Новости за 02.12.2015

A Maryland man admitted today that he ripped off lonely women by romancing them on online dating sites and then conning them into wiring him hundreds of thousands of dollars. In one scheme he ripped off a Colorado woman by posing as a military man in need of money.

The Tupelo Police Department will return a cache of M16 rifles, M14 rifles and 12-gauge shotguns that had been loaned through the Mississippi Office of Surplus Property, which pairs military surplus with law enforcement agencies.

Times and dates for theaters in Belgium, England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, The Netherlands and Spain and Turkey.

Iraq has said any deployment of foreign troops on its soil cannot happen without approval of its government. In a statement Tuesday, Iraq's prime minister said "we do not need foreign ground combat forces on Iraqi land." The statement came after U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the U.S. would deploy "specialized" troops to Iraq to help fight the Islamic State.

Times and dates for theaters in Japan, Okinawa and South Korea

Navy formally announced on Tuesday afternoon that it had accepted a bid to the Military Bowl, presented by Northrop Grumman. The Midshipmen will face an ACC opponent on Dec. 28, 2:30 p.m., at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.

An American civilian is being held by a Taliban-linked militant group in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, according to a United States official familiar with the matter.

Vance Air Force Base has long been an economic driver in the Enid area, employing more than 1,300 civilian workers and impacting the local economy to the tune of nearly $260 million annually.

Spokesman: San Bernardino, California, police responding to "active shooter" at county site.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivered a message of support for Kosovo's government Wednesday, urging it to stick to agreements that would provide ethnic Serbs greater autonomy and demarcate the young nation's border with neighboring Montenegro. He decried efforts by opposition lawmakers to scuttle both deals through intimidation.

Sharply raising the stakes in Moscow's spat with Ankara, Russia's top military brass on Wednesday accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family of personally profiting from oil trade with Islamic State militants.

The commander of the Army’s lone Europe-based aviation brigade said the unit has struggled to overcome losing 2,500 soldiers as it attempts to train NATO forces across the continent in the wake of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.

A suspended Central Florida judge whose courtroom outburst caught national attention is defending himself in a new documents to the Florida Supreme Court. Brevard County Judge John C. Murphy says he developed PTSD from military service in Afghanistan.

Russia threatened unspecified measures in response to NATO’s decision Wednesday to invite the small Balkan nation of Montenegro to join the alliance, a step that virtually guarantees the U.S.-led security pact will soon expand to 29 nations.

Prime Minister David Cameron appealed to lawmakers Wednesday to authorize the military to take part in airstrikes in Syria, insisting that Britain should help degrade and destroy the threat posed by the Islamic State group.

When Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Morales deployed here this year, he knew his job advising Afghan military pilots would be complex. But it has included an additional wrinkle, he said: Advocating on behalf of pilots as they fly more missions and face increasing demands from Afghan commanders.

After 70 years in exile, plans are underway in Germany to publish Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" once again.

Iran worked in the past on nuclear weapons but its activities didn't go past planning such a program and testing of basic components, the U.N. atomic agency said Wednesday, in what it described as a final report wrapping up nearly a decade of probing the suspicions.

Former national security adviser Sandy Berger, who helped craft President Bill Clinton's foreign policy and got in trouble over destroying classified documents, died Wednesday. He was 70.

Days after passing a retirement overhaul, Congress is already pressing ahead with another round of potentially historic military personnel reforms for 2016, taking aim this week at promotions and the health care system.

Hungary's prime minister said Wednesday he expects a German-led secret pact to be revealed soon that would bring up to 500,000 Syrians from Turkey directly into the European Union, but EU leaders rejected the claim.

Israel on Wednesday demolished the home of a Palestinian who killed two officers and wounded several others in an attack last year, police said.

Yemen's al-Qaida affiliate overran a government-controlled town and killed a top militia leader at a checkpoint there on Wednesday, security officials said.

Canada has launched a fast-track resettlement program for Syrian refugees that the nation's ambassador to Jordan says could serve as a model for other countries.

Firms are focused more on pursuing near-term profits than on the difficult, longer-term research needed to develop truly groundbreaking new drugs. That is unfortunate, because disease may be making a comeback.