Новости за 18.07.2016

The man who carried out the Bastille Day rampage had searched online for information on the mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub last month and the recent attack on Dallas police officers, French investigators said Monday.

Getting Doc off the ground for the first time in 60 years wasn’t easy, but on Sunday morning the the Boeing B-29 Superfortress finally eased into the air for what turned out to be a brief first flight.

In honor of B-29 Superfortress Doc’s first flight in 60 years, 95-year-old World War II veteran Mel Winters gathered with hundreds of people in south Wichita early Sunday morning.

The blue and the gray lines of infantrymen traded crackling volleys of musket fire, bugles signaled the cavalry charge and deafening cannon fire cast a pall of smoke over a once-peaceful Sonoma County cow pasture.

Astride his horse Aura Lea, Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart met Brig. Gen. James Barnes at the Union Mills Homestead's Citizen Meets Soldier program in Westminster. The generals, who missed each other by four hours in 1863, depicted the missed encounter with humor and pleasantries Sunday morning.

On a day when America’s struggle with racial issues raged again, hundreds of Bay Area residents gathered in the East Bay to remember a mostly forgotten race-tinged incident that occurred 72 years earlier, taking the lives of 202 African Americans and leaving 50 more convicted of mutiny.

The second annual French Creek Heritage Event on Saturday will focus on "1750 — A Gathering Storm in the French Creek Valley" and the Washington/Gist expedition of 1753.

The voice is coming from a nearby machine as Carolyn Lightfoot practices CPR on a simulator at Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center. The Augusta VA’s SimLab earlier this month received its certification, one of less than 40 VAs in the country to achieve that designation, officials said.

Yu Sunhui calmly recounted how she escaped North Korea by train, jumping off often to avoid the checkpoints. She had to swim across a river to China, where she was sold to human traffickers before she managed to make her way to South Korea in 2010.

Key restrictions on Iran's nuclear program imposed under an internationally negotiated deal will start to ease years before the 15-year accord expires, advancing Tehran's ability to build a bomb even before the end the pact, according to a document obtained Monday by The Associated Press.

After inflicting heavy losses on weakened Afghan security forces a year ago, the Taliban under new leadership have been surprisingly slow to ramp up attacks at the midpoint of the traditional fighting season, senior American military officers said Sunday.

Braced for uncertainty and struggling for unity, Republicans opened their convention to nominate Donald Trump for president on Monday as dissident delegates pursued one last chance to deny him and the nation reeled from yet another outburst of violence.

Vietnam helicopter pilot Charles “Chuck” Kettles saved dozens of soldiers’ lives during a daring rescue mission in 1967, setting an example of selflessness for the country as it now struggles with divisions and violence, President Barack Obama said Monday.

Airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition targeting areas in Syria controlled by the Islamic State group killed at least 15 civilians on Monday, two Syrian activist groups said.

The former Marine who killed three Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police officers in an ambush-style attack identified with a growing sovereign citizen movement whose adherents believe they're immune to most federal and state laws, including paying taxes and getting driver's licenses.

External power remained cut off for a third day Monday at Incirlik Air Base, where Turkish authorities cut off electricity in connection with an attempted coup.

External power remained cut off for a third day Monday at Incirlik Air Base, where Turkish authorities cut off electricity in connection with an attempted coup.

President Barack Obama's remarks at the Medal of Honor ceremony for retired Lt. Col. Charles Kettles on July 18, 2016, as released by the White House.

A Kosovo court has sentenced five ethnic Albanians to jail terms for plans to prepare an Islamic State video.

The European Union's top economy official laid out his hope that a debt-relief deal with Greece could be achievable by the end of this year.

Braced for uncertainty and struggling for unity, Republicans prepared to kick off their convention to nominate Donald Trump on Monday as dissident delegates pursued one last chance to deny him and the nation reeled from yet another outburst of violence.

British lawmakers are voting Monday on whether to replace the country's fleet of nuclear-armed submarines, a powerful but expensive symbol of the country's military status.

Authorities said Monday that they believe the gunman who opened fire in Baton Rouge a day earlier, killing three police officers and injuring three others before dying in a shootout with police, was looking for law enforcement and ambushed the officers.

U.S. Rep. Tim Walz, a former command sergeant major in the Minnesota National Guard, has announced a bid to be the ranking member of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee.

Veterans of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising and city authorities have taken steps to prevent the names of victims of the 2010 presidential plane crash from being read out during the upcoming anniversary observances of the revolt against German occupation.