Новости за 15.11.2017

ROME — Italy coach Gian Piero Ventura has been fired following the Azzurri’s failure to qualify for the World Cup. Ventura leaves in disgrace, widely criticized for his tactical decisions that left Italy out of football’s biggest competition for the first time in six decades. A football federation statement says Ventura is “no longer coach

INDEPENDENCE, Iowa — Attorneys for former “Bachelor” contestant Chris Soules say he performed CPR on an Iowa farmer who died after Soules rear-ended his tractor in April. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that the attorneys filed a motion Monday seeking the dismissal of the charge against Soules — leaving the scene of a fatal accident.

DETROIT — General Motors is telling investors its next generation of electric vehicles will cost the company 30 percent less than current ones, making them profitable after the new version debuts in 2021. CEO Mary Barra made the forecast at an investor conference Wednesday. She expects to cut battery cell cost from $145 per kilowatt

TUKWILA, Wash. — Inside Clint Dempsey’s chest sits a monitor that is constantly collecting data. That data then gets transmitted so doctors can scrutinize the results and make sure that Dempsey’s heart — the one that nearly derailed his career more than a year ago — is functioning properly. Dempsey has gotten past worrying about

NEW YORK — Linkin Park is releasing a new live album that the band is dedicating to late member Chester Bennington. The group says their last live shows before Bennington died in July were “extraordinary.” The “One More Light Live” album will be released on Dec. 15. The songs were performed on the One More

WASHINGTON — The House Foreign Affairs Committee has approved bipartisan legislation that would sanction foreign governments and individuals providing financial and material support to the Islamic militant group Hamas. The measure passed by voice vote Wednesday, setting the stage for the full House to consider the measure. The legislation, backed by Rep. Ed Royce of

ORLANDO, Fla. — New Marlins CEO Derek Jeter says the team is listening to trade offers for slugging outfielder Giancarlo Stanton and says Miami must make changes to stop losing money. Ahead of the first major league owners’ meeting since Bruce Sherman’s group bought the team last month and put the former New York Yankees

PARIS — The state of Minnesota lost its bid to host what would have been the first world’s fair on U.S. soil in almost 40 years when the organization that oversees the events voted Wednesday to make Argentina’s capital the site of one planned for 2022-2023. The Trump administration has sought to boost American interest

PARIS — The state of Minnesota has lost its bid to host what would have been the first world’s fair on U.S. soil in 40 years, beat out by a campaign by Argentina’s capital to celebrate human creativity. The Bureau of International Expositions voted Wednesday to hand the 2022-2023 specialized world expo to Buenos Aires

NEW YORK — Richard Cordray, the aggressive first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, plans to leave the agency by the end of the month, giving President Donald Trump a chance to appoint a replacement likely to be friendlier to the financial industry. Cordray was a holdover from the Obama administration, appointed to his

NEW YORK — Richard Cordray, the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said Wednesday he will leave the position by the end of the month. Corday was appointed by President Barack Obama. His early resignation will give President Donald Trump a chance to appoint his own director of the powerful agency established in

GENEVA — Sri Lankan government envoys have condemned torture and other human rights violations before the United Nations’ leading human rights body, acknowledging the country still has work to do. The Human Rights Council held a long-planned review of Sri Lanka’s record on Wednesday, a week after The Associated Press published an investigation documenting the

Perhaps it’s a sign of the times that after seeing an epic story as poetically told as Dee Rees’ “Mudbound,” feelings of awe and admiration are quickly replaced with frustration that Hollywood hasn’t traditionally embraced the artistic visions of people who aren’t white and male. Maybe it’s because feelings are so raw in this post-Weinstein

RAMALLAH, West Bank — A senior Palestinian official says the long-anticipated opening of Gaza’s border crossing with Egypt has been postponed, and talks are underway with Cairo to set a new date. Azzam al-Ahmad, an adviser to President Mahmoud Abbas, said Wednesday that Egypt cited “special circumstances” for delaying the Rafah crossing’s opening. Egypt has

WASHINGTON — Oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is moving ever closer after a nearly four-decade political standoff. A key Senate panel began debate Wednesday on a bill to open the remote refuge to energy exploration — a longtime Republican priority that Democrats fiercely oppose. Republican Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski says

ROME — The refusal of Italian football federation president Carlo Tavecchio to resign is causing outrage. Damiano Tommasi, president of the Italian players association, abandoned a summit called Wednesday to assess the failed World Cup qualification once he understood that Tavecchio would not step down. Tommasi, the first to exit the meeting, says “Tavecchio told

MESQUITE, Texas — Police in a Dallas suburb have dropped an evading arrest charge against a black man who was shot by police last week while trying to get into his truck. Mesquite police department spokesman Lt. Brian Parrish says the charge was dropped against Lyndo Jones Tuesday afternoon, but police may revisit the charge

NEW YORK — Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity ultimately said Wednesday he couldn’t be the judge of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. It was an odd conclusion to a televised ultimatum. Hannity, whose words carry weight among conservatives because of his large nightly audience, had given Moore 24 hours to explain “inconsistencies” in his

NEW YORK — Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity has put Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore on notice: explain “inconsistencies” in his response to allegations of child molestation or exit the Alabama race. Hannity, on his show Tuesday evening, gave Moore 24 hours. “We deserve answers — consistent answers — and truth,” he said.

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Police in New Hampshire say a good Samaritan and a police officer broke a car window to pull out an unconscious woman who crashed and performed CPR until an emergency crew arrived. Manchester Police Officer Jared Yaris was working at a construction site Tuesday morning when passer-by Edward Rocha alerted him to

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. — Live traps are being placed in a suburban Detroit neighborhood in hopes of catching two Guinness World Records-holding cats and two others believed missing after a fire destroyed their owners’ home. Oakland County Animal Control Supervisor Ron Shankin said Wednesday that flyers have been posted and Farmington Hills residents are asked

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution increasing the U.N. peacekeeping force in the conflict-torn Central African Republic to a total of 11,650 military personnel. The addition of 900 soldiers comes as the impoverished Central African Republic, known as CAR, faces rising communal tensions, violence and a deteriorating humanitarian situation.

SHANGHAI — Pharrell Williams is using music to sound the warning about climate change. The Grammy-winning musician appeared in Shanghai this week to debut a song titled “100 Years,” which he described as “a postcard, a sarcastic one, to the people who should be ashamed to call themselves scientists and politicians.” The song addresses those

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Representatives of a former North Carolina football player’s estate are suing the Atlantic Coast Conference and the NCAA, saying they ignored the dangers of concussions and it led to his death. Sandra LaMountain and Noah Hoffman brought the 39-page lawsuit on behalf of Ryan Hoffman’s estate and filed it Wednesday in U.S.

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. — The Latest on the shooting at a suburban Buffalo retail store that left one person wounded (all times local): 12:20 p.m. Police say the man who fired multiple rounds at a store near Buffalo had hundreds of bullets and a second rifle in his vehicle. Police in the town of (cheek-tuh-WAH’-guh), New