Новости за 30.01.2018

A long-forgotten tank is the likely source of an oil sheen spotted on the Columbia River near an Astoria hotel, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

The USS Harry S. Truman strike group is scheduled to leave Naval Station Norfolk this spring on a regularly scheduled deployment to Europe and the Middle East. The Truman and its escort ships will be joined by the German frigate FGS Hessen.

A North Korean official accused the White House of advocating for a "confrontation" at the Winter Olympics next month, after a senior White House official said that Vice President Mike Pence will travel to the Games in an effort to counter attempts by North Korea to "hijack" the event by pushing its own propaganda.

The event was purely ceremonial and does not bestow any formal authority on opposition leader Raila Odinga. But it did demonstrate that - months after the country's contested election - a large number of Kenyans refuse to recognize the current government.

On Sunday, Tech. Sgt. Geraldine Lovely posted a video of herself in uniform on a Facebook forum ranting about the disrespect that she said she suffered from black female subordinates. The response from the Air Force was swift.

North Korea’s ballistic missile program made significant strides last year, but the nation has not yet demonstrated the technology needed to strike distant targets, such as the U.S. mainland, the Pentagon’s No. 2 general said Tuesday.

"You are not welcome anymore!" shouted one of the demonstrators as they broke into a training session organized by the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem and held at Bethlehem's chamber of commerce and industry.

The federal government's sluggish process for clearing workers to handle classified data has become so great that late last week, the Government Accountability Office took the highly unusual step of adding the effort to its list of "high-risk" programs, certifying that the process is in need of concerted action to prevent waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement.

A Hawaii employee who mistakenly sent an alert warning of an incoming ballistic missile earlier this month, creating a panic across the state, thought an actual attack was imminent, the Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday.

It’s not right that the only estimates of the number of fake accounts come from the platforms themselves. Nor is it right for these companies’ stock valuations and ability to attract advertisers to be based on their own, unaudited user numbers.

Canonsburg, Pa., whose population peaked about the time native son Perry Como left in the 1930s, is Trump country. A special congressional election there in six weeks makes it a pretty good place to test whether President Donald Trump’s standing is eroding.

The U.S. remains committed to forging peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government, said John J. Sullivan, the deputy secretary of state, despite contrary comments made by President Donald Trump following an escalation of attacks in Kabul.

Several semi-automatic pistols, one small-caliber automatic rifle and a shotgun were among the items taken in the 2016 heist.

The Islamic State group and the Taliban are competing to take credit for a horrific spike in violence in Afghanistan over the last month, and analysts say both insurgent groups are growing in strength as security forces wither under their relentless attacks and a feuding government struggles to win over citizens.

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga swore an oath of office declaring himself the so-called people's president in a mock ceremony that risked deepening the fraught political divisions in the East African nation.

The lawsuit alleges that a number of Sheriff’s Office employees harassed Geoffrey Turner over his hearing loss and military record, saying that Turner was reprimanded for his disability and threatened with firing if he didn’t wear a hearing aid, and that Turner was threatened with firing if he spoke of his military experience at all.

Our military’s supporting work abroad can create the conditions for the continued flourishing of societies, and that is the basis for security.

Military chaplains are the fulfillment of our nation’s constitutional obligation to our servicemembers.

Yemen's prime minister was preparing to flee to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday after separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates seized the area around the presidential palace in the southern city of Aden in fierce battles, security officials said.

Nine more F-35As will soon join it to form Japan’s inaugural fifth-generation fighter squadron at Misawa.

Fumiaki Matsumoto, who resigned last week, shouted “How many people died?” on Thursday while Japan Communist Party leader Kazuo Shii criticized recent emergency landings by Marine Corps helicopters.

Gregory Salcido, who works at a high school in California, made the remarks in a video that appears to have been surreptitiously recorded.

Gregory Salcido, who works at a high school in California, made the remarks in a video that appears to have been surreptitiously recorded.

This first-ever comprehensive site survey of climate vulnerabilities focused on the negative effects that severe weather — including storm-surge flooding, extreme temperatures, wind and drought — had on those properties.

The spate of violence raised fresh questions about the government's ability to protect both its citizens and foreign visitors, who were specifically targeted in a siege at the Intercontinental Hotel and a Jalalabad assault on Save the Children.