Новости за 22.08.2016

VENTOTENE, Italy — The Latest on the meeting of leaders from Italy, France and Germany (all times local): 7:25 p.m. German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that the European Union is currently facing “enormous challenges” and needs to work together. Speaking alongside her Italian and French counterparts Monday, she said “we feel that faced with Islamist

CITRONELLE, Ala. — The Latest on the massacre of five adults at a home in south Alabama (all times local): 11:30 a.m. Authorities say the suspect being held in Mississippi after five adults were slain in south Alabama has signed papers allowing for his extradition to Alabama, where he will face murder charges. Alabama authorities

“Sorrow Road” (Minotaur), by Julia Keller Memories are seldom infallible. Two people can remember the same event, yet their recollections vastly differ. The addition of repressed memories and Alzheimer’s disease add a new dimension to what one recalls from the past. Memories — or, in some cases, a lack of them — provide a sturdy

PITTSBURGH — The mother of Pennsylvania twins whom child welfare caseworkers haven’t been able to locate for more than 10 years has been ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation. A district judge postponed Monday’s preliminary hearing for Patricia Fowler on charges she endangered the children and obstructed efforts to find them. The judge rescheduled

SINGAPORE — Sellapan Ramanathan, Singapore’s sixth and longest-serving president, died Monday at age 92, the government announced. Widely known as S.R. Nathan, he was hospitalized in critical condition after suffering a stroke on July 31. It was his second stroke in less than two years. “The late Mr. Nathan passed away peacefully at Singapore General

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jalen Ramsey’s physicality was evident in college, in training camp and in his first preseason game. The Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback had three tackles, all in the first two drives, during his NFL debut Saturday against Tampa Bay and provided tight coverage on Buccaneers receiver Mike Evans. Ramsey was everything the Jaguars expected

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York’s conservation chief is challenging the effectiveness of recently completed dredging of contaminated sediment from the upper Hudson River, saying unacceptably high levels of industrial waste were left behind. Commissioner Basil Seggos said that dredging improved the Hudson but that the federal Environmental Protection Agency needs to re-evaluate the six-year project

Ryan Lochte lost two major sponsors when Speedo USA and Ralph Lauren announced Monday they were dumping the swimmer over a drunken incident during the Rio Olympics that he initially described as an armed robbery. Speedo USA also said it would donate $50,000 of Lochte’s fee to Save The Children to benefit needy youngsters in

HELSINKI — Police say a heavy concrete block thrown from an overhead bridge onto a major highway in Denmark has killed a German woman and seriously injured her husband as their car passed underneath. Police spokeswoman Charlotte Nyborg says the couple’s 5-year-old son was not physically injured in the attack that occurred at 4 a.m.

“The Couple Next Door” (Pamela Dorman Books), by Shari Lapena In Shari Lapena’s highly suspenseful thriller “The Couple Next Door,” Anne and Marco Conti return home from a dinner party to find their front door open and their 6-month-old daughter, Cora, missing. The Contis had been at their neighbors’ house for a birthday celebration. Their

CAIRO — For five years fighting has raged in Syria — a humanitarian disaster destabilizing the region and the world. The aim of Bashar Assad’s opponents’ always was to drive the Syrian leader from power, but they have lacked the means to dislodge him. Now an inflection point may be at hand, with powerful opposition

BOLTON, Vt. — Want to help local farms, get your hands dirty in the field and learn about how food is grown? Join a crop mob. Teams of volunteers — from would-be farmers to local food lovers and those who want to support local agriculture — descend on fields helping with everything from weeding and

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In some parts of the U.S., the thrill rides that hurl kids upside down, whirl them around or send them shooting down slides are checked out by state inspectors before customers climb on. But in other places, they are not required to get the once-over. The grisly death of a 10-year-old boy

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Officials say the number of children in foster care Arkansas has reached an all-time high at over 5,000. Division of Children and Family Services director Mischa Martin says the number reached about 5,050 earlier this month. From March 2015 to March 2016, the number of children in foster care increased from

HIRAM, Ga. — Police arrested a Georgia woman they say left her three young children in a hot car. Hiram Police Chief Todd Vandezande said in a statement Monday that officers responded Saturday after witnesses said the young boys were inside a car, sweating profusely and in obvious distress. Vandezande said officers got one child

BRIDGEWATER, Conn. — A simple plastic cup of beer has made history by being the first alcoholic drink sold in a small Connecticut town in 81 years. The affluent bedroom community of Bridgewater had been the last dry town in the state until residents approved alcohol sales in 2014. The News-Times (http://bit.ly/2b9uUWz ) reports that

PARIS — France’s former conservative president Nicolas Sarkozy announced Monday he is running for the presidency again in next year’s elections, an awaited move that is expected to lead to a tough battle with rivals from his own camp. In an extract of a book released on his Facebook page and Twitter account, Sarkozy wrote:

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey is determined to fight Islamic State group extremists inside Turkey and in Syria, the Turkish foreign minister said Monday, after a suicide bomber attacked a Kurdish wedding party, killing at least 54 people, many of them children. Mevlut Cavusoglu said Turkey would provide every kind of support needed to “cleanse” Turkey’s

The way most Americans build wealth is no secret: Save, invest, repeat. How average people keep their wealth, though, gets a lot less attention. It boils down to how they handle risk. It’s hard to accumulate wealth without taking some risks, but there are perils that “next-door millionaires” seem to avoid. Next-door millionaires weren’t born

NEW YORK — For the weightiest novel this fall, or most any season, Alan Moore has the grandest ambition. “The intention was to somehow combine four or five different books or impulses for books into one coherent whole,” the author known for the graphic novels “Watchmen” and “V for Vendetta” says of “Jerusalem,” a 1,266

BERLIN — Berlin’s mayor has inaugurated a memorial to a hero: a plaque commemorating David Bowie’s time in the then-divided city in the late 1970s. Mayor Michael Mueller recalled Bowie’s “special relationship” with Berlin as he unveiled the plaque Monday at the building where Bowie lived from 1976 to 1978. The singer died in January

BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Jerry Sandusky’s lawyers are focusing on conflicting statements from a man who settled a child sex abuse claim with Penn State but didn’t testify at Sandusky’s criminal trial. The second day of an appeal hearing for the former defensive coach on Monday included testimony from a lawyer who represents the man who

NAIROBI, Kenya — East African foreign ministers from countries including South Sudan have agreed to move ahead with the deployment of a regional peacekeeping force to that troubled nation, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday on the first stop of his latest Africa visit. South Sudan at first rejected the regional protection force

RIO DE JANEIRO — For all the praise of golf’s return to the Olympics, there was no shortage of suggestions to make it better. The easy fix is to introduce a team format. All golf leaders had to do for the Rio Games was to combine the scores of the top two players from each

BERLIN — A German court fined a model 20,000 euros ($22,600) on Monday after finding her guilty of making false rape accusations in a high-profile trial that helped feed calls for tougher rape laws. The trial involved a 2012 incident in which Gina-Lisa Lohfink, a former contestant on a German television model casting show, had