Новости за 17.12.2016

Henry J. Heimlich, the Cincinnati surgeon whose "bear-hug" maneuver has been credited with saving the lives of tens of thousands of choking victims but whose aggressive self-promotion and unorthodox medical ideas cast a shadow over his legacy, died Dec. 17 at a Cincinnati hospital. He was 96.

President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday threatened to terminate a pact that allows U.S. troops to visit the Philippines, saying "bye-bye America" as he reacted with rage to what he thought was a U.S. decision to scrap a major aid package over human rights concerns.

Creating a vast online collection of 9,000 existing oral and written histories will take longer than the war was fought: 10 years and $11 million dollars. Only about 250 of the National World War II Museum's oral histories are online so far.

Gold Star family member Dan Robinson turned 63 on Saturday. Rather than celebrating, he chose to be one of the thousands of people who braved freezing rain to join Wreaths Across America in laying pine laurels at gravesites in Arlington National Cemetery.

Gov. Kate Brown has set a Jan. 31 deadline for the National Guard in Oregon to post test results and cleanup schedules for lead at armories. She called the handling of the problem "absolutely unacceptable."

A former Navy vessel that served in World War II has been hauled ashore in Eureka to prevent it from sinking and spilling contaminants into Humboldt Bay. The 158-foot-long vessel was used to bring troops to shore during battles in the Pacific.

Supporters of impeached South Korean President Park Geun-hye clashed with anti-Park protesters Saturday, as large crowds of demonstrators again gathered in Seoul to demand the scandal-ridden leader's immediate ouster.

A blast of cold air caused rain and wet roads to freeze across the Eastern U.S., triggering airport delays in the nation's capital and major traffic pileups in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. Authorities say two people were killed in a chain-reaction accident in Baltimore involving a tanker carrying gasoline that skidded off a highway and exploded.

A suicide car bomber set off an explosion Saturday that demolished a public bus transporting off-duty soldiers in Turkey's central province of Kayseri, killing 13 troops and wounding 56 other people, authorities said.

The Coast Guard signed a $487 million contract with Ingalls in 2013 to build the Munro, the sixth in its class. Ingalls is building two more, planning to deliver the Kimball in 2018 and the Midgett in 2019.

China said Saturday that its military seized a U.S. Navy unmanned underwater glider in the South China Sea to ensure the "safe navigation of passing ships," in one of the most serious incidents between the two militaries in years.

When a suicide bomber blew himself up in a Cairo church a week ago, it marked a bloody escalation by Egypt's jihadi militants, raising fears that an insurgency may now turn to unleash attacks on civilians in the country's capital.

Prosecutors were rebuffed from harnessing the most contentious issue surrounding the court-martial of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl when a judge ruled out any evidence that soldiers were wounded while searching for him.

Tourists are disappointed as tower closes Saturday amid worker strike.

It’s not every day a U.S. Marine Corps company has to call for backup, but that’s what happened when a group of soldiers based at Fort Detrick, Md., sat down to sort gifts for its annual Toys for Tots drive Thursday.

Spain's Interior Ministry says Spanish and French police have made three arrests upon discovering a suspected weapons trove for the Basque militant group ETA in southern France.

An agreement was reached Saturday to allow "humanitarian cases" to leave two besieged government-held Shiite villages in northwestern Syria, a step that would allow the resumption of civilian and rebel evacuations from eastern Aleppo which were suspended a day earlier, Hezbollah's media arm and a monitoring group said.

Here's a look at five ways South Korea, which has now been ruled by three generations of Kim — starting with grandfather Kim Il Sung — has changed since the ascension of its 30-something "respected marshal."

A car bomb blast killed 13 Turkish troops and wounded 55 persons, most of them military personnel, in the central Anatolian province of Kayseri on Saturday morning, according to official figures.

Staff Sgt. Scott McKay told investigators he was a collector of child porn because the victims "are younger and not corrupted, they are innocent, and beautiful," according to an affidavit of FBI Special Agent Heather Weber.

The Philippine president said Saturday he would "set aside" a ruling by an international arbitration tribunal that invalidated Beijing's claims to most of the busy South China Sea, because he doesn't want to impose on China.

World War II vet Norwood Thomas lost his love once again when Joyce Durrant Morris died last week in her hometown of Adelaide, Australia. Their story captured millions of hearts after The Virginian-Pilot first wrote about them in 2015.

Veterans at Oak Creek Place in South Milwaukee were paired with fifth-graders for a unique project that brought together a generation who vividly remember the Pearl Harbor attack with a generation born several years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

A group of San Diego veterans are debuting a book they wrote together about their experiences being in war zones far from home during the holidays.