Новости за 15.06.2017

For the first time in his presidency, Donald Trump was called upon to address the nation at an unsettling time — one fraught with the overtones of gun politics and the heated rhetoric of a country sharply divided along party lines.

Robert Mueller, the special counsel appointed to investigate Russian influence in the 2016 presidential campaign met Wednesday with the leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee in an effort to ensure their investigations don't conflict.

A Pentagon effort to incubate businesses in Silicon Valley may be bearing some of its first fruit, as a San Diego company rolls out a set of new drones it says could accompany human-piloted fighters into combat.

The assessment, which was issued internally last week and has not been made public, is based on an analysis of tactics, techniques and targets that point with "moderate confidence" to North Korea's spy agency, the Reconnaissance General Bureau.

A mistaken report of a shooter prompted the lockdown of Travis Air Force Base in California on Wednesday in the midst of an emergency training exercise, officials said.

The denomination's annual convention in Phoenix voted to "decry every form of racism, including alt-right white supremacy as antithetical to the Gospel of Jesus Christ" and "denounce and repudiate white supremacy and every form of racial and ethnic hatred as a scheme of the devil."

Somalia's security forces early Thursday morning ended a night-long siege by al-Shabab Islamic extremists at a popular Mogadishu restaurant.

Four Kentucky National Guardsmen have been charged in a sexual assault case in western Kentucky.

The Suquamish Tribe and two environmental groups are suing the U.S. Navy, saying it sent harmful pollutants into Puget Sound when it cleaned a decommissioned aircraft carrier near Bremerton.

The United Nations and the African Union are recommending a 44 percent cut in the number of peacekeeping troops in their joint force in Sudan's troubled Darfur region and a 30 percent reduction in the international police force, a move certain to be welcomed by the United States which is seeking major cuts to the U.N. peacekeeping budget.

The soldiers of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division gathered together early Wednesday for the last time before roughly 1,600 troops deploy later this month.

French President Emmanuel Macron is urging Qatar and its rival neighbors to talk directly, to defuse their tensions over alleged terrorism financing, and said Wednesday he will step up diplomatic discussions with Gulf leaders in the coming days.

Some 25,000 Christians have returned to eastern Aleppo, Russia's ambassador in Geneva told a conference organized by his country to highlight the devastated Syrian city's steps toward returning to normal six months after rebel fighters were ousted by Russian-backed troops. The international Red Cross went even further, estimating that some 80,000 people total have returned.

Britain's defense minister on Wednesday praised Romanian and British pilots for protecting the Black Sea region from "the threat of Russian aggression," saying that Britain remains committed to NATO and to European security.

A 37-year-old man alleged to have shot a police officer in a Munich subway station after randomly attacking another passenger had been living with his father in Colorado and was on a European trip, German officials said Wednesday.

A rifle-wielding attacker opened fire on Republican lawmakers at a congressional baseball practice Wednesday, wounding House GOP Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana and several others. The assailant, prepared with "a lot of ammo," fought a gun battle with police before he, too, was shot and later died.

The Coast Guard rescued two people and four dogs from a 26-foot pleasure craft that was sinking east of Point No Point in Puget Sound about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.