Новости за 20.04.2016

BANGUI, Central African Republic — The peacekeepers motioned to the teenage girl weaving through the sprawling camp in the baking afternoon sun selling bananas from a plate atop her head. The attack she alleges happened that day did not kill her, but the torment and stigma that followed just might, she says. Peacekeepers from France, who are not part of the U.N. mission here, and other soldiers from a now repatriated European mission also are facing accusations of sexual misconduct.

The billionaire GOP candidate's 750 Citation X — in use lately to travel to campaign events — is grounded because its registration has expired. Federal Aviation Administration inspectors have contacted the jet's chief pilot about the plane's registration, which expired in January, the FAA said in a statement Wednesday.

Awarded a Creative Work Fund grant for the third time since 2004, the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University has partnered with Barbara Jane Reyes to produce a text and a series of performances based on kuwentuhan, or talk story. “I started thinking about these oral traditions, and orality, that happen mostly in informal spaces, like family spaces, places with friends and family and food and drink — those are the times that people do come together, and there’s always this wealth of story... Читать дальше...

SANAA, Yemen — Yemen’s Shiite rebels have reversed an earlier decision to boycott U.N.-sponsored peace talks designed to find a way to end the war in the impoverished Arab nation and their delegation was on its way Wednesday, heading to the negotiations, due to take place in Kuwait. In a statement issued late Tuesday, senior Houthi leader Mahdi al-Mashat said the movement has received assurances from Kuwait and Oman that there will be no more violations of a week-long cease-fire by the Saudi-led coalition... Читать дальше...

Advocates for the blind have agreed with Uber on overall terms of settling a lawsuit that accused the ride-hailing company of discriminating against passengers with guide dogs, a lawyer said Wednesday. The suit, filed by the National Federation of the Blind in September 2014, said many Uber drivers in California have refused to take passengers with dogs. Uber denied discriminating and argued that its contracts with passengers required them to take disputes to arbitration rather than suing in court... Читать дальше...

Educators from Illinois schools and universities are pushing for a graduated income tax to generate revenue for public education and human services. More than 1,000 demonstrators representing various unions, including the Chicago's Teacher's Union, marched from the Capitol building to the executive mansion on Wednesday in support of a proposal that would replace the state's flat income tax with a plan to make the wealthiest residents pay a higher rate. Rally organizer Amisha Patel of the Chicago-based... Читать дальше...

New York City and its surrounding areas anchored the Democratic presidential leader's big primary win Tuesday, padding the one-time New York senator's lead over Bernie Sanders in both pledged delegates and the national popular vote. Exit polls taken Tuesday for the Associated Press and television networks show Clinton with significantly more African-American support this year than in 2008, while losing ground among white voters. The party is increasingly reliant on urban, racially diverse areas... Читать дальше...

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION, Ukraine — Thirty years after the world’s worst nuclear accident, the Chernobyl power plant is surrounded by both desolation and clangorous activity, the sense of a ruined past and a difficult future. Just a few hundred yards away from the hulk, hundreds of workers labor to construct a vast and remarkable structure that is to be the first step in removing the tons of radioactive waste that remain. After the explosion and the fire that spewed a cloud of fallout over much of northern Europe... Читать дальше...

Bugcrowd, a San Francisco startup that uses a pool of 27,000 hackers to find security flaws for clients, reported Wednesday that it has raised about $15 million in Series B funding. Bugcrowd acts as a kind of middleman between companies worried about their online security and hackers willing to hunt for bugs. “Hackers and companies desperately need each other but are historically terrible at getting along,” said Casey Ellis, the chief executive and founder of the company, in a press release. Bugcrowd... Читать дальше...

The sports meme that can’t be stopped — a picture of Michael Jordan crying, which people use to troll crocodile tears for just about any sports disappointment — has come to the real world, in a customized pair of Air Jordan shoes. To celebrate 50 years of “Star Trek,” IDW Publishing is offering a twist in its new, four-part “Manifest Destiny” story: An app called the French Quarter Task Force has already been nicknamed “Uber for cops,” allowing people in New Orleans to report crimes and even send pictures with their phones. Читать дальше...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan wildlife officers Wednesday started stacking 105 tons of ivory and 1 ton of rhino horns to make 12 towers that are to be torched at the end of the month to encourage global efforts to help stop poaching of elephant and rhino. In Cameroon, about 2,000 illegally trafficked elephant tusks and hundreds of finished ivory products erupted in a ball of fire Tuesday as authorities conducted what was believed to be one of the largest burnings of poached wildlife goods in African history. Читать дальше...

BRUSSELS — The European Union is broadening its battle with Google, alleging that the technology giant rigs the global market for mobile apps by making its Android operating system give preferential treatment to its own products. The Android operating system is designed to feature Google’s search engine, maps, Gmail, YouTube video service and other products that give the company more opportunities to sell digital ads. Device makers don’t have to use Android as Google sets it up, but European regulators... Читать дальше...

