Новости за 28.12.2015

The first of 17 detainees scheduled to be released from the Guantanamo Bay prison in January will be transferred next week, as the Obama administration continues to reduce the population at the controversial detention center, a senior U.S. official said Monday.

Perhaps the candidates have discovered that super PACs aren’t so super and prefer that donors send checks to their official campaign coffers instead.

President Barack Obama needs, somehow, to persuade voters who once supported him to listen to his voice once more.

The fact that some blacks can still use the N-word for ironic effect and that an Asian-American band still has a reason to call itself The Slants implies that we haven’t reached the happy land of racial blindness.

Why does the 2015 breakdown of the Columbine-9/11 distinction matter? The answer has everything to do with whether Americans ultimately decide to accept or reject the contemporary realities of terrorism.

Paula Crowe calls cycling her "natural Prozac." Crowe, who served with the U.S. Marine Corps from 1985 to 1989, leads a group of riders with the Ride 2 Recovery program who meet at Stout Fitness Center on Fort Bliss.

Kimberly Ann Ferguson and Ron Frank stood in the sun room of her childhood home on Sunday, an American flag behind them, and saluted each other. Frank, 91, an Army veteran of World War II, had just affixed the epaulets of Ferguson's new rank of lieutenant colonel to the shoulders of his granddaughter's uniform.

In the president's final year, the White House's legislative agenda is slim and centers mostly on areas where he already has overlapping priorities with Republicans, including final passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact and criminal justice reform. But he's also eyeing provocative executive actions, including an expansion of background checks for gun purchases and the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

Israel's Defense Ministry says it has dismissed a senior official for a "serious information security breach."

The husband of an Emirati woman who was executed for killing an American schoolteacher faces charges over alleged plots to bomb tourist sites and assassinate a local leader, state media reported Monday.

The mother of the youngest of the Paris attackers, who blew himself up outside France's national stadium, said she was "proud" that her son killed no one but himself, and hopes to reclaim his remains for burial in Morocco.

This year, so much of what happened has been framed as larger-than-life, as history in the making that I find myself at a loss when it comes to identifying the One Defining Trend.

A quarter-century ago, Poland’s communist government supposed that it could allow a free election while rigging the legal structure around it, so that it would remain in power even if it lost. It’s fascinating to watch Venezuela and Myanmar try to maneuver their way out of the corner that confounded the Poles — especially as they have embraced nearly opposite strategies.

An NYPD detective and Air National Guardsman killed in Afghanistan will be laid to rest this week after a funeral Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral, according to the police department.

Tens of thousands of American combat veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan with undiagnosed brain injuries often were "thrown into a canyon" — falling deeper into despair and sometimes flirting with suicide or addiction — before trying to get help, according to a Johns Hopkins University study.

Like a computer hacker for 15th century texts, Thomas Ernst sees meaning where others find only gibberish.

The last time Ramzan Ali Tabason saw his 9-year-old daughter alive was the day he put her in a van, along with her aunt and five other people from their Afghan village. They were headed for the Pakistani city of Quetta, where the little girl, Shukria, was going to spend time with her ailing grandmother.

Iraqi government forces retook central parts of the key city of Ramadi on Monday from Islamic State militants, the military said.

Iraqi military forces on Monday retook a strategic government complex in the city of Ramadi from Islamic State militants who have occupied the city since May, military officials said — a symbolic victory that could help lift the morale of Iraq's beleaguered security forces as they battle to retake the rest of the city.

Representatives of Burundi's government and the opposition are in Uganda for negotiations aimed at ending political violence. Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza, whose decision to run for election to a third term triggered the bloodshed, wasn't present at the opening ceremony Monday.

This year will be remembered as Fort Gordon's "coming out party," Garrison Com­mander Col. Sam Anderson said.

Iraqi government troops remained stationed around the local government complex in the Islamic State-held city of Ramadi Monday and were expecting to retake the complex later in the day, a military commander said.

Syrian state TV says the death toll from a twin bombing attack in the central city of Homs has risen to 19. The TV says the attack in the government-held neighborhood of Zahraa also wounded more than 100.

Instead of studying for a law degree, Mohammed is working as a fitness instructor in Tokyo, trying to squeeze in some language study and hoping he'll beat the odds and win official status as a refugee in Japan. The odds aren't good.

An apology from Japan's prime minister and a pledge of more than $8 million sealed a breakthrough deal Monday on a decades-long impasse with South Korea over Korean women forced into Japanese military-run brothels during World War II.