Новости за 25.07.2015

SANAA, Yemen — Saudi-led coalition air strikes hit a residential area in a quiet Red Sea town in Yemen late Friday, killing at least 120 people in the deadliest strike against civilians since the March offensive began, security and medical officials said. The deadly strike highlights growing concerns that the Saudi-led coalition’s air strikes are increasingly killing civilians as they continue to target Shiite rebels known as Houthis. The fighting in Yemen pits Houthi rebels and troops loyal to... Читать дальше...

ISTANBUL — Turkish fighter jets, which on Friday attacked Islamic State targets in Syria, have launched a wave of air strikes in northern Iraq targeting camps of the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party for the first time in four years, the prime minister’s office said Saturday. The moves came after a suicide bomber suspected of having ties to the Islamic State struck a cultural center in the Turkish border town of Suruc on Monday, killing at least 32 people, in one of the worst cases of spillover violence from the war in Syria. Читать дальше...

TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisia’s parliament voted overwhelmingly to pass the country’s new antiterror law after a pair of devastating attacks against tourists, but critics fear the new legislation may endanger the North African nation’s hard-won freedoms. [...] amid a rise in attacks by Islamic radicals, the new government is increasingly considering stability and security over personal freedoms. “There are many holes in the law that could open the way to human rights violations,” said a statement by coalition of civil society groups... Читать дальше...

The woman had returned to their boat with scallops that the pair, who were not immediately identified, had collected then became concerned that her father, in his late 40s, had not surfaced, Inspector David Wiss said in the state capital of Hobart. The last fatal shark attack off the Australian coast occurred in February, when a Japanese tourist lost both his legs to a great white shark while surfing at Ballina, 1,000 miles north of the scene of Saturday’s attack. Saturday’s attack occurred as... Читать дальше...

Family and friends of an Illinois woman found dead in a Texas jail remembered her Saturday as a “courageous voice” for social justice and promised to keep fighting for clarity on the circumstances surrounding her death. The Harris County, Texas, medical examiner’s office determined through an autopsy that Bland hanged herself with a plastic bag. The Rev. Theresa Dear told reporters outside the DuPage African Methodist Episcopal Church that friends and family continue to have those doubts, even... Читать дальше...

A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that the Obama administration’s detention of children and their mothers who were caught crossing the border illegally is a serious violation of a long-standing court settlement, and that the families should be released as quickly as possible. In a decision late Friday roundly rejecting the administration’s arguments for holding the families, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee found that two detention centers in Texas that the administration opened last summer... Читать дальше...

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Illegal immigration is a threat to Hungary and all of Europe, with the biggest risk coming from hundreds of millions of people from the “depths of Africa” looking to escape poverty, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Saturday. Speaking at a cultural festival in Baile Tusnad, Romania, Orban accused the European Union of failing to defend its citizens from the “masses of illegal immigrants,” who he said threaten the cultural identity of European countries and contributed to increased terrorism... Читать дальше...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Four years ago, the Beaverdale neighborhood in Des Moines organized big for President Obama’s re-election, building a volunteer group skilled at phone-banking, door-knocking and boosting caucus and general election participation. [...] the 2016 Democratic presidential hopefuls are visiting the liberal stronghold, trying to rename it once more. “I think Obamadale is still kind of an open target for candidates at this point,” said Brad Anderson, a resident who served as Obama’s state director in 2012. Читать дальше...

A spokesman for the Democrat’s presidential campaign, Nick Merrill, said Saturday she would testify in a public session Oct. 22 before lawmakers examining the deaths of four Americans in the 2012 attacks in Libya. Republicans have seized upon revelations that Clinton chose to use a private e-mail server, instead of a government one, and later deleted thousands of e-mails she said were not related to her work. On Friday, government investigators disclosed that they had recently alerted the Justice... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A California community college professor has won the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, the literary highlight of Key West's annual festival celebrating author Ernest Hemingway. Lorian Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's granddaughter, said Taylor displayed profound empathy in her story about a woman who lost her lover, a life reclaimed and the power of memory.

