Новости за 29.08.2015

European countries will increase identity checks and baggage controls on trains after American passengers thwarted an attack on a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris, France's interior minister said Saturday.

Waving red, white and green Lebanese flags, thousands of people poured into a major square in downtown Beirut Saturday, staging the largest of the demonstrations that began last week over garbage piling up in the streets of Beirut following the closure of a main landfill.

Chad executed by firing squad 10 members of Boko Haram on Saturday, the security minister said, marking the first use of the death penalty since the country bolstered its anti-terror measures last month.

Tropical Storm Erika dissipated early Saturday, even as its remnants began drenching parts of eastern Cuba. But it left devastation in its path, killing at least 20 people and leaving nearly 50 missing on the small eastern Caribbean island of Dominica, authorities said.

The Nigerian air force says one of its aircraft has crashed into a residential house in Kaduna state killing all four crew and three passengers.

The Pakistani military says its latest airstrikes in a troubled tribal region near Afghanistan have killed 14 suspected militants.

On a night when four freshmen started for the Mids, the Navy women's soccer team relied on a couple of its most accomplished players to save the day.

Jim Young stood on a crate on the broad plaza outside the Department of Health and Human Services, a red megaphone in his right hand and, beneath his khaki shorts, an artificial left leg. "Limbs are not a luxury!" he chanted, leading nearly 150 people clustered around him.

Local police are working with the Army's criminal investigations unit after a Fort Meade soldier was shot to death. Police found Karlyn Ramirez in her townhome after responding to a call for an open door at the residence Tuesday morning.

The leaders of France, Germany and Russia have spoken by phone and are exploring the possibility of a summit with Ukraine's president about the conflict in the country's east.

Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., acting as his own attorney, called himself to the witness stand and spoke of his military history and of how he started a group in North Carolina called the White Patriot Party. Miller also told jurors the prosecutor had a "slam dunk" and he knew they would put him on death row.

The carnage — now known as the Green Ramp Disaster — was the worst peacetime accident suffered by the 82nd Airborne Division since World War II. But for survivor Shawn O'Hara, the story didn't end there.

The Islamic extremist group Boko Haram infiltrated the capital's main airport and was using a teenager to carrying out surveillance, Nigeria's intelligence agency said.

From its founding, Jimmy Carter insisted that the humanitarian organization focus on work that others had not or would not tackle, including the Guinea-worm eradication project, which cut the number of cases of the disease from 3.5 million in 1986 to 126 in 2014.

With more and more refugees appearing in Europe daily this summer, cities and towns are grappling with a basic but crucial problem: Where can they all sleep?

Islamic State militants detained at least 70 people in a remote western Iraqi town on Saturday following a rare street demonstration protesting the extremist group's execution of a local resident, security officials said.

South Sudan's warring factions say violent clashes are continuing before a cease-fire is to come into effect on Sunday.

Turkey announced Saturday that its fighter jets have carried out their first airstrikes as part of the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State group in Syria.

Thai authorities arrested a foreign man Saturday they said had been holed up in a suburban apartment with bomb-making equipment and stacks of passports, the first possible breakthrough in the deadly bombing at a Bangkok shrine nearly two weeks ago.

A Congo-born nurse was laid to rest in a quiet corner of Belgium on Saturday, surrounded by emissaries from the King and the United States, politicians and a military honor guard.

Charles Kimpel finally received the military honors he was due as a Civil War veteran on Friday. The ceremonies, which included the unveiling of his headstone and a flag presentation, took place 125 years after the volunteer Union Army private was buried in Allegheny Cemetery.

Military personnel are looking for a training missile they say fell from one of its Apache helicopters Friday morning, but insist it is not a threat to the public.

Henry Poisson cherished his encounters with Gen. George S. Patton in Europe during World War II. A sergeant in the 150th Combat Engineer Battalion, Poisson led a team of soldiers who built bridges, prepared assault crossings and cleared and laid down land mines. "He loved his buck sergeants. We would talk for about half an hour or more. I really liked him."

North and South Korea on Saturday set a meeting to prepare for more reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.

France's defense ministry says a French soldier deployed in Mali has died after being accidentally shot by a fellow soldier at a military camp.