Новости за 16.02.2016

After an unparalleled tide of asylum-seekers washed onto European shores last summer and fall, the continent's leaders vowed to use the relative calm of winter to bring order to a process marked by chaos. But with only weeks to go before more favorable spring currents are expected to trigger a fresh surge of arrivals, the continent is no better prepared. And in critical respects, it is even worse.

German-born U.S. Army World War II veteran Werner Ellmann was deeply struck by the horrors he witnessed while among the U.S. troops liberating Mauthausen, the notorious Nazi concentration camp in Austria.

To listen to harried European Union chief Donald Tusk is to realize that the leaders of the 28 member nations are facing the prospect of an unhinged EU if this week's summit goes badly wrong.

Sopron, Hungary, boasts an abundance of beauty shops and 200 dentists. Most businesses don't target the locals, though; they're looking at the Austrians streaming across the nearby border to shop for bargains. Such cross-border traffic could soon suffer, as the European Union considers re-introducing border controls for up to two years to deal with the migrant crisis.

After urging Mexico’s political and religious leaders to take stronger stands against organized crime, Pope Francis on Tuesday is taking his message to a front line of the drug war, the western state of Michoacan, where many hope he will keep up the pressure.

The doctor taps Zulay Balza's knees with a hammer and she doesn't feel a thing. She can't squeeze his outstretched fingers or shut her eyelids. Her face is partially paralyzed.

A year after a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Florida killing seven Special Operations Marines and four Louisiana National Guardsmen aboard, a group of Marines are preparing a grueling send-off: With 45 pounds in rucksacks on their backs, they will march next month some 770 miles from the shore in Navarre, Florida, near the crash site to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, home to MARSOC's headquarters.

Fear of offending vocal activist communities might scare off journalists from covering disability stories. However, it’s critical that those stories be written.

Nothing has gone according to conventional wisdom over the last half-year. Why should we expect the next six months to be different?

To openly turn judging into political falconry, in which justices purchase their seats on the bench by pledging “loud and clear” not to be impartial and independent on specific issues, is to threaten public confidence that we live under a legitimate government of laws.

Scalia lived 27 years after the person who nominated him left office, thereby extending the reach of Ronald Reagan’s presidency and reminding voters of the long-lasting ripples that radiate from their presidential choices.

More than a decade later, the war in Iraq is still haunting those who supported it - especially those running for president.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a veteran Egyptian diplomat who helped negotiate his country's landmark peace deal with Israel but then clashed with the United States when he served a single term as U.N. secretary-general, has died. He was 93.

Prosecutors say a British man used a bomb-making article from an al-Qaida publication to plan an attack on British or American military personnel in the U.K.

Amid a resurgence in the pace of unaccompanied migrant children crossing the U.S. border, President Barack Obama is facing angry opposition as he searches for places to house them temporarily.

Boeing and Lockheed Martin lost their challenge to the Pentagon's choice of Northrop Grumman Corp. to build a heavy bomber valued at as much as $80 billion, according to the Government Accountability Office's chief spokesman.

He was a teacher at an Islamic school, known in his hometown in northwestern Somalia as a talkative, religious man with a sense of humor. He has also been identified as a suicide bomber who tried to bring down an airliner.

A delay in this year's primary elections -- for which absentee voting has begun -- will disenfranchise overseas military personnel and other North Carolinians voting by absentee ballot, Jerry Reinoehl of Fayetteville said on Monday at a statewide public hearing.

A University of Rhode Island professor has developed a sensor that detects the kind of explosive used in the Paris bombings, to try to stop future attacks.

Syrian troops backed by Russian airstrikes made further advances against rebels and Islamic State militants in northern Syria, a group that monitors the war said on Tuesday. Kurds also made territorial gains, bringing renewed warnings from Turkey that it would intervene “fiercely” if they approached the border.

The United States and Cuba signed an agreement on Tuesday morning to resume commercial air traffic for the first time in five decades, starting the clock on dozens of new flights operating daily by next fall.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that the French initiative to hold an international peace conference is "baffling" and bound for failure, casting doubt on the first push for peace between Israelis and Palestinians in nearly two years.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz detailed his plans for bolstering the U.S. military in South Carolina Tuesday, a state with a large military and veteran population.

A bill sponsored by U.S. Sen. Al Franken and Rep. Tim Walz aimed at tackling the Department of Veterans Affairs benefit-claims backlog passed the House of Representatives last week.

Russia on Tuesday denied its warplanes carried out strikes on a Syrian hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders that killed at least nine people, as Syrian government forces and a Kurdish-led coalition advanced amid heavy fighting in the country's north.