Новости за 22.05.2018

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Iowa native Maddie Poppe has won “American Idol.” The singer-songwriter bested Caleb Lee Hutchinson and Gabby Barrett in Monday night’s two-hour finale on ABC. Poppe and Hutchinson announced on the program that they’re dating, surprising judges Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie. They then performed “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” Poppe […]

WALHALLA, S.C. (AP) — The body of a South Carolina teen swept over a waterfall during a hike has been recovered. Oconee County Fire Chief Charles King tells news outlets that a woman hiking the top of the falls with a group of three others Sunday fell into the Whitewater River. Oconee County Coroner Karl […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Energized by the #MeToo movement, two national advocacy groups are teaming up to lodge sexual harassment complaints against McDonald’s on behalf of 10 women who have worked at the fast food restaurant in nine cities. The legal effort was organized by Fight for $15, which campaigns to raise pay for low-wage […]

BRUSSELS (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces senior European Union lawmakers later Tuesday to answer questions about a scandal over the alleged misuse of the data of millions of Facebook users. In testimony to be broadcast live, Zuckerberg will be questioned by leaders of the European Parliament’s main party groups and committees. Zuckerberg testified […]

RENSSELAER, Ind. (AP) — Former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka is helping out a now-shuttered northwestern Indiana college that once hosted the Bears’ preseason camps. Ditka will be the featured speaker at a June 9 fundraiser benefiting the renovation of a former St. Joseph’s College campus building. That building would become a new residence hall […]

GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say a man’s body has been recovered from the truck that drove off a bridge and plunged into a river in Alabama. Gadsden Police Sgt. John Hallman told AL.com the adult white male’s body was found inside the burgundy truck pulled from the Coosa River on Monday, a day after […]

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Palestinian foreign minister files complaint to ICC seeking ‘immediate investigation’ into alleged Israeli crimes.

CAIRO (AP) — An international rights group says the Egyptian military has intensified home demolitions in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula as part of its campaign against a local affiliate of the Islamic State group. Tuesday’s report by Human Rights Watch says the military has vastly expanded widespread destruction of homes, commercial buildings […]

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The director of a seabed hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has disagreed with a new book’s conclusion that the pilot likely flew the plane beyond the search area to land and sink it in unexplored depths of the Indian Ocean. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau believes Flight 370 ran out […]

BERLIN (AP) — A German court has rejected a request from prosecutors to take former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont back into custody pending a decision on whether he is extradited to Spain. Puigdemont was detained by German police March 25 after crossing the border from Denmark. Spain had issued a European arrest warrant and extradition […]

LONDON (AP) — Police in Northern Ireland have released one man and continue to question a second after the two were arrested in connection with the death of a German backpacker three decades ago. A 61-year-old suspect was released pending further inquiries into the death of Munich teenager Inga Maria Hauser, whose body was found […]

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The Vigo County Historical Society is preparing to make some history of its own. Its museum, the society’s home for 60 years, will close June 1 to prepare for a move to the new downtown history center. “This will be a monumental project,” Maria Flowers, historical society board president, said […]

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state TV says the military and police forces are celebrating recapturing the last neighborhoods in Damascus that were held by the rebels and the Islamic State group. Al-Ikhbariya TV broadcast footage of a ceremonial police motorcade entering the Hajar al-Aswad neighborhood with sirens blaring on Tuesday, a day after the military […]

BERLIN (AP) — German court rejects request from prosecutors to take Catalan ex-leader Puigdemont back into custody.

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus’ finance minister says the government has toughened up vetting procedures for applicants hoping to be granted a Cypriot passport under the country’s investors’ naturalization scheme. Harris Georgiades said Tuesday the new procedures will be “stricter and more credible.” The number of passports granted under the scheme will be capped at […]

HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Florida is marking a milestone in its attempt to control an infestation of Burmese pythons in the Everglades. The state has been paying a select group of hunters to kill the invasive snakes on state lands in South Florida since March 2017. On Tuesday, the 1,000th python collected in that program […]

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani welfare organization says the heatwave gripping the region amid widespread power cuts has killed 65 people in Karachi. Anwar Kazmi, a spokesman for the private group Edhi, which is also the country’s largest ambulance service, said on Tuesday that their morgue received 65 bodies over the past four days, […]

BEIJING (AP) — China reduces auto import duties effective July 1 following pledges to buy more U.S. goods, ease controls on industry.

TOKYO (AP) — North Korean media stepped up their rhetorical attacks on South Korea and joint military exercises with the United States, warning Tuesday that a budding detente could be in danger. State media unleashed three strongly worded commentaries slamming Seoul and Washington for the maneuvers and demanding Seoul take action against defectors it claimed […]

TOKYO (AP) — North Korean media are stepping up their rhetorical attacks on South Korea and joint military exercises with the United States, warning that a budding detente could be in danger. State media unleashed three strongly worded commentaries Tuesday slamming Seoul and Washington for the maneuvers and demanding Seoul take action against defectors it […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Orlando area will receive $1.5 million in federal funds for terrorism prevention efforts after years of being overlooked. The funding announced Monday comes after Orlando had been snubbed by the Urban Area Security Initiative grant in previous years. U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson says Orlando deserved the money, especially after the […]

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni officials say shells fired by the country’s Shiite rebels have killed at least five civilians in the central province of Marib. The officials say the shelling early on Tuesday also wounded at least 20 people. Marib is about 115 kilometers, or 70 miles, east of the capital, Sanaa. The officials […]

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom says the EU still has no clear idea whether U.S. President Donald Trump will slap tariffs on the bloc’s steel and aluminum exports in two weeks. Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Malmstrom said: “We have no clarity yet.” Malmstrom noted that she and U.S. Secretary of Commerce […]

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Palestinian foreign minister arrives at International Criminal Court to ask for Israeli settlement policy investigation.

CLEARWATER BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a Florida man climbed on top of playground equipment and yelled a vulgar explanation of where babies come from as the children played. An officer said he watched 30-year-old Otis Dawayne Ryan climb on top of a piece of equipment where children were playing Sunday and start shouting […]