Новости за 03.07.2016

Elie Wiesel was memorialized Sunday at a private service in Manhattan, as family and friends gathered and praised the endurance and eloquence of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and mourned him as one of the last firsthand witnesses to the Nazis' atrocities.

For years, the team of researchers worked in obscurity, patiently tallying what they say is the economic toll of Latvia's decades under Soviet rule. The answer, they decided, is $205 billion. They didn't expect the firestorm that would come next.

In the two years since Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, the tiny Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have taken an oversized role in facing down Russia's challenge to the West.

In the two years since Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, the tiny Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have taken an oversized role in facing down Russia's challenge to the West.

Many young Palestinians incite against Israelis on Facebook and the social network fails to take down such posts, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said. Facebook also sabotages police efforts and turns down requests for collaboration, he said.

Last week, the suspects even smashed a plastic enclosure that stored a Purple Heart Medal and a vial that contained sand from Iwo Jima.

Cadet Thomas M. Surdyke will be buried in the West Point Cemetery following a funeral service on Monday.

Pakistan says a U.S. Senate delegation has paid a rare visit to a tribal region along the Afghanistan border that has long been considered a stronghold of al-Qaida, the Taliban and other insurgents.

In Afghanistan, Air Force Tech. Sgt. Mike Sears became a hero when he survived a rocket-grenade explosion, then threw himself on an injured Polish soldier to protect him from enemy gunfire. Back home, he tried to forget.

The Islamic State group on Sunday repelled an advance by U.S.-backed forces on one of its main bastions in northern Syria, seizing back territory it had previously lost, Syrian activists and the extremist group said.

In an exam room at the Central Alabama Veterans Health Care Systems hospital in late May, Willie McCall, a decorated Army veteran who served in the Korean War, was dying.

Staff at the center have staged explosions that range from the minor — think letter bombs — to the massive, wall-shaking explosions meant to test building architecture.

A growing number of U.S. special forces veterans are veering off the traditional path of working for private security firms and law enforcement agencies, and instead are heading into the tech industry.

By January of 2004, when German citizen Khaleed al-Masri arrived at the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret prison in Afghanistan, agency officials were pretty sure he wasn’t a terrorist. They also knew he didn’t know any terrorists, or much about anything in the world of international terror. In short, they suspected they’d nabbed the wrong man.

A federal paid family leave proposal is stalled in Congress. And though many states are exploring the idea, only three states besides New York have enacted paid leave laws: California (2002), New Jersey (2008) and Rhode Island (2013).

Donald Trump may be one of Barack Obama’s toughest critics, but when it comes to the president’s use of executive orders to circumvent Congress, the Republican sees him as a role model.

Today, Rene Gagnon Jr. will again tell the story of his father — one of our country's brave Marines immortalized in the iconic photograph raising the flag over Iwo Jima during World War II. But this time the tale will have a twist.

Emotions peaked leading up to the day two old soldiers, Sammy Davis and Jim Deister, returned to the scene of a horrific battle, this time joined by their wives.

On that dreadful night, Jim Deister saw 1,500 North Vietnamese and Main Force Viet Cong charging through the rice paddies and underbrush, with whistles and bugles blowing, screaming “Tonight you die, GI” while barrages of mortars rained down in front of them, killing some of them.

China will hold seven-day military drills around disputed islands starting Tuesday, the maritime safety administration announced Sunday, ahead of an arbitration court ruling on its sweeping claims to the South China Sea.

Visiting the Gettysburg battlefield for the first time, Clem Bechard made a pilgrimage to Little Round Top, where Joshua Chamberlain and the 20th Maine Infantry made their heroic stand on the second day of the pivotal three-day Civil War battle. But Bechard's anticipation soon turned to disappointment.

It was never great, say some cynics in response to Donald Trump’s talk of making America great again, but you don’t have to be a Trump fan to say oh, yes, it was — or a bleary-eyed optimist to say it still is.

Invariably, he creates drama that brings the spotlight to him and brings trouble to his bride.

I’m a former Marine, and I served in combat. I still have that sense of duty, like I did in Desert Storm.

When James Facos was squeezed into the ball turret of a B-17 Flying Fortress, using the two 50-caliber machine guns on either side of him to soften up German air defenses to let his plane drop its payload of bombs, he wasn't looking to get into the good graces of the French.