Новости за 29.06.2016

Sweden and Kazakhstan won contested elections for coveted seats on the Security Council on Tuesday and the Netherlands and Italy ended a battle for another seat by agreeing to split the two-year term on the U.N.'s most powerful body.

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich is weighing in on concerns residents are raising about drinking water contamination near two former U.S. Navy bases near Philadelphia.

For students of U.S. history, presidential candidate Donald Trump's "America First" slogan harkens back to the tumultuous presidential election of 1940, when hundreds of thousands of Americans joined the anti-war America First Committee.

A relatively quick victory over the Islamic State in Fallujah has raised hopes that Mosul, a much bigger prize in the fight against the Islamic State, will not be as difficult for Iraqi forces to recapture as initially feared.

Israel's antiquities authority says an international research team has located a tunnel in Lithuania dug by Jewish prisoners trying to escape their Nazi captors during World War II.

EU leaders met Wednesday without Britain for the first time to rethink their shaken union, make it more relevant to citizens and keep it from disintegrating after Britain's unprecedented vote to leave — but conflicting visions of Europe's future are complicating the high-stakes summit.

Suicide attackers armed with guns and bombs killed 41 people and wounded scores of others at Istanbul's busy Ataturk Airport in an attack the government blamed on Islamic State extremists.

Hoping to make amends for a tragic accident, the United States has provided a wide range of compensation to a Cameroonian family whose child was killed by a vehicle in U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power's motorcade. The package included everything from cash to cows, U.S. officials said.

Town officials, with support from state Rep. Sarah Peake, want to open talks with the National Park Service about using the former North Truro Air Force Station for housing.

Islamic State militants on Wednesday pushed back U.S.-trained Syrian rebels from the outskirts of a town on the Iraqi border, dealing a setback to a budding offensive that aims to sever the militants' transit link between Syria and Iraq, a rebel spokesman said.

Hoping to show the world his country is doing just fine despite sanctions and outside pressure over its nuclear weapons program, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has put his soldier-builders to work on yet another major project — a series of apartments and high-rises that are once again changing the Pyongyang skyline.

The leaders of North America confront a rising tide of economic protectionism and nationalism as they hold a summit Wednesday in the Canadian capital.

Senate Republican and Democratic leaders on Tuesday promised to complete a rescue package for debt-stricken Puerto Rico before a $2 billion debt payment comes due on Friday.

The international community must not view the problem of Boko Haram in the Lake Chad Basin as solely a military one but must remedy the underlying causes of extreme poverty that have allowed the extremist group to thrive there, a senior U.N. official said Tuesday.

Tuesday's suicide bombings at Istanbul's main airport are the latest in a string of deadly attacks in popular tourist areas in Turkey this year, a burst of violence that has dealt a heavy blow to the country's tourism industry.

Hundreds have been sentenced to prison, are awaiting trial or are being held for questioning about links to Islamic State. Under toughened anti-terror laws, even liking or sharing the group's propaganda on social media can land someone a prison sentence.

A police spokesman says gunmen in twin attacks minutes apart have shot and killed four policemen in southwestern Pakistan before escaping.

Suicide attackers killed dozens and wounded more than 140 at Istanbul's busy Ataturk Airport, the latest in a series of bombings to strike Turkey in recent months.

Los Angeles-class fast attack submarines are piling up at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.

Vietnam's military says the bodies of eight crew from a search plane that crashed two weeks ago while looking for a missing fighter jet have been recovered.

The strategy is intended to create a greater military presence near the southern end of the South China Sea, a Marine general said Wednesday.

A smiling Kim Jong Un congratulated hundreds of North Korean generals, scientists, technicians and others who contributed to last week’s “successful” missile test, state media said Wednesday.

Marines in Hawaii will get their first squadron of Osprey MV-22s after the aircraft participate in the upcoming Rim of the Pacific exercise.

Two dozen Syrian civilian organizations and humanitarian aid groups are threatening to end their participation in peace talks unless the international community takes major steps to protect civilians and enforce a cessation of hostilities in the country.

A decision that tied funding for in-vitro fertilization services for veterans into Zika research and prevention funding proved to be a roadblock for lawmakers.