Новости за 02.04.2016

Hyongtae Pae, the 72-year-old retired farmer whose uproar over yoga caused a flight from Hawaii to Tokyo to turn back, is temporarily barred from leaving the island of Oahu and is being required to undergo a mental health evaluation.

The graduate-level course at Iowa State University involved six students imagining and designing a "combat outpost" that could house about a company's worth of soldiers (120+) set in Afghanistan in 2022.

Iraq's elite counterterrorism forces say an estimated 20,000 civilians are trapped in the small western town of Hit, where Iraqi forces have recently relaunched an offensive aimed at cutting critical Islamic State supply lines to neighboring Syria.

Stuttgart got back to its familiar winning ways on Saturday with a pair of victories over visiting Division I rival Kaiserslautern, 7-4 and 18-4.

More than 200 refugees and migrants are staging a protest on a highway linking Greece and Macedonia, demanding that Macedonia open its borders and allow them to continue their journeys to central and northern Europe.

The Wildcats and Jaguars each finished 3-1, although the two teams never played each other, a matchup that comes later this month in Sicily. Aviano finished 2-2, while Vicenza wrapped its first four games without a win.

Division I powerhouses Naples, Ramstein and Stuttgart swept through the final weekend of DODEA-Europe girls and boys soccer with an impressive collection of shutouts and lopsided victories.

A private space company completed its third successful unmanned rocket launch and safe landing in West Texas with the same vehicle it used during previous tests.

South Carolina's military history museum has bought the bulk of what's believed to be the largest collection of British-imported Confederate weapons that were smuggled into southern ports through the Union blockade.

Visitors who pitch a tent or park their camper at Deception Pass State Park in Washington are warned that the late-evening quiet policy does not apply to the Navy jets practicing their takeoffs and landings at nearby Naval Air Station Whidbey Island. On a bad night, the park may refund $500 to $1,000 in camping fees from those who pick up stakes and opt for an early exit.

Heavy fighting erupted Saturday between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan said 12 of its soldiers were killed and claimed to have inflicted heavy casualties on the Armenian forces.

Kenya has marked the first anniversary of the Garissa University attack in which more than 148 people, most of them students, died at the hands of extremist gunmen.

Suspected Filipino Muslim militants seized four Malaysian crewmen of a tugboat in the second such attack at sea in recent weeks, sparking a new security alarm, officials said Saturday.

It’s painful for those he led and mentored. Some weep when talking of it. The first and only Hispanic four-star general, now 85, living his last days, his once-encyclopedic mind ravaged by dementia.

The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs is looking into whether a contractor thoroughly reviewed the files of Vietnam veterans who might deserve benefits for illnesses linked to exposure to Agent Orange.

Carol Schultz, 85, beamed as she talked about her older brother, Harry Rudy, who died in combat on Sept. 19, 1944, in World War II. Schultz was among three of Rudy’s siblings who attended a ceremony Friday, where Rudy’s long-lost Purple Heart was returned to the family.

After 4-4 tie on Friday, Naomi Ziola’s unassisted second-half goal proved to be the difference Saturday as Samurai edged Trojans 2-1.

When members of the Duluth-based 148th Fighter Wing of the Minnesota Air National Guard begin arriving at an air base in South Korea in coming days, they'll be embarking on a new kind of mission for the country's Guard and Reserve military forces.

When Ibrahim El Bakraoui blew himself up in the Brussels Airport check-in area, killing and maiming scores of travelers, it was at least the third time he had passed unimpeded through an airport terminal in recent months.

On Friday, a sign honoring Army Spc. Matthew Walker, killed in Afghanistan, was unveiled in the gym of Grandview High School, where his football jersey hangs framed in a weight room.

Say you're a soldier sent on a mission into hostile territory. You'd like to have a drone to keep an eye out for ambushes. Maybe there's one on hand, but it's not quite right for the job. Or maybe there's nothing available at all.

While some arms of the government are arguing with Silicon Valley over encryption, other agencies are working with startups to make the Internet more secure.

Activists say al-Qaida's Syrian branch and other insurgents have captured a strategic overlook from government forces south of Aleppo after weeks of government air raids, in fighting that could unravel a month-old cease-fire.