Steve Kroner for subbing for Henry Schulman for Game 2 of the Bay Bridge Series along the shores of McCovey Cove: Madison Bumgarner faces the A’s on Saturday afternoon in his second start after the All-Star break. His first came Sunday in Arizona. It was not vintage Bumgarner — he threw 93 pitches in a five-inning stint — but the lefty still managed to pick up his 10th win as the Giants prevailed 2-1. On Saturday morning, manager Bruce Bochy said, in essence, that Bumgarner is just fine. “I really... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former District of Columbia police officer was arrested at the Library of Congress this week for trying to bring a loaded, unregistered gun into the building. A U.S. Capitol Police officer spotted a handgun in Ahn's briefcase through an X-ray machine.

(AP) — A man who is serving a 70-year prison sentence for killing a German exchange student in his garage has settled a lawsuit filed by the victim's family, in part by surrendering all his guns to the boy's parents. The amount the Dede family received isn't listed in court documents, but the family's attorney, David Paoli, said it included money from Kaarma's homeowners insurance policy, car insurance and a monetary amount paid by his mother, Chong Oak Kaarma. The murder weapon must be kept by... Читать дальше...

BALTIMORE (AP) — The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Maryland Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were: 0-5-5-7 (zero, five, five, seven)

BALTIMORE (AP) — The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Maryland Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were: 1-5-0 (one, five, zero)

BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of the Hezbollah militant group says he is "proud" of U.S. sanctions targeting three members of the group. The U.S. Treasury Department slapped sanctions last week on three Hezbollah members, including senior figure Mustafa Badr al Din, and a Lebanese businessman for their suspected militant activities in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

(AP) — A man who is serving a 70-year prison sentence for killing a German exchange student in his garage has settled a lawsuit filed by the victim's family, in part by surrendering all his guns to the boy's parents. The Missoulian newspaper reports (http://bit.ly/1D1qOqk ) that the parties in the civil suit reached an out-of-court settlement earlier this month.

CALVERTON, N.Y. (AP) — Police say a Long Island man is dead after he lost control of his motorcycle and crashed into a tree. The accident happened at 7:45 p.m. Friday in Calverton. Suffolk County police say 26-year-old Darien Grasman was riding his motorcycle eastbound on Mill Road when he lost control, skidded off the roadway and hit a tree. Grasman, of Bay Shore, was pronounced dead at a local hospital.

Three months later, another gunman attacked a resort in Sousse killing 38 tourists, mostly Britons. [...] the government has mobilized 100,000 additional army and police units around the country, including 3,000 dedicated to guarding hotels and tourist sites. Without a reform to improve the training and conduct of police, "Tunisia will continue to stumble from crisis to crisis as its regional environment deteriorates and political and social tensions increase, at the risk of sinking into chaos or a return to dictatorship," said the report.

MIAMI (AP) — Renewed hunts for oil in sensitive Florida ecosystems have environmental groups raising questions about the state's regulation of the oil and gas industry. Florida and the National Park Service are requiring a number of steps to ensure minimal harm to wildlife and the environment, but the proposal worries critics who have complained that lax oversight of previous drilling operations left ecologically sensitive areas vulnerable to contamination. The Department of Environmental Protection ... Читать дальше...

Hourslong standoff with armed man ends in Torrington (AP) — Police in Torrington say a standoff has ended peacefully, hours after an armed man barricaded himself in a home.

WAPPINGER, N.Y. (AP) — State police say a pilot and passenger were not injured when their small plane crashed shortly after taking off from a New York airport. Troopers say in a statement they responded to reports of a single-engine plane crash at the Dutchess County Airport at about 10:30 a.m. Saturday.

More than 800 people in Medieval garb are gathering at the site to commemorate the battle, which was a turning point in the Hundred Years' War. The two-day event began on Saturday on a field in the northern town of Azincourt, called Agincourt in English, and includes equestrian jousting and archery.

NEW YORK (AP) — Fiat Chrysler said Saturday that it is recalling more than half a million more trucks in the U.S. to fix faulty impact sensors, a day after it announced an even bigger U.S. recall to update vehicles' software in order to safeguard it from hacking. The faulty sensors could cause seat belt pre-tensioners to activate and air bags to deploy unexpectedly, increasing the risk of a crash or injury, according to a statement posted on the U.S. Department of Transportation website.

SALISBURY, Md. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a missing boater in the Wicomico River near Salisbury. Authorities say a person notified the Coast Guard in Baltimore early Saturday that a man went overboard after his boat was involved in an accident. The boat reportedly struck a dredge pontoon when the boater was ejected from the vessel. A Coast Guard crew from the St. Crisfield station began searching for the boater with rescuers from Wicomico County, Salisbury and state agencies. A... Читать дальше...