Новости за 27.01.2016

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday led an interfaith memorial service honoring Kenyan soldiers killed while on peacekeeping duty in Somalia.

Five female suicide bombers exploded in the Chibok hometown of Nigeria's kidnapped schoolgirls on Wednesday, killing nine people and wounding 32, witnesses said.

The U.N. envoy to Libya said Wednesday that changes to a peace deal are possible after the internationally recognized parliament rejected one article of the agreement, which would strip a powerful army chief of his post.

The 2015C Lieutenant Colonel Chaplain and Line of the Air Force Chaplain Major central selection boards have selected 16 majors and 2,082 captains for promotion.

A bronze statue of a former president looms in Mozambique's capital, but the likeness of Samora Machel — imposing in military uniform and with pointed finger — is a symbol of division for some in a resource-rich nation shadowed by a civil war legacy.

Def Leppard is pouring some video into “Guitar Hero.” The rock band is the first artist ever to debut a new music video through the long-running video game series.

Human Rights Watch said Wednesday that a leaked United Nations report contradicts Britain's rationale for selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, pointing out that it says the Saudis as well as their Yemeni adversaries violated international humanitarian law.

A roadside bomb struck an armored personnel carrier in the turbulent north of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday, killing an army colonel and three soldiers, Egyptian security and health officials said.

To truly make a lasting climate change legacy, Obama must take seriously the issue of climate relocation.

The irony for those on the left who loathe Trump’s bluster is that he probably wouldn’t govern as far to the right as many of the Republicans running.

What difference at this point does any of it make? When it comes to public trust in a presidential candidate — everything.

The theme of the INSS conference was that the rules of the game are changing in the Middle East. The old order embodied by the secular dynasties of the Mubaraks, Assads and Gadhafis is shattered.

Western governments fearful of terror attacks and the potential threat posed by refugees are adopting counterproductive policies in the name of security, Human Rights Watch said in its world report Wednesday.

The Pentagon faces a 23 percent increase in costs for its major weapons in the next six years, adding pressure to its ability to fund other needs, defense analysts warned Wednesday.

The winning design for a World War I memorial, announced Tuesday, pays tribute to freedom gained through sacrifice, combining classic and modern elements.

Senior Pentagon officials on Wednesday sought to defend the use of Russian-made rocket engines to send U.S. military satellites into space, telling exasperated lawmakers they are moving quickly to end the practice and rely on American-made rockets for the launches.

The United States is considering “decisive” military action against Islamic State fighters entrenched in Libya, but delivering a fatal blow to the militant group will likely require more than airstrikes, experts say.

Iran's navy warned a U.S. warship to leave an area where Iran has been conducting a naval drill near the narrow Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, the semi-official Fars news agency reported Wednesday. The U.S. Navy denied that its operations in the region were affected.

One of Mitsubishi's legendary Zero fighter planes took to the skies over Japan on Wednesday for the first time since World War II.

An American university student's arrest in North Korea has rekindled questions about whether a small but steady trickle of U.S. tourists who go to the country are unwittingly offering themselves up as valuable pawns in a political game with Pyongyang that can have serious repercussions for officials back in Washington who have to bail them out when things go wrong.

Samy Mohamed Hamzeh, 23, had a plan, the Justice Department said: Kill more than two dozen people at a Masonic temple in Milwaukee and become an international jihadist superstar.

The FBI on Tuesday arrested the leaders of an armed group that has occupied a national wildlife refuge in Oregon for the past three weeks, conducting a traffic stop that prompted gunfire — and one death — along a highway through the frozen high country.

Top U.S. military commanders, who only a few months ago were planning to pull the last American troops out of Afghanistan by year's end, are now quietly talking about an American commitment that could keep thousands of troops in the country for decades.

The great photographer could make naturally beautiful places look even more beautiful. But it says more about his artistry that he could even make a horrible place look compelling.

The Obama administration announced new regulations Tuesday designed to further expand commerce with Cuba that include permission to finance licensed exports to the island — except agricultural products.