Новости за 15.08.2015

Two parachutists were seriously injured Saturday during the Chicago Air & Water Show, including one who witnesses say clipped the top of a high-rise apartment building and fell to the ground in the city's Gold Coast neighborhood.

Retired Marine Corp Maj. John Schwent and his warriors are celebrating an equipment donation that will bring wounded warriors together, in more ways than one.

Yemen's anti-rebel fighters said Saturday they took over the capital of southern Shabwah province, as officials close to the Iran-allied rebels confirmed they withdrew after coming under attack.

An Iraqi police official says a car bomb at a popular car dealership in eastern Baghdad has killed eight people.

A former army chief was killed Saturday, a Burundi official said, the second military official to be assassinated this month in violence linked to the country's political unrest over President Pierre Nkurunziza's re-election to a third term.

A witness says Islamic State fighters have consolidated their hold over the city of Sirte in central Libya, calling on residents to pledge allegiance over loudspeakers from its main mosque and desecrating bodies of their adversaries.

On a gray and rainy Saturday, Chattanooga gathered once more to honor its five slain servicemen and their grieving families, and acknowledge a community forever changed by a lone gunman one month ago.

He promises continuity – yet change. He favors growth – but sustainability. He admires the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara – and the British Conservative Winston Churchill. Daniel Scioli, who emerged from primaries this week as the leading candidate to be Argentina's next president, has mastered the art of being many things to many people.

Growing pressure from military leaders in Kabul to churn out more bomb-disposal units is forcing Afghan and NATO trainers to put explosives specialists into the field who may not be up to the task, Afghan and coalition officials say.

After trying for years to tighten the rules on for-profit colleges, the Department of Education finally enacted regulations on the industry this summer. But the fight's not over. A month after new rules went into effect, the department faces continuing push-back from the colleges, and Republican lawmakers as well.

Nearly four months into the uprising against Bashar Assad's regime, U.S. ambassador to Syria Robert Ford took a drive from Damascus to the rebellious city of Hama, where cheering residents greeted him with roses and olive branches. Ford's headline-making trip was the beginning of a string of U.S. actions in Syria that were hastily planned, based on the incorrect assumption that Assad would soon fall

By autumn 2011, weeks after President Barack Obama demanded that Bashar Assad step aside and with the rebels making some modest gains on the battlefield, the question among the administration's Syria watchers was: Thanksgiving or Christmas? Apart from a couple of holdouts, the president's entire foreign policy brain trust was convinced at the time that Assad would be out by the holiday season; there was only bickering about just how soon.

Iran on Saturday gave the U.N. nuclear agency documents linked to the agency's probe of allegations that Tehran tried to develop atomic arms, along with a confidential explanation that is unlikely to veer from previous Iranian denials of work on such weapons.

By the summer of 2011, the Syrian uprising was spiraling into a full-fledged insurgency. On Aug. 18, 2011, President Barack Obama issued a statement, the preamble of which hailed the peaceful demonstrators who stood up to the regime's "ferocious brutality." Then came the money line: "For the sake of the Syrian people, the time has come for President Assad to step aside."

Jeb Bush, the son and brother of presidents, can't escape his family; sometimes he doesn't even try. Jeb Bush's family connections have forced him to negotiate a tricky path through a potential political mine field.

To Hidetoshi Tojo, his great-grandfather is a man in a black-and-white documentary film he saw some 30 years ago.

Germany's defense ministry says it will withdraw some 250 troops stationed in Turkey when the mandate for their air-defense mission ends next year.

Dozens of fighter jets soared, tanks rumbled and hundreds of troops marched in a Polish military parade Saturday, a show of force on the national armed forces' holiday.

New small explosions rocked a disaster zone in the Chinese port of Tianjin on Saturday as teams scrambled to clear dangerous chemical contamination and found several more bodies to bring the death toll to 104 in massive blasts earlier in the week.

A group of 40 motorcyclists rumbled out of Columbia Park on Friday to give 22 veterans a long-awaited escort to their burial site. The remains – some from as far back as World War I – have been unclaimed all these years.

Knowles, 91, is one of several veterans in Aiken who shared their memories in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II on Saturday.

For the first time since returning home from Afghanistan in 2012, N.C. National Guard Sgt. Kyle Snyder finally has his own home. Operation: Coming Home, which builds homes for wounded veterans in the Triangle, has almost finished a home in the Traditions subdivision for Snyder, his wife, Joann Snyder, and their children.

Roy Hessman found the photo album when his tank battalion came under heavy fire. He crawled into a foxhole to seek protection during a battle on the Philippines. The foxhole had previously been home for a Japanese soldier. Along with the album, there was a sword and a decorative letter opener. After the war, Hessman came home to Kansas with the album and the letter opener. However, the military confiscated the sword.

Hiroshima was still rebuilding after two-thirds of the city had been devastated by an atomic bomb when Anita Walter Nichols became a pen-pal with one of its residents.

The Home of the Airborne will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the nation's parachute forces during events this weekend in Fayetteville and on Fort Bragg. "Seventy five years is a huge milestone for our airborne history, but it's important to remember that our paratroopers and special operators aren't resting on their laurels," said Tom McCollum, a Fort Bragg spokesman.