Новости за 28.10.2016

BANGKOK — A teacher was shot and killed as she arrived at school Friday morning in Thailand’s deep south, the latest of thousands of people who have died in the region during an insurgency that began over a decade ago, police said. Sunisa Boonyen parked her car in front of the school where she teaches

STOCKHOLM — After the Protestant Reformation five centuries ago, Sweden became a grim place for Roman Catholics: Those who rejected the new Lutheran faith were punished with deportation or death. The circumstances couldn’t be more different as Pope Francis arrives in the Scandinavian country next week to commemorate the split in Western Christianity that started

SINGAPORE — Defending champion Agnieszka Radwanska took the final spot in the semifinals of the WTA Finals, beating Karolina Pliskova 7-5, 6-3 on Friday. Radwanska, who finished 2-1 in the round robin, will play top-seeded Angelique Kerber in Saturday’s semifinals. Kerber won the Australian Open and the U.S. Open this season, and reached the Wimbledon

QAYARA AIR BASE, Iraq — The Islamic State group appears to be using tens of thousands of people as “human shields” in and around Mosul, where Iraqi forces are waging a large-scale offensive aimed at retaking the country’s second largest city, the U.N. human rights office said Friday. It has received reports of more than

DUDLEY, Mass. — Negotiations between a Massachusetts town and an Islamic group are at a standstill after officials rejected the group’s latest proposal for a Muslim cemetery on abandoned farmland. A lawyer for the Islamic Society of Greater Worcester said Thursday the group will now pursue the plan in the courts. The group ended talks

LONDON — Royal Bank of Scotland said Friday that it swung to a loss in the third quarter as the taxpayer-controlled lender was stung by charges for past bad behavior. RBS reported a net loss of 469 million pounds ($571 million), compared with net income of 940 million pounds in the third quarter of last

WEST BROMWICH, England — West Bromwich Albion’s new Chinese ownership group has handed manager Tony Pulis a one-year extension to his contract, tying him to the club until the end of next season. The Chinese investors, who completed their takeover last month, say they are targeting “stability and continuity” in a bid to establish West

INDIANAPOLIS — The state of Indiana has started a website that gives parents listings of child-care providers in the state. The Child Care Finder is available at ChildCareFinder.IN.gov . It includes state-licensed facilities, child care ministries and other providers that have registered with the state. Indiana Family and Social Services Administration head John Wernert tells

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Amy Yang holed a pitching wedge for eagle on the par-4 11th hole and stretched her lead to three strokes Friday in the hot, humid and stormy Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia. The 27-year-old South Korean player had a 2-under 69 at TPC Kuala Lumpur, a day after shooting 63 to miss

LONDON — Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says forward Lucas Perez is out for up to eight weeks with ankle ligament damage. Perez was hurt in the 2-0 win over Reading in the League Cup on Tuesday. The Spanish forward has been on the fringes of the team since joining from Deportivo La Coruna in August

HONG KONG — Swiss bank UBS said Friday that Hong Kong regulators are investigating its work on some initial public offerings on the southern Chinese financial center’s stock market. UBS also said that the city’s Securities and Futures Commission notified it this month of plans to take action against the bank and certain unnamed employees

BEIRUT — The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local): 3:30 p.m. Syrian state media say pro-government forces have repelled a rebel attack in Aleppo as well as a militant attack by the extremist Islamic State group near the contested city. The SANA news agency reported that the military and allied militias on

BATTLE GROUND, Ind. — In 1908, an 85-foot marble obelisk went up at Tippecanoe Battlefield. Dressed in military uniform, a stone statue of William Henry Harrison looks out across the wooded field where his forces clashed with Tecumseh’s Confederacy in 1811. “Erected jointly by the Nation and the State, in memory of the heroes who

ELKHART, Ind. — After resting nearly unnoticed for almost a century, Burton A. Williams is receiving a long overdue honor. Williams was a member of Company F, 38th Indiana Infantry during the Civil War. After the war, he settled in Elkhart, married and had several children. He was a peddler by trade before he died

TOKYO — The Japanese comedian behind the viral hit “PPAP” is astonished by the global success of his “pen-pineapple-apple-pen” song. Dressed in his trademark yellow outfit with snake and leopard patterns, Pikotaro debuted a two-minute “long” version of his 45-second song before taking questions at a Tokyo news conference Friday. His responses had the packed

MONTREAL — The World Anti-Doping Agency has detailed serious failings of doping control management at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, saying the system was only saved from collapsing by the “enormous resourcefulness and goodwill” of some key staff. In a 55-page report from its independent observer team led by British lawyer Jonathan Taylor, WADA said

BEIRUT — Fierce fighting broke out around the northern Syrian city of Aleppo Friday as rebels announced a large-scale offensive to break the government’s nearly two-month siege of opposition-held areas. A reporter inside the city on the Lebanon-based Al-Mayadeen TV channel reported attacks on “all sides” of the city, “from the furthest points north to

BEIJING — Marcello Lippi has urged his China team and the nation to pull together to accomplish the “improbable” task of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup before he begins a thorough overhaul of the struggling football program. The Chinese Football Association formally unveiled Lippi as head coach of China’s Dragons at a news conference

MADRID — Spain’s economy grew by 0.7 percent in the third quarter, a slight slowdown from earlier in the year but still one of the fastest rates in the European Union. The National Statistics Institute said Friday the figure was down from the 0.8 percent rate in each of the previous three quarters. Year-on-year, the

NEW YORK — Alison Rogers raced across the field, a touchdown-saving tackle in her line of sight. It was her favorite moment of the season she spent playing middle school football. Rogers, a cornerback from Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York, brought a boy to the ground and a crowd to its feet. “All

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Titans head into the second half of the season believing they’re right in the playoff mix now that they’ve already exceeded their win total from last year. For Gus Bradley and the Jacksonville Jaguars, the future is much less certain. Marcus Mariota threw two touchdown passes and DeMarco Murray rushed

SHANGHAI — Hideki Matsuyama made nine birdies in suddenly chilly conditions Friday for a 7-under 65 that gave him a three-shot lead going into the weekend at the HSBC Champions. Neither the rain nor the bone-chilling cold seem to matter to the Japanese star. He has 19 birdies over two rounds, even though Matsuyama remains

CHICAGO — Chuck Logan heard about it from his dad for years. Bill Sianis was born into it. And Lennie Merullo was there the day it happened and lived with it for the rest of his life. The “it” is the Curse of the Billy Goat, the story of a Chicago tavern owner who supposedly

CHICAGO — Kyle Schwarber signed a baseball for Campbell Faulkner. Faulkner gave Schwarber a green wristband. Twin acts of kindness, and a friendship was born. The slugger with the big Ohio heart, and the sunny boy with a life-threatening illness. A bond that made each of them better. Some 1,700 miles away from Wrigley Field,

KABUL, Afghanistan — Every day that Dil Agha works at his backbreaking job at a brick kiln on the outskirts of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, from before sunrise to well after sunset, he digs himself deeper into debt. He knows he will never be able to pay back what he owes to the kiln owner who