Новости за 19.08.2016

The failed coup in Turkey may have revived a debate in Washington over whether the country should remain in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and a host to U.S. nuclear weapons, but the response in Ankara and some U.S. diplomatic circles is simply puzzlement.

Kristian Saucier pleaded guilty in May taking photos of classified areas inside a nuclear attack submarine while it was in port in Connecticut.

Landscape architect Billy Almond presented conceptual designs for a series of park locations, beaches and amenities that would be linked by trails surrounding the fort.

Jeffrey Green was president and CEO of LockNClimb, LLC in Independence, Kansas, when he paid what he thought was a public official at Tinker Air Force Base about $280 in exchange for the Air Force purchasing ladders from his company.

An Air Force helicopter crash that injured four military members on a remote central Nevada training range was the second crash in one day during training exercises at Nellis Air Force Base.

“Ben-Hur” and Charlton Heston go together like sword and sandal, the two being inextricably linked in the public mind.

Newcomer Markees Christmas had a lot of firsts making “Morris from America ,” a coming-of-age tale about a single father and his 13-year-old hip-hop-loving son who both move to Heidelberg, Germany. Not only was it his first film, his first time in Germany and his first trip on a plane, it was also the first time he had even considered acting professionally.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but that hasn’t stopped the makers of “War Dogs” from trying to tame that strangeness into submission. Set during the final years of the George W. Bush administration, this slipshod comic thriller purports to tell the wild and crazy tale of Efraim Diveroli and David Packouz, two upstart war profiteers from Miami Beach who exploited the U.S. conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and temporarily achieved big-time status in the international arms trade.

A Coast Guard recruit from Virginia who collapsed and died after a physical fitness run at a New Jersey training center has been made an honorary graduate.

U.S. special operators were near a northern Syrian city controlled by Kurdish forces Thursday when Syrian bombers attacked them, a Pentagon spokesman said.

Another space race is emerging, this time among a class of hugely wealthy entrepreneurs who have grown frustrated that space travel is in many ways still as difficult, and as expensive, as ever.

Two Zika cases have been linked to Miami Beach, according to an email sent by the city manager to local officials.

The ad was apparently placed in retaliation for a similar news ticker at the Vienna airport last week claiming Turkey allows sex with children and a subsequent tweet by Sweden's foreign minister calling on Turkey to respect child rights.

The past four years have been hell for Aleppo native Mohib Abdelsalam, as Syria's civil war left thousands dead and reduced entire neighborhoods to rubble in opposition-held areas of his home town. But this summer, the 26-year-old rebel said, life got even worse.

Domestic politics could torpedo half a decade of diplomatic, military and trade engagement in the Pacific with both presidential candidates pushing policies opposed by America’s friends and allies.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says he sent Hillary Clinton a memo touting his use of a personal email account after she took over as the nation's top diplomat in 2009.

Scores of residents of the northeastern Syrian city of Hassakeh took advantage Friday of a lull in fighting between Kurdish forces and Syrian government troops to flee to safer areas nearby.

Philippine communist rebels declared a weeklong cease-fire Friday to promote the resumption of long-stalled peace talks aimed at ending one of Asia's longest-raging rebellions, adding they were open to discussing an extension of the truce if the government frees all political prisoners.

The Japanese government intends to embark on major maintenance and repair work at the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Okinawa, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. About 20 repair projects have been listed, including renovation of its aging hangar.

Donald Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigned on Friday in the wake of campaign shake-up and revelations about his work in Ukraine.

The Obama administration is facing a storm of Republican criticism after acknowledging that a $400 million cash payment to Iran seven months ago was contingent on the release of a group of American prisoners.

We are goading an angry and socially destructive genie out of a bottle, with no clue how to stuff it back in.

As the world watches the U.S. presidential election with bewilderment and unease, America's allies in Asia are particularly concerned about the possibility of U.S. disengagement from the region.

Outside the legal challenges it previously faced, the Affordable Care Act has never been as threatened as it is right now. President Barack Obama’s signature law has so destabilized the individual market for insurance that three large companies have announced they are better off not participating in the exchanges.

How we speak about hate groups matters. Modern fringe groups have used myths about the KKK to successfully market themselves as the organization of the past. By allowing new hate groups to co-opt the Ku Klux Klan’s legacy of power, we leave open the possibility that America’s deadliest hate group will rise again.