Новости за 27.11.2015

Nearly two months after a U.S. warplane mistakenly attacked a hospital in northern Afghanistan, officials said Friday it remains unclear how many civilians were killed.

Three officers were injured Friday in a shooting near a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado and the gunman has been contained.

Russia announced Friday that it will suspend visa-free travel with Turkey amid the escalating spat over the downing of a Russian warplane by a Turkish fighter jet at the Syrian border.

Turkey has become an indispensable actor as the refugee emergency leads some European nations to shut down borders, crack down on security or erect razor-wire fences.

Spike Lee's "Chi-Raq" is destined to make almost everybody angry -- not for what it says about Chicago's homicide statistics, especially among young African-Americans, but for how it says it.

The Philippines will try to recover 200 pieces of fine art once owned by late dictator Ferdinand Marcos and plans to auction millions of dollars worth of his wife's jewelry as it seeks to use the family's alleged ill-gotten wealth to raise money for the state.

Pope Francis arrived in Uganda on Friday on the second leg of his Africa pilgrimage, declaring Africa the "continent of hope" and honoring Uganda's most famous Christians.

What if there had been one really big idea — not necessarily a new idea, just a big one — on either side during the excessively long and embarrassingly expensive race for the White House in 2012? National service, for example?

It may be hard for some to resist the conclusion that Samuel Huntington was right and that we are on the verge of a worldwide clash of civilizations. But Europe's long history of self-invention and resilience suggests other possible futures.

Five hotel security guards were just finishing the overnight shift and about to make the handoff to their dayside colleagues. As one of the guards would later say, "We weren't concentrating." That was the precise moment the attackers were waiting for on the morning of Nov. 20.

Some people spend a year or two of their lives waiting in line, estimates Richard Larson, a professor who studies queuing theory at MIT. This back-of-the envelope calculation includes less obvious types of queues, like driving in slower-than-normal traffic during a daily commute.

Technology industry groups are pushing back against calls from law enforcement and intelligence officials to give the government more access to encrypted networks following the Paris terrorist attacks.

In the last weeks of November, I Corps Commander Lt. Gen. Stephen Lanza has had a schedule that encapsulates the competing priorities for his 26,000 soldiers stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

Police near the German city of Stuttgart arrested a suspected arms dealer as authorities nationwide step up searches and security in the wake of the Paris attacks and the lockdown in Brussels.

The Kremlin on Friday played down the possibility of a grand coalition with the West to strike the Islamic State in Syria, despite personal visits by French President François Hollande to both Washington and Moscow following a spate of horrific terrorist attacks tied to the terrorist group.

An increasing number of Iranian soldiers and militiamen appear to be dying in Syria's civil war, and observers credit media from an unexpected country for revealing the trend: Iran.

A new wave of airstrikes targeting the Syrian city of Raqqa, the headquarters of the extremist Islamic State group and the focus of an international military campaign, killed at least eight people, including five children, Syrian opposition groups said Friday.

The Air Force has hired civilian defense contractors to fly MQ-9 Reaper drones to help track suspected militants and other targets in global hot spots, a previously undisclosed expansion in the privatization of once-exclusively military functions.

Britain's foreign secretary has met with Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, promising his nation's support after the third deadly attack this year in Tunisia claimed by the Islamic State group.

Security forces disrupted a "large-scale attack" in Burkina Faso, arresting 13 suspects and seizing weapons and bomb-making materials in the west near Mali's border, the security minister said Friday.

Armed attackers abducted five Polish seamen, including the captain and three officers, from a cargo ship on Nigerian waters, Poland's government said Friday.

A new wave of airstrikes targeting the Syrian city of Raqqa, the headquarters of the extremist Islamic State group and the focus of an international military campaign, killed at least eight people, including five children, Syrian opposition groups said Friday.

Intoning the names of 130 dead, a subdued France paid homage Friday to those killed two weeks ago in the attacks that gripped Paris in fear and mourning.

Berlin police say they have released two men who had been taken into custody as part of an investigation into Islamic extremists in the German capital.

Turkish state media say six children have drowned when boats carrying migrants to Greece sank in two incidents off the Turkish coast.