Новости за 12.07.2020

TIRANA, Albania — Kosovo’s president said Sunday he was going to The Hague to prove to prosecutors investigating war crimes allegedly committed during and after a 1998-1999 armed conflict in Kosovo between ethnic Albanian separatists and Serbia that he had broken no international laws during the war. Hashim Thaci spoke to private television Top Channel

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court has ruled that the first federal execution in nearly two decades can proceed as scheduled on Monday. The ruling from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturns a lower court order that had put the execution of 47-year-old Daniel Lewis Lee on hold. Lee, of Yukon, Oklahoma, had

SPIELBERG, Austria — It’s already the pits for Ferrari, just two races into the new Formula One season. Four-time F1 champion Sebastian Vettel and rising star Charles Leclerc are off the pace, and crashed with each other on the track Sunday for the second time in the space of four races. The incident at the

BORDEN, Ind. — The body of a Kentucky man was pulled from a southern Indiana lake over the weekend authorities announced Sunday. Indiana Conservation Officers said the body of 32-year-old Cory Dugger was recovered after 5 p.m. on Saturday from Deam Lake. Clark County dispatchers received a 911 call after the Louisville man disappeared beneath

PARIS — France and Britain signed an agreement Sunday to share intelligence in their joint fight against the human traffickers who are illegally smuggling migrants across the English Channel. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said the deal to set up a French-British intelligence unit would allow for better exchanges of information about smuggling networks. British

BAMAKO, Mali — Protesters ransacked a building belonging to President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita’s political party on Sunday, underscoring the tensions that remain in Mali, even after the president met one of their top demands. The latest unrest at a neighborhood headquarters for Keita’s RPM party came as mourners returned from funerals to bury several of

SPIELBERG, Austria — Standing on the podium to celebrate his latest win, Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton raised a clenched right fist and then delivered a message to his fellow drivers not to slow down in the fight against racism. It’s 52 years since American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos introduced that powerfully

CAMARILLO, Calif. — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline increased by 2 cents over the past two weeks, to $2.24 per gallon. That’s 59 cents below the average pump price from a year ago. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that the increase comes as crude oil prices rise. The

The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Eric Lauer said Sunday that he’s on the injured list because he was in close contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19. Lauer said he hasn’t tested positive. The protocols accompanying that situation caused Lauer to arrive

INDIANAPOLIS — Crews were working to restore power to thousands of customers in central Indiana Sunday after a series of storms hit the region. Indianapolis Power & Light Company said Sunday that more than 25,000 customers were affected by storms that hit Saturday. By Sunday, just under 3,000 were without power, though company officials say

BIRMINGHAM, England — A 12-year-old boy was arrested by police after Crystal Palace player Wilfried Zaha highlighted racist abuse he received ahead of Sunday’s Premier League match at Aston Villa. Zaha posted the screenshots on Twitter with the message: “Woke up to this today.” The racist messages and imagery referencing Zaha being Black were sent

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana reported 560 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and four deaths on Sunday, according to the Indiana State Department of Health. The total number of confirmed cases in the state is 51,612 since the coronavirus pandemic began. State officials said 2,567 people have died. Health officials say there are another 193 probable deaths

WESTFIELD, Ind. — A suburban Indianapolis woman has turned 105 years old with a car parade to mark the occasion. Ruth George celebrated her birthday on Saturday in Westfield, according to WTHR-TV. A line of cars drove by the senior citizens center where she lives and greeted her. Family, friends and a few strangers participated.

BIRMINGHAM, England — Trezeguet scored twice as Aston Villa boosted its slim chances of staying in the Premier League with a 2-0 victory against Crystal Palace on Sunday. The Egypt international scored in each half to hand third-from-last Villa its first win in 11 league games and move the team to within four points of

LOS ANGELES — The search to find “Glee” TV show star Naya Rivera in a Southern California lake resumed on Sunday, authorities said. The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office said last Thursday that they believe Rivera, 33, drowned in Lake Piru, northwest of Los Angeles. Her 4-year-old son was discovered alone in a rented boat. The

SOUTHAMPTON, England — West Indies came through an early wobble to move to 143-4 at tea and 57 runs from victory on the final day of the first test against England on Sunday. Jermaine Blackwood was 65 not out and had revived the tourists with a 73-run partnership with Roston Chase before Chase was out

ELKHART LAKE, Wis. — Pato O’Ward won the pole Sunday morning as Scott Dixon chases his fourth straight victory in the second half of a weekend IndyCar doubleheader at Road America. O’Ward, a Chevy driver for Arrow McLaren SP, had a time of 1 minute, 44.8971 seconds on a course that stretches slightly over 4

July 13 1896 — Philadelphia’s Ed Delahanty hit four home runs in a losing effort, a 9-8 loss to Chicago. 1934 — Babe Ruth hit his 700th home run in a 4-2 victory over Tommy Bridges and the Detroit Tigers. Lou Gehrig left in the first with a severe case of lumbago, the most serious

July 13 1881 — William Renshaw sets the record for the shortest men’s championship match by time and games by beating John T. Hartley 6-0, 6-1, 6-1 in 37 minutes at Wimbledon. 1941 — The PGA tournament is won by Vic Ghezzi with a 1-up 38-hole victory over Byron Nelson. 1943 — The first night

LE HAVRE, France — For the first time since the coronavirus shut down sports and chased away spectators, Neymar and Kylian Mbappe were starring in the return Sunday of fans to elite European soccer. “Now it’s for real … we’re back,” Mbappe tweeted before the kickoff of Paris Saint-Germain against Le Havre, an exhibition match

JOHANNESBURG — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says the country will immediately return to a ban on the sale of alcohol to reduce the volume of trauma patients so that hospitals have more beds open to treat COVID-19 patients. Confronted by surging hospitalizations due to the coronavirus, South Africa is also reinstating a night curfew

MOSCOW — Demonstrators in the Russian Far East city of Khabarovsk held a second day of protests against the arrest of the region’s governor on suspicion of involvement in several murders. The Sunday demonstration in the city, 6,100 kilometers (3,800 miles) east of Moscow, was smaller than a massive gathering on Saturday that was estimated

INDIANAPOLIS — Construction is underway on a new pedestrian bridge for the Monon Trail over a busy Indianapolis street near the Indiana State Fairgrounds. City officials planned to close all lanes of 38th Street at the trail’s crossing over the weekend for construction crews. The raised, five-span bridge will cost $5.6 million and is scheduled

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Countries in Eastern Europe are facing rising waves of coronavirus infections, leading to riots in Serbia, mandatory face masks in Croatia and travel bans or quarantines imposed by Hungary. The new restrictions come as the World Health Organization reports that daily global infections hit over 228,000 last week, and the U.S. confirmed

BEIRUT — Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn says he is assisting those who helped him flee from Japan to Lebanon last year but refuses to provide details about the escape, saying such information would endanger them. In an interview aired late Saturday by the pan-Arab Al-Arabiya TV, Ghosn refused to comment on allegations