Новости за 01.10.2016

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's president promised Saturday to drive hunger out of Africa's most populous nation but made no mention of a conflict-driven famine threatening to kill tens of thousands of children in northeast Nigeria.

SAO PAULO (AP) — In Brazil's biggest city of Sao Paulo, the leading mayoral candidate is a businessman who once fired people on air during a television reality show. In the country's crown jewel city of Rio de Janeiro, the…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's Revolutionary Guard has built a new attack drone which is similar to a U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle captured five years ago, Iranian media reported on Saturday.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With eight projects under construction and 16 more on the drawing board, the National World War II Museum is about to take over 3 ½ square blocks in the city's Central Business District.

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Seventy years later, Murray Greenfield can still remember the anger he felt when he was locked up with hundreds of Jewish Holocaust survivors in a British detention camp on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus.

CINCINNATI (AP) — A new sentencing date has been set for an Ohio man who pleaded guilty to plotting attacks against a U.S. military official and a local police station.

CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — Police in South Carolina are investigating a possible murder-suicide involving three people, one of them a 10-month-old baby.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Five Afghan soldiers and a police officer were killed in an air strike carried out by an Afghan military helicopter in western Farah province, Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense said Saturday.

MOSCOW (AP) — Ukrainian government forces and separatist rebels say they have pulled back heavy weapons in only one out of three planned locations on the front line in eastern Ukraine.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The Latest on Europe's migration crisis (all times local):

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The Taiwanese dark comedy "Godspeed" took home eight nominations for next month's 53rd annual Golden Horse Awards, with the nominees announced in Taipei on Saturday.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani cinemas have stopped showing Indian films after India banned Pakistani actors from its movie industry amid soaring tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals over Kashmir, cinema owners said Saturday.

REDFIELD, Iowa (AP) — Katie Harvey-Martinez and her husband Rick Martinez faced a huge obstacle to the next chapter in their lives. Harvey-Martinez really wanted to run her own restaurant. She's worked at the family-owned Italian restaurant Marcelleria in the…

MANCHESTER, Iowa (AP) — Almost everyone living in Manchester knows Milt Kramer in some way.

NEW YORK (AP) — Ever hear about the gargantuan octopus that dragged a New York City ferry and its 400 passengers to the river bottom nearly 53 years ago?

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — With floodwaters receding, Iowa officials say there is still a need for volunteers to help with flood cleanup.

ATLANTA (AP) — Turner Field has aged well. It's got all the expected amenities of a modern big league ballpark, from luxury boxes to a mammoth video board to the restaurant that hovers above right field to concession stands selling…

TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — Almost four years after Superstorm Sandy pummeled his neighborhood so badly that Britain's Prince Harry had to stop by for a look at the damage, Paul Jeffrey is ready to sleep soundly again.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With eight projects under construction and 16 more on the drawing board, the National World War II Museum is about to take over 3 ½ square blocks of the New Orleans Central Business District.

Team Rubicon, a veteran-led disaster relief organization, has launched Operation Bad Ax to support residents of Viroqua following a recent storm.

MADRID (AP) — Rent by internal divisions, members of Spain's Socialist Party are voting Saturday to decide if they will keep or oust leader Pedro Sanchez, who has been blocking acting conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy from building a minority…

EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Police in the turbulent north of Egypt's Sinai peninsula say nine policemen have been wounded when their armored personnel carrier was hit by a roadside bomb planted by suspected Islamic State militants.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A Serbian court has ordered a senior Kosovo police official to be detained for 30 days to prevent him from fleeing after being arrested on suspicion of terrorism.

CONCORD, Mass. (AP) — If Henry David Thoreau were around today, Massachusetts officials think he'd probably be happy with the new visitor center at Walden Pond.

Justin Wilcox's group hasn't faced the caliber of playmakers that Michigan possesses.