Новости за 17.07.2016

There is mounting evidence that Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, the Tunisian-born truck driver responsible for the deadly carnage in Nice last week, had recently absorbed extremist ideas and had become radicalized, French authorities said Sunday.

The painstaking process of identifying the victims of the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice dragged into its third day Sunday, adding to the anguish of family members caught between uncertainty and grief.

One of the most sacred values the military protects is the right to vote, retired Air Force Col. Mike Turner says, so he is working to ensure the men and women of the military are practicing this right.

The political career of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been shaped by military coups, real or imagined, for more than four decades. Friday’s attempt is probably the most consequential, and potentially empowering, of them all.

A year ago, few imagined Donald Trump as a headline speaker at the Republican National Convention - let alone as its star.

A group that monitors online extremist activity says al-Qaida's North Africa branch has reported the death of a Tunisian commander in Mali.

Pence’s selection also shows that social conservatives remain a powerful force within the Republican Party.

A court in Bahrain ordered the country's main Shiite opposition group to be dissolved on Sunday, local media reported, deepening a crackdown on dissent in the strategically important Western-allied kingdom.

French authorities investigating the truck attack that killed 84 people at a Bastille Day celebration in Nice detained two more people Sunday and released the dead attacker's estranged wife as they tried to determine whether he had been an Islamic extremist or just a very angry man.

Police in New Hampshire's largest city have gotten the Pokemon Go bug, trying to lure fugitives with the popular app.

Turkey has detained about 6,000 people in a government crackdown on alleged coup plotters and government opponents, the Justice Ministry announced Sunday.

As a former B-1 bomber pilot and a T-38 instructor pilot at Vance Air Force Base, Capt. James Baker is a pretty no-nonsense guy, not one given to blowing smoke.

Three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers were killed and three others wounded Sunday, less than two weeks after a black man was shot and killed by police here in a confrontation that sparked nightly protests across the city that reverberated nationwide.

Cleveland's chief of police said Sunday barricades have been placed at key streets and intersections in the city's downtown before the start of the Republican National Convention to thwart the type of terrorist attack that occurred in France when a man drove a large truck into crowds, killing 84 people.

Cleveland's chief of police said Sunday barricades have been placed at key streets and intersections in the city's downtown before the start of the Republican National Convention to thwart the type of attack that occurred in France when a man drove a large truck into crowds, killing 84 people.

Police in Louisiana say that several officers have been shot in Baton Rouge while on duty.

Straddling Europe and Asia, with a Muslim population and a secular government, Turkey faces extraordinary political, economic and social pressures. Its secular-minded military has led at least three government takeovers since 1960, not counting its nonviolent "post-modern coup" in 1997 that chased an Islamist party from power.

The U.S. is awaiting a formal plea to turn over a Pennsylvania-based cleric suspected by Turkey of inspiring a military coup attempt, said Secretary of State John Kerry, dismissing as "irresponsible" any accusation of U.S. involvement in the uprising.

For Newport News Shipbuilding, the technology behind Pokemon Go is so 2011. But the basic technology that allows smartphone users to find digital characters in the real world has taken on a practical and serious role in shipyard operations.

For the second year, five heroic Hispanic veterans will be recognized through the Latino Veterans Profiles in Courage Awards.

Services will be held Monday, July 18, for Kenneth Edgar Wilson Jr., 90, of Kennett Square, a retired Navy rear admiral who died Thursday, July 7, of a lung ailment at Kendal Crosslands.

The nation is poised to elect one of its oldest presidents, and while age doesn't determine health, it begs the question: How much do we know - and should we know - about how physically fit Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are for the job?

If terrorists are following this “Open Source Jihad” manual so closely, what other kinds of attacks does it suggest?

Expect Erdogan to go after coup plotters, a legitimate move, but also to crack down on all dissent and opposition.

After more than two decades of service to the Air Force, two master sergeants exited their military careers just as they had served — together.