Новости за 02.03.2016

BRUSSELS - The head office of the European Union on Wednesday sought to swiftly push through a proposal to earmark 700 million euros ($760 million) in humanitarian aid to improve the situation for migrants in need of shelter.

GENEVA - A top U.S. diplomat says the United States will seek another term on the Human Rights Council, a sign the Obama administration is looking past criticism from Republicans who say the U.N.-backed body coddles dictators and bashes Israel too much.

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky - Spirits maker Brown-Forman Corp. on Wednesday reported a slight gain in third-quarter earnings covering the crucial holiday period, as its flagship Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey brand served up another strong performance to offset challenges in some overseas markets.

KILRONAN, Ireland - Give up Paris, the Irish poet W.B. Yeats told fellow writer J.M. Synge, and go to the Aran Islands in order to "express a life that has never found expression."

MIAMI - The FBI has arrested a South Florida man in the heist last year of $4.8 million in gold bars from a truck along Interstate 95 in North Carolina.

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico - The long lines at convenience stores during this year's frenzy over the $1 billion Powerball jackpot were supposed to be a lifeline for New Mexico higher education.

TULSA, Oklahoma - The archives of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan have been acquired by the George Kaiser Family Foundation and the University of Tulsa and will be permanently housed in a Tulsa arts district.

SARASOTA, Florida - A grand jury indicted a Florida man on a first-degree murder charge in the death of his 7-week-old son.

DAYTON, Ohio - Police in southwest Ohio say a sport utility vehicle with six children inside was stolen from a market parking lot, and they were found safe minutes later after the thief apparently left the vehicle parked near an apartment complex.

NEW DELHI - An Indian court said a university student leader can be freed on bail more than two weeks after he was detained for alleged sedition in a case that has sparked nationwide protests and accusations of government intolerance of dissent.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. government calls it a "vicious guard dog" that hurts national security. Apple says it's critical to protecting consumer privacy against increasingly sophisticated hackers.

PARIS - Euro 2016 organizers have increased the security budget by 15 percent in the wake of the Paris attacks.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - A Bosnian court has sentenced a former Playboy model to prison for participating in an attempted murder of a local crime figure.

PHILADELPHIA - Mike Abdullah watched as a young woman lay shot in the street in a corner of north Philadelphia known as the Badlands, spitting up the blood that gradually choked her to death.

LONDON - Lindsey Vonn's ski season is over.

NEW YORK - You may never get too old to rock, but the sad truth is that the kids who play it on Broadway do.

BEIRUT - The Latest on the Syrian conflict as a cease-fire enters its fifth day (all times local):

LONDON - Doctors and health experts have written to the British government calling for a ban on tackling in school rugby games.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The U.S. Navy says results of an internal investigation into how 10 American sailors entered Iranian territorial waters have been handed over to the commander overseeing the region for review.

BOSTON - A decision by Boston's mayor and police commissioner to shorten the city's annual St. Patrick's Day parade route is not sitting well with organizers.

WATAMU, Kenya - A turtle drags itself along a white sandy beach, splashes through the gentle warm Indian Ocean and then vanishes with a plop, becoming one of 13,750 turtle success stories on a stretch of Kenyan coastline facing pressure from developers.

SPRINGFIELD, Missouri - Evangel University has dismissed head football coach Brenton Illum after six seasons at the school.

MICHIGANTOWN, Indiana - Officials say a central Indiana school was put on lockdown after authorities discovered that a pipe bomb had exploded near the school's football field.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Authorities in Alabama say a team of forecasters will be surveying damage from what they say is almost certainly a tornado that injured four people in a Birmingham suburb.

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - A South Carolina sheriff says he fired and arrested a deputy for defacing a poster in a crime victim's garage by turning it into a racial slur.