Новости за 22.08.2017

MILAN — Firefighters on the Italian resort island of Ischia first freed a 7-month-old baby and then his two older brothers from the rubble Tuesday, working through the night and often by hand to rescue the children after a 4.0-magnitude quake toppled homes and other buildings on the island. At least two people were killed

GENEVA — A new United Nations report urges Iraq’s government to do more to help thousands of women and girls who faced rape, sexual abuse and other violations by the Islamic State group. The report by the U.N. rights office and the U.N. mission in Iraq makes recommendations about ways to improve justice, increase accountability

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A state-owned newspaper in Dubai is reporting a man has found himself in a legal mess after allegedly trying to smuggling 5.7 million amphetamine pills into the sheikhdom hidden inside sheep intestines. Al-Bayan newspaper reported in its Tuesday edition that the man appeared in court on charges he hid the

BEIRUT — The Lebanese Armed Forces say they have launched the third phase of a broad offensive to capture areas controlled by the Islamic State group on the border with Syria. The army began its operation on Saturday and has so far captured about two-thirds of the area once held by IS. The army said

SINGAPORE — The Latest on the collision between the USS John S. McCain guided missile destroyer and an oil tanker east of Singapore (all times local): 9 p.m. The commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet has commended the crew of the USS John S. McCain for righting the destroyer quickly after Monday’s collision with an

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghans on Tuesday welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump’s harsh words for Pakistan in a speech outlining his strategy for the war-torn country that critics said offered little in the way of details and ruled out nation-building. Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan’s second most powerful official behind the president, said in a news conference that

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s atomic chief warned Tuesday the Islamic Republic needs only five days to ramp up its uranium enrichment to 20 percent, a level at which the material could be used for a nuclear weapon. The comments by Ali Akbar Salehi to Iranian state television come as U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly has

SEOUL, South Korea — The Latest on the start of annual U.S.-South Korea war games (all times local): 6:15 p.m. North Korea has described U.S. President Donald Trump as a leader who frequently tweets “weird articles of his ego-driven thoughts” and “spouts rubbish” to give his assistants a hard time. North Korea’s official Korean Central

NEW DELHI — India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down the Muslim practice that allows men to instantly divorce their wives as unconstitutional. The bench, comprising five senior judges of different faiths, deliberated for three months before issuing its order in response to petitions from seven Muslim women who had been divorced through the practice

The preseason Top 25 is out and for all those fans feeling good about their team to start the season, there is plenty of history that can spoil the fun. Over the last 10 years (2007-16), 38 percent of teams that have started the season ranked in the AP poll ended it unranked, which comes

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Now that he has established himself as one of the top young safeties in the NFL, the Green Bay Packers’ Ha Ha Clinton-Dix is trying to make an impact off the field. Personal experience helped Clinton-Dix hone the focus of a charitable organization he started this year. “Ha Ha’s HERO Foundation”

BAGHDAD — Islamic State militants, driven from their main stronghold in northern Iraq, are trapped in a military vise that will squeeze them on both sides of the Syria-Iraq border, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said. Mattis arrived in the Iraqi capital Tuesday, hours after President Donald Trump outlined a fresh approach to the stalemated

UPPER DARBY, Pa. — A regional rail train crashed into a parked train at a suburban Philadelphia terminal early Tuesday morning, injuring dozens of passengers and the train’s operator, a regional rail spokeswoman said. Rail spokeswoman Heather Redfern said none of the 42 people hurt in the crash suffered life-threatening injuries. “Some were considered walking

ANAHEIM, Calif. — It’s beyond crowded in the American League wild-card race, with eight teams bunched up like flowers in an overflowing vase. The Los Angeles Angels were the most recent club to make some noise, winning nine of 11 to slip into the second spot. But the Texas Rangers still believe they can make

LONDON — Global stock markets pushed ahead Tuesday as investors’ appetite for riskier assets perked up ahead of this week’s big event — the annual gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. KEEPING SCORE: In Europe, London’s FTSE 100 was up 0.7 percent to 7,370 while Germany’s DAX rose 0.7 percent, too, to 12,155.

ST. LOUIS — Attorneys for a Missouri inmate scheduled for execution Tuesday warn that the state is preparing to execute a potentially innocent man. Marcellus Williams, 48, was convicted of fatally stabbing former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Lisha Gayle during a 1998 robbery at her home in the suburb of University City. If his death

SAN FRANCISCO — Catcher Nick Hundley came into the postgame scrum with a question of his own for pitcher Chris Stratton, razzing the rookie for a one-strikeout night. “What was your thought on the punchout?” Hundley asked. Stratton pitched six innings to run his scoreless streak to 12 2/3 innings over his past two outings,

AUSTIN, Texas — The Civil War lessons taught to American students often depend on where the classroom is, with schools presenting accounts of the conflict that vary from state to state and even district to district. Some schools emphasize states’ rights in addition to slavery and stress how economic and cultural differences stoked tensions between

SINGAPORE — The commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet said some remains of Navy sailors were found in a compartment of the USS John McCain on Tuesday, a day after the warship’s collision with an oil tanker in Southeast Asian waters left 10 sailors missing. Adm. Scott Swift also said at a news conference in

Rice football coach David Bailiff reckoned one way to ensure his players didn’t nod off after a 15-hour flight from Los Angeles to Sydney was to bypass the team hotel and go straight to the practice field from the airport. So within an hour of arriving Down Under early Tuesday morning, Bailiff had his players

APPLEDORE ISLAND, Maine — When diving in the Gulf of Maine a few years back, Jennifer Dijkstra expected to be swimming through a flowing kelp forest that had long served as a nursery and food for juvenile fish and lobster. But Dijkstra, a University of New Hampshire marine biologist, saw only a patchy seafloor before

NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Bill Cosby wants a judge to sign off on a swap that would give him a fresh new legal team ahead of his sexual assault retrial in Pennsylvania in November. Cosby is expected in court Tuesday morning in Norristown as the lawyers who fought to a deadlock in his June trial ask

LEBANON, Ohio — The father of a 4-year-old Ohio boy who died after the boy’s stepmother put him in a scalding bath has been denied a motion for a third mistrial. The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News reports a Warren County judge ruled Tuesday that Robert Ritchie’s third trial will continue. Ritchie’s attorneys moved for a mistrial after

DENVER — Colorado’s largest city is on the brink of licensing some of the nation’s first legal marijuana clubs. But Denver’s elaborate hurdles for potential weed-friendly coffee shops and gathering places may mean the city gets few takers for the new licenses. Denver voters approved bring-your-own-pot clubs in a ballot measure last year after city

CLEVELAND — Brandon Guyer scored when first baseman Brock Holt threw away Roberto Perez’s bunt in the ninth inning, lifting the Cleveland Indians over the Boston Red Sox 5-4 on Monday night in a matchup of first-place teams. After Guyer’s leadoff double against Brandon Workman (0-1), Holt fielded the bunted ball and tried to throw