Новости за 10.09.2017

A suburban Minneapolis college student left his family while on vacation in Morocco two years ago and joined the Islamic State group in Syria, according to newly unsealed court files.

The Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow wanted to bring something new to the High Desert community, and based on locals' reviews, the rodeo didn't fail to excite.

Donald Patterson said he could not think of a better way to spend his 90th birthday than at Alpha AirFest on Saturday at the Joplin Regional Airport, surrounded by family, friends, pilots and historic and acrobatic aircraft.

For almost 40 years, Jon Malay tucked away the memories, thinking that one day—after careers in which he studied weather for the Navy or sold satellites that recorded the swirling winds of hurricanes—he would write about being on the ship that became the last American military presence of the Vietnam War.

Government cargo planes flew in supplies and troops began distributing boxes of food to jittery survivors of an earthquake that destroyed a large part of Juchitan and killed at least 37 people here, even as officials on Sunday raised the nationwide death toll to 90.

While the Global War on Terrorism hasn’t gotten the attention it once did, the families of the fallen said they struggle every day with the pain it causes them.

The French government on Sunday defended its hurricane preparations for the hard-hit Caribbean islands of St. Martin and St. Barts, rejecting criticism by political opponents and by islanders who felt abandoned as their homes and towns were devastated.

The French government is defending its handling of hurricane preparations in the French Caribbean islands of St. Martin and St. Barts, after being criticized by opponents for not preparing enough and by locals who felt abandoned by authorities amid the devastation.

The Congressional Medal of Honor Society begins its 2017 annual convention this week at the Pueblo Convention Center, and more than 40 medal recipients are expected to attend.

The Medal of Honor is awarded for conspicuous gallantry in battle that rises “above and beyond the call of duty.” That definition was attached in 1917, when the Army was developing a more rigorous test for combat decorations.

The counter-terrorism prosecutor in Paris says two men with links to an explosives lab discovered last week in an apartment near Paris have been handed preliminary charges for terrorist association and explosives manufacture.

Israeli leaders and political commentators reacted with anger and bewilderment Sunday after Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, posted a classic anti-Semitic meme on his Facebook page.

Nancy Hatch Dupree was a rare American fixture in Afghan life and lore for half a century; a petite, adventuresome historian and bonne vivante whose efforts to preserve Afghan history and artifacts from the vicissitudes of conflict survived the Soviet invasion, the civil war and the Taliban.

President Donald Trump has regularly called on China to stop North Korea’s nuclear advancement, even saying in July that it could “easily” end the crisis. In Beijing, however, leaders think the opposite.

The fierce eye of Hurricane Irma roared ashore in Florida on Sunday morning, bringing the full intensity of the storm to bear on the lower Florida Keys before beginning what forecasters say could be a painful journey up the state's western coastline.

Donald Trump is preparing for his first commemoration of the 9/11 attacks as president.

When it is finally safe for emergency officials to fan out across the peninsula, they will find out whether that is enough.

In a 2017 hurricane season that has already seen two monster storms, manufactured homes are turning out to be just a small fraction of the federal government's plan to deal with displaced people, with a mere 1,700 trailers available.

Because of the storm's magnitude, the entire state of Florida is being severely affected by damaging winds and torrential rains. Tropical storm and hurricane conditions were also predicted to spread into the Florida Panhandle, eastern Alabama, much of Georgia and southern South Carolina by Monday.

Former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday that she will not pursue the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

The Congressional Medal of Honor Society begins its 2017 annual convention this week at the Pueblo Convention Center, and more than 40 medal recipients are expected to attend.

Hurricane Irma battered Cuba on Saturday with deafening winds and unremitting rain, pushing seawater inland and flooding homes before taking aim at Florida.

The monument, built by the town of Hempstead near the Atlantic Ocean on Long Island's south shore, features a twisted, 30-foot-tall beam of Trade Center steel, an elevated walkway and granite plaques engraved with the names of the nearly 3,000 people who died in the attacks.

The hurricane has regained Category 4 status with maximum sustained winds near 130 mph and is centered about 20 miles southeast of Key West, Fla.

Much of the five-day convention is largely a members-only affair, but the medal recipients almost always take part in community events and assemblies.