Новости за 09.07.2015

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday officially tasked Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to form a government, paving the way for arduous coalition talks to begin, Erdogan's spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said.

LONDON - The choices Thursday in London: take a hike, ride a bike, try to find a bus you like.

VIENNA - Negotiations over Iran's nuclear program lurched toward another deadline on Thursday with diplomats reconvening amid persistent uncertainty and vague but seemingly hopeful pronouncements from participants.

MADRID - Spanish authorities sent 16 water planes and helicopters to help fight five different forest fires Thursday as summer temperatures soared once again.

HAVANA - Cruise ship tourism to Cuba spiked more than five-fold over the last three years and is up even higher so far in 2015, government officials reported Thursday.

SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia - Here are the latest developments from Pope Francis' trip to South America:

TUNIS, Tunisia - Tunisia's army and contractors are building a barrier along part of the country's border with Libya to keep out extremists in the wake of attacks claimed by the Islamic State group.

SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia - Pope Francis denounced the "throwaway" culture of today's society that discards anyone who is unproductive as he celebrated his first public Mass in Bolivia on Thursday, one of the key days of his South American pilgrimage. It will culminate with a summit of farmers, fishermen and indigenous whose causes have long been championed by history's first Latin American pope.

ATHENS, Greece - Hopes that Greece can get a rescue deal that will prevent a catastrophic exit from the euro rose on Thursday, after key creditors said they were open to discussing how to ease the country's debt load, a long-time sticking point in their talks.

BERLIN - Swiss authorities have paid out 4.6 million francs ($4.9 million) so far to hundreds of people who as children were taken from their parents and sent to work on Swiss farms or placed in homes.

MOSCOW - The presidents of Russia and Iran have held talks that Vladimir Putin's spokesman says covered military and nuclear cooperation, as well as the fight against the Islamic State group.

BANGKOK - Thailand sent back to China more than 100 ethnic Uighur refugees on Thursday, drawing harsh criticism from the U.N. refugee agency and human rights groups over concerns that they face persecution by the Chinese government.

EL-ARISH, Egypt - A roadside bomb in Egypt's restive northern Sinai on Thursday wounded 20 policemen travelling in a bus and an armored personnel carrier, security officials said, the latest attack in the troubled part of the peninsula where Egyptian forces are battling an insurgency.

LONDON - Prince William and his wife Kate have released photos marking the christening of their daughter, Princess Charlotte.

JUBA, South Sudan - South Sudan marked four years of independence from Sudan on Thursday, but the celebrations were tempered by concerns about ongoing violence and the threat of famine.

LONDON - Britain has been stunned by revelations about child sexual abuse, a judge said Thursday, warning that the true scale of the crime has been underestimated and one in 20 children may have been a victim.

VEREENIGING, South Africa - In a splash of burning embers, South African police destroyed more than 14,000 firearms to mark International Gun Destruction Day in the furnace of a steel manufacturing plant outside Johannesburg.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday the western Balkans can only prosper if Bosnia develops well and that despite its problems she believes the country has a future within the EU.

KAMPALA, Uganda - Ugandan police on Thursday detained two of the president's top challengers, an opposition leader and a former prime minister who last month announced he would seek the presidency.

JOHANNESBURG - The lion population has increased in a major wildlife park in Mozambique partly because heavy poaching of elephants has provided the carnivores with a bounty of carcasses to eat as well as vulnerable elephant calves to hunt, a conservationist said Thursday.

TOKYO - The recalls at Honda Motor Co. over defective Takata air bags have grown by another 4.5 million vehicles, raising the tally at the Japanese automaker to 24.5 million.

ATHENS, Greece - The latest from the Greece's financial crisis (all times local):

SANAA, Yemen - A Yemeni news agency run by Shiite rebels is quoting the U.N. envoy to the country as saying at the end of his visit that he expects a truce to be announced within 24 hours.

ISTANBUL - More than 4 million Syrians have fled abroad since the 2011 outbreak of civil war, the largest number from any crisis in almost 25 years, the United Nations said Thursday.

BRUSSELS - The European Commission suspects credit card company MasterCard of slugging customers in the European Union with artificially high fees.