Новости за 12.04.2016

Two large shipping containers, each stamped with the words "Contains: Guided Missile," were discovered bobbing in the Pacific Ocean near the southeast Alaska island community of Craig.

The Pentagon is considering ways it could automate aspects of its peacekeeping mission in the Sinai Peninsula, possibly reducing the number of troops deployed to an area struggling with the rise of an Islamic State faction, officials said Tuesday.

U2 front man Bono brought his star power to Capitol Hill Tuesday as he called on members of Congress to take swift action to deal with the global refugee crisis and violent extremism.

The U.S. Navy on Tuesday became the first branch of the U.S. military - the world's single-largest user of fossil fuels - to say it will start requiring big vendors to report their output of climate-changing greenhouse gases and work to lower it.

A former physician assistant is accused of using his position to commit sexual battery and other crimes against at least seven patients at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Kansas, and a lawyer says yet more victims will emerge.

Outside the police station, Iraqi men in robes and headscarves wait for permits to leave the dusty border town of Rabia, which was wrested from the Islamic State group 18 months ago but remains isolated and impoverished by the battle lines drawn around it.

Israel's defense minister says Saudi Arabia has given Israel written assurances the kingdom will guarantee Israel freedom of passage in the Tiran Straits.

Officials say a French soldier has been killed in northern Mali after a mine exploded beneath an armored vehicle.

As one peshmerga fighter put it, "we're here because we're scared that the Iraqi Army will collapse, and we're here to stop that from happening... The Peshmerga isn't afraid of ISIS. It takes them (the Iraqi Army) six days to take two villages. We could take six villages in two hours."

It was an emotional day for former U.S. Sen. Carl Levin as dozens of national, state and city leaders, former neighbors, friends and colleagues gathered at the Renaissance Center today for the formal announcement that the Navy will name a destroyer in his honor.

Military veteran Robert Izumi spent time at a Japanese internment camp before volunteering for the 101st Airborne Division and fighting in Europe, including in the Battle of Bastogne in WWII, and later saw combat in Korea, Vietnam and Panama.

A Pentagon spokesman says the U.S. conducted airstrikes Monday and Tuesday in Somalia that killed an estimated 12 militants affiliated with the al-Shabab Islamic extremist group.

Four Alaska Air National Guard rescuers trudged miles through difficult terrain and harsh weather in their effort to save two people who have been stuck there since Friday.

The general overseeing Guantanamo war court defense teams has issued an order forbidding his staff to sleep at the Camp Justice compound following a new health risk assessment on cancer-causing agents there.

Raytheon Co. is asking Congress to increase purchases of a U.S. Navy missile interceptor even as the Pentagon investigates the defensive weapon's failure in a test, according to people familiar with the contractor's efforts.

Dozens of German residents of this rural town gathered to watch as nearly 900 paratroopers leapt from their military aircraft Tuesday to the open farmlands below.

The United Nations took a historic step Tuesday to open up the usually secret process of selecting the next secretary-general, giving all countries the chance to question candidates on such issues as how they would resist pressure from powerful nations, tackle sex abuse by U.N. peacekeepers, and improve efforts to achieve peace.

Technical Sgt. Steven D. Bellino was a special forces veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan whose brief Air Force career was headed for an abrupt end on the day he and a squadron commander at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland died in an apparent murder-suicide.

Two men have been charged with offenses related to the Brussels bombings, and three others have been detained in Brussels in connection to the Paris attacks, Belgian authorities said Tuesday.

Taliban insurgents announced the start of their spring offensive on Tuesday, naming the new campaign “Operation Omari” after the group’s late leader and founder.

At the end of a three-day visit by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter to India, the two countries announced progress in some logistics- and technology-sharing programs but fell short on other key issues, including co-development of a future Indian aircraft carrier.

An advanced Russian helicopter gunship crashed in Syria Tuesday, killing two Russian crewmembers aboard, the Russian Ministry of Defense said in a statement.

Russia portrayed last month's drawdown from Syria as a victory and a homecoming, after a six-month deployment in which its air force turned the tide of the long-running conflict. So it was a surprise this week that Russian state outlets quietly reported that powerful new Russian helicopters were seeing Syrian combat for the first time.

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has squared off against Marine Corps leaders who resisted recruiting women for all combat jobs. On Tuesday, he takes his case to a broader audience at Camp Pendleton, California.

More than 400 arrests were made Monday at the U.S. Capitol in connection with Democracy Spring demonstrations there. The Democracy Spring organization said it is calling on Congress to end the "corruption of big money" in our politics. It also asked congressional action to "ensure free and fair elections" and to prevent what it called "voter suppression."