Новости за 12.02.2016

GENEVA - Jerome Valcke, Sepp Blatter's long-time right-hand man, was banned from all soccer-related activity for 12 years Friday for misconduct during his term as FIFA secretary general.

BOSTON - A fuel van has struck a plane at Boston's Logan Airport, damaging the jet but causing no injuries to the passengers.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Quick observations by employees and patrons witnessing an apparently random machete attack on diners at a restaurant helped authorities track down the fleeing suspect, who was fatally shot in a confrontation with officers a few miles away, police said.

ATLANTA - A former transgender inmate who had complained that she didn't get adequate treatment for her gender identity condition has settled a lawsuit against Georgia prison officials.

NEW YORK - The coolest place to be on Broadway last year was inside the Studio 54 theater. To be more specific, it was in Alan Cumming's dressing room there.

NIAGARA, Ontario - An Ontario man who disappeared three decades ago and was believed dead is about to be reunited with his family after recovering some of his memory, police said Friday.

PARIS - France's new foreign minister is going to join talks on Syria at a conference in southern Germany on Saturday.

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea reacted angrily Friday to new sanctions announced by Japan over its recent rocket launch and said in response it will halt an investigation into the fate of Japanese citizens it kidnapped decades ago.

CHICAGO - The Cook County medical examiner's office is considering how best to preserve and display the newly unearthed autopsy reports alongside inquest transcripts from Chicago's infamous gangland Valentine's Day massacre of 1929.

RIVERDALE, Georgia - A suburban Atlanta police department is mourning the death of one of its officers, gunned down as he helped other officers serve a 'no knock' warrant in a drug case.

WASHINGTON - U.S. retail sales rose modestly in January, evidence that Americans kept shopping despite sharp drops in stock prices.

RICHMOND, Virginia - Energy companies behind the Atlantic Coast Pipeline have carved a new proposed route through parts of West Virginia and Virginia in response to federal concerns about the national gas pipeline's initial path through sensitive national forest areas.

KOLOMNA, Russia - Jorien Ter Mors of the Netherlands beat U.S. speedskaters Heather Richardson-Bergsma and Brittany Bowe to women's 1,000-meter gold at the world single distance championships on Friday.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Latest on an Ohio restaurant attack by a machete-wielding man later killed by police (all times local):

NOVI, Michigan - Federal officials have charged a suburban Detroit restaurant owner and his wife with harboring immigrants who were in the U.S. without legal permission after five of his employees died in a house fire.

LAGOS, Nigeria - Nigeria's army says 12 senior officers are being investigated for corruption.

MINNEAPOLIS - University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler has changed course and agreed to use a search firm to hire a new athletic director.

PARIS - Moroccan authorities have given furniture giant Ikea the green light to open its first store in the North African kingdom after months of uncertainty.

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran says it is cracking down on Valentine's Day celebrations and shops engaging in them will be guilty of a crime.

NEW YORK - Picture this: The Metropolitan Museum of Art is turning to crime.

CHICAGO - Grain futures were lower Friday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade.

LONDON - Hozier is giving his latest single to charity.

PARIS - Facebook lost a crucial legal battle Friday as a Paris court ruled the social network can be sued in France over its decision to remove the account of a French user who posted a photo of a famous 19th-century nude painting.

CALAIS, France - Mysterious armed groups are on the prowl, targeting migrants in night attacks in Calais and elsewhere in northern France, sowing fear among the displaced travelers living in squalid slums and deepening concerns the city is becoming a tinderbox of anti-migrant, anti-Muslim rage that's fueling a budding nationalist movement.

BRUSSELS - European Union countries are poised to restrict passport-free travel by invoking an emergency rule to keep some border controls for two more years because of the migration crisis and Greece's troubles in controlling its border, according to EU documents seen by The Associated Press.