Новости за 22.05.2016

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Hotels, restaurants and even community groups who work at arena concession stands are feeling the economic shockwaves from the growing number of canceled concerts and shows over North Carolina's new LGBT law.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's ruling party held a special convention on Sunday to confirm a longtime ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as its new chairman and next prime minister, a move that is likely to consolidate the Turkish…

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (AP) — Tajikistan is holding a referendum on changing the Constitution to allow its authoritarian president to run for the office indefinitely, effectively allowing him to rule for life.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has asked for prayers so that participants at a humanitarian summit in Turkey fully commit to achieve what he defines as their main aim: saving the life of every human being.

BERLIN (AP) — Police say five people were severely injured in violent clashes between Iraqi-Yazidi and Chechen asylum-seekers in the central German city of Bielefeld.

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will address the class of 2016 at the University of Rhode Island and receive an honorary degree.

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's president said on Sunday a submarine belonging to his country's Oil Ministry was headed to the site of the crash of EgyptAir Flight-804 in the eastern Mediterranean to join the search for the cockpit voice and…

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cypriots are electing a new parliament Sunday amid public disillusionment with what many see as a discredited political establishment.

PARIS (AP) — Long queues are forming at gas stations in north-western France as a strike is disrupting the country's fuel supplies.

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The U.N. envoy for Yemen says peace talks aimed at ending fighting in the impoverished Arab country are making "incredible progress" and that a halt in fighting is largely holding.

CAIRO (AP) — An Islamic State group spokesman has urged sympathizers in Europe and the U.S. to launch attacks on civilians there if they are unable to travel to the group's self-declared Caliphate in Syria and Iraq.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister says his government will continue pushing for peace with the Palestinians, even after adding an ultranationalist party to its ranks.

PARIS (AP) — The girl, speaking in the lilting accent of southern France, appeared in government ads describing how she was recruited by Islamic State extremists during her quest for religion, then encouraged to quit school and go to Syria,…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The presumptive Philippine president-elect has blasted the country's dominant Roman Catholic church as "the most hypocritical institution" and accused some of its bishops of corruption for allegedly asking favors from politicians, including him.

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron says he'd be happy to meet Donald Trump if he becomes the Republican presidential candidate.

ZHENGZHOU, China (AP) — Around 500 people have protested what they say is a lack of university placements in their central Chinese province, in the latest protest over education reform.

LONDON (AP) — British voters will decide in one month whether or not to deal a historic hammer blow to European integration by putting their island nation on an independent path outside the European Union.

GAMBER, Indonesia (AP) — The death toll in the eruption of a volcano in western Indonesia rose to seven on Sunday, with two other people in critical condition, as an official warned of more eruptions.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A senior commander of the Afghan Taliban confirmed on Sunday that the extremist group's leader, Mullah Mohammed Akhtar Mansour, has been killed in a U.S. drone strike.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Latest on the killing of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Akhtar Mansour in a drone strike (all times local):

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan intelligence agency confirms death of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour in US drone strike.

Istanbul (AP) — Turkish authorities have lifted a long-standing curfew from parts of a historic neighborhood in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir.

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday urged Myanmar's new civilian-led government to complete the Southeast Asian nation's transition to democracy by implementing further reforms to enshrine free markets, development and human rights.

VIENNA (AP) — For the first time since World War II, a right-wing politician could win Sunday's election for the Austrian presidency as established parties that have dominated postwar politics watch from the sidelines.

This is a story of reconciliation. The war with Japan in the Pacific was a necessary and massive undertaking, with the survival of a nation at stake. The casualty numbers for just Japan and United States alone are staggering. The…