Новости за 14.02.2016

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says staffers for U.S. Vice President Joe Biden are arriving in Israel ahead of a possible Biden visit.

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said Sunday that Switzerland has agreed to handle its diplomatic services in Iran so that Iranian pilgrims can continue to visit the oil-rich kingdom.

Development of a futuristic weapon depicted in video games and science fiction is going well enough that a Navy admiral wants to skip an at-sea prototype in favor of installing an operational unit aboard a destroyer planned to go into service in 2018.

Iran says it has exported its first crude oil shipment to Europe since it reached a landmark nuclear deal with world powers, the official IRNA news agency reported Sunday.

Clinton is hoping to do to Sanders what Obama did to her — run him off the field in every state with a large black population. She wants Sanders to be viewed as a dreamy grandpa without a clue.

On a crisp February morning, Phanice Cherop - a worker at a flower farm in Kenya, squeezed through a row of shoulder-high white roses, cut a flower and methodically placed it in the bunch she carried. The Kenyan-grown flower was likely headed for a vase in Australia, England, Japan or the United States.

Before her son was born, Danielle Alves didn't know Luiz Gustavo would have microcephaly, a condition that has left the 3-year-old so disabled he can't walk, talk or eat without help.

North Korea is more likely to undertake aggressive acts within five days of a past or present “Dear Leader” birthday. Kim Jong Il’s birthday is Feb. 16, so we’re in the danger zone.

Is this equality realized? Or equality gone too far?

Even the liberal civil-rights division of the liberal Department of Justice of the liberal Barack Obama administration isn’t prepared to demand a takeover of what must be one of the worst police departments in the country.

If every blogger, book reviewer, scholar and nonfiction author who quoted a paragraph or two from another work had to fear a copyright suit, the cultural conversation would atrophy

Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski warning of a new Russian threat, issued a controversial challenge to the U.S.-led NATO alliance and the hundreds of policymakers gathered here for a conference on global security.

Sen. John McCain on Sunday blasted a deal to seek a pause in fighting in Syria, arguing it plays into a Russian strategy to continue attacks on American-backed rebels.

A Sunday statement said the call took place at Washington's initiative, but didn't specify when it occurred.

In the last five months, Palestinian stabbings, shootings and vehicular assaults have killed 27 Israelis. At least 159 Palestinians, the majority of whom Israel says were attackers, have been killed by Israeli fire.

Seventy percent of country's population is under 35 and have grown up in the chaos of a lawless state after the government collapsed in 1991.

Gen. Jean Marie Michel Mokoko, 69, made the announcement Saturday, saying he is taking the side of the people.

The initiative helps fund programs in cities across the U.S. to prevent extremist attacks, or respond to and recover from them. The proposed budget would cut the funding from $600 million to $330 million.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activist group says two fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces - a coalition of Kurdish and Arab fighters - have been killed and seven others wounded in the shelling.

The statement says the missile was completed destroyed without causing "any losses" on the ground.

Throughout his career, he flew aircraft such as Bell P-39 Airacobra, Republic P-47 Thunderbolt and North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft.

Lt. Col. James Megellas earned the Distinguished Service Cross and two Silver Stars for actions in Holland and Belgium during the war.

Van and Graham each scored 17 for Air Force, which lost its second straight and 10th in 12 games.