Новости за 03.03.2017

MADRID — Cristiano Ronaldo is doubtful for the Spanish league match at Eibar on Saturday. Ronaldo didn’t take part in Real Madrid’s training on Friday. Coach Zinedine Zidane says Ronaldo “wasn’t feeling 100 percent and that is why he did not train.” Eibar, despite its tiny budget, has proven to be one of the surprises

SALE, Morocco — It is a school of last chances, both for its students and for the fading art that they are learning, stitch by stitch. Each of the 13 young Moroccans now studying under fashion designer Fadila El Gadi had dropped out of school, whether through boredom or academic troubles. But now they willingly

BOSTON — Jurors in the double-murder trial of ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez have viewed the scene where two men were fatally shot in 2012. On Friday, jurors were shown several sites related to the double slaying, including the Cure Lounge in Boston. Prosecutors allege that Hernandez shot Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado after de

GENEVA — A United Nations human rights expert has slammed U.S. President Donald Trump over his view on torture as a useful counter-terrorism measure. Ben Emmerson, a British lawyer who is a special rapporteur on human rights, said Friday that hearing Trump “extolling the virtues of torture as a weapon in the fight against terrorism”

NEW YORK — The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 11:45 a.m. Real estate companies led stocks lower in midday trading, extending the market’s losses from a day earlier. Energy stocks bucked the trend Friday and rose as oil prices headed higher. Investors were looking ahead to a speech by Federal Reserve

HARTFORD, Conn. — By day, Jon Berk is a mild-mannered civil attorney in Connecticut. But by night (well, really during most of his spare time for the past 45 years) he is known by some as a comic book-collecting super hero. Berk’s collection of more than 18,000 books and 300 pieces of comic-book art goes

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Jihadists on motorbikes killed two people including a school official early Friday in a village in Burkina Faso’s north and then went to other villages demanding that schools close, a provincial official said. The attack in Kourfayl terrified teachers who gathered in the nearby provincial capital for safety, said High Commissioner

HURTSBORO, Ala. — A Georgia man has been charged in a fiery crash that killed four people in Alabama last summer. Alabama State Troopers said in a statement Thursday that 26-year-old Markees Spires of Columbus faces four manslaughter charges. Authorities say Spires’ pickup truck collided with a car in August 2016 and caught fire on

DETROIT — Mercedes is recalling about 1 million cars and SUVs worldwide because a starter part can overheat and cause fires. The recall covers certain C-Class, E-Class and CLA cars and GLA and GLC SUVs, all from 2015 through 2017, including nearly 308,000 in the U.S. The German automaker reported 51 fires worldwide, with about

BRUSSELS — The European Union and the United States have agreed to recognize each other’s inspections of facilities where medicines are made. The 28-nation EU’s executive Commission said Friday that it and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have endorsed an accord that updates a 1998 agreement on manufacturing practices. It means that EU and

BARCELONA, Spain — Freed from fretting about the future, Luis Enrique wants to put a happy ending to his three years in charge at Barcelona. The coach said Friday he was “relieved” to be stepping down after the season, two days after he made the surprising announcement. “In a certain sense I am relieved, and

BUDAPEST, Hungary — A close ally of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has acquired an ownership stake in a major print and online media company, adding weight to suspicions that the company’s closure of the largest opposition newspaper last year was politically motivated. The Opimus Group said Friday in a statement that Lorinc Meszaros has

DUBLIN — A mass grave containing the remains of babies and young children has been discovered at a former Catholic orphanage in Ireland, government-appointed investigators announced Friday in a finding that offered the first conclusive proof following a historian’s efforts to trace the fates of nearly 800 children who perished there. The judge-led Mother and

DODOMA, Tanzania — A court in Tanzania on Friday sentenced a notorious poacher nicknamed “The Devil Has No Mercy” to 12 years in prison. Boniface Methew Malyango was the subject of a documentary last year, “The Ivory Game,” produced by actor Leonardo DiCaprio and others. Malyango was sentenced by a magistrate’s court in the capital,

MILAN — Italian police are investigating the cause of a fire that swept through a makeshift camp for seasonal workers in southern Italy, killing two Africans. Authorities said Friday the fire broke out overnight in the encampment in the countryside near Foggia, in the Puglia region, that was in the process of being dismantled. The

LAHTI, Finland — Norway held off a Russian challenge to win the men’s 4×10-kilometer cross-country ski relay at the Nordic world championships on Friday. Norway and Russia pulled away from the rest early on and were level at the halfway point before Martin Johnsrud Sundby opened up a 17.7-second lead over Russia’s Alexei Chervotkin on

KINSHASA, Congo — The opposition coalition in Congo has announced that the son of late opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi will become the group’s president. The coalition late Thursday named Felix Tshisekedi its head. Etienne Tshisekedi’s death in early February came a month after President Joseph Kabila’s party and the opposition signed an agreement that called

At the beginning of the new chapter of “The Legend of Zelda,” longtime hero Link awakens from a 100-year coma to find that his beloved homeland, Hyrule, has changed into a vastly more dangerous place. “Zelda” fans will know the feeling. It hasn’t quite been 100 years — the last installment, “Skyward Sword,” came out

DENVER — While millions of people await the livestreamed birth of a giraffe at a zoo in upstate New York, a giraffe was born at the Denver Zoo this week with little fanfare. A male giraffe named Dobby was born early Tuesday. He measured 5-feet tall and weighed 73 pounds. Zookeepers didn’t know until recently

NEWARK, N.J. — A former transportation official and mentor to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie “should not get a get-out-of-jail card” for using his position to shake down United Airlines to relaunch a flight to his weekend home, federal prosecutors argue in a court filing. They recommend in the filing Thursday that former Port Authority

LAHORE, Pakistan — About 1,300 suspected militants were arrested in a sweep of hideouts in Pakistan’s largest province of Punjab, police said Friday. The roughly two-week operation comes despite the provincial law minister’s defense of some groups designated as terrorist organizations and banned by Pakistan but resurrected under new names. Rana Sanaullah also embraced some

NEW YORK — The Fire Department of New York says it has put out an apartment fire at the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Manhattan. There were no serious injuries reported. One person refused medical attention. The fire was reported around 4:15 a.m. Friday in a 47th floor apartment at the hotel on Central

BRUSSELS — The European Union says it is in contact with the World Bank to look at the issue of a loan to Greece. The World Bank traditionally provides loans for developing nations. Greece has been dependent on bailout loans from its partners in the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund since 2010. EU Commission

AKRON, Ohio — A double amputee who uses a wheelchair is suing for access to the grave of his two-legged cat, arguing that the Ohio property’s new owners discriminated against him by installing landscaping barriers that block his way. Frank Iannaggi, of Mantua, says he routinely visited the pet cemetery in Hudson after the 2011

HARARE, Zimbabwe — A lawyer in Zimbabwe says two journalists and a publishing executive have been arrested for an article reporting that the health of 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe is deteriorating. Human rights lawyer Obey Shava said Friday that the article was published in Zimbabwe’s NewsDay newspaper. The story Thursday mentioned a “fresh health scare.”