Новости за 15.06.2017

Syria's state news agency, SANA, confirmed troops are marching deep in the desert area near the historic central town of Palmyra.

The Air Force also cautions non-military aircraft to review the Federal Aviation Administration notice and avoid areas and altitudes where military planes will be practicing.

A state Transportation Department spokesman tells the Hartford Courant (http://cour.at/2s4bcks ) the $37 million project on the four-lane Arrigoni Bridge over the Connecticut River between Middletown and Portland is scheduled to start in 2019. Middletown Mayor Daniel Drew says city officials have met with state officials to ask them to consider fencing and nets to deter suicides.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — A jury has convicted an Ames woman of voluntary manslaughter for killing her husband. The Story County jury returned the verdict Wednesday against 36-year-old Candace Cummings in the second day of deliberations. Cummings was charged with first-degree murder for killing 36-year-old Harland "Jesse" Cummings. Prosecutors say she shot him as he slept. Her sentencing is scheduled for July 17. Candace Cummings told investigators she killed her husband because of stress in their marriage... Читать дальше...

SYDNEY (AP) — An Australian man was arrested at Sydney Airport on Thursday after five months of surveillance on suspicion of planning to fly to Syria to fight with Islamic State group militants, police said. Moudasser Taleb, 22, took a taxi to the airport to buy a ticket to Turkey or Lebanon and was carrying military-style clothing when he was arrested, New South Wales Police Deputy Commissioner Dave Hudson said.

Police say the death toll in an overnight attack by al-Shabab extremists on a popular restaurant in Somalia's capital has risen to 31. Fighting continued through the night as Somalia's al-Shabab Islamic extremists fought off heavily armed soldiers in a bloody siege at a popular Mogadishu restaurant. Extremist snipers fired on security troops who surrounded the restaurant building and used big guns mounted on the backs of vehicles to neutralize militants.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania's ruling party has met to decide whether to introduce a no-confidence vote against its own government after it withdrew support for Premier Sorin Grindeanu but he refused to resign. Chairman of the Social Democratic Party Liviu Dragnea says Grindeanu, in office since January, failed to implement the party's governing program, something the premier rejects.

PARIS (AP) — The electronic bleeps and squawks of Tetris, ''Donkey Kong and other generation-shaping games that you may never have thought of as musical are increasingly likely to be playing at a philharmonic concert hall near you. From the "ping ... ping" of Atari's 1972 ground-breaking paddle game "Pong," the sounds, infectious ditties and, with time, fully-formed orchestral scores that are an essential part of the sensory thrill for gamers have formed a musical universe. When audiences pack... Читать дальше...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Death toll in Somalia restaurant siege up to 31; extremists killed many at point-blank range.

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The United Nations is warning that the cholera outbreak in Yemen is depleting aid resources to the point they won't be able to provide food to the famine-stricken country through the summer. McGoldrick says battling cholera in the country beset by civil war has pulled resources away from work the agency is doing to battle famine and by September could cut into the food aid pipeline to the country, the Arab world's poorest nation.

Michael Fallon said Thursday that Russia had annexed Crimea, threatened the Baltic states and interfered in the democratic processes in Western Europe with "propaganda and other means," in the past three years. Fallon visited the Mihail Koglaniceanu air base in eastern Romania on Wednesday, where he met pilots and technicians servicing RAF Typhoon fighter jets that are beefing up NATO security around the Black Sea.

(AP) — A Florida police department is firing the commander in charge when an officer shot a therapist who was protecting an autistic man. Hollant was in charge when SWAT team member Jonathan Aledda shot Charles Kinsey in the leg last July 18.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The special counsel appointed to investigate Russian influence in the 2016 presidential campaign is now examining whether President Donald Trump tried to obstruct justice, it has been reported. The Washington Post reported late Wednesday that special counsel Robert Mueller was seeking interviews with three Trump administration officials who weren't involved in Trump's campaign: [...] Wednesday, Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley said his panel will investigate the removal... Читать дальше...

The Washington Post reported late Wednesday that special counsel Robert Mueller is seeking interviews with three Trump administration officials who weren't involved in Trump's campaign. Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence; Michael Rogers, the head of the National Security Agency; and Richard Ledgett, the former NSA deputy director. The special counsel appointed to investigate Russian influence in the 2016 presidential campaign is now examining whether President Donald Trump tried to obstruct justice... Читать дальше...

Carmel Valley, with all its charms, offers the rare combination of both a pastoral and coastal setting on the outskirts of one of the most spectacular cities in California. Right in the heart of all this beauty, this vintage home with five bedrooms and five bathrooms is set on 1.2 acres of private land. Custom built in

Dubiously famed for being crashed into and set on fire, 182 32nd Ave. is on the market, asking $2.95 million. The 2016 accident, which killed the driver of the car, also caused serious damage to the home. Now, according to CurbedSF, “the homeowners—a Google lawyer and an investment banker turned shoe startup founder—have put the unfortunately traumatized mansion up

It's time to celebrate, Warriors fans.

The 28-country EU should be a seamless area of roaming costs for travelers as of Thursday, following years of negotiations to cut often excessive costs to use a mobile outside the home country.

Un fenómeno natural llamado “floración de fitoplancton” ha teñido las habitualmente oscuras aguas del Bósforo y el Cuerno de Oro de un azul claro opaco. Está causado por microorganismos que han inundado el Mar Negro, justo al norte de la mayor ciudad turca.

YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) — A Japanese industrial group unveiled Thursday a robot designed for underwater probes of damage from meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The developers say they plan to send the new "mini manbo," or "little sunfish," probe into the primary containment vessel of Unit 3 at Fukushima in July to study the extent of damage and locate parts of melted fuel thought to have fallen to the bottom of the chamber, submerged by highly radioactive water. Читать дальше...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) — Coast Guard officials say a terminal at the Port of Charleston in South Carolina has resumed normal operations after nothing dangerous was found on a ship after a threat was reported. Stump says a YouTube conspiracy theorist reported a suspected threat on a container ship in the port.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal judge has found six people who protested at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia guilty of trespassing on restricted federal grounds. [...] he found the protesters crossed the line when one of them cut through the fence erected more than a quarter-mile from where President Barack Obama would address delegates last summer.

PHOENIX (AP) — Southern Baptists on Wednesday formally condemned the political movement known as the "alt-right," in a national meeting that was thrown into turmoil after leaders initially refused to take up the issue. The denomination's annual convention in Phoenix voted to "decry every form of racism, including alt-right white supremacy as antithetical to the Gospel of Jesus Christ" and "denounce and repudiate white supremacy and every form of racial and ethnic hatred as a scheme of the devil." Tuesday night... Читать дальше...

WFTS-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2scXdqN ) during an administrative hearing Wednesday, Daryl Bryant defended his writing after failing the essay portion of Florida's teacher certification three times. On Tuesday 20-year teaching veteran Julie McCue also fought the department after failing the essay on Florida's educational leadership exam four times.

After enjoying decades of favored status dating back to the Cold War, many of them now face the same deportation risks as any other immigrants. [...] some Cubans have been detained at routine appointments with immigration officials, and many more fear they could be imperiled by old deportation orders or caught up in the increased arrests of non-citizens pursued by President Donald Trump's administration. How could I have seen this coming? said Maykel Vargas, a Cuban who spent three months in detention... Читать дальше...