Новости за 18.08.2016

South Korea’s military conducted its largest-ever artillery drill near the heavily militarized border with the North at a time when relations between the two countries have sharply deteriorated.

Though the the B-52 Stratofortress, the B-1 Lancer and the B-2 Spirit have deployed independently to the Pacific, this was the first time all three simultaneously conducted operations in the region.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he prefers to talk quietly with Chinese officials.

A former Marine faces a rare federal stalking charge for what the FBI alleges was a campaign of harassment and threats against the Catholic Diocese of Knoxville, Tenn. and its parishes, carried out from a boat in California.

Men who step onto the medal podium are exempted from the approximately two years of military service that nearly all young, able bodied South Korean men, from pop stars to lawmakers' sons, have to perform in the face of North Korean threats of war.

Sen. Charles E. Grassley is calling for Senate officials to separate the classified from the unclassified documents in order to turn over as much information to the public as possible.

The young Syrian activist was beaten, prevented from going to the toilet and saw her cellmates taken for rounds of whipping when she was held for more than a month in several government detention facilities.

President Rodrigo Duterte chided the U.N. for being "easy to be swayed into interfering into the affairs of the republic" and "coming on a very stupid proposition."

Exercise Citadel Rumble is an integrated disaster response and recovery exercise to practice emergency response plans, policies and procedures during a simulated disaster.

A Justice Department Inspector General summary report released Wednesday said faulty helmets were made by Federal Prison Industries for the Army and the Marine Corps.

The military said Wednesday it has identified six places on an Air Force base in Colorado where firefighting foam containing toxic chemicals may have escaped into the environment and made its way into drinking water in two nearby communities.

Brazil's celebrated men's soccer team rolled to a 6-0 win over Honduras in the semifinals Wednesday to earn a spot in the gold medal match.

The Angora goat had a history of medical problems, which manifested soon after the school acquired him last year. The 2-and-a-half-year-old goat suffered from idiopathic edema and related disorders, which appeared to have been caused by chronic kidney weakness.

The United States and its allies can't figure out what to do about Khalifa Hifter, the Libyan general whose refusal to support a fragile unity government has jeopardized hopes for stability in a country plagued by conflict.

The center was named after a freed slave who was the highest-ranking black officer in the military at the time of his death in 1922.

The Army was all Thomas Lopez knew and he felt thrown into society with no education and few skills. He and his wife had two more kids before eventually getting a divorce. It was the start of the end for him, he said.

The FBI is strictly limiting access to documents from its closed investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server and warning members of Congress not to leak them.

A private treasure salvage company has discovered scattered evidence of a historic wreck that includes some tantalizing clues: three French bronze cannons, at least one of which has markings from the time of the colony, and a French granite monument adorned with that country’s coat of arms.

Coast Guard crews have rescued 243 people, 71 pets and assisted 3,008 people who were in distress as a result of flooding in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.