Новости за 28.05.2017

RIO DE JANEIRO — Top Brazilian musical performers are lending their talents to the latest protest in the country calling for new presidential elections while pressure mounts on the country’s leader to resign amid corruption allegations. The Sunday afternoon concert on Copacabana beach will feature Grammy award-winner Caetano Veloso and other musicians. Thousands of people

CINCINNATI — No public events are planned at the Cincinnati Zoo marking the one-year anniversary of the shooting of an endangered gorilla. The zoo’s dangerous-animal response team concluded the life of a 3-year-old boy who fell into the gorilla enclosure last May 28 was in danger and killed 17-year-old Harambe (huh-RAHM’-bay). That led to global

PATERSON, N.J. — An early morning shooting at a New Jersey nightclub has left one person dead and five others injured. Police say officers responded to the unidentified club in Paterson after reports of a shooting around 5:30 a.m. Sunday. They found shooting victims inside and outside the club. One person was pronounced dead at

MATOAKA, W.Va. — As the coal industry has fallen on lean times, fewer freight trains are rumbling through West Virginia. Some Appalachian towns, like Matoaka, no longer see the long chains of coal cars that used to come through every few hours. The major railroads here, Norfolk Southern and CSX, have shed personnel and idled

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s ruling party is debating whether President Jacob Zuma should resign amid increasing concern about alleged corruption at the highest levels of the government. Zuma on Sunday faced a motion of no confidence at a meeting of leaders of the African National Congress party, which has led South Africa since the end

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Rescuers on Sunday retrieved the bodies of three Indian climbers who died on Mount Everest. One of the climbers, Ravi Kumar, died last weekend, while the other two — Paresh Chandra Nath and Gautam Ghosh — died last year but the bodies had not been removed. It took Sherpa guides several days

PHILADELPHIA — Authorities say an early morning fire in a Philadelphia home claimed the lives of three people, including two children. Fire department crews were called around 4:30 a.m. Sunday to the residence where witnesses said they saw flames shooting from a window and heard people screaming. Fire commissioner Adam Thiel said a 9-year-old boy

EGYPT — The Latest on events Egypt events (all times local): 2:15 p.m. Video interviews with survivors of a deadly attack by Islamic militants on a bus taking Egyptian Christians to a remote desert monastery are painting a picture of untold horror, with children hiding under their seats to escape gunfire. The videos surfaced on

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron says his now famous white-knuckle handshake showdown with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump was “a moment of truth” — designed to show that he’s no pushover. Macron told a Sunday newspaper in France that “my handshake with him, it wasn’t innocent.” Macron added: “One must show that you won’t make

WASHINGTON — Advocates for minority communities say President Donald Trump’s proposed budget answers the question he famously posed to black Americans during his campaign: “What the hell do you have to lose?” His $4.1 trillion spending plan for the budget year beginning Oct. 1 generally makes deep cuts in safety net programs, including Medicaid, the

OKAYAMA, Japan — Chan Kim of the United States fired a 4-under-par 68 on Sunday to win the Mizuno Open and qualify for the British Open. Kim offset a lone bogey with five birdies at the Setonakai Golf Club to finish on a 15-under 273, five strokes ahead of Michael Hendry of New Zealand (68)

AMATRICE, Italy — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is taking a tour of Amatrice, the central Italian town brought to rubble by an August earthquake that killed nearly 300 people. Wearing a blue hard hat, Trudeau was accompanied Sunday by Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano, local officials and firefighters to visit the devastation and learn firsthand

SEOUL, South Korea — A United States team reduced to ten men sealed top spot in Group E of the FIFA Under-20 World Cup on Sunday with a 1-1 tie with Saudi Arabia in Daejeon, South Korea. A Brooks Lennon first-half goal secured the vital point for the U.S. to set up a second-round showdown

JOHANNESBURG — A recently released video shows South African police officers pelting suspected thieves with apples that had allegedly been stolen. The video, which was posted on media websites and social media, shows a group of officers in blue uniforms grabbing apples out of the back of a vehicle and hurling them at four men

PARIS — The French president’s office has announced the release of a French hostage kidnapped on March 1 in Congo. The brief two-sentence statement Sunday said the hostage-taking took place in the east of the central African nation, but gave no other details. It said French President Emmanuel Macron congratulated those involved in the release,

PARIS — French politicians are reacting with anger and dismay after the tomb of France’s wartime hero and former President Gen. Charles de Gaulle was vandalized. French media say police are hunting for two people, one of whom was filmed Saturday by security cameras knocking a cross off the top of the tomb in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises,

BERLIN — German police say a businessman on a motorcycle lost a plastic bag stuffed with his day’s earnings while driving along a southern highway, sending a shower of cash across the Bavarian Autobahn. Ingolstadt police said Sunday the 36-year-old had been carrying about 9,000 euros ($10,000) in small bills Saturday night when he lost

LONDON — The Latest on the Manchester attack investigation and reaction (all times local): 11:30 a.m. Pope Francis is urging prayers for the victims of the Manchester concert attack and has denounced how “so many young lives were cruelly broken.” Francis led thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square in prayer Sunday, saying he was

VATICAN CITY — For the second day in a row, Pope Francis has expressed his solidarity with Egypt’s Coptic Christians following an attack on a bus carrying Coptic pilgrims to a remote desert monastery. Francis led thousands of people in prayer Sunday for the victims, who Francis said were killed in “another act of ferocious

BERLIN — A poll of German voters shows Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc’s lead widening as the main challenger Social Democrats continue to lose support. The Emnid Sunday poll for Bild newspaper showed support for Merkel’s bloc unchanged at 38 percent, while the SPD support dropped 1 percentage point to 25 percent. The SPD got

LONDON — The hunt is still on for suspects in the Manchester bombing, and members of attacker Salman Abedi’s network may still be at large, Britain’s interior minister said Sunday. “The operation is still at full tilt,” Home Secretary Amber Rudd said. Police say that 1,000 people are working on the investigation, trying to track

PARIS — The Latest from the French Open (all times local): 2:08 p.m. Angelique Kerber is the first women’s No. 1 seed to lose in the French Open’s first round in the Open era. Kerber lost 6-2, 6-2 to the 40th-ranked Ekaterina Makarova of Russia. Makarova broke Kerber’s serve twice in the opening set and

MADRID — Luis Enrique leaves Barcelona with no regrets and the feeling of mission accomplished. The coach capped his three-year stint with the Catalan club by winning the Copa del Rey title with a 3-1 win over Alaves on Saturday. Now it’s time to enjoy some much-needed time off after three “intense” seasons, and let

BAGHDAD — The advance of government troops slowed on Sunday in the last push to drive Islamic State group militants from remaining pockets of Mosul, two Iraqi military officers said. On Saturday, U.S.-backed Iraqi forces began a new offensive to recapture the Old City from three directions. Hours after announcing the push, the government said

The Latest on motorsport’s busiest day (all times local): 3:30 p.m. There has been a flurry of clumsy crashes nearing the end of the Monaco Grand Prix. Marcus Ericsson somehow ploughed his Sauber into the barriers at low speed, and Stoffel Vandoorne imitated him moments later when his McLaren swerved off track The race was