Classroom performance for Cal men’s basketball and football continues to improve, according to the latest Academic Progress Rate scores released Wednesday morning by the NCAA. “For those sports where we had been deficient in recent years, we are seeing the tangible results of systems and culture changes we have put in place,” athletic director Mike Williams said in a news release. Under Sonny Dykes, our football program’s trajectory remains on an upward path, and the first-year results for our... Читать дальше...

TOKYO — The Roman Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandal has stretched into one of the least Catholic countries: Japan, where former students at a prestigious all-boys parochial school allege they were molested or raped by religious brothers who taught there decades ago. The former student said the school sent Lambert away after the 1965 attack, only to have him return to serve as elementary-school principal for nearly two decades. Allegations from former students have been published in an English-language... Читать дальше...

A day after Google said the homepage of its popular search engine was “partially dangerous” to malware, the company is now saying its safe to browse. “Safe Browsing has not recently seen malicious content on google.com,” the Mountain View company said in its updated transparency report on Wednesday. The company did warn in its report that consumers will still need to watch out for pages on google.com that could install malware or redirect users to “dangerous websites that install malware on visitors’... Читать дальше...

The mid-’80s date is important — it establishes the musical period (Duran Duran and other New Romantic bands), and the tough economic times that saw many Irish heading to London for better prospects. Because his parents have been losing work, 14-year-old Connor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo), who looks a bit like an adolescent Paul McCartney, is sent to a less-expensive, more rough-and-tumble school — which happens to be located on Dublin’s Synge Street. To catch her eye, he uses the time-tested strategy of putting together a rock band... Читать дальше...

World War II veteran, 88, finally gets high school diploma (AP) — A World War II veteran has just gotten his Pennsylvania high school diploma and says he's grateful to have it even if it's not going to help him get a job.

Sonoma County’s prized wines need artisan cheese to show their best, and for that, you need look no further than the pastoral landscape west of Petaluma. The region remains a dairy farming paradise, with mild, marine-influenced weather, lush emerald-green pasture (this spring, at least) and a culture of humane animal husbandry. [...] a few do offer tours by appointment, making it possible to plot a delicious day trip devoted to cheese from the ground up. To fuel up for the drive, start at Della Fattoria... Читать дальше...

Washington University in St. Louis has lifted an emergency order for students, faculty and staff after a shooting that injured at least one person on the school's main campus. University spokeswoman Sue Killenberg McGinn says one person was injured in the shooting near the school's student union and performing arts building. A Washington University in St. Louis administrator says that "no students were involved" in a shooting near the school's student union and performing arts building. Officials at Washington University in St. Читать дальше...

HAVANA — The former guerrilla fighters who founded Cuba’s single-party government will hold power for years to come after a twice-a-decade Communist Party congress kept President Raul Castro and his hard-line deputy in the top leadership positions. Fidel Castro, who held power for nearly five decades before ill health led him to make way for his brother, delivered a valedictory speech to the congress Tuesday and called on it to fight for his communist ideals despite the fact that he is nearing the end of his life. Читать дальше...

The NCAA's latest Academic Progress Rate numbers, released Wednesday, show that schools with less money continue to play catch-up even as athletes remain in school and work toward degrees at record rates. The men's basketball team, which Banks coaches, is one of the school's three programs that made the cut and now Banks is trying to clean things up. "The goal of the academic performance program is to encourage academic achievement, not to punish those who don't meet the mark," NCAA President Mark Emmert said in a statement. Читать дальше...

IkesIke Shehadeh pictured at Ike’s Place in the Castro.  Photo: Leah Mills/The Chronicle 2014 Inside Scoop first reported that sandwich impresario Ike Shehadeh was a few weeks away from further expanding his East Bay footprint with his first Berkeley Ike’s (after recent store openings in Rockridge and Emeryville). Now, the location has been confirmed. Per Berkeleyside, it’ll be situated in the heart of downtown Berkeley in a space previously occupied by another sandwich shop: The former Togo’s at 2172 Shattuck Avenue... Читать дальше...

The installation Wednesday is part of an effort to raise awareness about the decline of bee populations across the country, as well as to boost pollination of plants at the governor's mansion and on the Capitol campus. Bees are critical to the food supply because about one-third of the human diet comes from insect-pollinated plants, and honeybees are responsible for 80 percent of that pollination.

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say a man nicknamed the Ninja Burglar has confessed to committing more than 100 burglaries in a New York City borough in the last decade. The district attorney says the statute of limitations expired on the other burglaries.

Marlin Stutzman's Senate campaign says the Indiana congressman was conducting political work during a family trip to California that was billed in part to the campaign. Campaign manager Josh Kelley called the allegations unfair but declined to elaborate on what political work was done. A Republican congressman running for Senate in Indiana billed his campaign more than $2,000 in airfare for his family's trip to the Ronald Reagan library in California, an apparent violation of federal election laws.