Новости за 04.10.2018

NEW DELHI — Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in India for a two-day visit during which the two countries are expected to sign a $5 billion deal for Russian S-400 missile systems despite the specter of U.S. sanctions. India’s External Affairs Ministry says Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold talks on

NEW YORK — Denzel Washington joined the Boys & Girls Club of America when he was 5. He’s never really left. The 63-year old Oscar-winning actor says the lessons he learned from the youth organization became the foundation of his success. One valuable lesson came after a track and field event where Washington found he

LONDON — Teenage midfielders in the Bundesliga and the English second tier have been selected in a much-changed England squad for UEFA Nations League games against Croatia and Spain. Two of the three newcomers to the 25-man squad are Jadon Sancho, an 18-year-old winger playing at Borussia Dortmund, and Mason Mount, who is on loan

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A North Carolina family returned from a three-day trip to find their car parked at the airport had been possessed by a colony of ants. The Charlotte Observer reports Caroline Tedder Hacker lodged a complaint on Facebook on Sunday, warning people not to park in a certain section of Charlotte Douglas International

MESQUITE, Texas — School officials say a child was killed and three others were injured when their school bus crashed and burst into flames in suburban Dallas. The Mesquite Independent School District says a bus carrying 42 students from Terry Middle School crashed Wednesday afternoon. Aerial video shows the bus lying on its side in

GARY, Ind. — A man who showed up at a Gary City Council meeting infested with bed bugs prompted officials to remove two rows of seating from the building. Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson tells The (Northwest Indiana) Times the parasitic insects were discovered in the council’s chambers during Tuesday night’s meeting after a man in the

NEW YORK — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 9:35 a.m. Global stocks are slipping as interest rates keep rising. The yield on 10-year Treasury note rose to 3.18 percent Thursday, a seven-year high. Its price sank Wednesday following strong U.S. economic data. Internet companies slumped. Facebook lost 1.2 percent and

MOSCOW — Russia’s Defense Ministry said Thursday that the United States appeared to be running a clandestine biological weapons lab in the country of Georgia, allegedly flouting international conventions and posing a direct security threat to Russia — allegations the Pentagon angrily rejected. The exceptional accusations from Moscow came the same day U.S., British and

MOSCOW — Russia’s Defense Ministry says the United States appears to be running a clandestine biological weapons lab in the country of Georgia, allegedly flouting international rules and posing a direct security threat to Russia. The exceptional accusations made Thursday came the same day British and Dutch officials accused Russian military intelligence of new cyberattacks.

BERLIN — An Austrian court has rejected appeals by eight Iraqi citizens against their prison sentences for gang-raping a German tourist on New Year’s Eve in 2015. The men were convicted in March 2017 and sentenced to between nine and 13 years. The Austria Press Agency reported that the Vienna state court ruled Thursday there

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — A spectator has been struck on the head by a golf ball at the Dunhill Links Championship, less than a week after a similar incident at the Ryder Cup left a woman potentially losing vision in her right eye. The female spectator was pictured bleeding from a head wound after being

NYON, Switzerland — UEFA has charged Paris Saint-Germain and Red Star Belgrade for fan violence at their Champions League game. The UEFA disciplinary panel will judge “crowd disturbances” against both clubs on Oct. 18. Red Star has also been charged for “illicit chants” inside Parc des Princes on Wednesday, though the club was banned by

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill will swap a “Sr.” for a “Jr.” on a plaque at Kenan Memorial Stadium, to distance the university from William Rand Kenan Sr.’s involvement in the 1898 massacre targeting black North Carolinians. The News & Observer reports UNC Chancellor Carol Folt said in a

BRUSSELS — The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday charged seven Russian intelligence officers with hacking anti-doping agencies and other organizations hours after Western officials leveled new accusations against Moscow’s secretive GRU military spy agency. Hours before the U.S. indictment was announced, Western nations accused the GRU of new cybercrimes, with Dutch and British officials labeling

WILMINGTON, Del. — Ahead of next year’s spinoff, the division that will retain the DuPont name has a new look. News outlets report temporary holding company DowDuPont unveiled DuPont’s new logo Wednesday. While retaining its predecessor’s oval shape, it ditches the red ribbon around the company name, now bolder. Now gone is the space between

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A mobile dialysis unit long sought by patients suffering kidney failure on the tiny Puerto Rican island of Vieques has arrived more than a year after Hurricane Maria. Gov. Ricardo Rossello said Thursday that the $3 million unit bought by the U.S. government will be set up at a shelter

MALE, Maldives — A Maldives opposition leader has returned home after being exiled in Germany for months to escape a prison sentence on charges of plotting to overthrow the government. Qasim Ibrahim was welcomed at the airport on Thursday by President-elect Ibrahim Mohamed Solih. Ibrahim was among dozens of political opponents who were jailed by

WYOMING, Mich. — Police say six people were injured when a pickup truck drove through a western Michigan bank. Police Capt. James Maguffee tells WOOD-TV the truck veered off a road in Wyoming, Michigan, Wednesday afternoon. The truck struck a minivan in the bank parking lot, barreled through the building and hit an SUV in

MOSCOW — A Russian space capsule with three men onboard has safely landed in a barren steppe in Kazakhstan after a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. The Soyuz MS-08 carrying Russia’s Oleg Artemyev and NASA’s Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold touched down at 5.44 p.m. Kazakh time (1144 GMT). The two Americans performed

PARIS — French authorities have released a female bear from Slovenia in the Pyrenees in an effort to preserve the population of brown bears, despite protests from farmers worried about their sheep. The Environment Ministry says the bear was set free to roam in the mountain range on Thursday. Brown bears were thought to be

BRUSSELS — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Thursday said Russia’s deployment of nuclear-capable missiles in violation of an arms treaty is “untenable” and unless Moscow changes, the U.S. will have to match that military capability. Speaking to reporters at the close of a NATO defense ministers meeting, Mattis said the U.S. is reviewing its diplomatic

Among the more illuminating parts of Manchester City’s recently released, fly-on-the-wall documentary was Pep Guardiola discussing his fears about playing Liverpool, and in particular its prolific front three. “They scare me,” a pensive-looking Guardiola told two members of his technical staff as he paced around a locker room inside the stadium of Liverpool’s Merseyside neighbor,

SINGAPORE — David Micheluzzi has been working on his wedge game, and it paid off Thursday when the Australian holed out for eagle on the 18th hole for a 6-under 64 and a one-shot lead in the Asia-Pacific Amateur. The 22-year-old Melbourne native used a pitching wedge to hole out from the 18th fairway at

NAPLES, Italy — When Carlo Ancelotti was presented as Napoli coach a few months ago, he said he hoped this season would be remembered as the year he returned to Italian soccer. While it took Ancelotti some time to get Napoli playing the way he wants, the Partenopei put on their most impressive performance of

INDIANAPOLIS — Officials say a metal cable found strung about neck-height across a trail in Indianapolis may have been put there as a booby trap. TV station WRTV reports word of the cable was posted this week on an internet site and the station contacted the city’s parks department, which removed it. The cable was