Новости за 08.07.2017

MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. — Guests watching a fireworks display after a New York wedding were cheering the bride, groom and booms when police arrived. The groom ended up under arrest. Nassau County police say they were called to a Massapequa (mass-ah-PEEK’-wah) home early Saturday and found a big party with professional-level pyrotechnics in the backyard. Police

NEW YORK — Four days before Alexander Bonds ambushed and killed a New York City police officer, he underwent a psychiatric evaluation at a hospital that released him the same day. Now the hospital’s actions are under a governor-ordered state review. St. Barnabas Hospital says it handled Bonds appropriately and welcomes the inquiry. Psychiatrists across

CARACAS, Venezuela — Jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez was transferred to house arrest after spending more than three years behind bars in a military prison, Venezuela’s Supreme Court said Saturday. A court statement said Lopez was granted the “humanitarian measure” for health reasons. It was instituted by court President Maikel Moreno, who agreed to evaluate

WASHINGTON — At least one thing is known about the meeting between presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: They met. But for the first time? Or again? Depends on which accounts from Trump you choose to believe. At home and abroad over the past week, the U.S. president made a number of assertions at odds

BEIJING — American and German specialists saw imprisoned Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo on Saturday and confirmed that he is in the final stages of terminal liver cancer, the hospital treating him said. China allowed the two doctors to travel to the northeastern city of Shenyang to see the country’s most prominent political

WARSAW, Poland — Eritrean officials on Saturday claimed “victory” after the U.N. cultural agency unanimously decided to put the African nation’s capital city of Asmara on the UNESCO World Heritage list — the result of years of lobbying by one of the world’s most reclusive governments. The decision during a session of the UNESCO World

SPIELBERG, Austria — Toro Rosso driver Carlos Sainz Jr. should not get his hopes up too much about driving for Red Bull — or any other team — next year. The Spanish driver said earlier this week that he wants to drive for Red Bull in 2018 and, if he does not get an opportunity

LIBSON, Maine — Mainers are holding the 35th annual celebration of all things Moxie without the event founder who helped to introduce the quirky beverage to a new generation. Frank Anicetti, who died in May at 77, loved the soda enough to create the Moxie Festival in 1982 and to turn his family’s store into

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The keel of the nation’s 20th Virginia-class attack submarine named for Oregon is being laid at the manufacturing plant for General Dynamics’ Electric Boat. The milestone marks the ceremonial beginning of a ship’s construction. Modern submarines do not have a traditional keel that runs the length of the ship because they are

NICOSIA, Cyprus — A Cyprus police spokesman says 85 Syrian migrants who arrived by boat to the island’s northwestern coast have now been taken to a reception center. Police spokesman Michalis Ioannou said Saturday the boat that brought the 64 men, nine women and 12 children to Cyprus set sail from Antalya, Turkey. He said

NEW YORK — In Harlem, a furor has erupted over what was supposed to be a simple, catchy acronym: SoHa. An attempt by some businesses and real estate professionals to rebrand the southern part of the neighborhood as SoHa has been greeted by many residents as an affront to a capital of African-American culture and

LONDON — The Latest from Wimbledon (all times local): 1:15 p.m. No. 1 women’s doubles player Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the U.S. says she needs surgery on her right knee after dislocating her kneecap and rupturing her patella tendon during a singles match at Wimbledon. Mattek-Sands says on Facebook Live that “it’s been an emotional and

DAMASCUS, Syria — The United Nations has welcomed the agreement between the United States and Russia for a cease-fire in southwest Syria, saying it would enable upcoming peace talks. The U.N.’s deputy special envoy to Syria Ramzy Ramzy says Saturday the agreement announced a day earlier in Hamburg, Germany is a step in the right

NAIROBI, Kenya — Al-Shabab extremists from neighboring Somalia beheaded nine civilians in an early-morning attack on a village in the southeast, Kenyan officials said Saturday, as concerns grew that the group had taken up a bloody new strategy. The attack occurred in Jima village in Lamu County, said James Ole Serian, who leads a task

MADRID — Event organizers say an acrobat fell to his death during a rock music festival in Madrid on Friday night. The organizers of the Mad Cool festival expressed their condolences to the acrobat’s family in a statement Saturday, saying they “regret the terrible accident.” Spanish national television shows images of what appears to be

SPIELBERG, Austria — Ferrari got a boost as Sebastian Vettel posted the fastest time ahead of both Mercedes cars in the third and final practice session for the Austrian Grand Prix ahead of qualifying later Saturday. Vettel finished 0.269 seconds ahead of Lewis Hamilton, who had topped both of Friday’s practice sessions, and .423 ahead

AMMAN, Jordan — A separate truce for southern Syria, brokered by the U.S. and Russia, is meant to help allay growing concerns by neighboring Jordan and Israel about Iranian military ambitions in the area, including fears that Tehran plans to set up a disruptive long-term presence there. Such apprehensions were stoked by recent movements of

LONDON — Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic are among the players whose Wimbledon third-round matches are scheduled to be completed before the tournament heads to its traditional break on the middle Sunday. For the first time in 33 years, a pair of brothers will both be competing in the third round at the All England

LONDON — Police in Britain say a thief who robbed a 91-year-old woman of her jewelry and then used her wedding ring to make a marriage proposal has been jailed. West Midlands Police said Saturday that 38-year-old Steven Reid and an accomplice broke into the woman’s home. Police say Reid used a gold wedding ring

MILAN — Italian authorities on Saturday arrested a 38-year-old Chechen accused of fighting with the Islamic State group in Syria and participating in a deadly attack on foreign and Russian journalists in Chechnya. Prosecutors said in a statement that Eli Bombataliev was being held on terror charges. They said evidence indicates that he was part

SPIELBERG, Austria — Lewis Hamilton’s chances of winning the Austrian Grand Prix have been hit by a five-place grid penalty for an unauthorized gearbox change. Teams must use the same gearbox for six straight races but Hamilton’s Mercedes team made the change before reaching that requirement. The British driver is 14 points behind Ferrari’s Sebastian

ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia — A populist business tycoon and former judo star is poised to take down the Mongolian ruling party’s candidate in a runoff election for president. Preliminary results Saturday after most of the polling stations were counted showed Khaltmaa Battulga of the Democratic Party was leading with 50.6 percent of the vote. The Mongolian

ISLAMABAD — Ronaldinho and Ryan Giggs were among soccer stars to arrive in Pakistan on Saturday to play exhibition matches which organizers hope will boost the sport in the country. Dutchman George Boateng, former France players Robert Pires and Nicolas Anelka, former England goalkeeper David James and Portugal’s Luis Boa Morte flew in via private

NAIROBI, Kenya — Joseph Nkaissery, Kenya’s interior minister and a retired general, has died in a hospital a month before the African country’s general election. He was 67. Nkaissery died Saturday at a Nairobi hospital a few hours after being admitted for a check-up, according to Joseph Kinyua, who is President Uhuru Kenyatta’s chief of

MILAN — Firefighters and police in Italy on Saturday pulled the eighth and final body from the rubble of a five-story apartment building that partially collapsed in a seaside town south of Naples. The digging through the debris for victims ended more than 24 hours after the residential building collapsed in the early morning. About