Новости за 16.04.2016

Saudi Arabia took in nine Yemeni detainees from the Guantanamo Saturday in a breakthrough deal with the at-times stubborn Saudis that left 80 captives at the U.S. military detention center in Cuba.

Cuban President Raul Castro delivered a grim report on the state of the country on Saturday, saying that the communist bureaucracy had failed to implement most of the hundreds of changes the ruling party launched five years ago to stimulate the stagnant centrally controlled economy.

Lyle Bouck Jr. became one of the youngest commissioned officers to serve in World War II. Lots of close calls at the Battle of the Bulge and as a prisoner of war, it seemed nothing could stop him. And nothing has.

Two figures from the main Syrian opposition team to the peace talks in Geneva said Saturday that they have rejected a suggestion that was put forward by the U.N. special envoy to Syria in which President Bashar Assad would stay in power during a transitional period and the opposition would choose three vice presidents.

Indirect peace talks between Syria's warring parties have resumed in Geneva to the backdrop of escalating violence in the country's north and a refusal by the Syrian government to negotiate a transitional government, a key opposition demand.

A week after Lt. Col. William “Bill” Schroeder was killed in a murder-suicide that rocked Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, the Air Force gave him a final salute Friday, complete with an honor cordon of 700 new basic training graduates.

America's nuclear bunker hit middle age Friday with a 50th birthday party that drew hundreds to the tunnel entrance at Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station.

Failed attempts to oust the speaker of parliament and a fresh ultimatum from an influential Shiite cleric have left Iraq in a state of political limbo. Backroom negotiations continued late into the night Saturday between Iraq's powerful political blocs after lawmakers attempting to oust speaker Selim al-Jabouri failed to maintain quorum.

Army troops and other rescuers, using military helicopters to reach some stranded at a mountain resort, rushed Saturday to try to reach scores of trapped residents in hard-hit communities near Kumamoto, a city of 740,000 on the southwestern island of Kyushu.

A man who was 16 years old when he and others beat a disabled veteran to death for his Social Security check will spend the rest of his life in prison without any chance of parole.

Frederick Mayer, a World War II veteran who spied on Germany and singlehandedly negotiated the surrender of a Nazi-held Austrian town, died Friday at 94.

From Mankato to Mountain Iron, speakers such as Usama Dakdok, A.J. Kern, Brigitte Gabriel, Cynthia Khan, Jeffrey Baumann and Clare Lopez are showing up in churches, restaurants, VFWs and community centers to address crowds and air concerns about immigrants, the Qur’an and what they see as a threat to the U.S. Constitution.

Mexico's defense secretary formally apologized to the country Saturday for a video-recorded incident of torture involving two soldiers and a federal police officer.

In a gesture both political and personal, Pope Francis flew 12 Syrian Muslims to Italy aboard his charter plane Saturday after an emotional visit to the Greek island of Lesbos, which has faced the brunt of Europe's migration crisis.

Officials say a U.S. Coast Guard boat crew rescued three people after their fishing vessel took on water and sank less than a mile from Grays Harbor.

Bahrain says a police officer has been killed and two others were seriously wounded in a gasoline bomb attack in the tiny island kingdom.

He hadn’t run the 800 since he was in the eighth grade. And Britt Sease said he had no illusions about even breaking two minutes, much less coming close to breaking a northwest Pacific record.

Pope Francis said his brief encounter Saturday with U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was a sign of good manners, "nothing more," and hardly evidence of interfering in American politics.

Local Yemeni committees tasked to monitor a week-old cease-fire between Yemen's internationally recognized government and Shiite rebels, agreed Saturday to begin their work on the ground at six front-lines, security officials said.

While the Government Accountability Office has released two reports saying the F-35 continues to be plagued with cost and schedule problems, the fighter jet’s program office says the information is out of context and misleading.

An Air Force airman from Glen Burnie, Md. has died while serving in the fight against the self-declared Islamic State, the Pentagon said Saturday.

MacDill Air Force Base is celebrating its 75th anniversary. A lot has changed over the years. MacDill went from training crews to fly B-17 Flying Fortress and B-26 Marauder bombers to B-29 Superfortresses, B-47 Stratojets and F-84, F-4 and F-16 fighters. It now is home to two wings that fly KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refueling jets.

Hidden in plain sight on the shoreline of the city of Richmond is a cluster of small houses, a huge empty warehouse that resembles a castle, and a hillside forest, all facing a mile and a half of frontage on San Francisco Bay.

Peals of laughter greet visitors who enter the spacious villa, where about a dozen women sit around a large table munching pizza and salad. There’s no undercurrent of sadness, even though the women have traveled to the Emerald Coast for a special weekend retreat sponsored by the American Widow Project, a national nonprofit dedicated to uniting, empowering and educating military widows.