Новости за 24.10.2020

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A vehicle struck three University of Notre Dame students, killing two of them early Saturday in the northern Indiana city that’s home to the university’s campus, the school’s president said.

BLAINE, Wash. — Heavily protected crews in Washington state worked Saturday to destroy the first nest of so-called murder hornets discovered in the United States.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis met with the Spanish prime minister Saturday at the Vatican, which has had a rash of COVID-19 infections confirmed in recent days, but neither man used a face a mask during the public part of their meeting.

INDIANAPOLIS — The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis will close its popular “Dinosphere” for more than a year to freshen it up with new fossil finds and a walk-through aquarium featuring reproductions of ancient sea creatures.

CHARLESTOWN, Ind. — A southern Indiana business park is relocating graves from a Depression-era cemetery to another nearby graveyard.

WASHINGTON — The Latest on the presidential campaign (all times local):

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Takuma Sato will return to Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing next year for a fourth season.

LONDON — Demonstrators dressed as chickens, a cow and President Donald Trump gathered Saturday in London to protest a proposed U.S.-U.K. trade deal that activists say will lower food safety standards.

Two years ago, the three congregations sharing space at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue relocated after an anti-Semitic gunman killed 11 worshippers. Last March, the congregations dispersed from their new locations due to the coronavirus pandemic and switched to virtual services.

BERLIN — Several teenagers sprayed graffiti on a piece of art outside one of Berlin’s most famous museums and that the vandalism was unrelated to the damaging of more than 60 other art works on the city’s Museum Island that were smeared with an oily liquid early this month, police said Saturday.

BERLIN — A famous piece of art was vandalized at one of Berlin’s most famous museums only days after authorities revealed that more than 60 other art works on the city’s Museum Island were smeared with an oily liquid, German news agency dpa reported Saturday.

SOFIA, Bulgaria — Bulgaria has joined other Balkan countries in signing an agreement with the United States on high-speed wireless network security aimed at excluding Chinese hardware providers.

CAIRO — Sudan’s former Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi on Saturday slammed an announcement by President Donald Trump that Sudan would start normalizing ties with Israel.

BRISBANE, Australia — The Richmond Tigers overcame a 15-point halftime deficit to win their third Australian Football League title in four years with a 31-point grand final victory over Geelong.

ATLANTA — Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler stepped out of a Humvee on a foggy morning in northwest Georgia wearing an American flag trucker hat to accept the endorsement of a congressional candidate who has expressed support for baseless QAnon conspiracy theories and made disparaging comments about Black people, Muslims and Jews.

PORTIMAO, Portugal — Valtteri Bottas continued his fine form by topping the third and final practice session for the Portuguese Grand Prix ahead of qualifying later Saturday.

The French women’s basketball team owned by NBA great Tony Parker had its season stalled yet again by the coronavirus pandemic.

MELBOURNE, Australia — Jockey Glenn Boss rode Irish-bred thoroughbred Sir Dragonet to victory in the 100th running of the Cox Plate, Australia’s weight-for-age championship at Moonee Valley race track.

Mentoring at-risk youths is difficult enough in normal times. There has been little normalcy in 2020.

Up 2-1 in the World Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers have math on their side against the Tampa Bay Rays.

TOKYO — Tokyo opened its new Olympic swimming venue on Saturday, and Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike pointed out that it was finished eight months ago, just weeks before the Tokyo Olympics were postponed until next year by the coronavirus.

SAN FRANCISCO — Northern California officials urged residents to leave homes in the hills, secure backyard furniture and other loose items and have an evacuation plan ready ahead of powerful winds that could lead to widespread electricity outages and leave more than 1 million people in the dark.

NEW DELHI — India has reported 53,370 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, taking the overall tally past 7.8 million.

LUMBERTON, N.C. — President Donald Trump assured supporters packed shoulder to shoulder Saturday that “we’re rounding the turn” and mocked challenger Joe Biden for raising alarms about the pandemic.

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett won crucial backing Saturday when one of the last Republican holdouts announced her support for President Donald Trump’s pick ahead of a confirmation vote expected Monday.