Новости за 03.02.2017

Around Utica, it's not unusual to see tables full of Bosnians sipping strong coffee in cafes, Muslim women in hijabs shopping at grocery stores and Somalis raised in equatorial heat heading to work in the blowing snow.

This hamlet in the wooded countryside is hours from Wroclaw, the nearest sizeable city, with narrow winding streets and large communist-era prefab block buildings. It’s in a need of a makeover, and it just might get one. Earlier this week, a U.S. armored combat brigade arrived as part of a NATO effort to assure eastern allies concerned about potential Russian aggression.

While on an errand last Sunday, Kentucky resident Steve Thompson's attention was directed toward a convoy of military vehicles ahead of him. He was intrigued and started recording. Then Thompson noticed a Trump campaign flag displayed on the lead vehicle. Defense officials have since said military personnel would not be authorized to make such a display. Now the Navy has confirmed that the convoy was from a Virginia Beach-based special warfare unit.

The sound always came first, a low buzz that grew and grew until it roared through the valley. Then the olive-colored plane appeared overhead, flying low. In its wake was a thick shower of oily droplets making a long, slow fall to the forested gullies below.

Inside his warehouse, Gary Lynch is trying to keep up with orders for his solid-steel bomb shelters. A steel shell seen during a recent tour will eventually become a luxurious underground bunker with a master bedroom, four bunk beds, a composting toilet, a living room with satellite television capability, filtered air and water, and a storage closet with room for months of food.

The space program did not get much attention in last year's presidential race. But President Trump's promise to "Make America Great Again" will likely include a refocus on — if not a return to — to the moon, which astronauts last visited in 1972.

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis reassured Japanese leaders Friday that President Donald Trump is fully committed to defending Japan as a treaty partner.

President Donald Trump is taking his first steps aimed at scaling back financial services regulations.

A knife-wielding man shouting "Allahu akbar" attacked French soldiers on patrol near the Louvre Museum Friday in what officials described as a suspected terror attack. The soldiers first tried to fight off the attacker and then opened fire, shooting him five times.

Fiji outraged rights groups on Friday by forcing an Iranian refugee back to Papua New Guinea where he had spent more than three years under Australia's tough asylum seeker policies and where he said he feared persecution.

President Donald Trump is warning Israel that constructing new settlements "may not be helpful" to Middle East peace efforts, shifting toward a tougher line with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government.

In Donald Trump, Europe's populist leaders think they have found a champion. For now.

On a mountain pass outside Afghanistan's capital, trucks barreling down the highway slow down when 11-year-old Sedaqat waves his homemade sign to warn of a hairpin turn.

The U.S.-led coalition is planning for the day when Iraq will be free of the Islamic State group, ramping up training of a future Mosul police force — even as the battle for the rest of the city is briefly on hold.

The U.S.-led coalition is planning for the day when Iraq will be free of the Islamic State group, ramping up training of a future Mosul police force — even as the battle for the rest of the city is briefly on hold.

The USS Enterprise will be decommissioned on Friday after over 50 years of service. In 2013, tugboats pushed and prodded the retired Enterprise from Naval Station Norfolk to the Newport News yard to be inactivated.

The U.S. Defense Department has released an updated Arctic Strategy that goes beyond prior, photo-filled versions of the plan, identifying shortfalls for the military in the northern stretches of Alaska.

The Ohio Attorney General’s Office is investigating a report of thousands of dollars missing from the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 3660.

U.S. troops worked for the past week with allies at U.S. Army Europe headquarters to ensure that medics from partner nations are using best practices when it comes to saving lives on the battlefield.

A welcoming ceremony Thursday marked the arrival of the first of eight KC-135s assigned to the 914th Airlift Wing.

The commandant is seen as the "dean of students" at the academy and is responsible for day-to-day conduct, military training and professional development of the mids.

The Air Force used firefighting foam at Peterson Air Force Base for decades that contained perfluorinated compounds. High quantities of the chemical in drinking water from the Widefield Aquifer triggered an EPA advisory last spring.

Prosecutors want to question Park and search her presidential Blue House for more information about events that led to her impeachment in December.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has appointed an Army veteran from Ripon as the new secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs with instructions to look into persistent reports of serious deficiencies in care at the state's largest veterans nursing home.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has quit President Donald Trump's council of business leaders, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press.