Новости за 09.04.2016

A new-old idea is rattling around the Middle East five years after the Arab Spring stirred democratic ambition: that restoring stability, especially if accompanied by some economic and political improvements, should be reform enough for the moment.

Belgian authorities said the remaining fugitive suspect in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks was arrested in Belgium on Friday, after a raid linked to the deadly March 22 Brussels bombings yielded five detentions in all.

The Seattle-area family of a U.S. citizen released from captivity by the Syrian government has confirmed his release.

Janice Rickard was a 19-year-old Rosie the Riveter who built B-17 bombers during World War II. Now 92, she expressed amazement that it has been 74 years since she wielded a riveting gun at Boeing’s Seattle aircraft plant.

Americans who are expected to pass through airports in near record numbers this summer can expect to be sniffed by more dogs, scrutinized by more armed police officers and faced with longer security lines. The reason, in a word: Brussels.

Iran has dismissed U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's recent talk of a "new arrangement" involving Tehran's ballistic missiles, calling the idea "nonsense."

The Philippine military suffered its largest single-day combat loss so far this year when 18 soldiers were killed in fierce fighting with Abu Sayyaf extremists that also left five Islamic militants dead, including a Moroccan fighter, the military said Sunday.

For three days, the men remained stranded on the uninhabited island, hoping for help. In the end, their own ingenuity would facilitate their rescue: The crew aboard a Navy plane spotted the men waving life jackets, standing next to piles of palm leaves arranged to spell out four capital letters: H-E-L-P.

Spanish police say they are investigating an arms cache found in the country's North African enclave of Ceuta that might have links with the Islamic State group.

Russia's prime minister has defended Moscow's policy of selling arms to both Armenia and Azerbaijan, whose military forces have faced off in a sharp escalation of fighting around Nagorno-Karabakh.

As Minnesota struggled in recent years to prevent young Somali men from going abroad to fight with extremist groups, young Abdirizak Warsame didn't seem at risk.

The Hawaii Air National Guard’s F-22 Raptors made history on a just-concluded deployment to the Middle East in the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The 199th Fighter Squadron dropped bombs on enemy forces for the first time in the Hawaii Air Guard’s 70-year history.

For the first time in the 70-year history of the United Nations, all the member states will get a chance to question the candidates for Secretary-General, in a move to make the usually secret selection process for the world's top diplomatic post more transparent.

The Islamic State group has released most of the 300 cement workers it abducted near Damascus after questioning them to find out who were Muslims and killing four who were members of the minority Druze sect, a Syrian opposition monitoring group and a news agency linked to the extremists reported Saturday.

Belgian authorities said the remaining fugitive suspect in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks was arrested in Belgium on Friday, after a raid linked to the deadly March 22 Brussels bombings yielded five detentions in all.

Philippine military officials say at least 18 soldiers have been killed in fierce daylong fighting with Muslim militants in the south.

Ukraine has reported a sharp increase in attacks by Russia-backed separatists around the government-held town of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine, resulting in at least one civilian death.

Austrian officials say they plan to try and expropriate the house where Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was born in order to keep it from falling into the wrong hands.

Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou called for peace in Asia's contested waters on Saturday as he visited a small island in the East China Sea, one of his last symbolic foreign policy moves before leaving office next month.

No matter the military branch or specific base, a deadly shooting such as the one Friday at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland reignites an argument that has polarized millions of Americans: guns. The private possession of firearms is restricted on most military facilities, Lackland included. Whether that promotes safety or is even enforceable is an open question.

The shooting that left an airman and a squadron commander dead Friday occurred after the airman, accompanied by a first sergeant, was brought into the commander’s office for a disciplinary proceeding, according to multiple sources.

It was an unseasonably cool Saturday as hundreds gathered here for the 4th annual Grafenwoehr rugged terrain obstacle run.

The United States is warning its citizens about "credible threats" to touristic areas in Turkey, especially around public squares and docks in Istanbul and the Mediterranean city of Antalya.

A U.S. man held captive in Yemen's rebel-controlled capital has been released after Omani negotiators interceded on his behalf, authorities said, becoming the latest American freed through the sultanate's quiet diplomacy.

Belgian authorities have detained a total of six people suspected of ties to the Brussels bombings, including the last known fugitive of last year's Paris attacks and a Swedish fighter linked to the French massacre, Belgium's prosecutor's office said Saturday. The arrests could give investigators new insights into the Islamic State group cell believed to have carried out the attacks in both countries.