Новости за 22.04.2017

China has protested the visit by Manila's defense and military chiefs to a disputed island in the South China Sea, but the Philippine government maintained Saturday that it owns the territory where Filipino troops and villagers have lived for decades.

Excerpts from an interview conducted Friday with President Donald Trump.

Thousands of scientists worldwide made plans to leave their labs and take to the streets Saturday to rail against what they say are mounting attacks against science.

A set of rare quadruplets born without fertility treatments are healthy and waiting to go home in Sarasota, Fla.

Many don't speak Arabic and their role in Syria is little known to the outside world, but the Chinese fighters of the Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria are organized, battled-hardened and have been instrumental in ground offensives against President Bashar Assad's forces in the country's northern regions.

A Florida man who went AWOL from the U.S. Air Force and spent 45 years on the lam has returned home after serving a 30-day sentence.

A Florida man who went AWOL from the U.S. Air Force and spent 45 years on the lam has returned home after serving a 30-day sentence.

A Taliban attack on an Afghan base Friday could turn out to be country’s deadliest on an Afghan military installation and is raising questions about the army’s ability to hold off the Taliban, which are seeking to topple the country’s central government.

A Taliban attack on an Afghan military base Friday might be the country’s deadliest on an Afghan military installation and is raising questions about the army’s ability to hold off the Taliban, which are seeking to topple the country’s central government.

The man accused of bombing the bus carrying the Borussia Dortmund soccer team allegedly hoped to make millions off an expected slump in the team's share price by using an obscure financial trade, a "put option."

The USS Carl Vinson strike group will be near South Korea “in a matter of days,” Vice President Mike Pence said Saturday as concerns over a potential North Korean nuclear weapons test continue to mount in the Asia-Pacific region.

American and German soldiers carried gear and strapped in along the sides of a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter Friday morning, only to jump a few minutes later.

The 1st Brigade that's training this weekend got a big boost in firepower as part of an Army test of new ways to structure its combat brigades to better deal with high-powered enemies.

This weekend, more than 3,200 people in 32 cities will run 4.2 miles in what are now called honor runs to recognize Tillman's life and the way he lived it while raising money for the Pat Tillman Foundation.

The head of a U.N. investigative panel on Syria warned Friday that thousands of evacuees sent to rebel-held Idlib and government-controlled western Aleppo province are likely to be caught in escalating fighting from increasingly radicalized extremist groups.

Led by the precise dribbling and passing of midfield duo Erin Goodman and Peggy Sue Mathis, the Wiesbaden girls soccer team defeated SHAPE 2-0 behind a strong second-half performance Saturday.

The oldest Naval graveyard on the West Coast, the Mare Island Cemetery was closed in 1921, but cared for by the Navy until 1996, when the site was turned over to the city of Vallejo. Past reports note the city has not had the manpower or funds to adequately maintain the site.

Ibrahim al Qosi has emerged as a poster child for the problem of prisoners who take up arms after leaving Guantanamo. A Pentagon appeals panel being asked to upend his war crimes conviction.

Gunnery Sgt. Joseph Felix is accused of several violations of the military code, including cruelty and maltreatment and failure to obey an order in relation to the death of Raheel Siddiqui.

Vice President Mike Pence's visit Down Under is widely viewed as an effort to smooth over relations with Australia. A majority of Australians view Trump unfavorably, and some critics of the president have urged Australia to distance itself from the U.S. in favor of stronger ties with China

The Florida National Guard is helping to evacuate more than 2,000 homes being threatened by brush fires in southwest Florida.

The U.S. military says it has killed an Islamic State operative from Uzbekistan linked to the New Year's Eve attack on an Istanbul nightclub that killed 39 people.

A federal judge on Friday handed down the longest sentence ever imposed in the U.S. for a cybercrime case to the son of a member of the Russian Parliament convicted of hacking into more than 500 U.S. businesses and stealing millions of credit card numbers, which he then sold on special websites.

Federal authorities say a former defense contractor convicted of mail fraud and making false claims while supplying non-conforming parts to the military has been sentenced in Ohio to two years in prison.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has told U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that Russia regrets U.S. opposition to Russian inspectors taking part in an investigation into a chemical weapons attack in Syria.