Новости за 27.04.2016

The U.S. Army Women's Museum in Fort Lee, Virginia, touts itself as the only museum in the world dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of women in the U.S. Army and the only museum of its kind in the U.S. Armed Forces.

Sen. Ted Cruz's campaign co-chairman in Virginia has traveled to Syria and promised support for the government of President Bashar Assad, who U.S. officials have repeatedly said has lost the legitimacy to rule the war-torn country.

Jim Yong Kim, an idealistic Korean-American physician and anthropologist, helped organize a conference in Lima that was staged like a teach-in. Hundreds of shantytown residents met development experts and vented their anger with the World Bank. Over the next half decade, Kim would become a vociferous critic of the World Bank, even calling for its abolition. In a 2000 book, Dying For Growth, he was lead author of an essay attacking the "capriciousness" of international development policies.

A few minutes past 9 a.m. at Pegatron Corp.'s vast factory on Shanghai's outskirts, thousands of workers dressed in pink jackets are getting ready to make iPhones. This is the realm in which the world's most profitable smartphones are made, part of Apple's closely guarded supply chain.

Capt. Kristen Griest, one of the first female soldiers to earn the coveted Ranger Tab last summer, has now become the Army’s first woman in the infantry.

President Barack Obama is congratulating the Naval Academy football team for winning the annual Commander in Chief's Trophy.

Fifteen years ago, he was working for the mayor of Washington, trying to turn around crime-ridden neighborhoods and a failing school system. Now, Abdusalam Omer is trying to turn around a failed state. The former D.C. bureaucrat known as Dr. O has a new title: foreign minister of Somalia.

Soon after a Japanese Soryu submarine sailed out of Sydney Harbour on Tuesday, the Australian government rejected Japan's bid for a $39-billion contract to renew its aging sub fleet.

Times and dates for theaters in Belgium, England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, The Netherlands and Spain and Turkey.

"Roof knocking" is a controversial Israeli military practice used in the Gaza Strip. It works on a simple logic designed to minimize civilian casualties. Occupants of a building are given a warning a few minutes before a military strike.

The Philippine president said Wednesday that Abu Sayyaf militants may have plotted to kill him and kidnap boxing star Manny Pacquiao, disclosing previously unknown details about an extremist group blamed for the beheading of a Canadian hostage.

Times and dates for theaters in Japan, Okinawa and South Korea

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A female suicide bomber blew herself up in a historic district of Turkey's fourth largest city on Wednesday, wounding 13 people, according to officials.

A summer storm is brewing in the South China Sea. Evidence appears to be mounting that China is pondering another bout of island-building in the South China Sea, and the United States administration and military is already on the alert.

The situation in the South China Sea has grown even more complex over the past week, with A-10 attack planes flying maritime patrols over a coral reef chain known as Scarborough Shoal.

Rare arguments before the highest military court in the land Wednesday came down to whether a Marine’s refusal to obey orders to remove signs from her desk containing a biblical passage were her exercising her right of religious freedom or just plain insubordination.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump outlined his vision for the nation’s defense strategy Wednesday in his first major speech on the topic. The speech centered on the five main weaknesses he sees in President Barack Obama’s current foreign policy.

House lawmakers rejected a proposal Wednesday to rename a Marine Corps amphibious vehicle after a company hit hard by improvised explosive devices during the Iraq War.

Members of Congress urged the Obama administration on Wednesday to order more naval operations close to disputed islands in the South China Sea. The State Department said Beijing risks conflict and isolation through its assertive behavior in those waters.

A suicide bomber blew herself up in the Turkish city of Bursa Wednesday, wounding at least seven people, officials said.

Iran's president said Wednesday that a U.S. court ruling that allows for the seizure of Iranian assets amounts to theft and indicates continued "hostility" toward his country.

Until the first soldiers jumped off their helicopters at Landing Zone Albany in the winter of 1965, the Vietnam War had been confined to American advisers who had suffered relatively light casualties.

South Korea on Wednesday became the first Asian nation to sign a space-cooperation pact with the U.S., officials said.

In 1979, Jan Scruggs was an anonymous U.S. Labor Department investigator who was overcome with a simple insight after seeing the emotionally harrowing Vietnam War film, “The Deer Hunter.”