Новости за 04.01.2016

The Obama administration tread warily Monday around inflamed tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia that threaten several key U.S. foreign policy objectives.

A map of deaths from heart disease reveals the American South ablaze in red; of the 10 states with the highest rate of death from heart disease among white people in 2010, all but two are below the Mason-Dixon line.

The Obama administration, in June 2014, challenged local governments to find homes for all veterans who want one by the end of December. Virginia met the goal, but even there, hundreds of veterans remain homeless, most often because they have mental health or substance abuse problems, or just want to live on the street.

Two suicide bombings struck the same road Monday, the latest in a series of attacks over the past week that have rattled the Afghan capital.

A major militant group, Hezb-e-Islami, has endorsed an Afghan government initiative to spur peace talks that aims to end an increasingly violent and fractured insurgency.

Islamic State militants attacked Iraqi troops and allied tribal fighters outside the western town of Haditha on Monday, killing at least 11 and wounding dozens, officials said.

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday dismissed a new video in which five purported British spies are shot dead by masked Islamic State extremists as propaganda from a group that is losing control of territory in Syria and Iraq.

Officials say the Kenyan university where Islamic extremists killed 148 people nine months ago has reopened amid high security.

As much as we would like for 2016 to mark a fresh political start, then, we find the same characters behaving in familiar ways.

Two Vietnam veterans who fought on opposite sides would meet 45 years later on a leafy suburban campus on Philadelphia's Main Line, two 65-year-old men who would put aside the past and forge a friendship through a young woman who bridged their worlds.

Police say several shots have been fired at a home for asylum seekers in western Germany and one resident was lightly injured.

General Dynamics Land Systems, a defense contractor with a production facility in Archbald, has been awarded a $92.2 million contract to upgrade Army tanks, with some of the work to be completed locally.

An Iraqi official blamed the Islamic State group on Monday for the bombing of two Sunni mosques in a predominantly Shiite city in southern Iraq the previous night, saying the militant group seeks to stoke sectarian tensions.

Allies of Saudi Arabia followed the kingdom's lead and began scaling back diplomatic ties to Iran on Monday after the ransacking of Saudi diplomatic missions in the Islamic Republic, violence sparked by the Saudi execution of a prominent opposition Shiite cleric.

People in this rural eastern Oregon town are used to worrying about friction between the federal government and locals, but the armed takeover of a nearby national wildlife refuge is raising concerns to a new high.

Denmark on Monday tightened controls at its border with Germany just hours after neighboring Sweden introduced similar measures to stem the flow of migrants.

A Bahraini government minister says the tiny island kingdom is severing its diplomatic ties with Iran.

A governor in southern Yemen has declared a nighttime curfew for the port city of Aden in a bid to push back against recent incursions by al-Qaida and other Islamic militants.

Cpl. Aaron C. Masa became fast friends with a fellow Marine during field training in North Carolina. But behind his buddy's back, Masa was sexually abusing his friend's 3-year-old stepdaughter. He also took sexually explicit photos of the girl and the Marine's infant daughter.

The satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, whose staff was decimated by Islamic extremists on Jan. 7, 2015, is running a special edition this week with a bloody God armed with a Kalashnikov on the cover and the headline: "The murderer is still at large."

Law enforcement agencies appeared to be taking a low-key approach Sunday toward a group of armed men who seized control of a federal wildlife refuge headquarters in southern Oregon, protesting the federal prosecution of two ranchers.