Новости за 16.11.2015

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - An incurable disease has given Jose Gonzalez Ortiz the health of an old man at age 42, and the collapsing Puerto Rican health system only adds to his pain.

BRUSSELS - There is just one cafe left near Molenbeek's Place Communale square where you can buy Belgium's national drink - beer.

LOS ANGELES - Lemony Snicket is ready to critique your writing.

"The Hunger Games" movies have unfolded in a relative blitzkrieg - four movies in four years - and in a fan-fueled fever that has masked some seriously silly political allegory with the thrill of survival games and the awesome star power of Jennifer Lawrence. In the final installation, "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2," the game is over.

RAMALLAH, West Bank - A senior Palestinian official on Monday said the Palestinian Authority has reached an agreement with Egypt to reopen the Gaza Strip's main border crossing in an arrangement meant to bypass the territory's Hamas rulers.

INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana Supreme Court has decided against considering an appeal from the man convicted of killing an Indiana University student who vanished during a 2000 bike ride.

JERUSALEM - Israel has summoned Sweden's ambassador for clarification following remarks by Stockholm's foreign minister linking the attacks in Paris to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

MUNCIE, Indiana - A survey of Muncie's brownfield properties shows there are 68 areas in the city and in a handful of nearby towns where industrial and commercial operations once did business.

NEW YORK - Broadway theaters plan to dim their marquee lights next month in memory of Brian Friel, the Tony Award-winning Irish playwright who created "Dancing at Lughnasa" and more than 30 other plays.

PARIS - The Eiffel Tower reopened to visitors Monday afternoon.

NEW YORK - Three books by Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich will be released in the U.S. by Random House.

VATICAN CITY - One of the Italian journalists whose expose of Vatican mismanagement has made headlines is refusing to appear before Vatican magistrates to be questioned in a criminal case over leaked confidential documents.

BLOOMINGTON, Indiana - Trustees at Indiana University say the school could streamline the application process and make it easier for students applying to more than one campus.

NEW YORK - Somewhere between their Westin Heavenly Beds and the room's rainfall shower system, Starwood hotel loyalists were struck Monday morning by a new reality: their beloved loyalty program would soon be gobbled up by Marriott's less-generous reward system.

CHESTERTON, Indiana - The South Shore Line commuter rail in northwest Indiana and commuter trains in Chicago have increased security following the terrorist attacks in Paris.

PARIS - After a weekend of horror, Paris returned to the routines of the work week Monday with determination, defiance - and worry.

CAIRO - This is the fundamental contradiction, after Paris: Few in the West want to send ground troops to Syria and Iraq to battle the Islamic State group, but it may be even harder to find anyone who thinks airstrikes alone will defeat the radical extremists.

CROWN POINT, Indiana - A northwest Indiana man charged with strangling two women and who could face the death penalty if convicted is asking a judge to allow him to represent himself during the trial.

HELSINKI - Finnish officials say a 29-year-old Iraqi man has been arrested on suspicion of committing war crimes in his home country last year.

INDIANAPOLIS - Gov. Mike Pence says he is telling all state agencies to suspend the resettlement of additional Syrian refugees in Indiana following the deadly attacks in Paris.

LONDON - Cynthia Payne, the British madam made famous when police raided her home and found elderly men paying for lewd entertainment with lunch vouchers, has died. She was 82.

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican secretary of state has hinted that Pope Francis' security team will decide at the last minute whether to change his Africa itinerary amid continued unrest in the Central African Republic.

WARSAW, Poland - Even before the Paris attacks, the mood in Central Europe was decidedly anti-migrant, with fences going up on borders, a Syrian beaten on a Polish street last week and the rhetoric sharp across the region. Now the bloodshed unleashed by Islamic extremists is deepening fears of Muslims and threatening to create an atmosphere even less welcoming for those fleeing war in the Middle East.

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas - Shares of Dillard's Inc. sunk to a three-year low Monday after the department store operator reported disappointing results for the third quarter.

NEW YORK - Singer Jazzmeia Horn has won the Thelonious Monk Institute Jazz Competition.