Новости за 18.12.2015

Martin Shkreli, who became famous as head of Turing Pharmaceuticals after he jacked up the price of an old drug by more than $700 a pill, has resigned, the company said in a statement. The resignation came a day after Shkreli was arrested on securities fraud charges.

Among the work-related emails that Defense Secretary Ash Carter handled with his personal unsecured account was a message from a group promoting cybersecurity. Oh, the irony. The Pentagon on Friday released 34 pages of Carter emails that he sent or received using his personal account. None of the Carter email correspondence released by the Pentagon included classified material

Less than a month before his friend carried out the San Bernardino massacre, the man who bought the assault rifles used in the attack wondered when the multiple lives he was leading would come crashing down.

Russia on Friday invited foreign diplomats and experts to attend the examination of a flight recorder from a Russian warplane downed by Turkey last month.

Congress on Friday sent President Barack Obama a bipartisan but deficit draining year-end budget package that boosts U.S. government spending while removing any threat of a government shutdown or a default on debt obligations.

Turkey's security forces killed 62 Kurdish militants in three days of operations in two mainly-Kurdish towns near the border with Iraq, the military said Friday. One Turkish soldier was killed in the fighting.

A U.S. special operations forces team dispatched to Libya to work with government forces were forced out of the country on Monday by members of a local militia,, U.S. Africa Command said on Friday.

Shocked by the bloody Paris attacks, European Union leaders on Friday vowed an "uncompromising fight against terrorism" and called for wide-ranging countermeasures ranging from beefed-up immigration controls to a crackdown on illicit weapons-trafficking.

Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets of Tehran to condemn the killings of hundreds of Shiite Muslims in Nigeria and demanded the release of a Nigerian Shiite leader.

Japan’s cabinet approved a revised 2015 defense budget Friday with an additional 39.1 billion yen ($320 million) for Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, which is slated to receive the Navy’s Carrier Air Wing 5 as early as 2017.

It was midnight on the Navy base in Bahrain, but curfew was the last thing on the minds of those who lined up to see the latest Star Wars movie, “The Force Awakens.”

Some 20 foreign ministers gathered Friday for the latest conference on Syria's civil war, hopeful about arranging a cease-fire and launching peace negotiations in the new year.

Yemeni peace talks in Switzerland were halted on Friday after the country's Shiite Houthi rebel delegation suspended all meetings with the internationally recognized government in protest at its cease-fire violations, members of Yemen's two warring sides said.

An 18th-century marble bust of the goddess Diana looted by the Nazis in 1940 has returned to Warsaw from Vienna, where it recently surfaced at an auction house.

Pakistan's army says it has killed 23 suspected militants in northwestern tribal regions near the Afghan border.

Members of Yemen's two warring sides say that peace talks in Switzerland have been indefinitely halted after the country's Shiite Houthi rebel delegation suspended all meetings with the internationally recognized government in protest at their cease-fire violations.

A group of Afghan warlords and lawmakers on Friday set up the country's first opposition party in 14 years in a bid to pressure the Kabul government to deliver on its economic and security promises.

U.S. and NATO officials on Friday certified an anti-missile defense site in southern Romania which is scheduled to become operational next year

With Christmas being only a week away, Holloman Air Force Base worked heavily to prepare for Santa's Christmas Eve flight during Operation Assist Santa on Thursday. Holloman has been annually involved with this mission since 1942.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says his country won't repay a $3 billion debt owed to Russia by this weekend.

Around 400 tubes of lip balm were being discarded on Joint Base Elemendorf-Richardson Thursday after officials found it contained trace amounts of THC.

A spokesman for the 1st Special Operations Wing confirmed Thursday that Col. Thomas Palenske, the wing’s current vice commander, has been selected to assume command of the wing in the upcoming months.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter is in Afghanistan to assess the fragile security situation, amid reports of increased violence and a growing campaign by Islamic State loyalists to gain a foothold in the eastern part of the country.

Russian officials say British and Chinese experts have joined a panel investigating the downing of a Russian warplane by Turkey.

A Fremont man who told friends that America was his enemy and that he was “content to die” for an al Qaeda-linked group in Syria has been charged with attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization, federal prosecutors said Thursday.