Новости за 28.01.2019

BOSTON — The wealthy founder of a drug company is heading to trial on allegations that he led a scheme to bribe doctors into prescribing a highly addictive fentanyl spray. Opening statements are expected in Boston’s federal court Monday in the case of Insys Therapeutics Inc. founder John Kapoor and four other former employees of

LONDON — Officials say a rare red panda has gone missing from Belfast Zoo in Northern Ireland. Belfast City Council officials said Monday the animal is not considered dangerous but warned the public not to approach it if it is spotted. Anyone seeing the animal is advised to call police. Police also asked motorists to

BARCELONA, Spain — Espanyol says it has signed striker Wu Lei, the second Chinese player to join the Spanish league. Wu has been playing for Chinese club Shanghai SIPG, where he thrived for several seasons. The 27-year-old player was the league’s Golden Boot winner last year, and its top Chinese scorer for five straight seasons.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch authorities are investigating the cause of a gas explosion that blew the facade off an apartment building, injuring 10 people, including four who were rescued from under the rubble. Firefighters and search-and-rescue teams using sniffer dogs freed the final person early Monday after he had spent some eight hours buried

PARIS — A French judicial official says police are investigating the theft of an artwork by the British artist Banksy that was painted as a tribute to the victims of the 2015 terror attacks at the Bataclan music hall in Paris. The artwork, a black image appearing to depict a person mourning , had been

LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson’s family members said Monday that they are “furious” that two men who accuse him of sexually abusing them as boys have received renewed attention because of a new documentary about them. The family released a statement denouncing “Leaving Neverland,” a documentary film featuring Jackson accusers Wade Robson and James Safechuck

ISTANBUL — A U.N. human rights expert has arrived in Turkey for a weeklong visit over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard and her team of experts on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary killings met with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Ankara on Monday. Turkey’s official Anadolu news agency said

PARIS — The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights is traveling to Paris to meet with French authorities to discuss human rights issues related to the yellow vests protests. A day after yellow vests demonstrated for an 11th straight weekend in Paris and across France, Dunja Mijatovic said Monday on Twitter that she will

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Separatists opened fire on an aircraft carrying military personnel and local government officials in Indonesia’s easternmost Papua region, killing one soldier, the military said Monday. The incident, in Nduga district where rebels killed 19 people in an attack last month, happened shortly after the light plane took off from Kenyam airport Monday

TOKYO — Nissan Motor Co. says it has received an inquiry from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Japanese automaker said in a statement Monday that it “can confirm that we have received an inquiry from the SEC, and are cooperating fully. We cannot provide further details.” The statement followed reports by both Japanese

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai International Airport says it remains the world’s busiest for international travel. The airport said on Monday that it welcomed over 89 million passengers in 2018. That’s compared to the hub seeing about 88.2 million passengers in 2017. Dubai International Airport first surpassed London Heathrow as the world’s busiest airport

MELBOURNE, Australia — Novak Djokovic sounds like a man ready to embrace the chase. Already at 15 Grand Slam titles, Djokovic is now only two majors behind Rafael Nadal’s total of 17, and five shy of Roger Federer’s men’s record of 20. So a day after winning the Australian Open for his third Slam trophy

The Golden State Warriors don’t just have streaks. They have streaks of streaks. Golden State has won 10 straight games, the longest winning streak in the NBA this season. And that makes this the sixth consecutive season that the Warriors have had a double-digit streak of victories — which ties San Antonio for the longest

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Bahrain’s highest court has upheld life sentences for a prominent Shiite cleric who led a now-shuttered opposition party and two of his colleagues. The ruling on Monday targeted Sheikh Ali Salman, who headed the Al-Wefaq political party and was a central figure in Bahrain’s 2011 Arab Spring protests. A court

NEW YORK — North Carolina joined a somewhat exclusive group on Sunday with the Tar Heels’ win over No. 1 Notre Dame. They are just the fourth unranked team to beat the top squad in the AP poll over the past 20 years according to ESPN. All four of those upsets have come on the

MELBOURNE, Australia — Australian Open champion Naomi Osaka is the youngest woman to make her debut at No. 1 in nine years and the first man or woman from Asia to lead the tennis rankings. Simona Halep’s 48-week stay atop the WTA ended Monday. She slid to No. 3 after a fourth-round loss to Serena

ISLAMABAD — The lawyer of a Pakistani Christian woman facing the final ruling on her fate is back in the country, vowing to fight the last legal hurdle with his client who has faced death threats from Islamist radicals following her acquittal in a blasphemy case. Saiful Malook fled the country after Pakistan’s Supreme Court

BANGKOK — Asian shares fell back Monday from early gains as caution over looming trade talks between Washington and Beijing displaced relief over the end of the partial U.S. government shutdown. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock index sank 0.6 percent to 20,649.00. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index was flat at 27,562.20 and the Shanghai

MOSUL, Iraq — For centuries, residents of Mosul have spoken a unique form of Arabic enriched by the Iraqi city’s long history as a crossroads of civilization, a singsong dialect that many now fear will die out after years of war and displacement. Much of Mosul’s Old City, where speakers of the dialect are concentrated,

KATHMANDU, Nepal — An investigation report says the pilot of a Bangladeshi airliner was disoriented and had lost situational awareness before his plane crashed in Nepal last year, killed 51 people and injuring 20. US-Bangla Airlines Flight BS211 from Dhaka crashed on its second landing attempt at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport on March 12, 2018.

WASHINGTON — Forced to back down on a government shutdown, President Donald Trump is shifting his story regarding his campaign promise to build a border wall. He’s also once again inflating the number of immigrants in the U.S. illegally. The president insists he never proposed a concrete wall, promoting instead a “see-through” barrier made of

MUNICH — Debut day in the Bundesliga had a happy ending for United States midfielder Tyler Adams and Alphonso Davies, a rising Canadian star born in a refugee camp. The 19-year-old Adams started for Leipzig in a 4-0 win at Fortuna Duesseldorf in the German league on Sunday, while Davies, 18, came on in the

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. — The moms meet in a parking lot overlooking the little white funeral home and watch the mourners drifting toward the chapel doors — a familiar scene, beginning again. Cheryl Juaire taps nervously on her steering wheel. “Are we ready?” she asks the two other mothers leaning into the window of her SUV.

BARCELONA, Spain — With Luka Modric back to playing like a Ballon d’Or winner, Real Madrid is gaining momentum in time for a run at a fourth straight Champions League title. Modric was voted the world’s top player in December after leading Croatia to the World Cup final and helping Madrid win a third European

BRUMADINHO, Brazil — Firefighters are carefully moving over treacherous mud, sometimes walking, sometimes crawling, in search of survivors or bodies left by a dam collapse that buried mine buildings and surrounding neighborhoods with iron ore waste. The confirmed death toll rose to 58, with up to 300 people still missing, authorities said. In an ominous