Новости за 27.03.2017

TOKYO — Eight Japanese high school students were presumed dead after being caught in an avalanche Monday while being trained in mountain climbing at a ski resort, authorities and media said. The avalanche occurred in the town of Nasu in Tochigi prefecture, about 190 kilometers (120 miles) north of Tokyo. Forty other people were injured,

BEIRUT — U.S.-backed forces in northern Syria said Monday they will pause military operations near a major dam held by the Islamic State group in order to allow engineers to fix any problems after conflicting reports about its stability. The decision by the Syrian Democratic Forces came a day after conflicting reports over whether civilians

RALEIGH, N.C. — Despite Republican assurances that North Carolina’s “bathroom bill” isn’t hurting the economy, the law limiting LGBT protections will cost the state more than $3.76 billion in lost business over a dozen years, according to an Associated Press analysis. Over the past year, North Carolina has suffered financial hits ranging from scuttled plans

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s state TV says a significantly higher number of Iranians are seeking to run in the municipal elections next month. Monday’s report says 287,000 hopefuls — or 14 percent more than four years ago — submitted their candidacies, hoping to be approved to contest the vote for the nearly 110,000 members for

BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s challenger in Germany’s September election vowed Monday that his party won’t be put off its stride by a deflating result in a state vote, and warned his conservative rivals against celebrating too early. Merkel’s Christian Democrats easily beat challenger Martin Schulz’s center-left Social Democrats in Saarland state on Sunday. A

AUSTIN, Texas — Dustin Johnson has been around long enough to realize he’s not going to win every golf tournament he plays. It’s just getting harder to find a candidate to stop him. Zach Johnson advanced out of his group in the Dell Technologies Match Play and faced Dustin Johnson, whom he referred to not

LUCKNOW, India — India’s most populous state is running out of meat. After the Hindu right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in Uttar Pradesh this month on the back of a resounding electoral victory and named a Hindu priest-cum-politician as the state’s chief minister, the government began cracking down on illegal slaughterhouses and meat

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Half the women’s Final Four field is complete after two thrilling games. The other two spots in Dallas will be decided Monday night when UConn faces upstart Oregon and South Carolina plays Florida State. It took a huge second-half rally and one last defensive stop for Stanford to beat Notre Dame, sending

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Roy Williams still has not watched the tape of the 2016 national championship game and likely never will. The North Carolina coach sure has done his best to make sure his Tar Heels know how to hit game-winning shots. Now all that practice with a 15-second shot clock has paid off with

RALEIGH, N.C. — Frank Martin never got caught up in wins and losses, the highs and the lows, as he worked to build South Carolina into a contender for conference championships. Gonzaga’s Mark Few dismissed questions of whether his Bulldogs would be a failure as long as they failed to get to a Final Four

MELBOURNE, Australia — With Sebastian Vettel ascending the top of the podium in his red Ferrari race suit, the new regulations for Formula One cars seemingly needed only one Grand Prix to produce one of the desired effects. Vettel’s drought-breaking win for Ferrari was widely celebrated, with Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas having

TULSA, Okla. — Large hail and strong winds hit parts of Texas and Oklahoma as a storm system rolled through the Southern Plains. Heavy rains also occurred during Sunday’s storms, and video from KWTV showed a funnel cloud near Ada, Oklahoma, about 70 miles southeast of Oklahoma City. Denton, Texas, police told the Dallas Morning

FORT WORTH, Texas — Authorities in Fort Worth say federal immigration agents arrested 26 parolees living in the country illegally as they performed community service. Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn tells KXAS-TV (http://bit.ly/2o7GYcf ) his office participated in Sunday morning’s operation at the request of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. An ICE spokesman confirmed the

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — George Reedy traded punches in boxing rings all over the country for 25 years, the last 15 as a professional. Since his retirement as an active pugilist in 1998, he’s officiated several pro bouts. So Reedy, now 60, believes he knows a thing or two about the sport often referred to

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand and China announced Monday they would open talks soon to expand a successful free-trade deal in place for nearly a decade. The announcement came during a visit by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English said the 9-year-old deal had been a huge success and resulted

CINCINNATI — Cincinnati police searched for suspects in a nightclub shooting that left one man dead and 15 other people injured and sent club patrons diving to the ground to dodge bullets in what they described as a chaotic and terrifying scene. A gunfight broke out inside the crowded Cameo club early Sunday after a

NEW YORK — When the National Endowment for the Arts was established in 1965, organizers had different models to choose from. They could have looked to the French Ministry of Culture, a cabinet-level institution committed to maintaining France’s cultural heritage. Or they could have copied the generous and government-directed support favored by some Scandinavian countries,

TOKYO — Authorities say six Japanese high school students have been found unconscious after they were caught in an avalanche at a ski resort Monday morning. The avalanche occurred around 9:20 a.m. in the town of Nasu in Tochigi prefecture. The Tochigi government said three other students were also injured, and two more students and

LOS ANGELES — As their surprising turnaround rolls on, the Portland Trail Blazers are now tied for the final playoff spot in the Western Conference. Damian Lillard scored 22 points and Portland beat the Los Angeles Lakers 97-81 on Sunday night to pull even with Denver for eighth place in the West. Both the Blazers

WASHINGTON — U.S. economic growth is expected to accelerate this year and next, yet remain modest, even if President Trump’s promised tax cuts and infrastructure spending are implemented, a survey found. The economy will grow a solid 2.3 percent this year and 2.5 percent in 2018, according to 50 economists surveyed by the National Association

HAVANA — Fidel Castro’s government sent the Rev. Juan Francisco Naranjo to two years of work camp in the 1960s for preaching the Gospel in a Cuba where atheism was law and the faithful were viewed as suspect. For years, Naranjo’s church was almost abandoned, with just a handful of people daring to attend services.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Anaheim Ducks spent months hoping to find more consistency on offense, and Ryan Getzlaf is finally rewarding that faith. Getzlaf had four assists, Andrew Cogliano scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period, and the Ducks won their fourth straight game by defeating Henrik Lundqvist and the New York Rangers

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Bahrain is alleging a 14-member group backed by Iran planned assassinations in the island kingdom. The Interior Ministry issued a statement early Monday that said 11 members of the group “are suspected of receiving overseas military training under the supervision of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah in Iraq.” It

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is set to announce a new White House office run by his son-in-law that will seek to overhaul government functions using ideas from the business sector. A senior administration official said Trump on Monday will announce the White House Office of American Innovation. The official sought anonymity to discuss the

SEOUL, South Korea — Asian stocks got off to a weak start on Monday as caution among investors prevailed with lingering doubts about the future policy agenda of the new U.S. administration following the health care reform failure. KEEPING SCORE: Nikkei 225 lost 1.5 percent to 18,970.79 while South Korea’s Kospi fell 0.4 percent to