Новости за 03.11.2015

After an elderly World War II veteran described how he was severely beaten and then robbed during a 2014 home invasion, a Mercer County judge sentenced one of his assailants to 50 years in prison.

Three Moroccans with suspected links to the Islamic State group were arrested on Tuesday in Madrid by authorities who said they acted quickly to detain them because of fears the suspects were preparing to carry out an attack in Spain similar to recent attacks elsewhere in Europe.

Days before he died in combat, Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta wrote a letter to his younger brother saying, “Be proud of me, bro, I’m going to make history.”

A group of veterans are coming together to give final honors to a man they’ve never met, but one with whom they share a distinct bond.

The House and Senate on Tuesday finalized a plan to squeeze $5 billion from defense spending as part of a broader budget deal that heads off possible pay freezes and furloughs.

U.S. satellite imagery detected heat around a Russian passenger jet just before it went down in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, two U.S. officials said Tuesday. But the discovery doesn't resolve the mystery of why the plane crashed, killing all 224 aboard.

The Pentagon says the remains of a U.S. Marine from New York City have been identified from among the remains of 36 American World War II servicemen found buried on a Pacific island.

A California bicyclist on a nationwide journey to draw attention to the rights of U.S. military veterans has died in a Texas traffic accident.

Ahmad Chalabi, a prominent Iraqi politician who became a Pentagon favorite when he helped convince the Bush administration to overthrow Saddam Hussein in 2003 by pushing false allegations of weapons of mass destruction and links to al-Qaida, died Tuesday of a heart attack. He was 71.

On Halloween morning, Naomi Bettis called 911 to report a man with a long black rifle outside her home. "All of a sudden she started saying something about - I don't remember what they call it - open arms . . . and she said, you know, we have that law here. And it just kind of blew me away, like she didn't believe me or something." Bettis hung up - only to call back again after the man with the gun opened fire on a bicyclist.

The Israeli military raided a Palestinian radio station in the West Bank on Tuesday and confiscated equipment it said was being used to broadcast calls to attack Israelis.

Iranian state television on Tuesday claimed that a Washington-based Lebanese citizen missing in Tehran since September is actually an American spy now in the custody of authorities.

Thomas Toivi Blatt was certain he would die on Oct. 14, 1943. He was 16 years old, orphaned, Jewish, a prisoner at a brutal Nazi death camp, and he was about to take part in a daring revolt. The Polish boy would go on to become an outspoken author and lecturer on the Holocaust, but he never really left the death camp behind. He died Saturday at the age of 88.

For the tens of thousands of Afghan migrants fleeing to Europe, the hardest part of the journey may not be the perilous trip across the Mediterranean Sea. Before they navigate that risk, many have to get through Iran.

The door remains open for sending more American troops into Syria, depending what happens in the next few months.

The current unrest is rooted in Nepal’s national identity.

A Syrian journalist was killed Tuesday in a suburb of the capital Damascus, amid intense clashes and shelling between government troops and rebel fighters, the state official news agency and activists reported.

In an apparent effort to set the stage for transition talks, a Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Tuesday that Moscow does not consider it a matter of principle that Syrian President Bashar Assad should stay in power.

The slogan "Death to America" is not aimed at the American people, but rather American policies, Iran's supreme leader said in comments reported on his official website Tuesday.

The first 10 bodies of victims of Saturday's plane crash over Egypt were identified by their families Tuesday, a string of tearful relatives leaving the city crematorium.

A former prisoner at Guantanamo Bay has been held for more than six weeks without formal charges in Morocco despite what his lawyers say were U.S. government assurances that he would be quickly released upon his return home.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel refused to bow to pressure to close borders as she faced down dissenters within her governing coalition over how to tackle the country's biggest influx of migrants since World War II.

The budget deal President Barack Obama signed into law Monday gets rid of one of the key strategies that has increased lifetime Social Security benefits by up to roughly $60,000 for some high-earning couples.

Secretary of State John F. Kerry on Tuesday urged the president of Tajikistan not to go overboard in its crackdown on political Islam and expressions of faith.