Новости за 24.09.2016

Nineteen rescued Syrian families now live in Kansas City since President Barack Obama made a controversial commitment last spring to bring in 10,000 of the more than 4 million refugees who have fled Syria.

Iranian forces have had a series of tense encounters with U.S. naval vessels over the past year. Iran briefly detained 10 U.S. sailors in January after their boats drifted into Iranian waters.

The suspect in a shooting at a Washington state mall that left five dead and sparked an intensive, nearly 24-hour manhunt is in custody, authorities said Saturday.

By the time police arrived, the carnage at the Macy's makeup counter was complete. Four were dead and the shooter was gone. A fifth victim died early Saturday as police finished sweeping the 434,000-square-foot building.

The film has a "soft nationalism" at its core, said Mark Schilling, a film critic for the Japan Times newspaper. "There's a sense that 'we Japanese have to do this ourselves, we can't rely on the Americans to help us,' " he said.

At least three lawsuits filed earlier this year in U.S. District Court accuse Mark Wisner of conducting unnecessary and improper genital examinations at a VA medical center. Court records show he now faces a dozen lawsuits.

What transpired alongside Highway 60 would quickly become obscured in a contest of international finger pointing. "It felt like a moment of madness," said Ammar al-Selmo, a local rescue worker, who was in a building across the street.

The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy is in turmoil over sexual abuse and bullying concerns that have led to the temporary shutdown of its premier training program — one that sends cadets out on working vessels for a year at sea.

Hiring and training new recruits can take up to a year, but the proposed rule change would allow MPs and officers from other states or federal agencies to bypass much of the 16-week training course at the state training center.

Police searched Saturday for a gunman authorities said opened fire in the makeup department of a Macy's store at a mall north of Seattle, killing four females and one man, before fleeing toward an interstate on foot.

The country's first African American chief executive stood before a crowd of more than 7,000 official guests - and thousands more gathered on the National Mall - and repeated the words of poet Langston Hughes: "I, too, am America."

Elise Rasmussen, a two-time All-Europe volleyball player, scored 16 kills for the Barons.

De’Ontae Bradley posted 150 all-purpose yards and three touchdowns. Sam Gallardo threw for 140 yards and a touchdown. Jake Anderson ran for 78 yards and a score.

Filip Havlena rushed for 210 yards on just 10 carries and scored four touchdowns.

Wide receiver Asher Cedillo hauled in four passes, including three touchdowns as Lancers improve to 2-0.

Four Marine veterans of the 7th Field Depot, hailing from Oklahoma, Missouri, New Hampshire and Connecticut, visited the Coast Guard Academy on Friday as part of their unit's annual reunion.

Royals score two defensive touchdowns in second half to pull away from Vilseck.

As missile launches and another nuclear test escalate tensions between the United States and North Korea, officials and analysts alike are growing increasingly concerned that the men will be held until after a new American president is elected.

War crimes investigators collecting evidence of the Islamic State group's elaborate operation to kidnap thousands of women as sex slaves say they have a case to try IS leaders with crimes against humanity but cannot get the global backing to bring current detainees before an international tribunal.

Austria's chancellor has convened a meeting of his German, Greek and west Balkans counterparts on strategies to deal with Europe's migrant crisis.

The federal prosecutor's office says a 22-year-old German man has been detained at Duesseldorf airport upon his return from Turkey for alleged membership in the Islamic State group.

Since June, an estimated 687,000 people across the Philippines have surrendered to police as Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has delivered on his brutal promise to combat crime. Since he came to power, more than 3,500 suspected drug users and dealers have been killed, some by police, others by shadowy vigilantes.

Tens of thousands of people are demonstrating across Finland under the slogan "Enough is enough" following the death of a man who reportedly spit in front of neo-Nazis holding a rally in Helsinki.

Stuttgart tops rival Ramstein in both boys and girls races as season opens.