Новости за 16.07.2015

INDIANAPOLIS - Gov. Mike Pence has directed the state Department of Health to investigate Planned Parenthood facilities in Indiana in cooperation with the Indiana attorney general to see if organs from aborted fetuses are being sold.

JERUSALEM - A Canadian-born Israeli woman who joined a Kurdish militia to fight against the Islamic State group said that after a stint in prison, she felt compelled to do something positive with her life and battle against the "genocide" unfolding in Syria and Iraq.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi policeman Ziad Radi is no stranger to hot weather, but his sun-blasted face is testament that even for seasoned Iraqis, the weather on Thursday was almost too hot to bear.

LONDON - Britain's centrist Liberal Democrat party has elected Tim Farron - one of eight Lib Dem lawmakers remaining after an electoral drubbing in May - as the party's new leader.

MOSCOW - A year since a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was blown out of the sky over war-ravaged eastern Ukraine - killing 298 people - there has been little official word of progress in determining what brought down Flight MH17. One of the probes under way reportedly points toward a ground-to-air missile fired from a village held by Russia-backed separatist rebels, but the report isn't to be public for months. Another investigation trudges forward with painful slowness, and contradictory theories emerge from Moscow. Читать дальше...

NICOSIA, Cyprus - The European Commission's top official expressed optimism Thursday that renewed peace talks in Cyprus can lead to a deal which the EU would support financially.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - A strong earthquake struck Thursday in the ocean northeast of Barbados and was widely felt throughout the Caribbean, but officials said there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - International Criminal Court judges have called on the court's prosecutor to reconsider her decision not to investigate the storming by Israel of an aid flotilla that was heading to Gaza.

BANGKOK - A Swiss man has confessed to blackmailing his former employer, a Saudi oil exploration company, by threatening to reveal documents with information about alleged financial wrongdoing linked to the Malaysian government, Thai police said Thursday.

JOHANNESBURG - JOHANNESBURG - After dark the bars and clubs on 7th Street in Johannesburg's hip Melville neighborhood are heaving with partiers and thumping dance music.

BAGHDAD - Iraq closed its border with Jordan until further notice, in part to deprive Islamic State militants of taxes they impose on cargo trucks driving through their territory, a senior Iraqi military official said Thursday.

BUCHAREST, Romania - The speaker of Romania's Parliament on Thursday called for a profound overhaul of the ruling party after Prime Minister Victor Ponta was indicted on corruption charges and had his assets seized, a first in Romania.

HAVANA - Cuban officials say a building has collapsed in Old Havana, killing four people.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - A U.N. conference has agreed to reform global finance to spur development and to channel funds to fight worldwide poverty.

ANAHEIM, California - EDITOR'S NOTE: On July 16, 1955, Associated Press reporter Bob Thomas wrote a story about the imminent opening of an elaborate theme park in California that was conceived by none other than Walt Disney. The park opened the next day.

NEW YORK - This is the full statement posted by the Duggar family on Facebook on Thursday:

LAGOS, Nigeria - Nigeria's government says it has banned Radio Biafra because it is unlicensed but the station dedicated to creating a breakaway state remained on the airwaves Thursday.

FRANKFURT, Germany - Frankfurt prosecutors say a 92-year-old former Auschwitz death camp guard charged as an accessory to murder is fit for trial, but it's not yet clear when proceedings might begin.

MORAHALOM, Hungary - A fence along Hungary's border with Serbia to stem the flow of migrants will be completed by December, a Hungarian official said Thursday.

KIEV, Ukraine - Ukraine's parliament on Thursday gave preliminary approval to a bill that would devolve more powers to separatist-controlled areas in eastern Ukraine and sent it for review at the country's highest court.

JOHANNESBURG - It's time for retired archbishop Desmond Tutu to begin saying no to public events in order to conserve his health, his daughter said Thursday, as the Nobel laureate remained hospitalized for a persistent infection.

JERUSALEM - Israel's prime minister and the British foreign secretary have publicly sparred over the deal on Iran's nuclear program.

LONDON - An independent body has given British lawmakers a 10 percent pay increase - a headache for a prime minister who has pledged that public sector workers should only get a 1 percent raise.

LONDON - An image of the top of a comedian's head has Britons debating the decline of privacy in an age of surveillance.

LONDON - A nearly complete, new dinosaur fossil has been unearthed in China, the first in its family to have unusually short feathered wings.