Новости за 27.10.2015

Gerald J. Gross, an influential publisher and editor who is credited with giving English readers a chilling look inside Nazi Germany by publishing the memoirs of one of Adolf Hitler’s closest advisers, has died at the age of 94.

No government shutdown. No government default. No big spike in Medicare premiums for 15 million Americans. Looser limits on spending. And plenty of random stuff - including a new "Freedom Foyer" in the Capitol. Things to know about the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015:

105-year-old Bibihal Uzbeki, from Kunduz, Afghanistan, is among tens of thousands of migrants who have traveled for thousands of miles fleeing war and poverty to search for a happier, safer future in Europe.

The move risks provoking a confrontation with China’s military and could raise diplomatic tensions with Beijing weeks before President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to attend major summit meetings in Asia.

When the pilot of a Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet made a loud and low pass over Berkeley back in January, the Navy promised to investigate and has now determined that the pilot complied with safety regulations and had clearance for the low flight path. Still, Navy brass has called for a Field Naval Aviator Evaluation Board to “examine the aeronautical judgment of the aviator during the flight.”

A Marine helicopter made an emergency landing in a public park in Sicily on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Navy.

Japan invalidated a decision by Okinawa’s governor to stop landfill work for a controversial expansion of a U.S. Marine Corps base in a move that is likely to reignite protests by islanders.

U.S. officials say Iran is being invited to participate for the first time in international talks aimed at peacefully ending Syria's four-year civil war.

The Army has settled with an employee who was reprimanded after reporting unsafe patient conditions at a major military hospital, revelations that led to the hospital’s chief being relieved of command.

The Senate is poised to pass a bill intended to improve cybersecurity by encouraging the sharing of threat information among companies and the U.S. government.

Europe's refugee crisis can only be solved "step by step" with EU nations and Turkey working together, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday, dismissing the latest jab from a prominent domestic critic.

CIA Director John Brennan says the hack of his personal email account underscores that everyone is vulnerable to the compromise of personal information on the Internet.

The Obama administration is blocking Canadian oil exports while welcoming such exports from Iran. Such double-dealing weakens our relationship with Canada and threatens U.S. national security.

Ten Air National Guard A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft and hundreds of airmen supporting them are back in Michigan after a six-month deployment flying missions against Islamic State group targets in Iraq and Syria.

Ten Air National Guard A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft and hundreds of airmen supporting them are back in Michigan after a six-month deployment flying missions against Islamic State group targets in Iraq and Syria.

If a subsidized Obamacare plan or help with college loans deserves the label “free stuff,” then so does a tax cut.

"Safe as milk." That's the phrase used by the yahoo weapons merchant played by Danny McBride, as he describes a transaction involving guns and ammo, conveyed to Pashtun rebel forces in Afghanistan. His unlikely go-between in this desert landscape: Richie Lanz, the visiting LA talent manager portrayed by the great Bill Murray in the not-good "Rock the Kasbah."

When you think of Carey Mulligan, what comes to mind? Perhaps that she's one of the finest actresses of the millennial generation, the kind who gets Oscar and Tony nominations and works with Meryl Streep. Or that she's delicate and British -- the kind of lithe figure who looks at home in a Vogue spread, knee-deep in the tall grass of the English countryside.

The political and legal problems that the Old Testament wrestles with are also our problems.

The explosion in fact-based movies over the last several years has generated a range of reactions among the movie going public.

The story of women fighting for the right to vote is all too recent, and for some, all too forgotten. Director Sarah Gavron and writer Abi Morgan bring the history of the British suffragette movement to bear in the film "Suffragette," as a reminder of the struggles that have come before, and the achievements that have yet to be won. The resulting film is dark and unglamorous, but it burns with a determined fire, giving these women a revolutionary hero treatment.

The poetry radiating from the Syrian civil war echoes with nostalgia, bombs and betrayals; it slips into the lives of torn-apart families and boys of defiance who have grown into men with bandoleers and Kalashnikovs.

A budget squeeze stalled hundreds of Joint Base Lewis-McChord Stryker soldiers from hitting the high desert near Yakima for several weeks of training last summer and delivered a fresh reminder that inconsistent defense spending continues to drag on the Army.

A small medical facility run by Doctors Without Borders in the northern Yemeni province of Saada was destroyed by two airstrikes but there were no casualties, the aid group's chief in Yemen said Tuesday.

Britain's defense secretary says the country will keep about 450 soldiers in Afghanistan throughout 2016, following a similar announcement by the United States to extend its military presence there.