Новости за 25.02.2016

SOMERS POINT, New Jersey - Officials at a southern New Jersey hospital have notified 213 patients they may have been exposed to HIV or hepatitis B or C because of drug tampering that may have caused patients to come in contact with an employee's blood.

PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION, Florida - For nearly 15 years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and more than eight years since the mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, Pensacola Naval Air Station has remained an unusually open U.S. military base - until now.

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island - The daughter of former Democratic presidential candidate and Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee has been selected to represent the United States in Olympic sailing.

NEW ORLEANS - Closing arguments are set to begin Thursday in the trial of a former BP engineer facing a federal pollution charge in connection with the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

LAS VEGAS - A performer with a Cirque du Soleil show in Las Vegas slipped and fell on stage, marking the second injury in a week by the circus troupe.

RACE: 10th Indianapolis 500

INDIANAPOLIS - An Indiana Senate committee that was poised to vote on a measure banning auto manufacturers from selling directly to consumers has backed down amid backlash.

VIERA, Florida - Washington Nationals reliever Blake Treinen wasn't sure what to make of his new-found fame on Thursday, a day after he was the subject of a question on "Jeopardy!" under the category of "hard-throwing pitchers."

PARIS - Greenpeace activists are targeting a rich French businessman in Paris who has shares in a company they accuse of causing deforestation in South East Asia and Africa.

WASHINGTON - Hoping to spur economic development in financially ailing Puerto Rice, the White House said Thursday it will speed access to almost $400 million for roads and other public works projects on the island.

MOSCOW - Amnesty International is raising concern about three Syrian asylum-seekers facing imminent deportation from Russia back to their war-ravaged homeland.

LOS ANGELES - As Mick Jagger is driving around Latin America on tour with The Rolling Stones, he's seeing familiar advertisements promoting his latest project plastered around town.

MADRID - UNICEF says Lionel Messi has sent signed shirts to the Afghan boy who was pictured wearing a homemade Argentina shirt with the No. 10 on the back.

CAIRO - When it comes to Cairo tourism, it's all about the Pyramids and a trip to this sprawling metropolis filled with mosques, markets and monuments would not be complete without a visit to the collection of ancient pharaonic wonders in Giza, on the outskirts of the city.

NEW YORK - MetLife is in talks to part ways with the life insurance agents who long defined one of the world's biggest life insurance companies.

LOS ANGELES - Lady Gaga, a survivor of sexual assault, says performing "Til It Happens to You" - her song about sexual abuse on college campuses - at Sunday's Academy Awards will feel liberating and emancipating.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A top Argentine prosecutor is telling the country's criminal court of appeals that he believes his late colleague Alberto Nisman was killed and didn't take his own life.

JERUSALEM - The Palestinians are criticizing the Kenyan president's visit to the region, saying his stops in east Jerusalem and the West Bank are akin to accepting Israel's occupation.

SOUTH BEND, Indiana - The Latest on the aftermath of the winter storm that swept across Illinois, Indiana and Michigan (all times local):

NICOSIA, Cyprus - Cyprus unveiled on Thursday the names of two consortiums it has selected to run services at the east Mediterranean island's largest port of Limassol.

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela has ended a years-long dispute with the Canadian mining company Gold Reserve, and will be embarking on a joint venture with it.

PHILADELPHIA - The American Civil Liberties Union plans to appeal a recent federal court ruling that citizens can sometimes be stopped from recording police officers on duty.

BRUSSELS - European Union lawmakers are urging the bloc's foreign policy chief to impose an arms embargo on Saudi Arabia over airstrikes and a naval blockade in Yemen.

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania - Police say a central Pennsylvania high school honors student was actually a 23-year-old Ukrainian national using a false identity after his visa expired.

SALZBURG, Austria - The International Biathlon Union says Ukrainian athlete Artem Tyshchenko failed a doping test at an IBU Cup event in Arber, Germany last month.