Новости за 20.08.2015

Cities like Barcelona, Berlin, Lisbon and Hong Kong, which became major tourist destinations only in the last couple of decades, are starting to look for ways to keep visitors out. This isn’t about xenophobia. It’s a protest against the changing nature of tourism.

Although some thoughtful dissenters wonder whether Americans are quite as enraged as the news media insist, the tale of the angry voter seems unlikely to fade anytime soon.

Thousands of registered email addresses believed to have been hacked from the cheating website Ashley Madison contain .mil domains, according to a Stars and Stripes analysis of the data.

New data from the Washington Traffic Safety Commission shows the number of drivers involved in fatal crashes with THC in their body increased from 38 in 2013 to 75 this past year. Commission staff aren't sure why, though state-regulated pot stores opened in 2014.

Let’s talk, for a moment, about fauxtrage.

Georgia's White County and its most well-known town of Helen have always been beloved for Appalachian culture, mountain flowers in spring, and autumn leaves. We went for wine.

If there is hope for Turkey, it is that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has overreached and will eventually be forced to compromise.

We could wearily shrug, say “Oh, well,” and economize waste and annoyance by just building the proposed $142 million Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial. But long after its perpetrators are gone, it would squat there, representing Washington at its worst and proving that we have forgotten how to nurture our national memory with intelligent memorials.

Whether President Enrique Pena Nieto wore his socks backward when he ran a road race last weekend might seem utterly incon-sock-quential. But the social media commentaries that have exploded over the matter – and Pena Nieto's efforts to address them – speak to something larger about his aloof governing style, sagging popularity and the challenges of dealing with ridicule on the Internet.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter, in shaping his “Force of the Future” initiative, is weighing creation of new “technical career tracks” that would allow many more high-tech military personnel to serve full careers without having to strive for command or being pushed into supervisory roles.

More than three weeks after the Pentagon formally requested that armed volunteers stop standing guard outside military installations across the U.S., a small group of local veterans remains posted in front of a military recruiting center in Middletown.

A German spy who allegedly acted as a double agent for the United States and Russia has been charged with treason, breach of official secrecy and taking bribes, Germany's federal prosecutors' office said Thursday.

South Korea’s Defense Ministry said its military fired dozens of shells Thursday at rival North Korea after the North lobbed a single artillery round at a South Korean border town, according to media reports.

The Border Patrol plans to hire 1,600 agents by the end of the fiscal year Sept. 30. Not all the slots must go to women, but U.S. Customs and Border Protection got a federal exemption to target women.

Jets and motorcycles seldom share the same roadways, but at Yokota, home of U.S. Forces Japan, airmen operate both in close proximity.

The first of 24 Apache AH-64 attack helicopters arrived Tuesday at their new home, Fort Wainwright, Alaska.

The men of this hilltop town who gather at night with clubs and flashlights stress they are not afraid.

A major military contractor with roots in Pennsylvania stretching back a generation will end operations at the end of the year for a lack of demand for the lightweight helmets and body armor it pioneered.

The Army parachutist who died following a jump at the Chicago Air & Water Show was posthumously promoted to the rank of master sergeant, the Army announced Wednesday.

At least eight Turkish soldiers died Wednesday in a roadside bombing widely blamed on the Kurdish party that is aiding the U.S.-led fight against the Islamic State, deepening an internal political crisis and raising new questions about Turkey’s role in the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamist extremist movement.

SEOUL, South Korea — U.S. Forces Korea said Friday there are no plans to halt the ongoing Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise despite an exchange of fire Thursday between the two Koreas that has raised fears of possible conflict on the peninsula.

The Defense Department is adjusting its priority placement policy in hopes of eliminating a backlog of overseas civilian employees entitled to jobs on returning to the U.S.

Hackers say they have exposed unfaithful partners across the world, posting what they said were the personal details of millions of people registered with cheating website Ashley Madison.

Three firefighters were killed and three to four others were injured, at least one critically, on Wednesday as raging wildfires advanced on towns in north-central Washington, authorities said.

Ultras, whose name comes from the Latin word for "beyond," started in Latin America and Europe in the 1950s before coming to Arab countries. Since 2011, ultras have clashed frequently with police. In 2012, a soccer riot involving ultras killed more than 70 people and injured hundreds.