Новости за 22.08.2016

The storm that intruded on Sunday night’s Closing Ceremony at the Summer Olympics befit a mega-sporting event that, over the last few weeks, had blended spectacle with more than a few glitches and negative headlines.

About 3,000 people turned out to watch the team, made up of both veterans and active-duty personnel who have lost limbs in military service, play three games.

Syria has been warned not to fly warplanes in areas where American troops are advising Kurdish and Arab forces fighting the Islamic State group, the Pentagon said on Monday. But it insisted this does not amount to a "no fly zone."

Obtaining information about North Korea is never easy, especially in the South, where any sign of propaganda is illegal — unless you’re on the fifth floor of the National Library.

The young boy burst into tears as police apprehended him after he was spotted nervously pacing up and down a street in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk. When they cut open the Barcelona soccer shirt he was wearing, they found a suicide belt. He was just 15.

The top U.S. commander for the fight against the Islamic State group said Monday that he is skeptical of any additional military cooperation with Russia in Syria.

Among many of the people who have actually fought in this country's wars, particularly on the front lines of Iraq and Afghanistan, Trump offers a refreshing alternative to 15 years of seemingly endless conflict marked by uncertain goals, fleeting victories and constant personal sacrifice, according to interviews with dozens of veterans.

It’s dangerous to imagine that your enemy is motivated by the same things you are.

The leaders of Italy, France and Germany vowed Monday to boost joint European security efforts in the wake of Islamic extremist attacks as they made a symbolic bid to relaunch the European Union after Britain's vote to leave.

Mindulle battered eastern Japan on Monday, triggering floods, disrupting travel and keeping some U.S. military bases on lockdown before being downgraded to a tropical depression Tuesday morning.

Typhoon Mindulle battered eastern Japan on Monday, triggering floods, disrupting travel and keeping some U.S. military bases on lockdown.

When we think of the war against Islamic State terrorists, the Defense Department, the State Department and the intelligence agencies come to mind. We should add the Smithsonian Institution to the list.

Accused deserter Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s attempt to join the French Foreign Legion and his time on a weapons range prior to enlisting cannot be used in his court-martial as evidence of his pursuits of adventure, an Army judge ruled Monday.

A military judge expressed skepticism Monday that letters destroyed by a top general are relevant to the prosecution of Bowe Bergdahl on charges related to his leaving his post in Afghanistan.

The judge overseeing Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's military trial said Monday that a top general must testify about destroying letters that he received from supporters and critics of the soldier who walked off his post in Afghanistan.

Police found Matt Roberts dead in the hallway of a Wisconsin hotel where he and his father were staying. They had flown up so Matt could play a benefit in West Bend, Wisconsin, to help fund Honor Flights for veterans, an event that Matt had helped orchestrate, his father said.

About 100 American troops have deployed to Lashkar Gah to assist Afghan forces who are trying to keep the city from falling to the Taliban, U.S. defense officials said Monday.

Officials say the Chaman border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan remains closed for the fourth consecutive day after Afghan protesters burned a Pakistani flag.

The rally featured a speech by Navy Lt. Jim Downing, a 102-year-old survivor of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, and a display of a replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall.

Mark Sypeck and David “Kawika” Plummer sat together on the porch of Sypeck’s home, finishing each other’s sentences, recalling their past shared experiences and making future plans.

Abner Garcia taught Miguel Areola some lessons that probably saved his life, without ever resorting to lectures or scoldings.

When the autopsy report for Prince surfaced in June, it became clear that the singer died from a lethal dose of a powerful opioid called fentanyl. Now investigators have found reason to believe that the pop icon did not know what he was taking.

"I would not be surprised if we see cases in Texas and Louisiana, particularly now where you have the situation with flooding in Louisiana," said Anthony Fauci, director of the Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "There are going to be a lot of problems getting rid of standing water."

When a patient shows up at a hospital with severe abdominal pain and ultrasound reveals a mass in his stomach, it's only logical to think first of a tumor, perhaps cancer. And that's just what surgeons at Amritsar Corporate Hospital in India at first assumed.

Leaked National Security Agency hacking tools are exposing how even the technology designed to safeguard our computer networks can put users at risk — and how poor security practices like clinging to old equipment can make things worse.