Новости за 26.11.2016

Following the announcement on Friday night of Fidel Castro's death, the Coast Guard is not preparing for a large-scale migration from Cuba. Instead, they're proceeding with business as usual, patrolling the Florida Straits.

"I know they’re busy with thousands of patients, but it shouldn’t take this long," Navy veteran Charlie Hill said. "They say, 'We’re working on it, we’re working on it,' and nothing happens."

Fidel Castro's death triggered an emotional and long-awaited celebration in Miami's large Cuban-American community. Yet it was also a bittersweet time as most realize his passing will not immediately translate into freedom or democracy on the oppressive communist island.

James B. Williams was one of the few remaining survivors who served in the U.S. Army Air Forces program that trained African-Americans for the war effort – a pioneering group that would play a key role in the desegregation of the military.

After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, it was difficult to be a Buddhist — or simply to be of Japanese descent.

Fidel Castro, who died at age 90 Friday night, made sure his revolution would live on after he fell ill in 2006 by handing over the reins to his younger brother, Raúl, in 2008. That has given Raúl, now 85, time to consolidate his power as Cuba's new strongman.

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has been quietly exploring whether there was any "outside interference" in the election results and will participate in the election recount in Wisconsin initiated by Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, a Clinton campaign lawyer revealed Saturday.

Texas, through the state's official Holocaust and Genocide Commission, is tracking down surviving soldiers who helped liberate Dachau and other Nazi concentration camps. It's a race against time.

As deaths in Southeast Asia skyrocketed in 1966 and 1967, Army Sgt. Bill Daigneault crisscrossed the country to reconnect fallen servicemembers with their grieving families.

While the death of Cuban leader Fidel Castro prompted cheers from the country's exiles in Miami, the 90-year-old revolutionary leader's passing produced expressions of respect in other parts of the world and measured responses from governments that saw the devoted socialist as a threat.

Navy veteran Chilton Raiford turns 94 on Sunday, and if there’s anything he’d really like, it’s a Purple Heart medal to recognize the suffering inflicted on March 11, 1945. He would pin it next to the campaign medals he proudly wears on a black jacket, and he’s got a hat that declares him a “Kamikaze Attack Survivor.”

Japan's Air Self-Defense Force scrambled aircraft in response to a flight by Chinese fighters and bombers through a key entryway into the Pacific Ocean between Okinawa and Miyako Island, the Defense Ministry said.

Iran's chief of staff of the armed forces said Saturday that Tehran may be interested in setting up naval bases in both Syria and Yemen, the semi-official Tasnim reported.

By the time his death at 90 was announced late Friday, Fidel Castro had become what he most feared during a prolonged and dramatic life — an irrelevancy, a living museum piece trotted out for ceremonial occasions, but no longer the man in charge of Cuba’s destiny.

The owner of Atlantic Pharmacy has been held in a tiny jail cell in downtown Miami since his arrest in early November on charges of conspiring to fleece $37 million from the Tricare health insurance program for military personnel as well as another federal coverage network for government employees.

A Syrian official blasted Turkey Saturday saying it is to blame for the death of its soldiers because it sent them to Syria, as the Syrian army said troops have captured a neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo days after the government resumed its offensive on the besieged rebel-held eastern part of the city.

South Sudan's government has accepted with "no conditions" increase the peacekeeping force in the country as mandated by the U.N. Security Council in August, Minister of Cabinet Affairs Martin Lomuro told the Associated Press Saturday.

One of the most brutal dictators in modern history has just died. Oddly enough, some will mourn his passing, and many an obituary will praise him. Millions of Cubans who have been waiting impatiently for this moment for more than half a century will simply ponder his crimes and recall the pain and suffering he caused.

Americans have many expectations of their government, but foremost among them is that it will keep them safe. Indeed, in a recent survey, respondents ranked defense as the government’s highest priority. Unfortunately, the just-released third annual edition of The Heritage Foundation’s Index of U.S. Military Strength has sobering news for them.

In assessing Donald Trump's presidential victory, Americans continue to look away from this election's most alarming story: the successful effort by a hostile foreign power to manipulate public opinion before the vote.

Through the widest lens of history, America since the 1980s looks like the most golden of golden ages. The peace and prosperity of this era is unparalleled compared to the rest of the world and the history of our species. Americans became healthier, better fed, longer-lived, safer, sent fewer young people off to war and forged one of humankind’s greatest technological revolutions. But through the narrow lens of our everyday lives, the picture has felt different and tougher.

The annual Halifax International Security Forum brings together senior Canadian, European, and U.S. military and civilian officials, and you can guess what was on everyone’s mind this year: What kind of foreign policy can we expect from President-elect Trump?

Viewed from the world's largest communist country, Fidel Castro's death is a reminder of how the communist axis has changed beyond recognition since the ideologically charged era when the bearded revolutionary cut a dashing figure on the world stage alongside leaders like Mao Zedong.

Iraq's parliament on Saturday voted to accord full legal status to government-sanctioned Shiite militias as a "back-up and reserve" force for the military and police and empower them to "deter" security and terror threats facing the country.

The Purple Heart recipients returned to Afghanistan in mid-November with Operation Proper Exit, a program run by Feherty’s Troops First Foundation. The nonprofit brings wounded servicemembers back to the theater to meet with those who are deployed according to the program’s website. currently