Новости за 14.06.2017

Norfolk created the military liaison position in 2012, aiming to help veterans find jobs and convince more departing service members to stay in the city.

The Ramstein Royals and Sigonella Jaguars dominated the 2017 European baseball and softball tournaments. Now they're doing the same in the postseason awards.

Members of the DODEA-Europe Division I champion Kaiserslautern boys and Wiesbaden girls headline the 2017 All-Europe soccer teams.

It was the kind of empty spectacle Americans are used to from Washington, entertaining perhaps in a gossipy sort of way, but signifying and changing nothing.

The trouble is that when one is daily immersed in clouds of distraction, it’s difficult to recall what “normal” looks like.

Congress should either exempt websites and their related content from the requirements of the ADA, or enact detailed guidelines for the accommodations required by the law.

Secretary Wilson, a former New Mexico congresswoman and a prior Air Force officer, was named to the top civilian post in the service branch in January.

A fast-moving overnight fire engulfed a 24-story apartment tower in London, killing at least six and injuring 74 others, police said. Residents threw babies and small children from high windows to people down on the sidewalk, witnesses said.

The Navy can’t uncover what is poisoning its student pilots in the cockpits of their T-45 trainer jets, despite stripping aircraft apart piece by piece, the top admiral for naval aviation told Senate lawmakers Tuesday.

A U.S. military team investigating “possible unexploded ordnance” at one of its bases in Japan on Wednesday determined the hazard was actually construction material, Air Force officials said.

A North Korean soldier defected to the South on Tuesday after crossing the heavily fortified border that divides the two countries, the defense ministry said.

Spc. Xavier Joseph Harden, 23, was visiting a lake with his wife and 3-year-old child when he drowned after entering the water to pull a raft to shore. Harden could not swim.

Rescuers struggled on Wednesday to reach villages hit by massive landslides that have killed at least 140 people while also burying roads and cutting power in southeastern Bangladesh, officials said.

Kentucky officials say they have completed work on the largest nonutility solar array in the state.

A suicide bomber targeted a checkpoint run by rival insurgents in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province Wednesday, killing nine of them, an Afghan official said.

The U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq is endangering civilians by using artillery-delivered white phosphorous, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday, after reports that such weapons were used in the Syrian city of Raqqa.

Fire swept through a high-rise apartment building in west London early Wednesday, killing an unknown number of people and sending more than 50 people to area hospitals.

Top Fort Carson bomb technicians competed against teams from bases around the region in a bomb-disposal event that will eventually lead to a final round in Virginia.

President Donald Trump has given the Pentagon new authorities to decide the troop levels in Afghanistan, a U.S. official said Tuesday. The move could lead to a deployment of thousands more troops as commanders decide the way forward in the now 15-year-old war.

The traces are long gone, but for nearly 50 years the city of Ludwigsburg, Germany, hosted thousands of U.S. soldiers until the end of the Cold War.

Using a whiskey bottle, a business card and some rudimentary carpentry, Lt. Col. Eugene J. McNamara found a way to be remembered.

The United States should not have ended a special-operations task force in the southern Philippines three years ago in light of the weekslong jihadi siege of a city there, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday.

Vice Adm. James Foggo has been director of Navy Staff at the Pentagon since November and was formerly commander of the Naples-based 6th Fleet.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions' public testimony Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence committee should yield his most extensive comments to date on questions that have dogged his tenure as attorney general and that led him three months ago to recuse himself from the Russia probe.