Новости за 06.05.2017

Steven Seagal, the American actor best known for his role in '90s action movies such as "Hard to Kill" and "Under Siege," has been blacklisted from the Ukraine as a national security threat.

The Myanmar project remains fraught - political reforms have ebbed, and Suu Kyi has faced international criticism for failing to speak out more forcefully against ethnic violence directed toward the Muslim minority. And China continues to exert economic and political pressure on the neighboring nation of 54 million. From Capitol Hill to Yangon, the question is whether the Trump administration will continue to nurture Myanmar's transition or turn its back at a crucial juncture.

After midnight, the 30 men began paddling the two miles to shore. Then the wind died, and just before sunup, Capt. John Paul Jones set foot once more on Whitehaven, the first and only time American forces ever attacked the British Isles.

Shortly after the Islamic State took control of Mosul in the summer of 2014, hitting brightly-colored balls with a well-chalked cue was among the many activities the group ruled un-Islamic and a distraction from jihad, ordering halls to shut down. With the militants now expelled from the city's east, more than a dozen pool halls have reopened.

Suzette Donovan's father was a hero. She was 10 months old when he died, shot in the head by the enemy somewhere in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War. He was Airborne, a Green Beret, a husband, a father of three, the only son in a family of five girls. His mother was crazy about him. Getting to know her father was a journey, Donovan said, which helped heal a part of her that had always longed to know and love him.

A ceremony on Thursday at the National World War II Memorial in Washington. D.C. marked the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea.

The United States' most advanced warplanes are roaring through the skies of Wisconsin as part of air combat exercises that spotlight the state's case for a big investment of Pentagon dollars in Madison.

In the paranoid universe of North Korea, the feverish accusations it makes against its sworn enemies bear a creepy resemblance to its own misdeeds.

The White House has fired its chief usher, Angella Reid, the first woman and second African American to hold the position.

In a turn of events that should surprise no one, the Pentagon has emerged unscathed in Congress's budget bill. The only cost of the victory is the credibility of the Defense Department.

The Falcons moved to 9-1 and the experienced squad has to be considered strong a contender for this year’s DODEA-Europe softball crown.

Today, President Donald Trump seems to be freeing the United States from the neoconservative and liberal-interventionist policies of the past. For the first time in 16 years, the American side has come out and said rather unequivocally that the foremost priority is disarmament. "We do not seek regime change, we do not seek a collapse of the regime, we do not seek an accelerated reunification of the peninsula," Tillerson told NPR. "We seek a denuclearized Korean Peninsula."

For years, a group of deaf subjects took part in research conducted by the U.S. Naval School of Aviation Medicine during the early days of the American space program more than a half-century ago

The Hamas Islamic militant movement that controls the Gaza Strip announced Saturday it had chosen its former Gaza prime minister Ismail Haniyeh as the group's new political chief.

Veterans Memorial Park in tiny Belle Plaine, Minn., is packed with remembrances for the town's men and women in uniform. Soon, it will get one more: A solemn black cube holding an upturned helmet, its sides adorned with upside-down pentagrams.

Each man took a loyalty oath Saturday evening in a ritual-rich ceremony at the Apostolic Palace. The May 6 date commemorates the day in 1527 when 147 guardsmen died while protecting Pope Clement VII during the Sack of Rome.

An El Paso roofing company has reached a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department on allegations that the company violated the job rights of a Texas Army National Guard soldier.

Bill Smith walks into a conference room at Jackson Hospital several minutes late for an interview. I'm sorry, he says. We had an emergency patient. The former U.S. Navy welder was helping stop a heart attack in progress.

The number killed in Venezuela amid mounting political unrest rose to 38 on Friday, as opposition leaders reported that dozens of officers had been detained for refusing to repress protesters.

The Trump administration is moving to gut the office of the White House "drug czar" according to a preliminary budget document and an email message that its acting director has circulated to agency staff.

Wiesbaden and Stuttgart earn baseball sweeps, while Ramstein, Kaiserslautern do the same in softball.

A year and a half ago, Fionn Whitehead was an unknown aspiring actor working in a coffee shop in the Waterloo district of London. On his off hours, he’d go in for every audition he could, hoping to catch a break that would free him, he says, from “washing dishes and taking orders from angry businessmen.”

The Navy SEAL killed in Somalia Thursday has been identified as Senior Chief Petty Officer Kyle Milliken of Falmouth, Maine. He was 38.

An airman assigned to the 18th Munitions Squadron at Kadena Air Base died Saturday after falling from Aha Falls, a popular spot for hiking and cliff jumping.

An airman assigned to the 18th Munitions Squadron at Kadena Air Base died Saturday after falling from Aha Falls, a popular spot for hiking and cliff jumping.