Новости за 08.03.2018

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister is meeting with a top European Union official in Brussels as part of efforts to avert potential EU sanctions over a reform of Poland’s judiciary. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s office tweeted Thursday that he had handed a document detailing the changes to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. The […]

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese general says China needs to build defensive structures on islands in the South China Sea to display its claim to sovereignty over virtually the entire crucial waterway. However, the vice president of China’s Academy of Military Sciences, Lt. Gen. He Lei, also declined to comment on aircraft deployments on artificial […]

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court have upheld most of the convictions of a former Congolese vice president for interfering with witnesses during his war crimes trial, and ordered the original trial chamber to review his sentence. Jean-Pierre Bemba was sentenced last year to a year in prison and […]

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of utility customers remain without power in New Jersey following the state’s second major snowstorm in less than a week. More than two feet of snow fell in parts of northern Jersey on Wednesday, while some central areas had a foot or more on the ground. Many schools […]

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Tillerson says there are ‘potentially positive symbols’ from North Korea, but ‘we’re a long ways from negotiations’

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southwestern Indiana magistrate has dismissed a reckless homicide charge in a so-called play fight that led to the death of another man. Vanderburgh County prosecutors had asked that the charge against 27-year-old Daniel Cundiff of Evansville be dropped after his friend’s death was deemed “more accidental in nature than reckless.” […]

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Markets are waiting to see whether the European Central Bank will drop any hints about when its economic stimulus will end. ECB President Mario Draghi is to hold a news conference after a meeting Thursday of the bank’s 25-member governing council. The bank isn’t expected to change its stimulus programs, but […]

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Michigan anglers are landing some prime fish. The Department of Natural Resources says 2,176 anglers from 24 states and Canada submitted catches last year that were recognized in the state’s Master Angler program. That was a significant increase over 1,807 Master Angler fish in 2016. The program, in place since […]

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch lawmakers are expressing outrage that the CEO of a bank that was bailed out with taxpayer money during the financial crisis has been awarded a new salary they say amounts to a 50-percent pay rise. The ING bank published details Thursday of the new salary package of CEO Ralph […]

BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — A best-selling author and medical director of a renowned trauma center in Massachusetts has been fired from his job amid accusations of employee mistreatment. The Boston Globe reports Dr. Bessel van der Kolk was removed from his position at the Brookline Trauma Center in January, which he founded 35 years ago. […]

BOURNE, Mass. (AP) — A member of a Massachusetts town’s governing board charged with attacking his girlfriend and threatening her with a baseball bat has resigned. In a letter read during the Bourne Board of Selectmen meeting Tuesday, member Michael Blanton said his resignation is effective immediately. The 49-year-old says he cannot represent the people […]

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the U.N. human rights chief’s critical statements on what he described as the “pervasive climate of intimidation” in Egypt ahead of the presidential election later this month. The ministry said in a statement late on Wednesday that the U.N. report includes “baseless allegations” that reflect “deep […]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Reports show thousands of Rhode Island residents were denied health care or benefits because an error in the computer system that handles applications incorrectly listed them as noncitizens. WPRI-TV reports the code error in the Unified Health Infrastructure Project, the state’s system that handles applications for food stamps, Medicaid and other […]

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Police in Maine say a 70-year-old man robbed a bank while armed with a toy gun. South Portland Police say the man entered a bank Wednesday afternoon, threatening employees with a gun he never displayed. Detective Sgt. Christopher Todd says the suspect took a small amount of cash and fled […]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Providence officials say the Rhode Island city has collected more than $607,000 from school-zone speeding cameras so far, already beating expectations of that the city expected to generate in net revenue for the fiscal year. City Council spokesman Billy Kepner said Wednesday the city has issued 17,116 speeding tickets at $95 […]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The Atlantic City Free Public Library is bringing books to local barbershops in an effort to promote youth literacy. The program is called “Fade to Books” and it is geared toward children under 12. The Press of Atlantic City reports the program began after the New Jersey State Library’s partnership […]

BRUSSELS (AP) — With warmer weather on the horizon, the European Union is weighing more ways to prevent migrants from reaching its shores but remains deeply divided over how to share responsibility for those people entitled to stay. EU interior ministers on Thursday discussed steps to strengthen the bloc’s outside borders, as Germany and Austria […]

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — About 100,000 gallons of manure have spilled into two streams in Pennsylvania, killing fish in the area but not posing a threat to the water quality. LNP newspaper reports a manure storage facility failure at a farm in Sadsbury Township caused the spill Monday. The state Department of Environmental Protection says […]

PORTAGE, Ind. (AP) — For the first time in his life, Kevin Geise could look into his mother’s eyes and take in their vibrant blue color. “I looked into my beautiful 89-year-old mother’s eyes. They were vibrant, bright like a teenager’s, and very blue,” the auditorium director/production supervisor at Portage High School said. The experience […]

BRUSSELS (AP) — The Belgian football federation says it will not change its mind about choosing a rapper known for lacing his songs with misogynistic lyrics to produce its official World Cup song. The federation said in a statement on its website Thursday — International Women’s Day — that it did not want to be […]

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland is marking 50 years since mass student protests against the Moscow-backed communist regime of the time that were in turn exploited by the communist party to purge Jews from the party and from Poland. The result was the expulsion of 13,000 Jews, among them Holocaust survivors and prominent intellectuals including […]

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland is marking 50 years since the start of student protests that were exploited by the communist regime to purge Jews from the party and from Poland. The result was the expulsion of 13,000 Jews, among them Holocaust survivors and prominent intellectuals like philosopher Leszek Kolakowski and sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. The […]

BAGHDAD (AP) — A Baghdad court has convicted the sister of the Islamic State group’s leader on terrorism charges and sentenced her to death. The spokesman of Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council, Abdul-Sattar Bayrkdar, said in a statement on Thursday that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s sister was found guilty for “offering logistic support and help to (IS […]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Peter Madsen, accused of murdering and dismembering journalist Kim Wall, brought into court on 1st day of Danish trial.

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian airport officials say 100 Egyptians have landed in Cairo after being deported from Germany over residency permit violations, the first action of its kind from Berlin. The officials say the Egyptians arrived on a Wednesday flight from Frankfurt that included a strict security detail of 50 German officers. They were handed […]