Новости за 20.12.2015

The Mauritanian captive whose censored Guantanamo memoirs have been published around the world has lost a bid to have a federal court intervene in his conditions of confinement at the U.S. Navy base prison in Cuba.

Changes to a U.S. visa waiver program that impose travel restrictions on those who visit Iran contradict the landmark nuclear agreement between Tehran and world powers, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday.

Bryan Banning takes the stage at a packed theater at the College of William & Mary, grabs the microphone off its stand and nervously begins his comedy routine with a warning.

President Vladimir Putin says Russia will continue to develop nuclear weapons but doesn't intend to use them.

For a handful of American Vietnam veterans who left a little piece of themselves behind during the ferocious jungle war and say they were vilified when they went back to the states, Phnom Penh has become home.

The Pentagon is considering increasing the pace and scope of cyberattacks against Islamic State, arguing that more aggressive efforts to disable the extremist group’s computers, servers and cellphones could help curtail its appeal and disrupt potential terrorist attacks.

Edward Snowden will appear via video link as a featured speaker at a New Hampshire convention of libertarian activists.

In foiling an earlier plot, the FBI may have unwittingly disrupted a more dangerous plot — one that would have hit much closer to home. Syed Rizwan Farook, the man who mowed down dozens of his co-workers on Dec. 2 in San Bernardino, was planning a deadly attack in 2012 with an accomplice, Enrique Marquez.

British Prime Minister David Cameron says he wants front-line combat roles opened up to female soldiers by the end of 2016.

The USS Colorado will hit the waves next fall, and a state booster committee says it's on its way to raising enough cash to properly celebrate the submarine's commissioning.

Whatever happened to regime change? These days, that sort of interventionism has become downright unfashionable.

In American history the Battle of the Bulge remains our biggest single land engagement. Approximately a quarter of a million U.S. troops were pitted against a comparable number of German forces.

Ccontinuing to play for time, in the hope that the autocratic Kim Jong Un will be overthrown, or that Pyongyang will decide unilaterally to stand down from the pursuit of these dangerous military capabilities, is not a realistic strategy.

There is no reason to believe that 80-hour workweeks and shifts longer than 16 hours are associated with optimal patient or resident health. Adequate sleep is a fundamental physiological need.

The nation's most polluted nuclear weapons production site is now its newest national park.

By Bo Reichenbach standards, the newest Montana Youth Challenge Academy graduates have a smoother road ahead of them.

John and Chris Sears, two brothers from Booneville, have started providing horse-drawn funeral parades for deceased veterans.

A fake explosive rigged with cardboard, sheets of paper and a household timer forced an Air France flight into an emergency landing in Kenya on Sunday, sending hundreds of passengers down emergency slides in what the airline's CEO said was the fourth bomb hoax against the airline in recent weeks.

A senior Afghan official on Sunday took the unusual step of using Facebook to implore the president to send help to his beleaguered province, saying that without assistance the area could fall to the Taliban.

It was fascinating to watch Ted Cruz back himself into a corner during Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate on an issue that has come to frame the contest for his party.

Trumpism and Trumpistas fit a pattern of right-wing populism familiar in our history and Europe’s. They talk like they’re under siege, furious over their diminished security, prospects and status.

The new leader of Fort Carson's 1st Brigade Combat Team said he's got big shoes to fill. Col. Curtis Taylor took leadership of the 4,500-soldier brigade during a ceremony this month at Fort Carson.

Brahim Abdeslam seemed no different from his peers in Molenbeek, one of Belgium's poorest districts, where drug use is rife and many of the young men are unemployed. One November evening, he passed the time smoking pot in a parked car with two of his friends.

The move follows an appeal from President Barak Obama, who called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday.

Fierce fighting and airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition pounded northern Yemen on Saturday, as the two main parties in the country's conflict continued to violate a cease-fire.