Новости за 14.09.2016

A federal agency has decided it will repair a Harlan County, Ky. cemetery where collapsing ground threatens the grave of a Revolutionary War soldier who helped settle the county.

For nearly 10 years, Tech. Sgt. David Nafe was largely in the dark as he fought against memory loss, migraines, mood swings and stigma.

The World Food Programme says it has sent relief to 140,000 North Koreans affected by heavy flooding that killed dozens of people in the country’s northernmost provinces.

A decommissioned guided-missile frigate went down in about 30,000 feet of water Tuesday during a SINKEX drill connected to Valiant Shield exercises underway near Guam.

B-1B Lancers, flanked by U.S. and South Korean fighter jets, flew over Osan Air Base south of Seoul on Tuesday in a show of force and solidarity with Seoul four days after the North conducted its fifth and most powerful nuclear test.

Army coach Jeff Monken and his Black Knights knew the best way to honor Brandon Jackson was to return to the football field and practice with a purpose.

Retired generals and admirals are grabbing the public megaphone to sound off on politics. It’s a trend that has built over the past quarter of a century, and it makes some active officers, military analysts and constitutional scholars uneasy.

Thomas Venable, a former captain in the California Air National Guard, pleaded guilty last year to "double dipping," or accepting compensation from two - and sometimes three - government entities for the same pay periods.

The Port of Olympia, Wash. has set a Sept. 19 meeting to specifically discuss military cargo, but that didn’t stop a number of people from voicing their opposition to that possibility during Monday’s commission meeting.

A transgender soldier imprisoned in Kansas for leaking classified information to the WikiLeaks website will end a hunger strike after the Army agreed to allow her to receive medical treatment for her gender dysphoria, the American Civil Liberties Union announced Tuesday.

Last year, Islamic State militants came within miles of Libya's sole chemical-weapons site, unnerving Libyan and American officials who feared that potentially deadly chemicals could fall into extremist hands.

Several days before committing suicide, Raheel Siddiqui told personnel at Parris Island he planned to jump to his death — but officials believed Siddiqui was “fabricating a suicidal threat” and “using the magic words so he could go home.”

Trump seems to see commitments made to smaller states as expendable in the process of making deals with the big guys.

Attorneys for Marine Maj. Mark Thompson on Tuesday questioned the authenticity of a recorded interview that the government intends to use against the former U.S. Naval Academy instructor at his court-martial early next year.

The World Anti-Doping Agency said Tuesday that a Russian government hacking group had gained access to a database containing drug-test results and confidential medical data from last month's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

The agreement, a “memo of understanding,” is to be signed Wednesday at the State Department, which called the deal “the single largest pledge of bilateral military assistance in U.S. history.”

The new Syria cease-fire is rich in detail on the mechanics of ending violence in Aleppo. It says little about how the United States and Russia will establish a new military partnership that is seen as key to the long-term sustainability of the deal.

The deal crafted by the U.S. and Russia to halt the Syrian civil war and focus efforts on rooting out extremists in the country is rife with legal and liability questions that are fueling Pentagon skepticism about military cooperation.

Lou De Lancey joined the Navy in 1954 and served aboard the USS Midway and the USS Hanson during the Korean War era. While aboard the Midway, he assisted in the evacuation of more than 18,000 civilians and 15,000 of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist troops to Formosa.

Malakas’ track continues to edge further west of Okinawa.

Malakas’ track continues edging west, Okinawa could be safe, Sasebo, Iwakuni, Tokyo may be next?

Track edges even further west of Okinawa; Malakas could batter Taiwan’s northeast end.