Новости за 02.01.2016

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia's execution Saturday of 47 prisoners, including an influential Shiite cleric, has prompted a wave of condemnation from Shiite leaders around the…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Twins in San Diego are getting some attention because, though born just minutes apart, one has a birthday in 2015 and one in 2016.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Islamic State group militants continue to launch a series of counterattacks against Iraqi government forces on the edges of the western city of Ramadi days after the militant gr…

MIDDLETOWN, R.I. (AP) — Former students who claim they were sexually abused at a prestigious Rhode Island boarding school are calling for an independent investigation after the school issued a…

BURNS, Ore. (AP) — Biologists hope commercial fishing will end a carp invasion at Malheur Wildlife Refuge, years after the bottom-feeding fish completed a takeover of Malheur Lake.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Joel Berry II scored a career-high 19 points and hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 5:07 left to help No. 7 North Carolina beat Georgia Tech 86-78 on Saturday.

BEND, Ore. (AP) — Snowstorms over the past month have already pushed Sunriver past its snow average for the whole season.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia's execution Saturday of 47 prisoners, including an influential Shiite cleric, threatened to further damage Sunni-Shiite relations in a regional struggl…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Gov. Jay Nixon of Missouri and Gov. Bruce Rauner of Illinois toured flood-ravaged areas Saturday as near-record crest predictions of the Mississippi River and levee breaks thr…

Lopsided games and having the College Football Playoff semifinals on New Year's Eve led to a 13 percent drop in TV ratings for the New Year's Six Bowls from last year.

ROME (AP) — An Italian parliament-mandated health survey has confirmed higher-than-normal incidents of death and cancer among residents in and around Naples, thanks to decades of toxic waste d…

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The truce in Yemen between Shiite rebels and a Saudi-led military coalition has formally ended, according to Saudi Arabia's state-run news agency.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Police on Saturday recanvassed an eastern Pennsylvania neighborhood where a 5-year-old boy with autism wandered away from a New Year's Eve party without shoes or a coat.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As the days get shorter, first grade teacher Esmeralda Jiménez watches the dimming afternoon sky outside her classroom window the way her pupils watch the clock at dismissal time.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man who was fatally shot by Las Vegas police while holding a cellphone that was mistaken for a gun had recently been convicted of multiple crimes in Arizona, his attorney sa…

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Tens of thousands of people attended funerals in the West Bank on Saturday for Palestinians killed in violence over the past few months during a period of near-daily…

The latest developments on flooding in the Midwest (all times local):

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a Salem police sergeant shot and injured a man suspected of stealing a tow truck early Friday morning.

EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) — Actor Alec Baldwin and director Richard Linklater have braved the chilly waters off New York's Long Island at separate polar bear plunges on New Year's Day.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A 28-year-old man was found dead in his Portland jail cell on New Year's Eve.

NEW YORK (AP) — A civil trial set to start this month in New York City will test the legal boundaries of hundreds of claims remaining against General Motors Co. stemming from faulty ignition switches.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The latest on the fatal shooting of a suspect by police who mistook the cellphone he was holding for a gun (all times local):

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police continued their manhunt Saturday for a gunman who killed two people and wounded several others when he opened fire at a bar in Tel Aviv the day before.

PARIS (AP) — Paris will commemorate the victims of the attacks on the satirical Charlie Hebdo newspaper and a kosher supermarket that left 17 people dead in January last year.

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Two former prime ministers are running neck-and-neck in presidential elections to end years of violence pitting Muslims against Christians in the Centra…