Новости за 09.09.2015

Australia will nearly double its humanitarian refuge quota to take in another 12,000 Syrians and Iraqis this year, Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced Wednesday in a major policy shift.

A military court convened behind closed doors for a second straight day at the Air Force Academy on Wednesday while lawyers argued over evidence in the sexual assault trial of a junior cadet.

Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused the West of creating "strange hysteria" over Russian activities in Syria, saying that Moscow has been openly supplying weapons and sending military specialists there for a long time.

Attorney Omar Farah met with three clients last month at the prison on the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and each worriedly asked a version of the same question: Are we going to the United States?

Boko Haram militants have destroyed infrastructure that may cost more than $1 billion to rebuild in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, the main theater of the government's six-year fight against the Islamist insurgency, according to Governor Kashim Shettima.

A member of the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday asked the Defense Department to look into what she called an alarming rise in instances of abuse and neglect among military children.

Mark Hoffman's YouTube channel was mostly focused on shotguns and pistols until he got his hands on an XM42, one of two personal flamethrowers put on the market this year and the subject of his rollicking video review. Anyone with $899 and an Internet connection can buy one. No background checks, no permits, and in 48 states, no regulation.

The attack comes following a summer in which the use of the Confederate flag was hotly contested, following the June 17 attack on a historic black church in South Carolina that killed nine people.

The Naval Academy jumped four places from last year to tie at ninth in the ranking of the best liberal arts colleges by U.S. News & World Report.

Ruth Janet Taylor will both celebrate and mourn the loss of her Uncle Christopher as his remains are returned Wednesday to the United States, more than six decades after he went missing during the Korean War.

An Air Force survival student is suspected of breaking into a downtown Spokane building, terrifying a partially clothed woman who awoke to find an intruder staring at her, and then eluding residents until police arrived.

After initially dismissing the Islamic State threat in Afghanistan, Western military officials and private analysts are increasingly concerned that a leadership struggle within the Taliban as well as dissent over peace talks will drive more fighters into ranks of the foreign-led extremist group.

Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. Bill Moran knows how to get sailors excited about general military training: Tell them there will be less of it.

Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. Bill Moran knows how to get sailors excited about general military training: Tell them there will be less of it.

Secretary of State John Kerry says the United States is committed to increasing the number of refugees it is willing to take in as U.S. allies in Europe struggle to accommodate tens of thousands of refugees from the Middle East and Africa.

Queen Elizabeth II reached a major milestone Wednesday, becoming the longest-reigning monarch in Britain's history by passing Queen Victoria, who served for 63 years and seven months.

An Air Force report says spatial disorientation caused a 58-year-old civilian pilot to fatally crash an F-16 last November in the Gulf of Mexico.

An F-16 pilot killed when he crashed into the Gulf of Mexico during training did not go through the proper training to begin flying the jets again after a nearly 20-year hiatus, the Air Force says.

Korea’s plans to join a Japan Self-Defense Forces fleet review next month may be a sign of warming relations between the United States’ most important allies in the Far East, analysts say.

Former senior CIA officials instrumental in extracting information from al-Qaida prisoners through what most Americans consider to have been torture have published a book defending their conduct.

With Europe-based soldiers stretched increasingly thin on missions across much of eastern Europe, the U.S. military is pinning its hopes on beefed-up rotations of U.S.-based forces to carry out operations aimed at deterring Russia and reassuring allies in the Baltics, the Army’s top soldier said.

The Obama administration has encouraged allies like Japan’s Shinzo Abe in their own efforts to harden their defenses and stand on their own feet. That’s a kind of containment. But it’s also a kind of recognition of Asian allies’ fears that the U.S. might not always be there to protect them from China.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has taken a battering over his handling of Europe’s refugee crisis, but in one respect — offering to open the door to those who haven’t yet made it to Europe, rather than those who have — he is right and his European critics are wrong.

Gunmen abducted a senior Justice Ministry official during a brazen daytime ambush Tuesday, authorities said, in the latest high-profile kidnappingto suggest increasing security breakdowns in the Iraqi capital.

Hillary Rodham Clinton's late-arriving mea culpa came just 24 hours after she insisted in an interview with The Associated Press she didn't need to apologize because "what I did was allowed."