Новости за 20.01.2016

Once again, Islamic militants stormed a school in northeastern Pakistan in a deadly attack that lasted for hours. And once again, the blood of students and teachers stained classrooms and hallways, raising questions about whether security forces are able to protect the country's educational institutions from extremists.

High levels of contaminants from a firefighting foam that was used for decades at Fentress Naval Auxiliary Landing Field were found in well water at the installation during a recent laboratory test, leading Navy officials Wednesday to tell workers there to drink only bottled water.

Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone, the three American friends who beat a would-be killer unconscious and saved a train full of people traveling to Paris last August, have sold their life story to PublicAffairs.

The Supreme Court dealt a rare setback Wednesday to companies trying to avoid potentially expensive class-action lawsuits. The justices ruled that offers of full compensation to the lead plaintiff in such a case do not automatically end the legal challenge.

At the end of their two-hour video reunion two months ago, WWII vet Norwood Thomas told Joyce Morris, his wartime girlfriend, that he'd love to reunite in person someday – said he wanted to give her "a little squeeze" after more than 70 years apart. He didn't expect it would actually happen.

U.S. airstrikes on Monday against an Islamic State cash distribution site in Mosul destroyed money worth “tens of millions” of dollars that the militants were using to fund their terrorist operations.

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch defended the Obama administration's plans to expand background checks on firearms purchases as lawful and "common sense" executive actions to address what she called an epidemic of gun violence.

Scoffing at calls made last month by Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz to carpet-bomb the terrorist group ISIS into oblivion, four European generals said Tuesday that more bombs won't defeat the Islamic State.

Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner reemerged into the public eye Tuesday full of braggadocio in an interview with Voice of San Diego, denying he ever sexually harassed women and claiming that his City Hall office was bugged during his short tenure.

Michael Bay's new film, "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi," tells the story of the deadly Sept. 11, 2012, attacks in Libya through the heroics of the private security contractors assigned to protect Americans. Here are some of the movie's claims and how they compare with the facts.

The fate of Syrian peace talks hung in the balance as Secretary of State John F. Kerry met Wednesday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov amid uncertainty about which Syrian opposition groups will be invited to join negotiations scheduled to begin in Geneva next week and which will be excluded.

Three Iranian-Americans released by Iran over the weekend have begun a “reintegration” process here, as hospital personnel continue to evaluate their condition and assist with their recovery after years in Iranian prison, officials said Wednesday.

A Ukrainian official is disputing a claim by Polish prime minister that Poland has taken in 1 million Ukrainian refugees.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch defended President Barack Obama's executive actions curbing guns, telling lawmakers Wednesday that the president took lawful, common-sense steps to stem firearms violence that kills and injures tens of thousands of Americans yearly.

Exposed wiring likely sparked the New Year's Eve blaze that engulfed a 63-story skyscraper in Dubai just hours before a nearby fireworks display at the world's tallest building. Investigators in Dubai ruled out any criminal cause for the fire

Subfreezing temperatures and snow have settled over Central Europe, adding to the difficulties of migrants heading to Western Europe but not weakening their determination to continue their journeys.

Islamic militants stormed a university in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people and triggering an hours-long gunbattle with security forces in an attack that echoed a horrifying assault by the Taliban a little over a year ago on a nearby army-run school.

A suicide car bomb attack close to the Russian embassy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has killed at least seven people and wounded around 25 others, an Afghan official said Wednesday.

People will long want to keep newspaper articles about themselves, wedding announcements and stories they like in a scrapbook or filing cabinet because those feel more real.

Electronic locks that are likely to backfire on gun users, and that are vulnerable to exploitation by criminals, will be rejected by the market and, ultimately, by Congress.

Even though the court’s decision will be framed as an analysis of the relationship between executive power and the power of Congress to make immigration law, it’ll be widely and popularly understood in the light of the political debate.

Active-duty military students can once again use their tuition assistance benefits at the University of Phoenix after the Pentagon lifted its temporary probation on the for-profit higher education giant last week.

In Jeep's 75th anniversary year, a North Carolina defense contractor is working on a project that could put the iconic vehicle back on the battlefield.

The mystery of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko's poisoning may be resolved Thursday by a British judge, whose long-awaited report risks worsening Britain's already strained relations with Russia.