Новости за 11.04.2017

Eight months after officials cut the ribbon on a new $5.2 million simulator building, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer came to the base to say that the push for a simulator to fill the building continues.

An explosion Tuesday at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, a sprawling ammunition plant near Kansas City, Missouri, killed one person and injured three others, the U.S. Army said.

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley says U.N. peacekeeping has made "a great contribution" to Haiti and the Security Council's expected vote to withdraw all troops by mid-October is an example of how peacekeeping missions should change as a country's political situation changes.

The Federal Aviation Administration has restricted drone flights over 133 military bases beginning Friday.

Russia’s decision to proceed with a meeting this week aimed at ending the 16-year war in Afghanistan could further strain its ties with Washington — a relationship that has been on the rocks since Moscow invaded Ukraine in 2014 and intervened in the Syrian civil war in 2015.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday that Adolf Hitler "didn't even sink to using chemical weapons" in a clumsy comparison to Syria that drew instant rebuke from Jewish groups and critics who noted it ignored Hitler's use of gas chambers to exterminate Jews during the Holocaust.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn held a roundtable discussion about the bill Monday at the Bob Bolen Public Safety Complex in Fort Worth with police and local leaders.

A center to combat such things as disinformation and fake news will be built in Finland following an agreement Tuesday of nine countries from the European Union and NATO.

Hundreds of female Marines and Marine veterans have launched a new group to press for an end to misogyny in the Marine Corps, saying the recent scandal in which nude photographs of some women in the service were distributed by their male colleagues is unacceptable.

President Donald Trump promises the most spending on U.S. troops and military hardware since Ronald Reagan's buildup in the 1980s, but a post-election defense-stock rally is sputtering as concerns grow that dysfunction and division in the Republican-controlled government could thwart that plan.

Karen Smith tied the knot in January with a man she had known for years. A pastor her own age with a military background, Cedric Anderson seemed like a man of faith with whom she could share the next chapter of her life.

Darryl Bonner and D.J. Palmore were voted co-captains of the Navy football team in late January, and both rising seniors have already shown during winter workouts and spring practice that they take the job very seriously.

The "new" antidote is an old drug: midazolam, a powerful sedative used in everything from anesthesia to lethal injection. Although it's still awaiting FDA approval for use as a nerve gas antidote, it's far enough along in the development phase that the government could request emergency approval to distribute the drug in the event of a crisis.

Former White House National Security Adviser Susan Rice's words have now been contradicted by later events on two separate occasions this month. Rice may want to stop giving interviews at this point.

Niger's Ministry of Defense says security forces killed at least 57 Boko Haram Islamic extremists who had attacked a village in the eastern Diffa region overnight.

A threat of military action seems to have forged a tighter bond between Assad and Kim, both Western-educated scions of isolated political dynasties. The media of both countries note not only their correspondence, but also their condemnation of the international pressure on them.

A Utah National Guard recruiter accused of exchanging lewd text messages with a teenager has been indicted.

Mary Louise Bosco joined the Army after the U.S. entered World War II and afterward spent the rest of her life working for a more peaceful, just and healthy world. She died Saturday at the age of 96.

President Donald Trump has signed off on Montenegro's upcoming accession into NATO, helping pave the way for the military alliance's expansion in the Balkans.

India on Tuesday warned Pakistan of serious consequences for their bilateral relationship if it executes a retired Indian naval officer convicted of espionage and sabotage.

Maj. Gen. James B. Hecker became the top Air Force general in Afghanistan on Tuesday by assuming command of the 9th Air and Space Expeditionary Task Force and the NATO Air Command.

Ercan Karakoyun is a follower of Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blames for an attempted military coup in Turkey last summer. The 37-year-old, who is the public face of the Gulen movement in Germany, says he has received several death threats since the aborted overthrow.

Don Benton, a former state lawmaker from Washington, is being tapped to oversee the U.S. Selective Service System. Benton ran President Donald Trump's Washington state campaign.

Turkey's health minister said Tuesday that test results confirm sarin gas was used in an attack on a northern Syrian town earlier this month and the Russian military said the Syrian government is willing to let international experts examine its military base for signs of chemical weapons.

After being all but stamped out by international naval forces following its late-2000s heyday, piracy has made a sudden return to the Horn of Africa. In the past month, there have been six suspected piracy incidents near Somalia, five of them successful, including three in the last week. That's compared with zero successful attacks in 2016.