Новости за 16.01.2018

UnitedHealth Group’s earnings more than doubled in the final quarter of 2017, and the nation’s largest insurer hiked its forecast well beyond expectations due partially to a gain from the federal tax overhaul. UnitedHealth now expects adjusted earnings of $12.30 to $12.60 per share in 2018, up from an initial forecast for $10.55 to $10.85,

UnitedHealth Group’s earnings more than doubled in the final quarter of 2017, and the nation’s largest insurer hiked its forecast for the new year due in part to a gain from the federal tax overhaul. UnitedHealth now expects adjusted earnings of $12.30 to $12.60 per share in 2018, up from its initial forecast for $10.55

LONDON — Police say they are not treating the death of Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan as suspicious. O’Riordan was found dead Monday morning at a London hotel. Police initially called the death “unexplained,” but said Tuesday that nothing suspicious had been found. The case is being passed to a coroner to determine the cause of

LONDON — Police say they are not treating the death of Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan as suspicious. O’Riordan was found dead Monday morning at a London hotel. Police initially called the death “unexplained,” but said Tuesday that nothing suspicious had been found. The case is being passed to a coroner to determine the cause of

BUCHAREST, Romania — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Bucharest on Tuesday for key talks on North Korea and investment, but landed in a Romanian political crisis prompted by the prime minister’s unexpected resignation. Just as Abe was arriving in Romania at the end of his six-nation European tour, President Klaus Iohannis named Defense

YORK, S.C. — A man who was wanted for beating his wife ambushed and shot three SWAT officers searching for him in woods in South Carolina, leaving one deputy “hanging on to life,’ a sheriff said Tuesday. Christian Thomas McCall earlier had shot and wounded a fourth officer who was chasing him with a police

MELBOURNE, Australia — A year ago Petra Kvitova was recovering from a knife attack at her home in the Czech Republic, unsure if she’d ever play tennis again. Any wonder that on her return to the Australian Open — a tournament she missed last year because of the December 2016 attack — that a 6-3,

BRUSSELS — The 2019 Tour de France will start in Brussels to honor the 50th anniversary of Eddy Merckx’s first victory and will include the iconic Wall of Geraardsbergen climb during the opening weekend. The first stage of the Tour will have the Wall, for decades the toughest climb in the Ronde of Flanders classic,

GRETNA, La. — The trial in a road-rage shooting that left a former NFL football player Joe McKnight dead is set to begin in a New Orleans suburb. Fifty-five-year-old Ronald Gasser is charged with second-degree murder in the Dec. 1, 2016, shooting of the former running back. McKnight played college ball at Southern California before

BERLIN — German authorities are conducting searches countrywide in connection with 10 suspected Iranian spies. A spokesman for the Federal Prosecutors Office says the suspects are believed to have “spied on institutions and persons in Germany on behalf of an entity associated with Iran.” The spokesman, Stefan Biehl, told The Associated Press that Tuesday’s raids

PARIS — French prison guards protested outside scores of jails across the country Tuesday for the second day in a row, demanding more security, more staff and safer handling of violent inmates. Protesters bellowing the national anthem shouted down Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet as she visited a prison in Vendin-le-Vieil in northern France to try

LAHORE, Pakistan — A Pakistani health official says a special anti-polio drive has been launched in the country’s eastern Punjab province. Imran Nazir says the week-long campaign was launched on Monday amid tight security. He says thousands of workers are taking part in the drive by going house-to-house to vaccinate children in the struggle to

BERLIN — The head of Germany’s center-left Social Democrats is lobbying party members to vote for opening coalition talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives amid strong opposition from grassroots members. Martin Schulz was in Dortmund Tuesday to push for approval of the formal negotiations with the Union bloc at a party convention Sunday. A rejection

JAYAPURA, Indonesia — Indonesian authorities are struggling to contain a monthslong outbreak of measles in easternmost Papua province that has killed dozens of children. Stefanus Lange, a doctor at a state-run hospital in Papua’s Asmat district, said Tuesday that cases first were detected in September, but a lack of access to remote areas and the

LONDON — Britain’s business secretary called Tuesday for a fast-tracked investigation into the collapse of construction giant and state contractor Carillion, expanding the remit of the probe to include the behavior of executives both past and present. Greg Clark asked the insolvency service and the official receiver to expedite their inquiry as the ramifications of

LONDON — U.K. leaders are discussing the fallout from the collapse of construction and outsourcing firm Carillion amid criticism of the government’s role in its downfall. The government’s emergency planning committee, Cobra, met Monday night to assess the damage and ensure the delivery of public services provided by the company. Carillion had 450 government contracts

PARIS — The Latest on the French president’s visit to Calais (all times local): 3 p.m. French President Emmanuel Macron has addressed alleged police brutality against migrants in the northern port city of Calais, saying sanctions will be applied in cases of police abuse. In a speech to security forces in Calais, Macron urged French

PARIS — The Latest on the French president’s visit to Calais (all times local): 2 p.m. French President Emmanuel Macron says he wants to negotiate with Britain a better police cooperation to handle the migrants in the French port of Calais and more money from the U.K. to help develop the city. Macron is visiting

PARIS — The Latest on the French president’s visit to Calais (all times local): 10:50 a.m. French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting a migrant center in northern France as he prepares to press Britain to do more to help deal with migrants who converge on the Calais region in hopes of crossing the Channel. Macron

MITROVICA, Kosovo — The Latest on the shooting of a Serb politician in Kosovo (all times local): 10:00 p.m. Kosovo’s Security Council is offering assurances that the country is calm and safe following the slaying of a senior Serb politician. The council was urgently convened Tuesday to discuss security matters, especially in the country’s Serb-dominated

MITROVICA, Kosovo — The Latest on the shooting of a Serb politician in Kosovo (all times local): 8:15 p.m. NATO has condemned the assassination of a leading Serb politician in Kosovo and called on Serbia and Kosovo to return to EU-mediated negotiations in Brussels. NATO spokeswoman Oana Lunge said a NATO-led peacekeeping force established in

MITROVICA, Kosovo — The Latest on the shooting of a Serb politician in Kosovo (all times local): 7 p.m. Avni Arifi, who heads the Kosovo delegation at the EU talks in Brussels with Serbia, called on Belgrade to return to the negotiations. At the news of Kosovo Serb political leader Oliver Ivanovic’s slaying on Tuesday,

MITROVICA, Kosovo — The Latest on the shooting of a Serb politician in Kosovo (all times local): 3:30 p.m. Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has called for a meeting of the country’s National Security Council later Tuesday following the killing of Oliver Ivanovic, leader of an ethnic Serb political party, as he entered his party

MITROVICA, Kosovo — The Latest on the shooting of a Serb politician in Kosovo (all times local): 1:10 p.m. The European Union’s foreign policy chief has called the presidents of Serbia and Kosovo to express the EU’s condemnation of the killing of Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic and make an appeal for calm. The morning shooting

MITROVICA, Kosovo — The Latest on the shooting of a Serb politician in Kosovo (all times local): 12 noon Kosovo prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj says he considers the slaying of Serb minority political leader Oliver Ivanovic as “a punishable criminal act.” Reacting on his Facebook page to Ivanovic’s death earlier Tuesday, Haradinaj said that “exploiting