Новости за 18.07.2015

REDDING, California - The Shasta County Sheriff's Office says DNA testing has found a pacifier recovered in an isolated area belonged to a 6-month-old baby reported missing by her father, who was killed in a confrontation with deputies.

BALTIMORE - Three of the Baltimore police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray gave initial statements under duress because they were afraid of being fired, their attorneys argued in motions filed this week.

ROCHESTER, New York - The chemical know-how and machines that spooled out countless miles of film are being eyed for medical marijuana and solar cells, while the private rail line now carries tomatoes alongside coal as photography pioneer Kodak, its bankruptcy behind it, embraces a new role: startup landlord.

Five years after the Obama administration promised to move swiftly to permanently plug unused oil and gas wells in the Gulf of Mexico, even more shafts are lingering for longer periods with only temporary sealing, an investigation by The Associated Press shows.

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has ruled California taxicab companies can sue competitor Uber over advertising statements that it offers the safest rides on the road.

ALGIERS, Algeria - An Algerian police commander says Islamic militants have ambushed an Algerian army convoy in a forest west of Algiers, killing 11 soldiers.

CLARKS HILL, Indiana - The National Weather Service says two tornadoes caused some building damage near Lafayette as a wave of storms with strong winds and heavy rain moved across much of Indiana.

INDIANAPOLIS - A dog which got its head stuck inside the rim of a junk tire was freed by Indianapolis firefighters using their tools for extricating people from wrecked cars.

TBILISI, Georgia - Hundreds of people are demonstrating outside government headquarters in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, urging authorities to halt talks with Russia in the wake of recent claims that Russia is seizing more Georgian territory.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia announced Saturday it has broken up planned Islamic State attacks in the kingdom and arrested more than 400 suspects in an anti-terrorism sweep, a day after a powerful blast in neighboring Iraq killed more than 100 people in one of the country's deadliest single attacks since U.S. troops pulled out in 2011.

JOHANNESBURG - The final count of commuters injured in a rush hour train collision on Friday has been revised to 239 people, down from the more than 300 originally reported, a spokeswoman for the South African rail service said on Saturday.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The nuclear deal is done. Now it's time to talk business.

JOHANNESBURG - South Africans honored the 67 years of former president Nelson Mandela's service to the country with 67 minutes of charity and community action around the country on his birthday Saturday.

ROME - Police in Sicily have arrested three Egyptians who allegedly were in charge of a smuggling boat on which a 10-year-old Syrian girl with diabetes died after the smugglers threw her insulin overboard.

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan and India again exchanged fire Saturday over the disputed region of Kashmir after violence earlier this week killed at least five people on both sides of the border. There were no casualties immediately reported, officials said.

ATHENS, Greece - Greek banks are reopening Monday after a forced 3-week closure but restrictions on cash withdrawals will remain.

BERLIN - A German attorney representing some 30 families of victims of the March Germanwings plane crash says his clients are rejecting the airline's initial compensation offer as far too low.

DAKAR, Senegal - The bodies came daily. Sometimes 10, sometimes 20 lives lost to torture, malnutrition or sickness in prison in Chad, say survivors.

NEW DELHI - A stampede at a religious festival attended by tens of thousands of people in eastern India left two women dead Saturday, police said, the second deadly stampede at an Indian Hindu festival in less than a week.

BUJUMBURA, Burundi - Three candidates, including two former presidents, announced their withdrawal from Burundi's upcoming presidential race, predicting the contest in this restive African nation will not be free and fair.

MOSCOW - Ukraine's Russia-backed separatist rebels say they are ready to pull back smaller-caliber weapons from much of the front line in eastern Ukraine.

NAIROBI, Kenya - Hundreds of shoppers Saturday thronged through the re-opened Westgate Shopping Mall in Kenya's capital, Nairobi nearly two years after an extremist attack there left at least 67 people dead.

LONDON - Search-and-rescue teams have entered the smoldering rubble of a wood mill in northwest England, trying to find four people who are missing after a massive explosion.

SEOUL, South Korea - A South Korean government spy was found dead Saturday in an apparent suicide alongside a note that seemed to comment on the recent revelation that the spy agency had acquired hacking programs capable of intercepting communications on cellphones and computers, police said.

GOSHEN, Indiana - A northern Indiana high school might not have a Redskins mascot much longer. The Goshen Community Schools board is expected to take up the matter on July 27 in the wake of a federal judge this month ordering the cancellation of the Washington Redskins' trademark registration because it may be disparaging to Native Americans.