Новости за 18.12.2016

BEIJING (AP) — A smog-shrouded Chinese city canceled airline flights Sunday due to poor visibility and parents took children to hospitals on the second day of a pollution alert across the country's north.

Beijing and 22 other Chinese cities imposed emergency measures Saturday, including ordering cars off the road and telling factories and schools to close, after pollution soared to more than 10 times safe levels. Chinese cities are notorious for noxious air blamed on emissions from older cars and trucks, coal-fired power plants and factories. Beijing and other cities have tried to improve air quality by switching power plants from coal to natural gas and rolling out fleets of electric buses and taxis.

Beijing and 22 other Chinese cities imposed emergency measures Saturday, including ordering cars off the road and telling factories and schools to close, after pollution soared to more than 10 times safe levels. Chinese cities are notorious for noxious air blamed on emissions from older cars and trucks, coal-fired power plants and factories. Beijing and other cities have tried to improve air quality by switching power plants from coal to natural gas and rolling out fleets of electric buses and taxis.

According to a citation, the church violated a regulation that prohibits “non-permitted rooming and boarding” houses by allowing homeless individuals to sleep on church grounds.

Mosul, Iraq (CNN)Dunya is pale and exhausted. It is less than 12 hours since the mother-of-three fled Mosul under the cover of darkness and away from the prying eyes of ISIS fighters. "With the protection of God, we fled between two checkpoints," Dunya told CNN. "After we passed them [ISIS] they noticed us and yelled, 'Stop! Stop!' But we kept going and soon they started shooting at us. So we would crawl a little then run a little until we got out." Dunya talks to CNN's Ben Wedeman at the Khazer refugee camp. Читать дальше...

SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's opposition parties are expected to suffer from the potential factional feud of the ruling Saenuri Party, as its division will result in a decrease in state subsidies, political pundits said Sunday. Under the

BEIJING (AP) — China said Saturday its military seized a U.S. Navy unmanned underwater glider in the South China Sea but it would give the drone back. But President-elect Donald Trump tweeted later that the Chinese government should be told…

Kunstenaar Loek Bos vierde onlangs zijn 70ste verjaardag. Ter ere daarvan kreeg hij een lintje, een boek en een grote tentoonstelling.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian military transport plane crashed in bad weather Sunday in the country's easternmost province of Papua, killing all 13 people on board, officials said.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian military transport plane crashed in bad weather Sunday in the country's easternmost province of Papua, killing all 13 people on board, officials said.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian military transport plane crashed in bad weather Sunday in the country's easternmost province of Papua, killing all 13 people on board, officials said.

A British extremist who once worked as a bodyguard for radical cleric Anjem Choudary has been described as "the new Jihadi John" after he appeared in a new Islamic State group (also called ISIS) video showing the beheading of prisoners, according to reports. Mohammed Reza Haque was previously photographed acting as a bodyguard for Choudary at demonstrations in London.

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) killed a 19-year-old Palestinian during clashes with a crowd of young people in the occupied West Bank district near the Ramallah city, local media reported Sunday.

CLEARFIELD – About 147 senior citizens will have something special for Christmas, thanks to the generosity of others. At Thursday’s Clearfield Borough Council meeting, Officer Nathan Curry gave a report on the second-ever “Giving Tree.” Curry said things are “pretty wrapped up” and the gifts have been delivered, but there are still some stragglers out […]

An apparent suicide bombing near a military base in Aden killed at least 40 people, local officials said, the second major attack on soldiers in the Yemeni port city this month.

A suicide bomber killed at least 43 soldiers in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden on Sunday, officials there said, a week after an attack by the militant Islamic State group killed 50 troops nearby.

ZAGREB, Croatia — Authorities in Croatia say 42 migrants have been hospitalized after several dozen, including children, were found packed in a van traveling through the country.

A meeting of Russian, Iranian and Turkish foreign ministers on Syria is expected to be in Moscow on December 20, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said on Dec. 18.

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Authorities in Croatia say 42 migrants have been hospitalized after several dozen, including children, were found packed in a van traveling through the country.

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Authorities in Croatia say 42 migrants have been hospitalized after several dozen, including children, were found packed in a van traveling through the country.

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Authorities in Croatia say 42 migrants have been hospitalized after several dozen, including children, were found packed in a van traveling through the country.

Doctor Maja Grba Buljevic told the Hina news agency their condition has improved. Croatia's state TV says a total of 62 people, including children, were in the van when it was stopped late Saturday by traffic police on a road near the town of Novska, by the Bosnian border.

SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Yonhap) -- Acting President and Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn is set to deliver next year's economy policy plan later this month, sources said Sunday, indicating he will continue to actively participate in state affairs despite oppositio