Новости за 27.09.2015

President Barack Obama on Sunday committed the U.S. to a new blueprint to eliminate poverty and hunger around the world, telling a global summit that a sweeping new development agenda is "not charity but instead is one of the smartest investments we can make in our own future."

There should be plenty of rumblings around Fort Bragg over the next few weeks.

Dave Allbaugh hauled a lot of supplies and troops into Vietnam as an Air Force transport pilot during the Vietnam War. He'll never forget what he hauled back.

AM General got a heavy dose of bad news this summer when the federal government chose competitor Oshkosh Defense over the local manufacturer for the military’s new Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program.

President Obama will meet with Cuban counterpart Raul Castro at the United Nations on Tuesday to discuss the new emerging relationship between the United States and Cuba.

How we ensure the common good is the business of politics — and Francis attempted to provide a moral compass to guide us.

The last time a Colombian president agreed to sit with the enemy, in 1999, the FARC commander left Andres Pastrana alone at the negotiating table. Since then, the empty chair has been Colombia’s most enduring metaphor for political debacle.

It seems such an incongruous pairing: A military training site, with big guns and big equipment, providing sanctuary to something as fragile as a butterfly, as ill-equipped to flee as a turtle. Yet Fort McCoy again appears to be host and haven to creatures struggling to survive elsewhere.

Gary Danish said the question never occurred to him as he interred his father, Robert Danish, in the veterans’ section at Oakwood Cemetery in 2009. Since 1945, the city-owned cemetery has offered free plots to vets, although families still pay for the burials.

President Barack Obama and the leaders of some of America's closest allies are addressing a major United Nations summit on its last day Sunday as Syria's conflict threatens to push the stated topic, global development, onto the sidelines.

Land in Plattsburgh with a military history dating to the 18th century was taken by the U.S. Air Force in the early 1950s to build an Air Force Base for the Strategic Air Command.

Russian President Vladimir Putin sharply criticized U.S. military support for Syrian rebels, describing it as not only illegal but counterproductive, in an interview broadcast Sunday before his meeting with President Barack Obama.

When world leaders convene for the U.N. General Assembly this week, it will be a year since the U.S. president declared the formation of an international coalition to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the Islamic State group.

Serious challenges await President Barack Obama at the U.N. General Assembly this week after his recent successes on Iran and with Pope Francis.

What baffles me is why there has been such struggle for the leadership position. Who wants this job? Congress is about as popular as the plague, give or take a percentage point. And the leadership is even less popular.

The Army has dropped a requirement that forced soldiers to inform their command of financial hardships.

The $600,000 medical facility is one of four high-tech stations that will serve the thousands flocking to see Pope Francis. Combined, they have enough beds and equipment to administer intensive-care-level treatment to 170 people.

Islamic State gunmen attacked checkpoints in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing three police in the group's first attack on the country's security forces, Afghan officials said.

Six French jet fighters targeted and destroyed an Islamic State training camp in eastern Syria, President Francois Hollande said Sunday, making good on a promise to go after the group that the president has said is planning attacks against several countries, including France.

Who knew about the deception, when did they know it and who directed it? Those are among questions that state and federal investigators want answered as they plunge into the emissions scandal at Volkswagen that has cost the chief executive his job, caused stock prices to plummet and could result in billions of dollars in fines.

The business of migration extends far beyond the human traffickers, who often grab migrants' money and send them on life-threatening journeys on rubber boats or in cramped trucks.

Iraq will begin sharing "security and intelligence" information with Russia, Syria and Iran to help combat the Islamic State group, the Iraqi military said Sunday.

For six decades, British governments have considered unilateral nuclear disarmament unthinkable - but the once-unthinkable is the Labour Party's new normal.

The 37 Syrians had boarded the boat at the holiday resort of Gumusluk on the Bodrum peninsula. It sank soon after leaving the coast.

Jizan province was targeted with heavy cross-border fire from Yemen's Shiite rebels on Saturday.