Новости за 18.04.2016

BERLIN - A German Muslim leader drew a parallel between a nationalist party and the Nazis on Monday after a prominent party member said that Islam is incompatible with Germany's constitution.

MINNEAPOLIS - The company that operates Target Field concessions has reached beyond Minnesota's borders to find enough workers for the Twins' home games.

NEW DELHI - India's capital has banned chewing tobacco in an effort to lower the high incidence of mouth and throat cancers.

CHARLESTON, South Carolina - A South Carolina inmate serving a life sentence for killing a Charleston woman in 2003 wants the state to help with a sex change.

ATLANTA - A patient bolted from an ambulance, ran across five lanes of traffic and was struck and killed by cars, shutting down early morning traffic Monday on one of metro Atlanta's busiest interstates.

LONDON - European stock markets recouped losses Monday as oil prices bounced back from earlier lows after major oil-producing nations failed to agree on production cuts over the weekend.

MOSCOW - Some male athletes who have taken meldonium use it to improve sexual performance, the Latvian scientist who developed the recently banned drug said Monday.

MADRID - Spain's far-left Podemos party says 88 percent of its members have rejected joining with the Socialists and the business friendly Ciudadanos party for a coalition government and ending four months of political paralysis.

SMEDEREVO, Serbia - Chinese company Hebei Iron and Steel Group has signed an agreement to buy a loss-making Serbian steel plant that was previously owned by Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel.

SANAA, Yemen - Yemen's Shiite rebels backed out of U.N.-brokered peace talks just hours before the negotiations were to start Monday in Kuwait, demanding an immediate halt to airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition that has waged a year-long war against them, officials said.

BEIJING - China's central government said Monday it will investigate a report that close to 500 students became sick with illnesses including cancer at a school built near recently shut chemical plants in eastern China.

WAVELAND, Mississippi - Dead turtles have recently washed ashore along the Gulf Coast, and members of the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies are working find out why.

STOCKHOLM - Sweden's housing minister has stepped down amid mounting questions over his contacts with Islamists and ultra-nationalists from his native Turkey.

SANFORD, Florida - Authorities say a central Florida man killed his estranged wife and two young children before fatally shooting himself as police pursued him.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A government-backed investment fund in the United Arab Emirates says indebted Malaysian investment fund 1MDB and the southeast Asian country's finance ministry are in default over more than $1.1 billion in debt.

BANGKOK - Authorities in Thailand said Monday that 442 people died in traffic accidents during the just concluded traditional New Year holiday - a 21 percent rise over the same period last year despite stern efforts to curb drunken and unsafe driving.

LUXEMBOURG - European Union foreign ministers are looking at ways to boost the fledgling U.N.-backed national unity government in Libya and see how to control illegal migration from the north African nation.

PRETORIA, South Africa - South Africa's former Olympic track star Oscar Pistorius appeared briefly in a Pretoria court where a judge scheduled five days in June to determine his sentence for murdering his girlfriend.

LONDON - Greenpeace demonstrators have scaled statues around London, including the 52-meter (169-foot) Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, fitting them with gas masks as part of a campaign to highlight air pollution.

BURBANK, California - GameStop is diving into the video game publishing business.

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NEW YORK - Morgan Stanley (MS) on Monday reported first-quarter earnings of $1.13 billion.

INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana Republican candidates for U.S. Senate are getting ready to air their differences in the only statewide televised debate ahead of the May 3 primary.

KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan officials say flash floods in northern provinces have killed at least 38 people overnight.

HIALEAH, Florida - A South Florida landlord is accused of fatally shooting a tenant following an argument over rent.