Новости за 09.02.2017

Officials with the union for civilian workers at Fort Drum spoke with Rep. Elise M. Stefanik Tuesday at her Washington D.C. office to talk about the effects of President Donald J. Trump’s hiring freeze.

The United States under President Donald Trump is unlikely to abandon Ukraine, a country at war with Russian-backed separatists, in favor of closer ties with Moscow, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said Thursday.

After months of contentious debate - and a meeting repeatedly disrupted by attendees - the City Council voted 3 to 2 to remove the statue. Charlottesville isn't the first Virginia municipality to pursue such a change.

The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan told lawmakers Thursday that he needs several thousand additional troops to break “a stalemate” in the 15-year-old war against the Taliban and other terrorist organizations including al-Qaida and the Islamic State group.

The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan told lawmakers Thursday that he needs several thousand additional troops to break “a stalemate” in the 15-year-old war against the Taliban and other terrorist organizations including al-Qaida and the Islamic State group.

A U.S.-based combat aviation brigade offloaded hundreds of pieces of equipment at a port in Belgium and was bound for Germany on Thursday with helicopters that will add air power to a growing Army force along NATO’s eastern flank.

President Donald Trump accused Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain of helping America’s enemies by criticizing an ill-fated U.S. military raid in Yemen.

The Air Force says an unarmed Minuteman 3 missile has been launched from California's central coast in the latest test of the intercontinental system.

The developer of the Dakota Access pipeline has promised to quickly resume construction of the long-delayed project that would route oil under a North Dakota reservoir, even as American Indian activists vowed to take legal action to protect their water supply.

Families of nine people killed when a U.S. Navy submarine rammed into a Japanese fishing school ship off Hawaii 16 years ago are remembering their loved ones.

The bombing on Tuesday that killed 21 and injured dozens more has stoked fears that the radical group could be spreading out from its traditional strongholds along the country’s mountainous border with Pakistan.

Denmark's cybersecurity agency sees Russia as "a leader" when it comes to hacking, saying that the country has for "a long time invested intensively in its cyber capabilities."

Communist guerrillas abducted three villagers, including a policeman, and burned construction equipment in new attacks in the Philippines on Thursday and condemned President Rodrigo Duterte as a "double-speaking thug" for terminating peace talks.

U.S. forces launched two airstrikes in Syria that killed 11 al-Qaida militants, including a top leader, the Pentagon announced Wednesday. The strikes were conducted Friday and Saturday near Idlib in western Syria.

An Afghan official says NATO drone strikes killed 11 Islamic State militants, including two senior commanders, in the eastern Nangarhar province.

China praised U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday for expressing a desire for a "constructive relationship" in a letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping, even though the leaders have not spoken directly since Trump's inauguration.

About 80 members of the Arkansas National Guard are headed to the Middle East for a deployment in Kuwait.

More than 40 Lance missiles will be decommissioned at the depot in the coming months. Working at a rate of about two missiles a week, it will take until the spring to get through Anniston’s batch of missiles.

Palestinian officials say an Israeli airstrike has killed two Gaza residents in a smuggling tunnel along the border with Egypt.

A bill from Colorado Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman would allow combat veterans with bad discharges to get emergency mental health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Speakers celebrating Black History Month at Marine Corps Logistics Command Albany on Wednesday made a point of noting that failure to recognize the past is a guarantee it will be repeated.

President Donald Trump's salvos on trade and currency are rattling Japan Inc., but many here hope Prime Minister Shinzo Abe can sell him a "win-win" package of job creation and investment when they meet this week, averting a return of the Japan-bashing of the 1980s.

A man has pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of being a felon in possession of firearms and claiming he was a combat veteran who earned medals and ribbons, including a Purple Heart.

A-10 Thunderbolt II ground-attack planes will keep flying through at least 2021, the Air Force's top general said this week.

He says he doesn’t dwell on it. But Ron Merriwether still remembers.