Новости за 22.03.2016

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said Tuesday that surveillance in Muslim neighborhoods in the U.S. must be intensified following the deadly bombings on Brussels' airport and subway.

About 500 1st Cavalry Division soldiers will deploy late this summer to Afghanistan in a regular rotation of troops to help train the Afghan military, the Army announced Tuesday.

The House passed a bill Tuesday allowing a group of pioneering female World War II military pilots to be interred at Arlington National Cemetery.

A Turkish state-run agency says authorities detained three men, including two foreigners, suspected of planning another attack in Istanbul. Security forces also captured 10 men suspected of being linked to the Islamic State group in southern Turkey.

Officials say Fort Riley's long-delayed new hospital is one step closer to opening and could do so by the end of July.

The terror attacks in Brussels on Tuesday pose the worst kind of foreign policy dilemma for President Obama, pitting his instincts, which tell him that he's doing all he can to defeat the Islamic State, against intense political pressure to do more.

Italy's interior minister says police have arrested on a European warrant an Iraqi identified by French and Belgian authorities as having contact with terrorists.

Security checkpoints are designed to keep terrorists and weapons off planes, and for the most part they have worked since the September 2001 attacks. But along the way, the airport itself became a target.

Three current or former members of the so-called Syrian Electronic Army have been charged with computer hacking-related conspiracies that targeted the U.S. government, media and private-sector companies, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

Three current or former members of the so-called Syrian Electronic Army have been charged with computer hacking-related conspiracies that targeted the U.S. government, media and private-sector companies, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

More than two dozen people were killed Tuesday when bombs exploded in Belgium's capital — two at the main international airport and one on a downtown subway train near European Union headquarters. Witnesses described chaotic scenes of blood, dust and flying glass as the blasts hit transport hubs in the middle of a busy rush hour.

When President Barack Obama's state visit to Buenos Aires was announced early this year, Argentina's new president cast it as a sign that the South American nation was on a U.S.-backed path to investment and modernization that would help it conquer its economic problems.

The United Nations says it has closed a military liaison office in the disputed Western Sahara after Morocco gave the U.N. observers there 72 hours to leave to protest remarks by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

The International Criminal Court convicted former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba on Monday of murder, rape and pillage for acts by his militia in the Central African Republic in 2002-03. The judgment was hailed as a landmark in the fight against impunity for sex crimes in conflict.

The United Nations said Monday that Morocco is now trying to expel military staff from the peacekeeping mission in the disputed Western Sahara days after ordering civilian staff to leave the country to protest remarks by U.N. secretary general during a recent visit.

A South African archaeologist has found a piece of debris with part of an aircraft engine manufacturer's logo and Malaysia's transport minister said Tuesday that authorities will examine it to see if it is from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Armed police now patrol the Ivory Coast beach where Islamic extremists killed at least 19 people earlier this month. And in Senegal's capital, Dakar, cars are pulled over for security checks of trunks, back seats and bags.

A police official in Mali says 19 people have been arrested following an attack on the European Union military mission headquarters in the capital.

President Barack Obama made an impassioned appeal for democracy in this Communist capital Tuesday, calling on President Raul Castro to set aside fears of popular rule and put the future of his country “en los manos del pueblo Cubanos” — in the hands of the Cuban people.

A high ranking officer in Burundi's army seen as close to the president was killed in the capital Tuesday, officials said.

Tunisia has extended for three months the state of emergency declared after a November Islamic State-linked suicide bombing in the country's capital that killed 12 members of the president's security detail.

The study's results are considered to be more reliable than previous ones because researchers used technology to track participants instead of self-reported surveys.

Here is just a sampling of events on the docket in Europe as of March 25. Note that given the week's terror attack in Belgium, many venues may have canceled events or increased security. Please verify details with tourist authorities or event organizers before setting out.

Some Army National Guard and Reserve units will pair directly with active-duty units beginning in the summer to integrate the part-time soldiers into the regular Army to prepare them better for combat, the Army announced Tuesday.

The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said the Obama administration’s “artificial” cap on the number of troops in Iraq might be increasing danger for U.S. forces there.