Новости за 23.03.2019

BYBLOS, Lebanon — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife Susan spent much of the second and last day of their visit to Lebanon touring historical churches and a centuries-old citadel in this coastal city Saturday. The tour in Byblos and a nearby village came a day after Pompeo blasted the militant Hezbollah

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian mining giant Vale said Saturday that communities in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais have been ordered to evacuate after independent auditors found that one of its dams could collapse at any moment. On Friday, the company raised the level of risk at a mining waste dam in the city

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — With Kim Kardashian West pledging to cover five years of rent, one of the first inmates released after federal sentencing reforms says he has finally found a new home. In a Facebook post Friday, Matthew Charles thanked Kardashian West and others for helping to overcome what he called a “nonsensical barrier.” Charles

NEW YORK — Barbra Streisand apologized Saturday for her remarks about Michael Jackson and two men who have accused him of sexual abuse, saying that she should have chosen her words more carefully and that she admires the accusers for “speaking their truth.” Streisand had received bitter criticism online after she was quoted in The

TBILISI, Georgia — Defender Fabian Schar was apparently knocked out in a collision but got up and contributed to Switzerland’s win over Georgia in European Championship qualifying on Saturday. Schar knocked heads with Georgia’s Jemal Tabidze midway through the first half, and lay unconscious on his back, or at least with his eyes closed. Players

LONDON — The surviving members of the band The Prodigy have invited fans of the late Keith Flint to line a procession route ahead of a private service celebrating his life on March 29. The band tweeted Saturday that a church service for Flint will be for family and close friends only but that speakers

HELSINKI — The Latest on the Viking Sky cruise ship, which is having engine problems off the coast of Norway (all times local): 9:40 p.m. Norwegian rescue authorities say a freighter has experienced an engine seizure in the same stormy Hustadsvika Bay region off western Norway where hundreds of people are being winched off by

PENDLETON, Ind. — Police say a 91-year-old Indiana woman rolled her car while trying to answer her cellphone. The Madison County sheriff’s department says the woman had cuts on an arm and hand and pain in her back. The Herald Bulletin reports that she was driving west on U.S. 36 Friday when her Honda Civic

HOUSTON — Officials have no timetable for reopening a portion of the Houston Ship Channel, one of the busiest commercial waterways in the country, after another setback caused flammable chemicals to seep into the water near a fire-ravaged petrochemical tank farm, a Coast Guard commander said Saturday. Coast Guard Capt. Kevin Oditt said during a

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Kodak says a new beer hitting the market can be used to develop its Super 8 movie film. Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Delaware created its SuperEIGHT beer after a conversation with people at Kodak, the upstate New York technology company most famous for its photographic roots. Dogfish learned from Kodak that

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Supreme Court is hearing the case of a woman who refused to unlock her cellphone for police in a stalking investigation. Attorneys in the case say the court’s decision could undermine privacy interests and constitutional rights, or public safety and law enforcement. The Supreme Court will hear arguments next month in

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Work has begun on a covered bridge near the site of a span destroyed decades ago by fire in southern Indiana’s Monroe County. Workers used cranes Friday to move the bridge’s wooden frame into place across Beanblossom Creek, a few miles north of Bloomington. The 127-foot-long span is being built near the

JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was glowing as he stepped up to a podium in the backyard of his Jerusalem home to welcome U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to a holiday dinner. Less than an hour earlier, President Donald Trump had surprised the world by announcing that the U.S. would reverse policy

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In a remote stretch of desert in southern New Mexico, the U.S. government set in motion an experiment that, if successful, would prove to the world that radioactive waste could be safely disposed of deep underground. Twenty years and more than 12,380 shipments later, tons of Cold War-era waste from decades of

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — What if you were governor of Illinois and didn’t have a thing to wear? If you’re J.B. Pritzker, you look at your daily schedule. During his first six weeks in office, Pritzker’s appointment calendar includes 70 “attire” recommendations for events as varied as bill signings, a state police officer’s funeral, a White

BISMARCK, N.D. — Parties involved in a dispute over whether North Dakota regulators should be involved in the siting of an oil refinery near Theodore Roosevelt National Park have filed their initial legal arguments in state court. Here’s a look at the dispute over the $800 million Davis Refinery being built by Meridian Energy. THE

PARIS — The Latest on French yellow vest protests (all times local): 1:50 p.m. Thousands of yellow vest protesters are marching through Paris amid heightened security a week after resurgent rioting by demonstrators angry at President Emmanuel Macron. The crowd gathered peacefully at Denfert-Rochereau Square in southern Paris and then headed through the Left Bank.

BAGHOUZ, Syria — The Latest on the battle against the Islamic State group in Syria (all times local): 3:15 p.m. French President Emmanuel Macron has paid tribute to the international coalition and its allies after U.S.-backed forces declared military victory over the Islamic State group in Syria. Macron tweeted that “a major danger to our

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says John McCain failed his fellow veterans, stained public policy and took anti-Trump fake news to the FBI before the 2016 election. McCain can’t respond but his record speaks. Trump misrepresented it, on matters stretching from McCain’s school days to his funeral, as he went on a tear about the

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Saturday replaced Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati, the embattled archbishop of Santiago, Chile, after he became embroiled in the country’s spiraling sex abuse and cover-up scandal. Francis accepted Ezzati’s resignation and named a temporary replacement to govern Chile’s most important archdiocese: the Spanish-born Capuchin friar and current bishop of Copiapo, Chile,

LONDON — The Latest on Brexit (all times local): 12:35 p.m. Around 100 British expats have rallied in the Spanish capital against Britain leaving the European Union. The protesters chanted slogans against Brexit and many also held up homemade signs, including “17,410,742 people need a good spanking,” in reference to the number of Britons who

ALGIERS, Algeria — Hundreds of lawyers in Algeria marched in the country’s capital, Algiers, to demand the departure of ailing 82-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika at the end of his term scheduled on April 28. Similar demonstrations were planned Saturday in the country’s other big cities. Lawyers chanted anti-government slogans as they were heading toward a

TIRANA, Albania — Albanian coach Christian Panucci has been fired a day after his team lost to Turkey in a European Championship qualifier. In a statement Saturday, the Albanian soccer federation said it had terminated the 46-year-old Italian’s contract. Albania lost 2-0 at home to Turkey in their opening Euro 2020 game on Friday. Panucci

BEIRUT — The announcement of victory over the Islamic State group in Syria marks the end of the extremists’ self-styled caliphate, a proto-state in which they held millions hostage to their dark and brutal vision. But IS, which traces its roots back to the bloody emergence of al-Qaida in Iraq after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion,

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Nacho Elvira took a big step towards clinching a first European Tour title after he fired a 6-under-par 66 for a two-shot advantage over David Lipsky after the third round at the Maybank Championship on Saturday. Elvira has been on song since the opening round where he joint-led the standings, and