Новости за 25.06.2016

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Sabres general manager Tim Murray filled his team’s wish list by acquiring veteran defenseman Dmitri Kulikov in a trade with the Florida Panthers. The deal was announced shortly after the second round of the NHL draft opened Saturday. Besides swapping second-round picks, with Buffalo moving up to No. 33 from No. 38,

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Latest on the fatal shootings at a Texas dance studio (all times local): 9:55 a.m. The owner of a Texas dance studio says a group having a party on the property wasn’t authorized to be there ahead of a shooting that left two people dead and several others injured. Laura

LONDON — A tsunami of uncertainty has engulfed Anna Woydyla, a Polish restaurant worker in London, since Britain voted to leave the European Union. Would her two teenage children, who grew up in the United Kingdom, still qualify for loans to study at British universities? Would she and her husband, after 11 years of working

MOSCOW — The Russian sports minister says “up to 67 athletes” have applied to track and field’s world governing body to be exempted from the ban on the Russian team at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. The IAAF last week upheld its overall ban on the Russian team – imposed in November over widespread doping

HUNTINGTON, N.Y. — Fans watching a Billy Joel tribute band were treated to a surprise appearance by the Piano Man himself. Joel was in the audience Friday night with his wife, Alexis Roderick, at a show in Huntington, New York, when he decided to join the band Big Shot for a three-song set. Newsday (http://nwsdy.li/28SXxRk

SYDNEY — England secured a 3-0 series whitewash and extended coach Eddie Jones’ unbeaten streak to nine matches with a pulsating 44-40 victory against Australia in the third rugby test on Saturday. Australia scored five tries to England’s four, but it was Owen Farrell who again proved the difference between the teams, amassing 24 points

Alysia Montano doesn’t worry much about all the medals that were essentially stolen from her by drug cheats over the years. Eventually, she hopes, she’ll get them. The 800-meter runner does worry about whether anything will really change when it comes to the corrupt, doping-infested sport in which she makes a living. As she prepares

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Amish branched out last year with new settlements in Bolivia, Argentina and Canada as their numbers continued to grow and a high percentage of young people opted to remain within the religious community, which eschews many modern conveniences. The sect’s total current population is about 308,000 and has grown about 18

As many people around the world are trying to wrap their minds around what just happened in Britain, you may also be wondering “What does the Brexit mean for my money?” If you are worried about your 401(k), take heart. Most experts say you shouldn’t rush to sell stocks and some even say it’s an

MOGADISHU, Somalia — A Somali police official says gunmen who stormed a hotel in the country’s capital have taken an unknown number of hotel guests hostage. Capt. Mohamed Hussein says the attackers are throwing grenades and using machine guns to resist security forces who are trying to reach them on the second floor. Police say

GARY, Ind. — The area near the Gary/Chicago International Airport needs to overcome decades of neglect in order to attract businesses, according to the city’s top economic development official. Much of the land along Airport Road faces challenges due to wetland and brownfield issues, so it’s unlikely to be developed, at least in the near

A look at Wimbledon, the year’s third Grand Slam tennis tournament: Surface: Grass courts. Site: The All England Lawn Tennis Club. Schedule: Play begins Monday. The women’s singles final is July 9; the men’s singles final is July 10. There are no matches scheduled for the two-week tournament’s middle Sunday, July 3. 2015 Men’s Singles

CINCINNATI — Three years ago Sunday, Jim Obergefell asked his longtime partner to marry him, beginning a whirlwind of events that led to his name being at the top of the U.S. Supreme Court case that resulted exactly two years later in legalization of same-sex marriage across America. He and terminally ill John Arthur were

BEIRUT — Hundreds of Kurds fleeing Islamic State-held villages in northern Syria amid a wave of mass abductions have come under fire, with several killed or wounded, opposition activists and a Kurdish official said Saturday. In eastern Syria, meanwhile, airstrikes on a village controlled by the extremist group have killed at least 30 people and

GOMA, Congo — Hacking away in the midday sun, 49-year-old farmer Daniel Lazuba remembers vividly his life before one of Africa’s most active volcanos erupted 14 years ago. “All of this was corn before,” he said as he pointed to rows of new banana trees pushing up between black stones. “My cabbage seems to be

JOHANNESBURG — Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia are leaving Sunday for Africa, where they will promote girls’ education in Liberia and Morocco before going to Spain. Their first stop is Liberia, where the first lady will meet with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and have a discussion with local teenage girls, moderated by actress

SRINAGAR, India — Suspected rebels killed at least eight Indian paramilitary soldiers and wounded another 20 in a highway ambush Saturday that was one of the year’s deadliest attacks in the Indian portion of Kashmir, authorities said. Two of the attackers were killed by soldiers who returned fire, said K.K. Sharma, a paramilitary force officer.

LONDON — Some leading British politicians and academics are interpreting Britain’s choice to abandon the European Union as a deliberate decision to sacrifice economic stability in exchange for the right to stop the flow of immigrants — a decision, they say, that was partly driven by racism. In a bitter campaign marked by allegations of

PARIS — The Latest from soccer’s European Championship (all times local): 5:15 p.m. Northern Ireland has recalled striker Kyle Lafferty for the game against Wales at the Parc des Princes, with Conor Washington on the bench. Lafferty was dropped for the 1-0 loss to Germany at the end of the group stage after failing to

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian security forces have clashed with Kurdish separatists who infiltrated a northwestern village to stage “terrorist and propagandist operations,” the state-run IRNA news agency reported Saturday. IRNA quoted an unnamed official from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as saying the clashes happened Friday in the West Azerbaijan province near the Iraqi border. The Guard’s

BEIJING — China issued new regulations on Saturday demanding search engines clearly identify paid search results, months after a terminally ill cancer patient complained that he was misled by the giant search engine Baidu. Wei Zexi, a college student who died in April of a rare cancer, had written a long post on a Chinese

FORT WORTH, Texas — Two people were killed and several others injured early Saturday in a shooting outside a Texas dance studio during a party involving a group that the facility’s owner said wasn’t authorized to be there. Officers found one victim dead outside Studio 74 in Fort Worth, and several people were transported to

BENGHAZI, Libya — A car bomb has gone off outside a hospital in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, killing five people and wounding 14, security and hospital officials said. Senior military official Brig-Gen. Abdul-Salam al-Hassi blamed the late Friday attack outside the Jalaa hospital on Islamic militants. Mohammed al-Zawy, an official at the hospital,

LA ROCHELLE, France — Spain says 10 national soccer team players have undergone doping tests at its European Championship training camp in western France. The Spanish soccer federation says UEFA officials showed up Saturday morning at the team’s hotel at Il de Re to conduct the tests. The officials collected blood and urine samples from

BRUSSELS — Now that Britain has voted to leave the European Union, the bloc’s first order of business is figuring out how to get rid of it. Surprisingly, that’s a tall order. Britain seemingly has the luxury to pick and choose when to start the laborious, intricate process of disengagement from the 28-nation group, which