Новости за 15.08.2017

A black bear hunt took place on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson this summer for the first time in several decades – if not longer, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

Vice Adm. Tom Rowden, the “SWO boss” who helms Naval Surface Forces, kicked off the Surface Warfare Summit on Tuesday at Naval Base Point Loma with a plea for his officers to get smarter and meaner as they train to fight a potential 21st-century sea battle.

Perfluorinated chemicals have been linked to cancer and other illnesses but aren't federally regulated in drinking water. Water has been contaminated near sites of industrial facilities and U.S. military bases.

D.J. Frost, a senior wide receiver from Missouri, has committed to attend the United States Air Force Academy.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said ISIS is "clearly responsible for genocide" against Christians and Yazidis in Iraq and Shiite Muslims in Syria and elsewhere. His comments were made as the State Department released its annual report on international religious freedom.

Yemen's Central Bank says the Saudi-led coalition is "strangling" the economy by preventing planes from flying in newly-minted cash, reflecting a struggle between the government and the United Arab Emirates, key members of the military alliance.

Around 3,000 firefighters in Portugal were struggling to put out more than 150 wildfires raging across the country Tuesday, as persistent hot and dry weather stoked the flames, officials said.

First responders in three separate states are under investigation over social media posts that allegedly mocked the protests that turned violent over the weekend in Virginia.

A northern Indiana man was sentenced Tuesday after being convicted of murder in the January 2016 slaying 27-year-old Jodie Henderson, a member of the Army National Guard.

The exhibit at the Yorktown American Revolution Museum follows several men who fought during the Colonists’ victory at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781 and how they built their lives once they returned home.

Egyptian security officials say suspected Islamic militants have shot dead two policemen in el-Arish, capital of the turbulent north of the Sinai Peninsula, where an Islamic State affiliate is fighting security forces.

Turkish media reports say police in Istanbul have apprehended a suspected Islamic State group militant wanted by Interpol.

Pfc. George B. Murray was just 20 when he was killed on Nov. 20, 1943 on the island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency says remains located in 2010 were finally identified as Murray's through DNA.

Police from Sweden assisted their Danish counterparts on Tuesday with pursuing leads in the search for a missing Swedish woman who was on an amateur-built submarine the night before it sank, while volunteers and authorities combed the countries' waterways for signs of her.

A tree crashed down on a popular religious festival on the Portuguese island of Madeira on Tuesday, killing 12 people and injuring 52 others, officials said.

The alert went out on a radio station just after midnight Tuesday in Guam and said a "civil danger warning" had been issued for the island. The Guam Homeland Security office blamed it on human error.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. William Turner, of Nashville, was an aerial engineer and crew member of the "Hell's Fury" B-26 bomber that was part of a massive air raid targeting Schiphol Aerodrome in Amsterdam on Dec. 13, 1943.

The Bell 407 helicopter involved in the weekend crash that killed two Virginia State Police officers also crashed in 2010, officials with the National Transportation Safety Board confirmed Tuesday.

Air Force Academy-based a cappella group In the Stairwell advanced on to the quarterfinals last week after performing a rendition of *NSYNC's "Bye Bye Bye."

Air Force Academy-based a cappella group In the Stairwell advanced on to the quarterfinals last week after performing a rendition of *NSYNC's "Bye Bye Bye."

The Polish president has bestowed a high honor on the U.S. Army commander in Europe as Poland marked its Armed Forces Day with a military parade.

Sgt. Roshain E. Brooks, 30, and Spc. Allen L. Stigler Jr., 22, deployed to Iraq in January from Fort Bragg in North Carolina. They were due home next month.

The head of Ukraine's top rocket-making company on Tuesday rejected claims that its technologies might have been shipped to North Korea, helping the pariah nation achieve a quantum leap in its missile program.

The settlement resolves allegations that Huntington Ingalls charged labor costs to contracts for which work wasn't actually done, and charged the government as if supervisors had dived to work on ship hulls, or even for dives that never happened.