Новости за 12.07.2015

Andrew Robert Jeffery Caron, the son of a retired Army first sergeant, never was absent, never was tardy during his 13-year education from kindergarten through his senior year of high school. That's 2,340 days, he figures.

It’s a legacy of terror. Yet for the dwindling number of people still living who had a hand in making the bomb, all the death, fright and global instability that their work unleashed has not, all these many years later, shaken their resolve that they did the right thing.

In Japan, selling or producing child pornography has been illegal for 16 years. Possession of it has not. That’s about to change. But the new ban still skirts one key sector — anime.

Across the country, service dogs in training have been welcomed not only by hospitals, but by workplaces ranging from law firms to military bases to universities. But now Orange County (Fla.) Public Schools will ban them from its classrooms.

On a recent weekday evening, Bastrop’s small downtown was quiet, with a few pedestrians checking out the restaurants. Along its highways and other prominent spots, there were no protests, no billboards declaring the U.S. Army a threat to liberty — no sign at all, really, that Bastrop is enmeshed in the controversy over Jade Helm 15.

Robin Sage, a role-playing exercise that is the culminating event of Special Forces training, will be staged over several counties in North Carolina's Cape Fear region between Wednesday and Aug.4.

For years, the U.S. military has increasingly booked time on the Ghost Fleet for role-playing exercises, from force protection to search-and-seizure, from hostage rescue to helicopter approach-and-hover.

When Army Sgt. Patrick Hart decided a decade ago that he would not serve in the war in Iraq, he expected to follow the same path as thousands of American war resisters during the Vietnam era and take refuge across the border.

In the service for only seven months, Pvt. Joel Ceniseros was relieved to hear that Fort Drum dodged a bullet last week. Projected to possibly lose as many as 4,000 soldiers as part of a nationwide reduction in the size of the Army, the base will instead lose only 28.

Step inside the Kabul Taxi, the Facebook page of the Afghan capital’s latest political satirist. No one knows the identity of its creator, but in the past three months more than 13,000 people have "liked" the page - making it something of a sounding board for Afghans’ collective frustration.

Negotiators at the Iran nuclear talks plan to announce Monday that they've reached a historic deal capping nearly a decade of diplomacy that would curb the country's atomic program in return for sanctions relief, two diplomats told The Associated Press on Sunday.

A suicide car bombing near a U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan that once hosted CIA employees killed at least 17 civilians Sunday, local officials said, the latest insurgent attack after foreign forces ended their combat mission there.