Новости за 17.10.2016

BERLIN — Police say that schools in several parts of Germany have received emailed threats of violence and authorities are working to figure out who and what is behind them. At least seven schools in Leipzig and two in Magdeburg received the emails on Monday. Police in Saxony, where Leipzig is located, wrote on Twitter

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Equatorial Guinea on Monday called on the United Nations’ highest court to urgently order France to halt a criminal case against the son of the African nation’s leader on charges of misspending millions of euros of public funds, arguing that he is immune from prosecution. The hearing at the International Court

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somali security forces shut down a newspaper and arrested its editor, a colleague said Monday. Abdi Adan Guled, editor of Xog-Ogaal newspaper, was arrested Sunday after troops raided the Mogadishu headquarters of the publication, one of Somalia’s oldest daily newspapers operating. Guled’s arrest comes less than two months before Somalia holds a

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa is hosting a commemoration 30 years after the death of Mozambican President Samora Machel, who was killed in a mysterious plane crash just inside the border of South Africa when it was under white minority rule. Graca Machel, the widow of Machel who later married Nelson Mandela, was among those attending

BEIJING — Surgeons from around the world gathered at a conference in Beijing on Monday in China’s latest effort to fight persistent skepticism about whether its hospitals have stopped performing transplants with the organs of executed prisoners. Doctors from the World Health Organization and the Montreal-based Transplantation Society who were invited to the conference by

INDIANAPOLIS — About 64,000 visitors are expected in Indianapolis this week for the National FFA Organization convention. The annual event for the group that promotes agricultural education will remain in Indianapolis until 2024 under a $4.5 million incentive deal state officials announced last year. The convention begins Wednesday and runs through Saturday. The Indianapolis Star

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Jury selection is set to begin in a University of Virginia administrator’s defamation case against Rolling Stone magazine over its now discredited story about a rape on campus. The trial is scheduled to begin Monday at the federal court in Charlottesville. The November 2014 story told the harrowing story of a woman

PODGORICA, Montenegro — Montenegro’s opposition claimed on Monday that an inconclusive parliamentary ballot was packed with irregularities, including the blocking of popular messaging services WhatsApp and Viber by authorities on election day. Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic’s long-ruling party won the most votes in Sunday’s election, but without enough support to govern alone. Both the opposition

SEOUL, South Korea — A veteran North Korean diplomat who South Korean media say may have been purged has reappeared in public but without his senior Foreign Ministry job title. South Korean media speculated that Kung Sok Ung, the North’s vice foreign minister for European affairs, may have been banished to a rural farm as

LONDON — London police say thousands of officers will be equipped with body-worn video cameras in the coming months. Police said the rollout begins Monday in a phased approach. More than 22,000 offers are scheduled to have cameras mid-2017. Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe said the widespread use of cameras should help build public confidence in the

LONDON — Fourteen children left a border refugee camp in northern France Monday to be settled with relatives in Britain — the first of dozens of children from the Calais encampment expected to come to the country this week. The youths, ages 14 to 17, were brought by government officials and charity workers to a

MOSCOW — A man has blown himself up at a television station in the capital of Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia, Russian news agencies said on Monday. Interfax on quoted local Interior Ministry officials saying the man, who has not been identified, set off the bomb at the entrance to the Abkhazian State Television in

LONDON — World stocks mostly fell Monday as a broad rise in government bond yields suggested investors are expecting less central bank stimulus and higher interest rates than before. KEEPING SCORE: France’s CAC 40 slipped 0.2 percent to 4,460 and Germany’s DAX was down 0.3 percent to 10,545. Britain’s FTSE 100 fell 0.6 percent to

TOKYO — The Japanese government expects to raise 416 billion yen ($4 billion) from the initial public offering of 160 million shares of Kyushu Railway Co., or JR Kyushu, the latest in the privatization of this nation’s prized train operations. The initial price is 2,600 yen ($24) a share, the company said Monday, the highest

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Hard-liners in Iran posted a video online Monday showing a detained Iranian-American businessman for the first time since his arrest in the country a year ago, a taunting challenge to the United States in the wake of the nuclear deal with Tehran. The minute-long video featuring Siamak Namazi, dubbed over

MOSCOW — A notorious warlord has been killed in a bombing in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, separatist officials said. The separatist Donetsk News Agency said that Arsen Pavlov, also known as Motorola, was killed on Sunday in Donetsk when a bomb exploded in an elevator in an apartment building where he was staying. He

SAN DIEGO — A member of the U.S. Navy is facing DUI and vehicular manslaughter charges after the pickup truck he was driving plunged off a San Diego bridge, killing four people and injuring nine at a festival below. Richard Anthony Sepolio, 25, who was stationed at the naval base on Coronado Island across the

BRAN CASTLE, Romania — Dracula’s castle will have overnight guests on Halloween, marking the first time since 1948 that anyone has slept in the Transylvanian fortress. The site’s actual name in Bran Castle, and two people will get to sleep there Oct. 31 thanks to a promotion by Airbnb. The guests will be wined and

LONDON — Nick Kyrgios will miss the rest of the season after being suspended by the men’s tour and fined an additional $25,000 on Monday for “tanking” a match and insulting fans in the mercurial Australian’s latest run-in with tennis authorities. The ATP said Kyrgios was sanctioned for “conduct contrary to the integrity of the

LONDON — The ATP has suspended Nick Kyrgios for at least three weeks and fined him an additional $25,000 for “conduct contrary to the integrity of the game.” The men’s tennis tour announced the sanctions Monday after an investigation into the Australian player’s conduct during a second-round loss to German qualifier Mischa Zverev at the

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A state-owned newspaper in the United Arab Emirates is reporting that hundreds of Emirati doctors set to begin their residencies have gone unpaid amid signs of growing financial trouble in the oil-producing nation. The National newspaper of Abu Dhabi says in its Monday edition that a dispute between Seha, the

YANGON, Myanmar — KFC’s grinning Colonel Sanders and his goatee are among the few prominent signs of U.S. brands or business in Myanmar’s biggest city, Yangon. That will likely change after President Barack Obama ended most remaining U.S. sanctions against this fledgling democracy on Oct. 7. But much hinges on how the government led by

LUXEMBOURG — European Union foreign ministers debated Monday whether to extend sanctions against the Syrian regime as political efforts to secure a cease-fire and access for humanitarian aid falter. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said the ministers might add more Syrians accused of rights abuses or war crimes to the sanctions list, saying “for

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Maybe Vigo County just gets lucky every four years. Let’s say a majority of Vigo residents have voted for the winning presidential candidate in 30 of the last 32 elections purely by happenstance. Forget any theories based on political science or sociological factors. Simply consider the trend a mere fluke. And,

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The Crawleys — or at least their apparel — have made it to South Bend. From matriarch to maid, servant to soldier, bustles and baubles galore, finery for the fictional family from “Downton Abbey” has taken up temporary residence at The History Museum in the form of “Dressing Downton.” The exhibit