Новости за 21.01.2016

CAIRO - An Egyptian affiliate of the Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Thursday for an attack on a checkpoint in the country's volatile Sinai Peninsula that killed five policemen.

ISTANBUL - Mustafa Koc, chairman of Turkey's top industrial conglomerate, Koc Holding, died from a heart attack on Thursday, a hospital said. He was 55.

BEIJING - The Facebook page of Taiwan's president-elect was flooded Thursday with tens of thousands of pro-China comments following a campaign by young mainlanders to jump the country's "Great Firewall" into normally forbidden overseas social media to express displeasure over the recent election.

JEFFERSONVILLE, Indiana - A 16-year-old has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old in Clark County.

ROME - An Italian ecumenical mission is in Lebanon this week to work out the final details of a pilot project to bring as many as 1,000 refugees to Italy on humanitarian visas so they're not tempted to risk deadly sea crossings to get to Europe.

ATHENS, Greece - Thousands of Greek lawyers, doctors, engineers and other professional groups are marching peacefully through central Athens to protest drastic new income cuts under planned pension reforms.

LONDON - A leaked draft report into serial sex abuse committed by the late Jimmy Savile condemns the BBC for having a "deferential culture" that allowed major entertainers to get away with violating the law.

PARIS - Paris Saint-Germain's quest for a fourth straight league title is proving so easy that coach Laurent Blanc is already looking ahead to the Champions League game against Chelsea next month.

DALLAS - Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV) on Thursday reported fourth-quarter net income of $536 million.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Dubai-based port operator DP World and the Russian Direct Investment Fund say they are launching a joint venture to develop ports, transportation and logistics infrastructure in Russia.

MIAMI - A Miami police officer is recovering after being stabbed in the face by a patron at Magic City Casino.

ANSONIA, Connecticut - A Connecticut high school student has been pulled out of classes and reported to police for substituting "ISIS" for the "United States of America" during the Pledge of Allegiance.

NEW DELHI - Indian media say a millionaire has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his security guard last year by mowing him down with his luxury SUV in a rage.

PARIS - French President Francois Hollande says airstrikes against Islamic State extremists will accelerate in coming months.

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - A second case of Ebola emerged in Sierra Leone after health officials thought the epidemic was over, with a close relative of the first victim testing positive for the virus that has killed more than 11,000 people, authorities said Thursday.

PORT BARRE, Louisiana - Authorities in central Louisiana have fatally shot a man after a four-hour hostage standoff with police at a home.

DAVOS, Switzerland - Britain and Germany gave their key backing Thursday for Christine Lagarde to stay at the helm of the International Monetary Fund for a second term. The savvy Frenchwoman, however, held back from confirming she wants the job.

JERUSALEM - Israeli police say vandals have scrawled graffiti and affixed a knife with a Biblical verse at the home of a leader of a group advocating secular Judaism.

MELBOURNE, Australia - When Roger Federer and Martina Hingis decided to team up to play mixed doubles at the 2016 Olympics, a Swiss newspaper boasted the country would bring a "Dream Team" to Rio de Janeiro that could sweep all the tennis medals.

MUNCIE, Indiana - A lost item at IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital had reached such legendary status that employees who were hired on years after it went missing knew about it. Everyone in the department wanted to be "the one" to find it, and everyone seemed to believe that it would eventually turn up, even though it was about the size of an apple seed and the building it was lost in had been torn down.

SOUTH BEND, Indiana - In the middle of a nightmare, Katie Rodriguez found an unlikely friend.

LONDON - President Vladimir Putin probably approved a plan by Russia's FSB security service to kill former agent Alexander Litvinenko, a British judge said Thursday.

MANILA, Philippines - A former anti-narcotics officer and a Chinese citizen were arrested Thursday during a drug raid in the Philippine capital that yielded $6.7 million worth of high-grade crystal methamphetamine, officials said.

BRUSSELS - Belgian authorities say two men are being held who have possible links to suspects in the November attacks in Paris in which extremists killed 130 people.

MOSCOW - The Russian ruble has hit another historic low against the dollar as oil prices continue to slide due to a surplus of crude oil on world markets.