Новости за 26.09.2016

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A city spokeswoman says about half of the homes and businesses in an area of Cedar Rapids expected to see flooding have been evacuated. The city asked residents and property owners along the rain-swollen Cedar River to leave by 8 p.m. Sunday, two days before the river is expected to crest.

WASHINGTON — Sales of new homes retreated in August, one month after surging to the highest level in nearly nine years. Activity fell in all regions of the country except the West. New home sales dropped 7.6 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 609,000 units, the Commerce Department reported Monday. That

TEHRAN, Iran — Close allies of Iran’s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose presidency was marked by confrontation with the West, said Monday that the country’s supreme leader recommended he not run in next May’s presidential election because he is a polarizing figure among hard-liners. Mohammad Reza Mirtajeddini, Ahmadinejad’s vice president from 2009 to 2013, and

KAMPALA, Uganda — South Sudan’s rebel leader on Monday accused President Salva Kiir of wanting to turn the country into an “ethnic state” for his Dinka group. Riek Machar’s statement, obtained by The Associated Press, accuses the government of pushing ethnic groups into fighting. Machar is Nuer. The civil war that erupted in December 2013

HOUSTON — The Latest on a shooting at in Houston neighborhood (all times local): 9:25 a.m. The Houston police chief says that the suspect who wounded nine people in southwest Houston was a lawyer and there were issues with his law firm. Chief Martha Montalvo did not identify the shooter at Monday’s news conference. The

MARBLE, Ark. — The Springdale School District says a high school football player was killed during a weekend car crash. A district spokesman said Springdale High player Kyler Williams died in a crash near Marble. Arkansas State Police said his vehicle left Arkansas 21 and overturned several times. Williams had 10 catches for 265 yards

WEEHAWKEN, N.J. — Two New Jersey Transit buses headed to New York City’s Port Authority Bus Terminal have collided in the Lincoln Tunnel, injuring 23 people. Port Authority Police spokesman Joe Pentangelo says the crash occurred around 8:50 a.m. Monday in the center tube. Pentangelo says the door on one bus had to be cut

NEW YORK — The latest on developments in global financial markets (all times local): 9:40 a.m. U.S. stocks are falling Monday morning and following Asian and European indexes lower. Banks and technology companies are taking the biggest losses. Citigroup and Morgan Stanley sank 2 percent. Alphabet and Cisco Systems both fell 1 percent. Drugmaker Pfizer

NEW YORK — The desk is back. Marriott is redesigning its hotel rooms, and desks with chairs are once again a standard feature. Desks had started to disappear from hotel rooms partly due to a perception that they were unnecessary in the era of laptops and cellphones, and that younger travelers weren’t using them. Rooms

NEW YORK — Carnival Corp. on Monday reported a 17 percent boost in fiscal third-quarter profit as it booked more passengers. The cruise operator also said advance bookings for the first half of next year are ahead of the previous year. The Miami-based company’s profit rose to $1.42 billion, or $1.93 per share. Earnings, adjusted

ISTANBUL — Turkey’s state-run news agency says American actress Lindsay Lohan has visited Syrian refugees at an Istanbul hospital and the home of a refugee family from Aleppo. The Anadolu agency reported Monday that the 30-year-old actress was accompanied by Turkey’s youth and sports deputy minister, Abdurrahim Boynukalin. Boynukalin says media were not told about

DODGEVILLE, Wis. — The CEO of Lands’ End, recruited from the New York fashion house Dolce & Gabbana in a bit of a culture clash, has stepped down after less than two years on the job. Federica Marchionni was brought to the Dodgeville, Wisconsin, company with its button-down shirts and casual clothing in February 2015.

SALKANTAY PASS, Peru — Our hiking group had reached the highest point of our trek through the Andes to Machu Picchu. Now our guide was leading us in a Quechua ritual. We took turns placing stones in an “apacheta” pyramid over herbs and bits of chocolate bars, offering them to Apu Salkantay, the spirit of

FRANKFURT, Germany — Shares in Deutsche Bank are down sharply after a report that the German government won’t intervene with U.S. officials who are pressing the bank to pay $14 billion to settle an investigation into its sales of mortgage-backed securities. The bank’s shares traded down 6.0 percent at 10.73 euros on Monday after the

CAIRO — Egypt’s president has rejected criticism that the military is being distracted from its core duties by further involving itself in the economy. President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi also dismissed suggestions of military mismanagement on Monday, saying he and Egypt’s defense minister personally approve all spending. Seeking to reassure Egyptians, el-Sissi said the military could deploy

STOCKHOLM — Swedish police say one of the four people wounded when gunmen opened fire on a car in the southern city of Malmo has died. The shooting happened in a residential neighborhood Sunday evening, shocking residents and fueling concerns about escalating gun violence in Sweden’s third-largest city. Swedish media say the shooting victims were

COLUMBIA, Md. — Police in Maryland say officers shot a man who threatened to kill his family and himself after he pointed a gun at officers. Howard County police spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn said by telephone that a 911 caller reported the man was headed to Columbia to kill his family Monday and mentioned “suicide by

ROME — Rome’s city council will vote Thursday whether to support Mayor Virginia Raggi’s rejection of the city’s bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics. The motion is expected to pass easily since Raggi’s anti-establishment 5-Star Movement holds a majority on the city council. Raggi announced her formal opposition of the candidacy in a news conference

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai Airports is boosting the number of specialized facilities to handle Airbus A380 planes at the Middle East’s busiest airport as hometown carrier Emirates grows its fleet of the double-decker aircraft. The government-backed airport operator said Monday it plans to add 10 more A380 gates with air bridges at Dubai

TOKYO — A passenger spotted a python curled around the armrest of another passenger’s seat on a Japanese high-speed Shinkansen “bullet” train, forcing the train to make an unscheduled stop. No one was injured in the incident Monday. The train’s operator, JR Tokai, said the passenger sitting in the reserved seat was unaware that the

HOUSTON — Nine people were shot and wounded, one critically, in a Houston neighborhood Monday morning by a lawyer who had issues with his law firm, authorities said. The first report of the shootings began at about 6:30 a.m., Police Chief Martha Montalvo said at a news conference, and when officers arrived, the suspect began

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has met with Congolese President Joseph Kabila, with the Vatican insisting that Congo’s government use respectful dialogue to end violent clashes with opposition forces over delayed elections. The audience Monday was a brief 20 minutes, with interpreters. The pope didn’t greet Kabila in the reception room where, according to Vatican

AMITE, La. — Time is running out for the owners of hundreds of dogs and cats to reclaim their pets rescued during the August flooding in Louisiana. Jeff Dorson, executive director of the New Orleans-based Humane Society of Louisiana, says only about 10 percent of the more than 500 pets have been reunited with their

HAMMOND, Ind. — Indiana State Police say they’re investigating after a Hammond police officer shot a suicidal man who authorities say pointed a shotgun at officers. State police say Hammond police responded to a home Monday evening after an acquaintance asked for a welfare check saying 33-year-old Bryan Jones made suicidal comments. State police say

PARIS — The Paris City Council has approved a controversial plan to transform a stretch of highway that runs along the Seine River through central Paris into a pedestrian-only zone. The plan approved Monday is part of Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s push to fight Paris’ exceptionally high pollution. The Socialist-led council passed the measure amid opposition