Новости за 04.09.2015

The wife of an American man detained by rebel forces in Yemen in late March is pleading for his safe return as diplomatic efforts to free him have faltered amid a violent political struggle between rebels who have seized power and a Saudi-backed campaign to dislodge them.

Drunk and combat-stressed, Master Sgt. Nathaniel L. Cosby killed an escort he met well after midnight. By then he had been drinking, he said, for 10 hours straight. Now, Cosby will spend years in prison following a military court’s rejection of the appeal of his unpremeditated murder conviction for the killing of a Portland, Ore.-based prostitute named Ivy.

Kurdish fighters backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes have made “significant” advances against the Islamic State near Tuz Khormato in northern Iraq as the effort to reclaim the western city of Ramadi is moving slowly, a U.S. general said Friday.

The world has been transfixed in recent weeks by the unfolding refugee crisis in Europe, an influx of migrants unprecedented since World War II. Their plight was chillingly highlighted on Wednesday in the image of a drowned Syrian toddler, his lifeless body lying alone on a Turkish beach.

There were shouts and tears in the Naval Academy Chapel. Frank Petersen Jr., the Marine Corps' first black pilot, died last week — and his life was being celebrated.

Five Chinese naval vessels transited U.S. territorial waters near Alaska this week, a U.S. military official said, adding that the ships had passed within about 12 nautical miles of the Aleutian Islands following a joint Russian-Chinese military exercise.

A key Democratic senator, Ben Cardin of Maryland, announced opposition to the Iran nuclear deal Friday, in a blow to the White House and a boost to opponents.

Of the wide range of topics that Sgt. Maj. of the Army Dan Dailey usually discusses with his enlisted charges, it’s uniform changes — most notably, the desire to wear black socks with the Army’s new physical fitness uniform — that elicit the strongest response.

Dubbed Anakonda 16, the exercise will take place at locations across Poland and will include a command element based in the U.S. While planning is still in the early stages, the effort is expected to involve about 25,000 troops and include several allied countries.

Two men appeared on Polish TV Friday saying they are the finders of a Nazi train said to be laden with gold — a claim that came as the Polish military inspected the alleged site in southwestern Poland.

There was finger-snapping, foot-stomping and a lot of clapping as the sound of jazz filled the air in Kaiserslautern, Germany, on Friday for the city’s annual Swinging Lautern festival.

The new born was the new beginning that Sierra Leone's first Ebola survivor, Victoria Yillia, had yearned for after losing 21 of her relatives to the disease. But weeks after the baby was born, he died of an infection that overwhelmed his tiny body.

The chairman of a congressional panel investigating the deadly Benghazi attacks said Friday that a member of Hillary Rodham Clinton's inner circle could provide key insight into how the State Department maintained its presence in Libya prior to the 2012 attack.

Strategists responsible for shaping fighting formations were taken aback when Army experts explained how difficult the terrain is for operating in the Baltics. Old assumptions on how to defend this tense part of NATO territory needed revisiting.

Jaylin Barmer scored all three times he touched the ball, Bashr Edmonds scored once each on the ground, in the air and on defense and the Blackhawks posted eight touchdowns.

Hundreds of refugees frustrated at being stuck at two train stations in Hungary set off on foot for Austria Friday, one group forming a line nearly a half-mile long as they streamed out of Budapest, the other breaking out of a train near a migrant reception center and then running toward the West after overwhelming police.

A Syrian woman and her two young sons who drowned on a desperate voyage from Turkey to Greece were buried Friday in their hometown of Kobani, returning to the conflict-torn Syrian Kurdish region they had fled.

Dragons score 36 straight points to gain some revenge on Panthers for last season's championship defeat.

Four U.S. servicemembers and two other peacekeepers with the Multinational Force and Observers mission in Northeast Sinai in Egypt were injured by two improvised explosives Thursday, the Defense Department confirmed.

Panthers lose first game of season and starting quarterback to injury.

Marcus Henagan accounted for five touchdowns and Jamarvin Harvey rushed for three more and the Panthers routed the Eagles.

Backup Brad Deibel relieved ailing starter Kasey Walker in the second quarter and threw a pair of scoring passes to Nick Galegher.

The Iranian refugee bends his head as the priest pours water over his black hair. "Will you break away from Satan and his evil deeds? Will you break away from Islam?" the German pastor asks. "Yes," replies the convert who arrived in Germany with his wife and two children five months ago. He is one of hundreds of asylum seekers who have converted to Christianity at Berlin's evangelical Trinity Church.

International peacekeepers who commit crimes must be punished, the U.N. human rights chief said on Friday following the revelation of yet another sexual abuse allegation in Central African Republic.

The commander of the 1st Brigade Combat Team stressed patience in his soldiers' efforts, as they embarked on a mission advising Iraq military forces.