Новости за 20.11.2015

On the heels of the Paris attacks, debate rages over how to respond to the thousands of people fleeing across borders to escape violent conflict in places like Syria. But after seeing news reports of desperate refugees sailing to Europe in search of relief, American physician Meena Hasan felt compelled to help.

A Florida man who piloted his one-person aircraft through some of the nation's most restricted airspace and landed on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol pleaded guilty in the case Friday.

Camera crews fan out across the caliphate every day, their ubiquitous presence distorting the events they purportedly document.

It just won a huge contract to build the next Air Force bomber, triumphing in a years-long battle against Boeing and Lockheed Martin, the largest defense contractors in the world. But in the business of Washington, winning the contract is sometimes just the first step.

An aviation industry task force is recommending that operators be required to register drones weighing as little as a half a pound, a threshold that could include some remote-controlled toys, industry officials said.

Four civilians, possibly including a child, were killed in March by a U.S. airstrike aimed at Islamic State militants in Iraq, U.S. Central Command said Friday.

Army criminal investigators conducted a flawed probe into a Virginia woman’s rape allegations, treating her with a “derisive and dismissive” attitude, and failing to thoroughly investigate before dismissing the case as unfounded, according to a report by the Defense Department Inspector General.

New Defense Department reporting requirements could soon mean better tracking of its uniformed child sex offenders, proponents say, even amid revelations this week that such offenders often move through the military prison system outside of public view.

Jonathan Pollard was released from prison Friday after 30 years behind bars for spying for Israel, his case a persistent thorn in relations between the two allies. His lawyers began an immediate court challenge to parole conditions that would let the government track his movements and monitor his computer activity.

Malian national television reported that no more hostages were being held at a luxury hotel after a day-long siege by Islamic militants. National broadcaster ORTM, citing security officials, said 18 bodies already had been at the hotel and that no more hostages were being held.

As soon as some picture of the Paris attacks began to come into focus, the debate over Edward Snowden started again. Senior officials are now saying the former contractor's leaks made it harder to catch the perpetrators of the atrocity in France. The known facts so far tell a different story.

The State Department's independent watchdog says the department is failing to comply with federal cyber security standards, putting sensitive data at risk.

Two Special Forces soldiers involved in a historic raid on a North Vietnamese prison camp were to be honored Friday, the 45th anniversary of the operation.

Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard has been released from prison, a U.S. government agency and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday, culminating an extraordinary espionage case that occasionally complicated American-Israeli relations over nearly 30 years.

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is urging politicians and private citizens to avoid condemning Syrian refugees as a group.

Russia's Defense Minister says that the military has destroyed a number of oil facilities and tankers controlled by the Islamic State group, cutting its income.

A sergeant and an officer established that Layne Johnson was an active duty Marine, and made it a point to drape an American flag over his body, replacing the yellow blanket that is typically draped on crash victims.

Top Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ben Carson are ratcheting up their rhetoric about Muslims, with Trump calling for a mandatory database to track Muslims in the United States and Carson comparing Syrian refugees to rabid dogs.

Cold rain extinguished the flickering candles and drenched the packets of flowers outside the Paris attacks sites Friday, but people came anyway - to pay tribute, to mourn, to reflect on their city's losses one week later.

Two Islamic State-claimed attacks on Friday in Yemen's largest province killed at least 15 people and wounded 30, security officials said, in the latest sign the extremists are taking advantage of the country's civil war to expand their reach.

Turkey's prime minister has denied reports of a disagreement with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over a list of Cabinet ministers and said he hopes a new government will be formed soon.

The formulaic saturation coverage that follows any major terrorist atrocity can be riveting. The first cycles of coverage, however, are often hyped-up, alarmist, confusing, exploitive, premature and ultimately wildly inaccurate when more facts emerge.

The deadly terrorist attacks in Paris have understandably unnerved us all, disrupted our day-to-day complacency and even our tolerance for one another. As we pick up the pieces, we are left with a choice. It happens to be the same choice presented to Americans following 9/11:

What the country did after Pearl Harbor was what people often do in times of crisis and fear: We identified a type of person as an enemy, and then treated all people of that type as an enemy, even though most of these people were not our enemies, even though most of these people were our fellow Americans.

A Florida man who piloted his one-person aircraft through some of the nation's most restricted airspace before landing on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol is expected to formally enter a guilty plea in the case.