Новости за 20.07.2017

MADRID — The lawyer defending a Russian computer programmer arrested in Spain says that flaws in the extradition request by the United States signal a political motivation behind the prosecution. Attorney Juan Manuel Arroyo said accusations that 31 year-old Stanislav Lisov used a Trojan virus to steal online financial information are an excuse to have

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Saudi prince has been arrested after a video emerged online purporting to show him abusing someone and pointing a rifle at another. King Salman ordered the arrest and interrogation of the prince on Wednesday, a day after short video clips were published on YouTube and shared on Twitter showing

BUJUMBURA, Burundi — Burundi’s president is traveling out of the country for the first time since the failed coup attempt of May 2015, a government official said Thursday. President Pierre Nkurunziza is visiting neighboring Tanzania to reinforce cooperation between the countries, said spokesman Jean Claude Karerwa Ndenzako. The East African nation is home to tens

WARSAW, Poland — A Polish parliamentary commission has summarily rejected 1,300 opposition amendments to a bill reorganizing the nation’s top court and has sent it back to lawmakers for a vote. The Supreme Court bill, which has drawn condemnation from the European Union and has led to street protests, is expected to pass Thursday as

KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait said Thursday it is shutting the Iranian cultural mission to the country and calling for a reduction in the number of Iranian diplomats stationed there, deepening a rift between the Gulf Arab states and Tehran. The official Kuwait News Agency announced the move in a brief statement Thursday. It linked the

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A man who drove into a graveside service at a South Carolina cemetery is expected in court on 12 counts of attempted murder. Columbia Police say a bond hearing is scheduled Thursday for 64-year-old James Kester. It wasn’t immediately clear if he had an attorney. Authorities say they believe Kester intentionally hit

ZAGREB, Croatia — Croatian authorities say firefighters are battling a wildfire in the south of the country’s Adriatic coast that has spread across the border from neighboring Montenegro. They said Thursday that firefighting planes have been trying to contain the blaze and prevent it from spreading any further. Both Croatia and Montenegro have faced a

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — The Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department have sued the Ohio city of Cleveland Heights, saying it allowed raw sewage to flow into Lake Erie tributaries. The Plain Dealer reports (http://bit.ly/2vmjBiH ) that Cleveland Heights denies any liability related to the sewage overflow alleged in the lawsuit filed Wednesday. The

MOSCOW — A Moscow court has sentenced a protester to 2 ½ years in prison for throwing a brick at a riot policeman during an opposition rally earlier this year. The March 26 rally on Moscow’s main street, organized by opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was a rare unauthorized protest against President Vladimir Putin. Rallies were

WAKISO, Uganda — Some menstruating schoolgirls were locked in dormitories while their peers were in class. To avoid the humiliation, others stayed home. As more girls skipped class because they couldn’t afford sanitary pads, authorities at a government-backed school outside Uganda’s capital, Kampala, were forced to do what few have done: provide free sanitary pads.

BEIJING — The Qatari foreign minister began a visit to Beijing on Thursday, a day after his Chinese counterpart told a top official from Qatar’s rival the United Arab Emirates that China hoped the rift between the Gulf countries could be repaired. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani was scheduled to meet Chinese Foreign Minister

URBANA, Ill. — An arraignment is scheduled for a 28-year-old man charged in the abduction of a University of Illinois scholar from China. Brendt Christensen is expected to enter a plea Thursday in U.S. District Court near the school’s campus in Urbana. A grand jury returned an indictment last week charging Christensen with kidnapping. Christensen

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s attorney general is warning the public about online scams that seek to convince people that their personal computers are infected with viruses. Attorney General Curtis Hill says the scams use pop-up alerts resembling security alerts used by legitimate computer and technology companies. He says the deceptive alerts claim the users’ computers are

ISTANBUL — The Latest on relations between Turkey and Germany (all times local): 3:05 p.m. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman has branded as “unfortunate” comments by the German foreign minister, including those telling Germans to exercise caution in Turkey. Ibrahim Kalin told reporters Thursday that the German comments were “internal political investments” geared toward

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Turkey’s prime minister on Thursday appeared to shut the door on reviving efforts to reunify ethnically divided Cyprus anytime soon after high-level talks earlier this month failed to produce a hoped-for breakthrough deal. Binali Yildirim said it would be pointless to pick up where things left off at the Swiss resort of

SANTA FE, N.M. — A new television series that will follow a undercover special operations squad will begin filming in New Mexico this month. Officials with the state film office say work on the first season of “The Brave” is scheduled to start at the end of July and will run through the beginning of

MADRID — The president of the Spanish Football Federation, his son, and two other officials will appear before a judge on Thursday, two days after being arrested in an anti-corruption probe. Angel Maria Villar, his son Gorka Villar, Juan Padron, the federation vice president of economic affairs who is also president of the Tenerife federation,

LONDON — Official figures show that retail sales in Britain bounced back during June, with the warm weather bolstering clothing sales in particular. The Office for National Statistics said Thursday that retail sales grew by a monthly 0.6 percent, a solid recovery following May’s 1.1 percent fall. The increase was modestly ahead of market expectations

BANGKOK — Paul Nicholls, a British actor who starred in the EastEnders soap opera, was stranded in the wild for three days on a Thai island after he fell down a waterfall and broke his kneecap, a rescuer said Thursday. Nicholls was rescued July 13 on the Thai resort island of Koh Samui after villagers

DAKAR, Senegal — More than 100 people have been tortured by Cameroon security forces and held incommunicado in the past four years on suspicion of involvement with the Nigeria-based Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, according to a report released Thursday by Amnesty International. Such treatment has become routine and is practiced with impunity, and it

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The son of a Marine, Kyle Beeson learned how to shoot at an early age. When he joined the Navy, he relearned many of the skills his father taught him. Jessica Sottile, Beeson’s girlfriend, had no such training. When Beeson returned from a ROTC stint at a San Diego naval base, he

LONDON — For the first time in the global AIDS epidemic that has spanned four decades and killed 35 million people, more than half of all those infected with HIV are on drugs to treat the virus, the United Nations said in a report released Thursday. AIDS deaths are also now close to half of

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Zachary Nicholas is majoring in computer science at Indiana University, but Tuesday he was studying the outside of a 40-foot long campus bus. Nicholas is one of five IU students training this summer to become part-time drivers for the university’s Campus Bus Service. Student drivers are a great asset, said Operations Manager

MONACO — The IAAF says its doping panel has cleared eight more Russian track and field athletes to compete internationally as neutrals, and refused 53 other applications. The latest athletes accepted include hammer thrower Sergej Litvinov, who placed fifth at the 2009 and 2015 world championships, and Danil Lysenko, the high jump champion at the

PODGORICA, Montenegro — The trial in Montenegro of two Russians and 12 other people charged with plotting an election day coup to scuttle the country’s NATO bid was delayed Thursday until September. Judge Suzana Mugosa postponed the proceedings after defense lawyers filed several motions to the court, including a repeat demand that the special prosecutor