Новости за 13.07.2016

Beijing has largely been silent about some of the tribunal’s most damning findings: that its activities there have “caused devastating and long-lasting damage to the environment.”

It takes all of 30 seconds for Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon to start cracking each other up — and anyone else lucky enough to be in the room with all that infectious energy.

It's the first time Australia's navy has brought an amphibious assault ship to the 26-nation Rim of the Pacific drills. In Hawaii, the Marines and Australian soldiers have been integrating their troops during exercises.

Last week's sniper attack in Dallas was gloomily reminiscent of a 1973 shooting spree in downtown New Orleans that shattered the peaceful urban landscape and went on for 11 hours, until police shot and killed Mark Essex from a helicopter hovering over a hotel.

The architect of the CIA's brutal interrogation program was hired for the job through a secret contract in late 2001 that outlined the assignment with Orwellian euphemism.

Frustrated by months of failure in Syria, the Obama administration is taking what might be its final offer to Moscow: Enhanced intelligence and military cooperation against the Islamic State and other extremist groups if Syria's Russian-backed president Bashar Assad upholds a ceasefire with U.S.-supported rebel groups and starts a political transition.

NATO and Russia remain at loggerheads over Ukraine but will consider a proposal to reduce the risk of an accidental military confrontation in Baltic airspace, NATO's chief said Wednesday.

Nearly a week after five officers were killed by a gunman in Dallas, memorial services for three of them drew thousands of mourners Wednesday.

Washington County is taking ownership of a largely deserted former Army base in Cascade, Maryland that officials hope will be turned into a vibrant mixed-use center.

The mastermind of a 2014 attack on a Pakistani school that killed some 150 people, mainly children, was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan, Pakistan's military said Wednesday.

The Pentagon is investigating why the shooter who killed five Dallas police officers received an honorable discharge from the Army after he was accused of sexually harassing a fellow soldier.

He has moved his family seven times in six years, but retired Army Cpl. David Bixler hopes this will be his permanent home.

The building has been at the center of a long-running dispute between an elderly lady who has refused to sell the house, despite numerous offers from the Austrian government to buy it in order to prevent it from becoming a neo-Nazi pilgrimage site.

Congress has passed an aviation bill that attempts to close gaps in airport security and shorten screening lines, but leaves thornier issues unresolved.

The wildly popular Pokémon Go smartphone app, in which players move around in the real world in order to catch virtual “pocket monsters,” has prompted some players to try to get through the gates at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

Like many other white southerners, Justin Hough used to consider the Confederate flag part of his regional heritage, not a symbol of hate. That changed when a white man who posed with the flag was charged with killing nine black churchgoers last year.

On June 11, 1863, Gen. John Hunt Morgan's intent was to divert forces away from the rebel armies gathered in the west and interrupt Union communications.

In its current configuration, the park has monuments that begin with the American Revolution and end with Desert Storm, part of the Gulf War. But that's where everything stops.

Filmmaker Drake Doremus makes films about impossible love; difficult, complicated, bruising, fragile love. His latest, "Equals," leaves behind the realistic contemporary environments of his two previous features, "Like Crazy" and "Breathe In," for a sterile, dystopian future, but the emotional issues remain the same. Starring Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart as the star-crossed lovers, "Equals" is a riff on "Romeo & Juliet" by way of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind."

The title of "Zero Days," Alex Gibney's chillingly astute glimpse into the shadowy world of global cyber warfare, refers to what is known as a zero-day vulnerability -- a security gap in a piece of software or hardware that, once exploited for the purposes of an attack, leaves the defender no time to respond. But the term also carries a less technical, more intuitive meaning. The future is now, Gibney's documentary persuasively argues, and what it holds for all of us is as scary to contemplate as it may be impossible to ward off.

In a steady march, disease-causing microbes have evolved ways to evade the bulwark of medications used to treat bacterial infections. Now this last line of defense had been breached as well.

Kalyn Chapman James — who in 1993 became the first black woman to win the title of Miss Alabama — posted a video on Facebook that sparked backlash and prompted her employer, Miami's PBS affiliate, to place her on administrative leave.

Russian authorities briefly detained and then deported the chief of the board that oversees U.S. government broadcasting overseas, including the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, the agency said Wednesday, the latest move amid heightening friction between Washington and Moscow.

An influential political lobby in Japan will do its utmost to capitalize on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's election victory and push for the constitution to be revised to allow a more active military, the group's chairman said Wednesday.

For me, it’s not a party favor. I don’t greet strangers with comments about any aspect of their appearance. Just because you wore one as a kid doesn’t mean you’ve shared my experience.