Новости за 09.12.2016

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina says junior defensive tackle Nazair Jones will enter the NFL draft.

DAVIE, Fla. (AP) — The Miami Dolphins might be without two starting linebackers Sunday against Arizona.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Vikings safety Harrison Smith will not play against Jacksonville on Sunday because of a severely sprained ankle.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Police have asked a former Serbian foreign minister who was a candidate to be the United Nations' next secretary-general to give a statement in connection with the unresolved killings of two army conscripts in 2004.

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Election officials in Ghana say President John Mahama has conceded defeat to the West African country's longtime opposition leader, Nana Akufo-Addo.

ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Suspended Oakland Raiders pass rusher Aldon Smith has met with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in hopes of being reinstated.

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Ghana state television: President John Mahama has conceded defeat to longtime opposition leader.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Latest on the impeachment of South Korean President Park Geun-hye (all times local):

The Saints will lose safety Kenny Vaccaro for the remainder of the regular season after he dropped his appeal bid, per Nick Underhill of The Advocate on Friday.

BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) — Hundreds of houses of worship are offering sanctuary to people who could face deportation if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his campaign pledge to remove millions of immigrants living in the country illegally.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Things just keep getting better for rookie Malcolm Mitchell.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Gary Cohn, the No. 2 executive at the powerhouse Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs, to a prominent White House economic post.

BEIRUT (AP) — Nearly two weeks into a crushing blitz, Syrian forces and their allies have taken control of nearly all of what was once an opposition stronghold in eastern Aleppo, touching off a new wave of evacuations Friday and…

NEW YORK (AP) — Cotton futures No. 2 closed $2.40 to $3.10 a bale lower Friday.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump Organization says there's no validity to a video in which a woman claims Republican President-elect Donald Trump has allowed her to stay at his New York hotel free of charge for nine years.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Tsunami warnings for several Pacific islands, including those in Hawaii, were canceled Friday after authorities determined that a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck near the Solomon Islands did not pose a broad tsunami threat.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is asking Energy Department employees detailed questions about the agency's operations and personnel, including a list of employees and contractors who attended international meetings on climate change over the past five years.

LONDON (AP) — Russia's sports reputation was ripped apart again Friday when a new report into systematic doping detailed a vast "institutional conspiracy" that covered more than 1,000 athletes in over 30 sports and corrupted the drug-testing system at the…

FRIDAY, Dec. 9, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- The tragedy of hundreds of babies born with devastating birth defects linked to the Zika virus is no longer confined to Brazil, a new report confirms.

Editor's note: What happened too ... ? is a 10-part series updating significant stories. It will appear daily through Dec. 21.

Playground slides sold to municipalities and schools are being recalled because of a defect that can cause a finger amputation. Other recalled consumer products this week include potentially moldy gift boxes and defective windows.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — There is an argument to be made that the AFC West is the best division in the NFL.

Fourth-and-no is becoming fourth-and-go in the NFL.

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — France's president says his country is ready to help ongoing efforts to reunify ethnically divided Cyprus.

BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local):