Новости за 20.03.2016

BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) — Republic of Congo's president, who has ruled the Central African country for more than 30 years, is expected to cruise to re-election Sunday in a vote five months after a constitutional referendum removed term…

MADRID (AP) — A bus carrying university students back from Spain's largest fireworks festival crashed Sunday on a main highway in northeastern Spain, killing 13 passengers and injuring 30 others, the country's interior minister said.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — When former Mississippi Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck shut down her campaign committee in the closing days of 2013, she took a parting gift — the $158,342 remaining in the account.

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey's interior minister on Sunday identified the suicide bomber who killed himself and four foreign tourists in Istanbul as a militant with links to the Islamic State group.

HAVANA (AP) — Yolanda Mauri's ancestors almost certainly came to Cuba in chains, laboring as slaves on an island of French coffee plantations and fields of Spanish sugarcane.

HAVANA (AP) — Online lodging service Airbnb is allowing travelers from around the world to book stays in private homes in Cuba after the San Francisco-based company received a special authorization from the Obama administration, Airbnb announced Sunday.

SUNDAY, March 20, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Tree pollen season has arrived, but there are a number of ways allergy sufferers can prevent or control their symptoms, an expert says.

SUNDAY, March 20, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- During the first two months of this year, 116 U.S. residents have tested positive for infection with the Zika virus, and all but one were linked to travel to regions endemic for the…

Recent reports of criminal activity from our local law enforcement agencies.

ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP) — Voters in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan headed to the polling stations Sunday for an election intended to confirm the ruling party's solid grip over parliament.

HELSINKI (AP) — Swedish police say they are investigating major cyber attacks against some of the country's leading media companies.

COTONOU, Benin (AP) — Benin is holding a presidential runoff vote that pits the prime minister against a cotton magnate who was once accused of trying to poison the current president.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Challengers in two politically tinged cases before the Supreme Court this week face the seemingly insurmountable problem of being unable to count to five — as in five votes.

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger's president is running for a second five-year term Sunday against an opponent who campaigned from behind bars before being flown last week to Paris for medical treatment.

RUSSIAVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say two central Indiana sheriff's deputies have been shot while serving warrants.

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities are investigating after up to 200 men attacked police at Cologne's main train station in what authorities called a "massive riot."

LONDON (AP) — A prominent British politician says he has resigned from the government because the ruling Conservative Party is narrowly focused on cutting welfare benefits and is losing sight of the need to make sure everyone shares in the…

BEIJING (AP) — Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg held a rare meeting with China's propaganda chief, at a time when Chinese authorities are tightening control over their cyberspace.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis in his Palm Sunday homily decried what he called indifference to the refugees flooding into Europe, making a comparison to authorities who washed their hands of Jesus' fate ahead of his crucifixion.

ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP) — Aviation experts on Sunday began examining the black boxes from the FlyDubai flight that crashed amid high winds at an airport in southern Russia but said the cockpit voice and data recorders were badly damaged.

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Advocate and lawyer Amal Clooney told an audience in the Middle East on Sunday that governments around the world should be vocal, consistent, principled and transparent about human rights.

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo's justice minister says one of the most wanted suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide has now been extradited home to face charges.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Sunday is the day an agreement between the European Union and Turkey on ending illegal migration goes into effect — but its implementation still remains uncertain.

BAGHDAD (AP) — After months of losing ground in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State group is showing signs of wear and tear, and its opponents say they have seen an increase in desertions among the extremists. But the jihadis…

BEIJING (AP) — Leonardo DiCaprio praised China's work to combat climate change on a trip to Beijing on Sunday, and said he believes the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases could be "the hero of the environmental movement."