Новости за 04.10.2015

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Sunday he would hold personnel accountable if an investigation shows that a U.S. airstrike in Kunduz, Afghanistan, hit a Doctors Without Borders-run hospital.

Iraq's Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi declared the heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad open to all of his citizens for the first time in 12 years Sunday amid efforts to cut spending and appease citizens who have been protesting for basic public services.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said on Saturday that he opposes a unilateral American no-fly zone in Syria, offering a less hawkish stance on the war-torn region than Hillary Rodham Clinton, his chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, and a position more in line with President Barack Obama.

He was our man in Africa. Hissene Habre, who ruled Chad in the 1980s, was a U.S. ally in good standing even as his government killed tens of thousands of people and filled prisons with enemies who were starved, beaten and tortured.

Russia has triumphantly plunged into Syria's four-year-old civil war with an expanding campaign of airstrikes. But the official euphoria here masks a nagging question: What can a limited deployment of Russian air power actually accomplish?

Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force has started training military units from developing countries in Africa to build facilities, maintain roads and do other infrastructure work using heavy machinery.

“I said a few words at his funeral. We didn’t get along too well and we were always trying to outdo each other,” said Jose Perez. “He died in a bomb explosion at a checkpoint. He has to know deep down that I respected him, but it still haunts me.”

The two-day hearing looking into the desertion and misconduct case against Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl challenged common perceptions about the soldier, what his plans were when he left the post, how he behaved and was treated in captivity, and the consequences of his actions.

When Sgt. 1st Class Joshua Farrell lifted 6-month-old Liam Coffeen into his arms, the healthy child smiled. Liam's parents - 1st Lt. Brian and Caitlin Coffeen - offered their hands in a warm welcome to the soldier.

The Army's Criminal Investigation Command, commonly known as CID, is warning the public to be wary of so-called "Internet romance scams."

The search for a U.S. cargo ship that was lost during Hurricane Joaquin off the southeastern Bahamas turned up more clues Sunday but no word yet on the fate of the vessel or its 33-member crew.

An intensive search resumed Sunday in the southeastern Bahamas for a U.S. cargo ship with 33 people on board that has not been heard from since it lost power and was taking on water as it was battered in fierce seas churned up by Hurricane Joaquin.

Israeli police and Palestinian demonstrators have clashed repeatedly at the hilltop compound in recent weeks, and the unrest has spread to the West Bank, where clashes erupted Sunday during an Israeli arrest raid.

A wall of mud stopped everyday life mid-text, mid-sentence, mid-dream for the family of Manuel Sandoval and Maritza Aquino.

More than 240 inmates have slipped away from federal custody in the past three years while traveling to halfway houses, including several who committed bank robberies and a carjacking while on the lam, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

Prime Minister David Cameron says Britain will get 20 more drones and strengthen its special forces as Britain tries to help quell the growth of the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.

Syria's President Bashar Assad said in comments Sunday that the air campaign by Russia against "terrorists" in his country must succeed or the whole region will be destroyed, stressing that the fight against terrorism must precede a political process.

The gunman who opened fire at an Oregon college killed some of his victims after telling them to crawl across the classroom floor and shot one after saying he would spare her if she begged for her life, according to relatives of students in the classroom.

Flooding from days of record-setting rain along the heavily populated East Coast washed out bridges and homes and forecasters warned wind gusts topping 35 mph could down trees and power lines across the Carolinas and Virginia in coming hours.

Flash flooding around the French Riviera has killed at least 16 people, including some trapped in cars, a campsite and a retirement home, the president said. Torrents of muddy water also inundated buildings, roads and railway tracks, disrupting car and train traffic along the Mediterranean coast.

One month after the body of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach — and a week after the European Union agreed to secure its borders — the migrant crisis has largely fallen off the front pages and reporters are going home.

Syrian activists say Russian warplanes have struck in the central Homs province, killing at least two children and a shepherd.

A Jordanian parliament member said he learned from Islamic State-linked media that his son carried out a suicide attack in Iraq, three months after dropping out of medical school and joining the extremist group.

Vice President Joe Biden is throwing his unequivocal support behind letting transgender people serve openly in the U.S. military, as the Obama administration considers whether and when to lift the longstanding ban.

Minnesota Mothers for Syria became the second to rally in as many months for the United States to open its borders to more people fleeing violence around the world.