Новости за 29.08.2016

Venezuela's government has frequently accused Washington and the country's opposition of plotting coups. U.S. officials regularly deny the accusations.

Russian athletes including the women's pole vault world record holder, Yelena Isinbayeva, have visited an air base in Syria that Russia uses to target Islamic State fighters.

A World War II crash site survey team will return to India for six weeks in the fall to examine additional locations where U.S. planes were lost, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Monday.

For John Friend, the ghosts of what might have been are still seared into his memory. A former assistant crew chief at Grand Forks Air Force Base, he served during the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962.

Ruby Abbott's teenage years sound something like the intro to a new Marvel Comics heroine. She was a hula dancer and surfer who tucked a snowy gardenia or purple orchid in her hair as she dashed to work — where she helped a global military leader save the free world.

Jacksonville’s most historic shipwreck may have been damaged by submerged telephone cables draped over or through its 152-year-old wooden bones, according to the man who led its archaeological exploration in the 1980s and ’90s off Mandarin Point.

In the war-torn country of Iraq, hospital emergency departments are slow to deliver medical care and nurses are not empowered to jump in and help patients immediately.

North Korea called the UN's response "a hostile act" perpetrated by the United States and warned it could precipitate America's "self-destruction."

The FBI is investigating a series of suspected foreign hacks of state election computer systems and websites, and has warned states to be on the alert for potential intrusions.

Thousands of would-be drone pilots are racing to get licensed under new U.S. regulations that have opened an aerial stampede.

Facebook announced Friday that humans would no longer write descriptions for its Trending topics list, handing over even more responsibility to the already-powerful algorithm. But just days after the policy change, Facebook's algorithm chose a very bad, factually incorrect headline to explain to its news-hungry users why Megyn Kelly was trending.

The skies above this small northern Iraqi town are black with smoke and ash rains down from around a half dozen oil wells that Islamic State group fighters set ablaze as Iraqi troops moved in to retake Qayara last week.

With China plowing money into its military machine and making aggressive claims to disputed island chains, Beijing's regional rivals are investing in the one weapon that can undercut the increasingly potent People's Liberation Army.

Maj. George Quamo was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for leading a dangerous helicopter mission in 1968 that rescued 14 Green Berets and dozens of others who were invaded by two North Vietnamese battalions and were pleading for help at the Lang Vei Special Forces Camp in central Vietnam.

The Department of Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System said last week it plans to keep the majority of compensation and pension exams at Fort George G. Meade's VA clinic.

The Pentagon’s failure to detect the extramarital affair and “swinger lifestyle” of a top general despite background checks that likely included polygraph tests exposes flaws in vetting those entrusted with the nation’s most sensitive national security secrets, according to experts and a top senator.

The fall TV season always marks a reset of sorts, signaling an influx of new shows and a respite from reruns. That’s the way it’s been since TV began, back when there were only three or four networks and dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Well, almost.

Medevac pilots maneuvered UH-60 Black Hawks over Amberg, Germany on Monday as part of a mission to familiarize themselves with a new landing pad atop a clinic that treats seriously injured soldiers.

The Swiss Defense Department says an air force fighter jet has gone missing in the Alps of central Switzerland.

Italian naval ships and vessels from non-government groups rescued thousands of migrants off the Libyan coast on Monday, the latest surge in desperate attempts to flee to Europe driven by war, poverty, and human traffickers.

The president of a nonprofit group that maintains a Georgia cemetery says it removed 70 Confederate flags from gravestones because they had deteriorated, and that they weren't stolen as some suspected.

A spokesman for Joint Base Andrews says an Air Force helicopter made an emergency landing at a middle school in Maryland, about 8 miles south of the base.

Poland says German Chancellor Angela Merkel is wrong to criticize European Union partners who are refusing to give refugee protection to Muslims.

Many local communities are not waiting for a formal base closing commission to get underway before engaging with military leaders on local school performance.

The global impact of a Donald Trump presidency would be disastrous. But even a Hillary Clinton win won’t help reverse the worldwide retrenchment in democracy and human rights unless she brings a change in policy from the current administration.