Новости за 06.06.2017

A land blockade from Saudi Arabia into Qatar has not halted to flow of goods into the U.S. military's strategic Al-Udeid Air Base, which relies "very little" on ground transportation, U.S. military officials said Tuesday.

A Russian fighter jet intercepted a U.S. B-52 bomber over the Baltic Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry told Russian media outlets Tuesday.

The Trump administration warned Tuesday that it could pull out of the U.N. Human Rights Council unless the body ends what Washington calls the whitewashing of dictators' abuses and unfair attacks on Israel.

U.S.-backed forces in Syria have begun the long-awaited battle seeking to retake the Islamic State's Syrian de facto capital of Raqqa, the U.S.-led coalition fighting the extremist group said Tuesday.

The death toll from last week’s massive truck bomb explosion in Afghanistan’s capital has surpassed 150, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said Tuesday, making it the deadliest attack in the city since U.S.-led forces ousted the Taliban in 2001.

That Andrew Jackson Higgins was able to accomplish what he did — provide U.S. forces with the means to swiftly attack beaches, including on D-Day — despite his personal shortcomings is a testament, historians say, to his relentless talent and creativity as an entrepreneur.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said neighboring Pakistan has instigated an "undeclared war of aggression" against his nation after repeated bombings in Kabul in the past week, including one of the deadliest attacks on the capital in 16 years.

During his month in power Emmanuel Macron has minted a presidential style long on symbolism and short on words. Every indication so far suggests the French like it.

In recorded conversations with an advocacy journalist last month, a public official in Flint, Mich., blamed the city's ongoing water crisis on black people who "don't pay their bills."

A recently fired worker from an awning company in Florida followed through with a plan to kill his former colleagues, singling out five and fatally shooting them in the head before taking his own life, authorities said.

The commander of the small contingent of Marines based in South Korea says the corps does not have enough forces to permanently expand its presence on the divided peninsula.

Water fixtures at the Navy’s Ikego Elementary School in Japan have again registered high levels of lead, though officials say families thus far appear to be unaffected following voluntary blood testing.

Kuwait is trying to mediate a Gulf crisis in which Arab countries have cut diplomatic ties to Qatar and moved to isolate the energy-rich travel hub from the outside world, Qatar's foreign minister said early Tuesday.

Russian hackers attacked at least one U.S. voting software supplier days before last year's presidential election, according to a government intelligence report leaked Monday that suggests election-related hacking penetrated further into U.S. voting systems than previously known.

The deal confirmed by Lockheed Martin officials Monday is at least the fourth option exercised by the Navy on a contract worth up to $199 million for TB-37 multi-function towed arrays.

Nicholas Murphy, 27, of Exeter, R.I., began communicating with the minor through Facebook and other online platforms. The victim told Murphy that she was 16 years old, though she was in fact younger, according to court records.

The incident happened about 3 p.m. Tuesday afternoon during a training mission approximately 80 nautical miles off the coast of North Carolina.

The Navy said the 360-foot-long Los Angeles-class submarine was on a routine visit as part of a regularly scheduled deployment to the Western Pacific.

Senate Democrats are pressing the businessman President Donald Trump nominated to be ambassador to Japan for answers about the vetting of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, according to congressional aides.

The U.N. chief told presidents, ministers, diplomats and environmental activists from nearly 200 countries that oceans — "the lifeblood of our planet" — are being severely damaged by pollution, garbage, overfishing and the effects of climate change.

The United States called on Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday to initiate a special investigation into the gruesome March killings in Congo of two United Nations experts from the U.S. and Sweden and their interpreter.

Victims and their families gave harrowing accounts of the sudden and random attacks that sent scores of people out on a Saturday night fleeing crowded restaurants and pubs or diving for cover. Others had no chance to react.

Derick Almena and Max Harris "knowingly created a fire trap with inadequate means of escape" when they hosted the dance party Dec. 2 in the Ghost Ship warehouse, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley said.

David Rank, a career foreign service officer of 27 years, had been acting ambassador until former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad was confirmed as the new ambassador last month.

Trump's 140-character musings Monday may have undercut his own efforts to persuade the Supreme Court to reinstate his revised travel ban, which Trump called a "watered-down, politically correct" version of what he'd originally sought.