Новости за 10.09.2015

DALLAS - An exhibit of works from one of Europe's oldest and most significant private art collections will help a Dallas museum mark its 50th anniversary.

LIMA, Peru - A Peruvian judge has ordered former military dictator Francisco Morales Bermudez to stand trial on kidnapping charges for the 1978 abduction of 13 opponents he allegedly ordered flown to Argentina on a military plane.

NEW YORK - An estimated 70,000 rape kits sitting in laboratories and evidence collection rooms across the country will be tested with a combined $79 million in federal and New York City funds designed to cut the backlog of untested DNA evidence in 27 states, officials announced Thursday.

TRENTON, New Jersey - Years after discounted versions of some of the most expensive drugs ever went on sale in other countries, they're finally coming to the world's biggest medicine market.

NEW YORK - Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market:

LOS ANGELES - Actor and decorated World War II veteran John P. Connell has died at the age of 91. Connell, who was best known for starring in the live soap opera "Young Dr. Malone," passed away on Thursday in Woodland Hills, California, according to SAG-AFTRA.

MINSK, Belarus - About 300 opposition supporters rallied Thursday in the Belarusian capital calling for a boycott of next month's presidential vote.

LAGOS, Nigeria - U.S. actor Danny Glover said Thursday that he is in Nigeria to star in a movie based on people who risked and sacrificed their lives to stop the spread of Ebola in Africa's most populous country.

WASHINGTON - Widespread disruptions of freight and passenger rail traffic are likely if Congress doesn't extend a deadline to start using certain safety technology before the end of the year, railroads are warning.

TORONTO - The 40th Toronto International Film Festival kicks off Thursday night with a double bill of drama and politics.

GENEVA - The International Organization for Migration says its estimate of the number of Syrians who have arrived in Greece this year has nearly doubled in just the last four days - to more than 175,000 people.

SEATTLE - The city of Seattle has enlisted some high-powered legal help to combat a lawsuit brought by the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups over its so-called gun violence tax, City Attorney Pete Holmes said Thursday.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Officials with a U.S. company that provides tutoring services at public schools in Puerto Rico have been charged in a nearly $1 million fraud case involving federal funds, authorities said Thursday.

QUITO, Ecuador - The U.S. State Department is expressing concern about what it calls increasing restrictions on freedom of expression and association in Ecuador.

DAMASCUS, Syria - Syria's information minister on Thursday said Europe should bear full responsibility for the flood of Syrian refugees streaming into the continent because of its past policies in backing those fighting to overthrow the government in Damascus.

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan - The energy-rich Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan looks set to scrap free provision of electricity, household gas and water to its citizens as the economy shows the strain of reduced demand for natural gas, its chief export.

BUCHAREST, Romania - A lawyer for a Romanian prince says his client will pay 4.7 million pounds ($7.28 million) to a British magazine editor following a court decision.

INDIANAPOLIS - Police on two Indiana college campuses are investigating sexual assaults.

ABOVE THE CARIBBEAN SEA - As soon as the aging P-3 surveillance plane rumbles off the island runway, a crew of three agents for U.S. Customs and Border Protection begins hunting with high-tech radar for anything that looks out of the ordinary in the vast Caribbean Sea.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia says an exchange of fire across the kingdom's border with Yemen has killed a Saudi soldier.

Turkish security forces are blocking members of parliament from the main pro-Kurdish party from marching to the embattled city of Cizre near the Iraqi border on Thursday.

STAVANGER, Norway - A Norwegian man held hostage by Islamic State militants was a graduate student in political philosophy whose Facebook feed shows a long-held interest in Middle East conflicts and Norse mythology.

WASHINGTON - It was a historic moment in theater few people saw when the first female writing team won Tony Awards this year for "Fun Home." The milestone symbolized a stubborn imbalance between the number of female playwrights who see their work produced on stage compared with men.

AMMAN, Jordan - The influx of refugees to Europe was triggered in part by donors taking the "cheap option" and not giving enough aid to displaced Syrians in Middle Eastern asylum countries, the head of the U.N. refugee agency in Jordan said in an interview.

DAYTON, Ohio - A founding member of the retro-rock/doo-wop group Sha Na Na who later became a movie studio executive and law professor, has died. Dennis Greene was 66.