Новости за 11.05.2016

Japanese are welcoming President Barack Obama's decision to visit the atomic-bombed city of Hiroshima, and those interviewed Wednesday said they aren't seeking an apology.

The Army's newest general officer faced a daunting task at Fort Bragg on Tuesday. During a ceremony in which he became a brigadier general, Ronald T. Stephens tried to avoid what he called his "least favorite" topic: himself.

A shallow magnitude-5.5 earthquake struck the mountainous region of Tibet on Wednesday, injuring 60 people, collapsing houses and damaging bridges and roads, authorities said.

As a doctor in Aleppo, Rami Kalazi has long felt uneasy about his job. Many of his colleagues have been killed by airstrikes and snipers. But the hardest part has not been treating the wounded as medical supplies run desperately low and warplanes bomb indiscriminately.

Hours after marching in a peaceful protest against the government late last month, Yassin Mohammed and his friends were lingering in the area in a district of the Egyptian capital when police descended on them, piled them into a minibus and took them to a police station. There, he said, he was blindfolded, handcuffed and beaten by security agents.

An explosives-laden car bomb ripped through a commercial area in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 63 people and wounding dozens in an attack that was swiftly claimed by the extremist Islamic State group.

Afghan officials on Wednesday morning delivered the son of Pakistan’s former prime minister to the that country’s ambassador in Kabul after a joint U.S.-Afghan special forces operation rescued him from his al-Qaida captors near the Pakistani border on Tuesday.

Recent satellite images of North Korea’s nuclear test facility raise doubts that another underground blast is looming, a Washington-based think tank says.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is welcoming President Barack Obama’s upcoming trip to Hiroshima, where the U.S. dropped the world’s first atomic bomb in 1945.

The DODEA-Europe soccer regular season is obviously a test of athletic ability and teamwork, but it can also be seen as an exercise in philosophy.

It’s been a classic case of hit and miss for the Kubasaki girls and boys soccer teams the last two years.

They’ve won five of the last six Far East titles, including the last four straight. They’ve not had a losing record since the 2009 season. Their prolific offense has featured Pacific single-season goal-scoring record-holder Tyelor Apple (79 in 2012), among others.

Spangdahlem Air Base must be doing something right. For the second time in five years, the base was named the Air Force recipient of the prestigious Commander in Chief’s Annual Award for Installation Excellence.

Japanese pilots will fly the F-35A Lightning II fighter jet for the first time by year’s end, according to a Lockheed Martin spokesman.

More than a dozen U.S. paratroopers are headed to a local courtroom Thursday after a bloody brawl outside a disco that reportedly broke out after a soldier was slashed in the arm.

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has received the Defense Department’s highest honor for private citizens and foreign nationals.

Massive traffic backups are expected on Okinawa’s main artery over the weekend due to road closures related to the removal of an unexploded 5-inch shell from World War II.

Sarah Rudder was on the verge of a key promotion in the U.S. Marines on Sept. 11, 2001 when the terrorist attacks struck and eventually left her without a leg.

Formal consultations opened between the Army, which governs the Carlisle Barracks, and three American Indian tribes who want their children’s remains returned from a cemetery there.

Two people were killed in stabbing attacks at a home and a shopping mall in Massachusetts before an off-duty law enforcement officer shot and killed the suspect, authorities said.

Sixteen black West Point cadets who posed with raised fists for a pre-graduation picture won't be punished for the gesture, the U.S. Military Academy said Tuesday.

Babies and children are among scores of people dying in military detention at a notorious Nigerian barracks where soldiers illegally hold suspected Islamic extremists, Amnesty International reported Wednesday.

Wheelchair rugby is unlike any of the other nine adaptive sports in the Invictus Games, founded by Prince Harry in 2014, and mixes elements of other games with which Americans are more familiar.

If the United States or South Korea can find the wreckage of three missiles that failed over the last month, weapons experts say, it could provide insights into the military mysteries of a nation as closed to outside scrutiny as any power in modern history.

A 21-year-old Navy SEAL trainee died last week during his first week of training in Coronado, California, a Navy spokesman said Tuesday.