Новости за 22.01.2016

The Coast Guard Museum Association announced more than $4 million in pledges Thursday night including $1 million from one of its honorary co-chairs, James David Power III.

The State Department asked a federal court Friday for a one-month extension to publish the last of Hillary Clinton's emails during her time as secretary of state, citing a complex review of some messages across different agencies of the government.

Twenty-two Democratic senators want President Barack Obama to halt deportation raids.

Two days before peace talks are scheduled to begin in Geneva, Syrian groups opposed to President Bashar Assad are still sharply divided on who should represent them at the talks, opposition officials said Friday as a new wave of air raids in eastern Syria killed at least 40 people.

The government will shift responsibility for storing sensitive information on millions of federal employees and others from the Office of Personnel Management to the Defense Department and will create a new entity to oversee background investigations, Obama administration officials announced Friday.

For the foreign defense contractor, stealing U.S. Navy secrets turned out to be a breeze. All it took was a little cash, a few cheap gifts-and a willing sailor.

Servicemen draped flight gear on 12 white crosses Friday to commemorate the Marines who died when two helicopters crashed off the coast of Hawaii during a nighttime training mission.

Navy officials are looking into a report by Italy’s national health institute that confirms elevated cancer rates in an area of Naples home to hundreds of U.S. military families.

Tens of thousands of people rallied Friday in the capital of Russia's Chechnya republic in support of strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Kenyans are donating to the family of a Muslim man who was fatally wounded by Islamic extremists while shielding Christians during an attack on a bus.

At least 45 people, including 17 children, drowned Friday in the Aegean Sea as two smuggling boats sunk off different Greek islands. A search-and-rescue operation was underway for others feared trapped in the wreckage.

The emperor and empress are scheduled to visit the Philippines from Jan. 26 to 30, ahead of celebrations in July marking 60 years of diplomatic relations between that nation and Japan.

The head of a breakaway Taliban faction behind this week's attack at a northwestern Pakistani university that killed 21 people, most of them students, threatened on Friday to carry out more attacks on schools and universities across the country.

Witnesses say Islamic militants entered a Mogadishu restaurant from the beach Thursday evening, shouting "Allahu akbar," Arabic for "God is great," as they fired at people indiscriminately. On Friday, relatives were identifying the dead, who numbered around 20.

Iraq's prime minister appealed Friday to Turkey to pull its troops out of Iraqi territory and instead provide training and equipment to fight the Islamic State group, which he and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry insisted is losing ground.

North Korea announced Friday the arrest of a U.S. university student for what it called a "hostile act" orchestrated by the American government to undermine the authoritarian nation.

In the snowy streets of Finland's cities, black-clad vigilantes are on patrol, to the alarm of the police and many residents. They say they're there to keep Finnish people safe from what they say is a new and clear threat — the increasing numbers of asylum-seekers.

Allegations of fraud have cast a pall over Haiti's delayed presidential elections, threatening to undo gains made in the six years since a massive earthquake destroyed the Caribbean nation's economy and killed as many as 200,000 people.

Iraq's prime minister has expressed doubts that the three Americans who went missing from a Baghdad neighborhood last week have been kidnapped. Haider al-Abadi says no demands have been made for the three and that they were most likely taken by "criminal gangs." Al-Abadi spoke on Friday from Davos, Switzerland, where he is attending the World Economic Forum.

A U.S. Navy littoral combat ship is sidelined in port in Singapore because of damage to gears that propel the vessel, according to a memo from the service, which blamed failure to use enough lubricating oil.

A former U.S. Marine recently released from Iran in a prisoner-swap deal returned to his home state of Michigan on Thursday, saying shortly after his airplane landed that he had endured "a very long road."

Never-before-seen films of Marines ramming artillery shells into large guns on the beaches of Iwo Jima in 1945 and standing amid sandbags during the 1968 siege of Khe Sanh in Vietnam are part of a vast collection of silent, color footage being repaired, preserved and eventually placed online for all to see.

Stephanie Czech Rader was the daughter of Polish immigrants, uneducated laborers who settled in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in the early 1920s and barely spoke English. Her immersion in Polish language and culture proved critical to her success, against daunting odds, as a U.S. spy in Europe after World War II.

A Turkish media report says suspected Kurdish militants have hurled an explosive device at a middle school in the mainly-Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, injuring at least five children.

As efforts gather pace to renew peace talks with the Taliban, Afghan women still haunted by the insurgents' brutal rule say they are being left out of the process, and fear that an accommodation with the militants could lead to the loss of hard-won rights.