Новости за 25.02.2016

West 8th, a 28-story office building at 2001 8th Ave. that is mostly leased to Amazon, was sold Wednesday for $370 million.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister says that an Iranian offer to compensate the families of Palestinians killed in a wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence proves that Iran continues to “aid terrorism.” Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency quoted Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon as saying that Iran would pay 7,000 dollars to the families of killed Palestinians. […]

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s new Liberal government wants to repeal a law that revokes the Canadian citizenship of dual nationals convicted of terrorism. The law, which went into effect last year under the previous Conservative government, revoked citizenship for anyone found guilty of terrorism, treason and spying for a foreign government. Immigration Minister John McCallum […]

KINGSTREE, S.C. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says President Barack Obama should nominate a “true progressive” to succeed conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Clinton’s comments came in response to White House officials telling the Associated Press that the president is considering the Nevada’s Republican governor, Brian Sandoval, as a potential Scalia replacement. […]

CHICAGO (AP) — As the sun rises, the glowing lights in the huge rooftop greenhouse dim. Here, lettuce never sleeps. It grows, quickly — much more quickly than it would in a farm field. And there is a lot of it, as well as other types of salad greens and herbs. At nearly two acres […]

SALEM, Mass. (AP) — Prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence a Massachusetts teenager who raped and killed his math teacher to at least 50 years in prison. Seventeen-year-old Philip Chism will be sentenced Friday in the 2013 killing of Danvers High School teacher Colleen Ritzer. He was 14 when he killed her. Essex District […]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee athletic director Dave Hart stood by his embattled football coach during a news conference Thursday at the university, two weeks after a federal lawsuit was filed Feb. 9 in Nashville alleging that Tennessee mishandles assault complaints against athletes. An amended complaint filed Wednesday stated former Tennessee football player Drae Bowles […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton has announced plans to stage a rally on Sunday prior to the Oscars to protest a lack of diversity in Hollywood. The rally, announced Thursday, also is intended to support a push for a nationwide TV tune-out of the Academy Awards ceremony. Critics say the awards show, […]

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief says a global aid appeal for conflict-torn South Sudan is just 3 percent funded, and the world body is releasing $21 million in emergency money to help. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke during a visit to the east African country, where he talked with its president and rebel leader […]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s reformists are hoping to win their strongest presence in parliament since 2004 as hard-liners try to stave off a blow to their power in nationwide elections Friday, the first since Iran’s landmark nuclear deal with the West. Although Iran’s authorities exercise great control over who can run, the elections will […]

TOKYO (AP) — The operator of Japan’s damaged Fukushima nuclear plant has acknowledged it failed for two months to announce that meltdowns had occurred in the cores of three of the reactors. Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday its officials were unaware of a company emergency manual that defined a meltdown as damage exceeding 5 […]

YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Officials say a powerful explosion has gone off at the police divisional headquarters in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Yola. The cause was not immediately clear, nor if there were casualties. The Red Cross and emergency officials confirmed the blast at the police headquarters that is opposite a school. A man working […]

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A suburban Detroit firefighter has paid off a struggling family’s electricity bill of more than $1,000 after responding to a call at their home. Clinton Township firefighters were called to the house Feb. 12 for a non-emergency medical call. They learned that one of the children living there needs a […]

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and China have reached agreement on a U.N. resolution that would impose tougher sanctions on North Korea as punishment for its latest nuclear test and rocket launch, U.N. diplomats say. The council likely will discuss the draft Thursday afternoon. One Security Council diplomat called the draft resolution “significantly […]

In this photo by Rafiq Maqbool, a woman waits as commuters get off trains at the Church Gate railway station in Mumbai. India’s immense railroad network was once a point of pride but is now hobbled by aging infrastructure. Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu unveiled a budget Thursday that contained no fare increases for passengers or […]

MOSCOW (AP) — Every weekend Nadezhda Mityushkina comes to the bridge across from the Kremlin and sits down on the low stone parapet at the spot where charismatic opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down a year ago. Mityushkina and several dozen other opposition activists and regular Muscovites have been holding vigils at the site […]

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese media report says a detained Christian human rights lawyer has confessed to breaking the law by disturbing social order, endangering state security and engaging in unprofessional behavior. The report Thursday by a semiofficial news website in the eastern city of Wenzhou accuses Zhang Kai of numerous instances of stirring up […]

ZURICH (AP) — Guests at Zurich’s up-scale hotels will have spotted two unusual sights this week: a welcome desk staffed by bright-eyed young reps from football’s world governing body FIFA; and small groups of middle-aged men — soccer officials from around the globe — furtively scanning the lobby for any sign that a police raid […]

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says women in countries hit by the Zika virus should breastfeed their babies and there is no proof the virus can spread to their infants that way. Zika has been declared a global emergency because of its possible links to a spike in babies born with abnormally small […]

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian lawyer says a court in the country’s south has convicted four Coptic teenagers of contempt for Islam after they appeared in a video mocking Muslim prayers. Three were sentenced to five years in prison each while the fourth was referred to a juvenile facility for being under the age of […]

SEVNICA, Slovenia (AP) — Melania Trump has seen more of the world than most people — a journey propelled by her own big dreams concocted as a young girl growing up under Communism. Now she is a glamorous former model swathed in couture, a woman familiar with the capitals and the languages of Europe, the […]

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s top court has overruled the acquittals of a Canadian and an Indonesian teacher and ordered longer prison terms for sexually abusing three young children at a prestigious international school in Jakarta. Neil Bantleman and Ferdinant Tjiong had been sentenced to 10 years last April by the South Jakarta District Court. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Inmates wanted for deportation when they are released from federal prison will be turned over to U.S. immigration authorities rather than local law enforcement agencies with outstanding warrants. The policy change announced Wednesday by Attorney General Loretta Lynch comes less than a year after the fatal shooting of Kate Steinle, 32, in […]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Iranian lawyer of a U.S. citizen, whose son has been in custody in Iran for the past four months, says his client was detained upon returning from abroad. Attorney Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabei told The Associated Press on Thursday that he has not been able to make contact with his client, […]

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s government warned on Thursday that terrorists may be in the advanced stages of preparing attacks in Indonesia, and urged travelers to exercise a high level of caution when visiting the southeast Asian nation, including the popular tourist island of Bali. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade issued the travel advisory, […]