Новости за 09.01.2019

ST. ANTON, Austria — Lindsey Vonn’s return to World Cup racing will have to wait another week. Heavy snowfall has forced organizers to call off downhill and super-G races scheduled for the Austrian resort of St. Anton this weekend. Vonn was planning to return this week after sitting out the start of the season with

ATLANTA — Corrections officials have agreed to improve conditions for prisoners held in Georgia’s most restrictive solitary confinement facility. The changes are part of a proposed settlement stemming from a lawsuit filed by prisoners held in the Special Management Unit of the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. An expert’s report filed by lawyers

SEATTLE — Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie are divorcing, ending a 25-year marriage that played a role in the creation of an e-commerce company that made Bezos the world’s wealthiest person. The decision to divorce comes after a trial separation, according to a statement posted Wednesday on Bezos’ Twitter account.

VALLETTA, Malta — Racing an approaching storm, Maltese military vessels began taking 49 migrants from private rescue ships Wednesday after the island nation reached a deal for the asylum-seekers to be distributed among eight other European Union members. The deal ends an impasse that kept the migrants stuck on the rescue boats while European governments

NEW YORK — Mark Geiger, the first American to referee in the knockout stage of the World Cup, is retiring after 15 seasons in Major League Soccer. The Professional Referee Organization, which oversees on-field officials in the United States and Canada, plans to announce Wednesday that the 44-year-old will become its director of senior match

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — A Muslim civil rights group is suing to block the state of Maryland from enforcing an executive order barring state agencies from contracting with businesses that boycott Israel. The Council on American-Islamic Relations sued Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and state Attorney General Brian Frosh on Wednesday on behalf of software engineer

NEW YORK — The owners of New York City’s Chrysler Building are putting the iconic Art Deco skyscraper on the market. The building’s owners have hired commercial real estate firm CBRE Group Inc. to market the Manhattan office tower that once served as the headquarters of the Chrysler Corp. The Chrysler Building was purchased by

BERLIN — Germany and France are set to sign a new bilateral treaty pledging deeper cooperation between the two leading European Union powers. Germany’s Cabinet on Wednesday gave the green light for Chancellor Angela Merkel to sign the agreement with French President Emmanuel Macron in the German city of Aachen on Jan. 22. That’s the

WARSAW, Poland — Thousands of Poles are protesting a government plan to hold a massive slaughter of wild boars as a way to stop the spread of the deadly African swine fever among farm pigs. Environmentalists say up to 200,000 wild boars, including pregnant females, could be killed across Poland by the end of January

BEIRUT — A Syrian Kurdish militia says its fighters have captured eight foreign fighters with the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, including an American teenager. The force known as the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, says the militants were captured in a special operation in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour, where IS extremists

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — Two of seven bounty hunters charged with murder after descending on the wrong car and killing an unarmed man in Tennessee have taken deals in the case to avoid trial. The charges stem from a chaotic scene in Clarksville in April 2017, when police said the bounty hunters shot at four people

NEW YORK — Stocks around the world built on their early 2019 rally Wednesday after negotiators from the U.S. and China extended their trade talks to a third day, which investors took as a sign the discussions were productive even though no major breakthroughs have been announced. Oil prices also continued to climb and stocks

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A veteran member of Cambodia’s dissolved opposition party has broken ranks with his colleagues and become the first to apply for a government-offered lifting of a ban on engaging in political activity. Kong Korm was one of 118 members of the Cambodia National Rescue Party who were banned when the group

AMSTERDAM — The European Union’s Medicines Agency has started shifting its work from London to Amsterdam in a concrete consequence of Britain’s looming departure from the bloc. European Medicines Agency Executive Director Guido Rasi was given a pair of Dutch wooden shoes Wednesday as he officially opened his organization’s temporary offices. Construction of a purpose-built

NEW YORK — The start of a new year often coincides with a surge in monthly memberships to gyms. Ride-hailing services are hoping customers will think along the same lines about their transportation needs. Uber and Lyft recently launched subscription plans promising savings for those trips to the gym, to work or around town. The

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia says six people have been killed in a security raid in a predominantly Shiite region in the Eastern Province of the kingdom. The state-run al-Ekhbariya channel on Wednesday released the names of those killed in al-Qatif, with three identified as from the same family. Al-Ekhbariya aired images of what

MONTPELIER, Vt. — The Vermont State Police say more should have been done after a suspect later charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a New Hampshire woman was reported missing from a residential drug treatment facility. In a timeline of the disappearance of Everett Simpson released Monday, state police say investigators should have sought an

PARIS — A French fighter jet carrying two pilots has disappeared from radar screens near the Swiss border. A French air force spokeswoman said the Mirage 2000D was last detected Wednesday in a snow-covered mountainous area between the Doubs and Jura regions. She said a search is underway for signs of the plane. The spokeswoman

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — His name is being mentioned in the same breath as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, even though it’s a name few soccer fans are familiar with. By scoring two goals in his first match at this year’s Asian Cup, India striker Sunil Chhetri displaced Messi as the second-most prolific

MOSCOW — Russia’s Defense Ministry says it has received 30 Soviet WW II-era T-34 battle tanks from Laos — a move reflecting the national veneration of the weapon. The ministry said Wednesday the tanks are fully combat-ready and will be used in military parades and for making World War II movies. The T-34 played a

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is visiting the Dutch port city of Rotterdam for talks with his Dutch counterpart as part of preparations to host the leaders of the world’s top 20 economies in Osaka in June. Abe meets Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Wednesday for a boat tour of Rotterdam’s

LAS VEGAS — The CES 2019 gadget show is revving up in Las Vegas. Here are the latest findings and observations from Associated Press reporters on the ground. THIS SHOW WON’T GO ON The Trump administration has some ideas about the future of commercial drones and self-driving technology, but it won’t be sharing them at

GUYTON, Ga. — A fifth person has been arrested after the bodies of two children were found buried in eastern Georgia last month. The Effingham County Sheriff’s Office told news outlets that 31-year-old Mark Wright was arrested Tuesday and charged with first-degree cruelty to children. The bodies of 14-year-olds Mary Crocker and Elwyn Crocker Jr.

GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemala’s highest court has blocked President Jimmy Morales’ decision to unilaterally end a U.N. anti-corruption commission. The U.N. anti-corruption commission has angered Morales after it helped investigate him, his sons and his brother on accusations of corruption, which they deny. Guatemala’s Constitutional Court ruled early Wednesday after all-night deliberations. The court ruled

NEW YORK — Kevin Hart says he won’t be hosting the Academy Awards. “No,” was his response when asked Wednesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” Hart says it’s too late to prepare. Hart added it’s “hard to predict what can happen.” But he doesn’t want “people to think there’s a thing about me and the