Новости за 15.02.2020

MUNICH — Iran’s foreign minister said Saturday that U.S. President Donald Trump is receiving bad advice if he believes an American “maximum pressure” campaign against his country will cause the government in Tehran to collapse. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told a group of top defense officials and diplomats at the Munich Security Conference that

SOUTHAMPTON, England — Matej Vydra’s first goal in 17 months made it three victories in four games for Burnley in the Premier League after a 2-1 victory at Southampton on Saturday. After Ashley Westwood and Danny Ings had traded first-half goals, substitute Vydra produced the winner on the hour mark at a rain-soaked St Mary’s.

CHARLESTOWN, Ind. — Indiana’s attorney general is suing a wildlife center for allegedly abusing exotic animals, including incidents where the non-profit’s owner punched a sloth in the face and repeatedly stomped on a tiger cub that had bitten him. The lawsuit filed on Tuesday by Attorney General Curtis Hill’s office seeks for the animals to

FORT MYERS, Fla. — New Boston Red Sox outfielder Kevin Pillar grew up in the Los Angeles area as a Lakers fan and named his daughter “Kobie,” after Kobe Bryant. He said he was most impressed with what Bryant has done after he retired from the NBA. Pillar said he hopes to write a children’s

WASHINGTON — Reports one day suggest the respiratory outbreak in China might be slowing, the next brings word of thousands more cases. Even the experts have whiplash in trying to determine if the epidemic is getting worse, or if a backlog of the sick is finally getting counted. Continuing questions about the new virus are

WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s right-wing ruling party on Saturday endorsed President Andrzej Duda’s reelection in the country’s May 10 presidential vote. At a convention in Warsaw that launched the incumbent president’s campaign for a second five-year term, Law and Justice leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski called Duda the party’s “dream candidate.” A former Law and Justice member,

BERLIN — He just didn’t smell right. German police say they nabbed a drunk driver who tried to flee a traffic stop after finding him hiding behind a hedge “in a cloud of perfume.” Police in the southwestern town of Speyer said Saturday that officers saw the 26-year-old man pass them at high speed Friday

MUNICH — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed Saturday to end the separatist conflict in the east of his country, where fighting between Russia-backed rebels and Ukrainian troops has killed more than 14,000 people since 2014. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Zelenskiy said he hopes to end the conflict by the end of his presidential

MUNICH — Europe needs to strive for better relations with Russia in the long term, French President Emmanuel Macron said Saturday, adding that while he isn’t proposing lifting sanctions they have changed nothing about Russia’s behavoir. Macron told the Munich Security Conference that a “credible” approach to dealing with Russia would be to take the

LONDON — Allowing China’s state-run railway to build a high-speed rail line linking London with central and northern England would be an “extremely questionable” decision, a prominent British lawmaker said Saturday. Tom Tugendhat, a Conservative lawmaker who chairs the U.K. parliament’s influential Foreign Affairs Committee, told BBC radio that he also had doubts about the

LONDON — England is still due to retain four Champions League participants next season regardless of Manchester City’s ban. City is second in the Premier League but the Abu Dhabi-owned club was barred from European competition for two seasons by UEFA on Friday for masking money flows in an attempt to comply with Financial Fair

LONDON — The race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as the next leader of Britain’s main opposition Labour Party has narrowed to three after Emily Thornberry was narrowly eliminated from the leadership contest. Thornberry, who speaks on foreign affairs matters for the party, failed to secure the nominations she needed to progress to the final ballot

LONDON — Enormous waves churned across the North Atlantic on Saturday as Britain braced for a second straight weekend of wild winter weather and flooding. Hundreds of flights were cancelled, and the Royal Navy joined the search for a missing man who went overboard a boat. Hurricane-force winds of up to 85 knots (98 mph)

KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia — New Zealand teenager Alice Robinson crowned her breakthrough season in the World Cup with a second career victory on Saturday. Robinson, who turned 18 in December, overtook first-run leader Petra Vlhova to win a giant slalom, almost four months after edging out Mikaela Shiffrin in the season-opener. The Olympic GS champion

JUBA, South Sudan — South Sudan’s rival leaders on Saturday appeared to clear a major hurdle with just a week left before the deadline to form a coalition government, with the president announcing a “painful” compromise on the politically sensitive number of states. President Salva Kiir said that after meeting with rival Riek Machar on

MUNICH, Germany — U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Saturday cast China as a rising threat to world order — saying the world’s most populous nation steals Western know-how, intimidates smaller neighbors and seeks an “advantage by any means and at any cost.” A frequent critic of China, Esper used an address to an international

SALZBURG, Austria — Russia is set to lose a biathlon gold medal from the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in a new doping case. The International Biathlon Union on Saturday issued a two-year ban for Evgeny Ustyugov, who was part of the gold medal-winning men’s relay team six years ago, citing evidence he used the banned

Caster Semenya ran her first public race in eight months and broke the national 300-meter record at a low-level meet at a South African university before proclaiming: “I’m here to stay.” The Olympic 800-meter champion said the race Friday night at the University of Johannesburg, which also featured high school students, was her season-opening event.

BERLIN — German authorities say one person has been killed and three others injured following a shooting late Friday outside a Berlin music venue. Police in the German capital said Saturday that unknown people opened fire outside the Tempodrom, located near Potsdamer Platz in the center of the city. The suspects were able to flee.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said Saturday that American civilian flights can resume operations over much of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman region, loosening restrictions announced five weeks ago amid heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran. The FAA said it made the decision because Iran has

ADELAIDE, Australia — Seven-time major champion Inbee Park hasn’t won an LPGA tournament in nearly two years, but her 19 tour victories include trophies at Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Malaysia. She might well be adding Australia soon to that total in the Asia-Pacific region. Park took a three-stroke lead at the Women’s Australian Open on

Jack Eichel snapped his stick over the crossbar in frustration after an empty-net goal sealed a Buffalo Sabres loss, splintering it across the ice. He and other NHL players might want to think twice about sacrificing their sticks in a situation like that for now. The coronavirus outbreak that began in China is affecting the

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Clint Bowyer slips into the TV production studio, sweat glistening on his forehead, sits down on a stool and waits for a high-definition camera to move toward his face. It’s time for his closeup. “I’m more like a 10-foot guy,” Bowyer quips. No amount of makeup can hide this move. Bowyer

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Stroll through the Daytona infield and fans can grab a seat next to President Donald Trump and get a sweet taste of impeachment. Debi Ringhaver is mixing cocktails for curious NASCAR fans who stop in their tracks at the sight of her lifesize mannequin of Trump, chilling on a lawn chair,

CHICAGO — Anthony Davis knows smooth. He has been making basketball look easy for years, from his early days in his native Chicago all the way through to NBA stardom. When it comes to his seemingly effortless transition to life with the Los Angeles Lakers, Davis makes it sound as if it’s no big deal.