-year-old customer outside the customer’s home Saturday afternoon, and stabbed him multiple times with a

BELZONI, Miss. — In a Mississippi Delta hamlet that calls itself the “Catfish Capital of the World,” public radio is one of Gus Mohamed’s constant companions on his long commutes past cotton and soybean fields. One of his favorite shows, “Gestalt Gardener,” bears some hallmarks of public broadcasting stereotypes: quirky voices, cheesy music and zealous

DALLAS — A storm system rumbling eastward through Texas toward the lower Mississippi Valley could pelt the region with large hail and cause flash-flooding and spawn tornadoes. The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center says the storms are likely to cause significant wind damage near and north of the Interstate 20 corridor in east Texas

NEW YORK — The French embassy in the United States is staging a yearlong series of events commemorating the 100th anniversary of America’s entry into World War I. The embassy’s Cultural Services has kicked off the programs in New York City with events focusing on art, literature, history and French-American relations. The Museum of the

AMATRICE, Italy — Prince Charles on Sunday visited the center of Amatrice, a mountain town that bore the brunt of central Italy’s Aug. 24 earthquake, which killed hundreds of people. Wearing a hard hat, the prince of Wales was accompanied by the head of Italy’s civil protection agency on a half-hour tour that took him

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Nigerian police confirm that three suicide bombers blew themselves up attempting to get into the northeastern city of Maiduguri. Police spokesman Victor Isuku said that on Sunday morning two men detonated explosive vests when security agents challenged them near an entry to Maiduguri, the northeastern city that has sustained several attacks. He

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Vermont wildlife officials are warning motorists to drive with caution due to the seasonal migrations of frogs and salamanders. The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife says frogs and salamanders tend to cross roads in groups during rainy spring nights in search of breeding pools. The animals are often killed by cars,

LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May has offered reassurances to Gibraltar that the UK remains steadfastly committed to the overseas territory amid concerns over its future as Britain leaves the European Union. May’s Downing Street office says Sunday that she phoned the chief minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo, to assure him that Britain remains

MOSCOW — Police in Moscow have detained about two dozen people at unauthorized rallies in the capital, a week after anti-government protests broke out across Russia. The police presence was notably heavy in central Moscow on Sunday. Pedestrian access to Red Square was only through metal detectors and police blocked off Pushkin Square, traditionally a

LONDON — Britain for the first time is honoring a woman with a statue in Parliament Square: suffragist Millicent Fawcett, a leader of the campaign to win women the right to vote. Prime Minister Theresa Mays calls Fawcett an inspiration in the battle against the injustices of today. May said Sunday “it is right and

WASHINGTON — Hunters could soon target grizzly bears from the air on Alaska’s federal lands. Internet providers may get to sell the browsing habits of their customers. States will be able to deny federal family planning money to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers. Citing states’ rights, jobs and the right to bear arms, congressional

LYON, France — At his current scoring rate, Paris Saint-Germain striker Edinson Cavani could reach 50 goals by the end of the season. Not bad for a player many PSG fans wanted to get rid of last summer, expressing concerns that he was not good enough to carry the attack after Zlatan Ibrahimovic left to

BERLIN — A regular poll of German voters shows the nationalist Alternative for Germany party slipping further amid infighting in its ranks, while Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc and its main challenger, the Social Democrats, remain in a dead heat. The Emnid Sunday poll for the Bild newspaper showed both major parties’ support unchanged at

NEW DELHI — Bangladesh’s High Court on Sunday confirmed the death penalty for two people tied to a banned Islamist militant group for the killing of an atheist blogger critical of radical Islam. The court also upheld jail sentences for six others after appeals were filed challenging the verdicts handed down by a trial court

MOSCOW — A respected Russian newspaper says it has uncovered information that police in the southern Russian republic of Chechnya have rounded up more than 100 men suspected of homosexuality and that at least three have been killed. The Saturday report in Novaya Gazeta said it had confirmed the information with sources in the Chechen

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Two major lenders in the United Arab Emirates, the First Gulf Bank and the National Bank of Abu Dhabi, have completed a merger to become the largest bank in the country under the name First Abu Dhabi Bank. The new bank has total assets of $180 billion and capital of

CARPI, Italy — Pope Francis says he is “deeply pained” by “the gigantic avalanche of mud” in Colombia that has caused scores of deaths and injuries. The pope called attention to the tragedy during his Angelus blessing Sunday on a visit to the northern Italian region of Emilia Romagna, which was struck by a pair

SRINAGAR, India — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday opened an 11-kilometer (7-mile) tunnel through the Himalayan terrain to help ease travel on a highway linking the troubled Kashmir Valley with the rest of India. Modi drove in an open jeep through the all-weather route, which is expected to help trade and tourism in

YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party has retained support in its Yangon strongholds, but loyalty has weakened in ethnic minority areas that helped boost the NLD’s 2015 general election victory, according to by-election results announced Sunday. The results from Saturday’s by-elections released by the country’s election commission

BERLIN — A stretch of Germany’s autobahn has been partially shut down after a truck carrying 15 tons of vegetables tipped over, spilling its contents across the highway near the eastern city of Magdeburg. Police said the truck went off the A14 autobahn and hit a highway bank Sunday morning, causing the trailer to tip

LONDON — UK police have arrested six people in a vicious attack on a teenage asylum-seeker in the London borough of Croydon. Authorities are questioning four men and two women, all in their 20s, on charges of attempted murder in the attack that left a 17-year old Kurdish-Iranian hospitalized with a fractured skull and a

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Their pedigrees are different, but both teams are loaded with veterans. Both have some heft in the middle. When Gonzaga meets North Carolina for the NCAA national championship on Monday night, it could be quite a brawl. “They’re big just like us and they match up with us pretty well,” North Carolina’s