Новости за 28.01.2016

TOKYO - Japan's economy minister resigned Thursday as he fended off corruption allegations, in a setback for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's effort to rev up growth in the world's third-largest economy.

LAGOS, Nigeria - Multiple suicide bombings have killed 15 civilians and a soldier and the toll is expected to rise among those critically wounded in the Chibok, community leaders said Thursday in the town from which Boko Haram kidnapped scores of schoolgirls almost two years ago.

BRUSSELS - The European Union has unveiled new proposals to combat tax evasion by big companies by trying to end sweet deals between member countries and multinationals.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The Islamic militant group Hamas says seven of its members died when a tunnel into Israel collapsed as they were working on it.

MOSCOW - Russia's foreign minister is calling on Germany to provide information on the investigation into the temporary disappearance of a teenage German-Russian girl and denies that Moscow is interfering in the matter.

STOCKHOLM - Swedish home appliance maker Electrolux says it fell to a 393 million kronor ($46.1 million) loss in the fourth quarter from a 970 million kronor profit a year earlier after it failed in its bid for General Electric Co.'s appliance business.

GENEVA - A Syrian opposition figure says indirect peace talks between the government and opposition are unlikely to begin on Friday for "technical reasons."

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - The pro-democracy party in Myanmar led by Aung San Suu Kyi announced ethnically diverse choices Thursday for leadership of the legislature as it prepares to take over the government from a military-backed party after parliament convenes Monday.

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia's state-owned telecommunications company said it has blocked the Internet video service Netflix in a possible setback to the U.S. company's expansion in Asia.

HANOI, Vietnam - One-party rule in communist Vietnam is a far better alternative to authoritarianism disguised as democracy, the 71-year-old ideologue who was re-elected as party chief and consequently the country's leader said Thursday.

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Foreign Ministry announced Thursday that representatives from Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States will meet in the Pakistani capital Islamabad next month to discuss how to resume the stalled peace process between Kabul and the Taliban.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis is meeting with a fellow green activist: Leonardo DiCaprio.

LONDON - Britain's economy ended 2015 at a steady pace amid global economic uncertainty, with quarterly growth picking up slightly to 0.5 percent in the last three months of the year compared with 0.4 percent in the previous three months.

BRUSSELS - NATO declared Thursday that alliance defense spending is moving in the "right direction," although one country, the United States, still accounts for almost three-quarters of the alliance's total defense expenditures.

SACRAMENTO, California - Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to revamp California's criminal sentencing laws could have unintended consequences, skeptics said, even as it takes the next step in meeting a federal requirement for the state to reduce its prison population.

Emperor Akihito is making the first visit by a Japanese emperor since World War II to the Philippines, which suffered under Japan's harsh military occupation during the war but now relies on Tokyo as an ally, trading partner and source of aid and investment.

SOUTH BEND, Indiana - If you've been around downtown South Bend, you may have noticed bags of scarves, hats, gloves and socks hanging from the trees. South Bend native and creator of the Warming Tree Project Jan Hill Edwards decided to help those less fortunate in the community by hanging these bags for anyone in need to take, especially with colder weather taking over the city.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri - A financial news and opinion company reports the Kansas City Royals have seen the biggest increase in fan attendance among all major professional U.S. sports teams over a 10-year span.

GREENFIELD, Indiana - There was a time when checking out an audio book from a library meant rifling through a stack of CDs or cassettes.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - As families of the lost Challenger astronauts gather with NASA to mark the space shuttle accident's 30th anniversary, there's a new voice to address the crowd.

SANTA ANA, California - Three inmates who broke out of a California jail must have had help for the elaborate and difficult escape, the sheriff who oversees the lockup said.

ATHENS, Greece - Greek journalists have joined lawyers, seamen and a range of other professions in a strike to protest planned pension reforms that are part of the country's third international bailout requirements.

SEATTLE - A shooting at a Seattle homeless encampment that left 2 people dead and three others wounded appears to have originated with a drug-dealing dispute, according to the police chief.

NICOSIA, Cyprus - The leaders of Cyprus, Greece and Israel are meeting in the Cypriot capital with the aim of strengthening cooperation and bolstering stability in a region wracked by conflict.

DES MOINES, Iowa - Republican presidential candidates take the debate stage Thursday night absent their front-runner, Donald Trump, who will instead seek to starve his rivals of attention at a critical juncture in the campaign by holding a competing event of his own.