Новости за 01.02.2018

The New Hampshire Senate has passed legislation allowing physicians from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center to continue treating patients at outside facilities while the flood-damaged VA hospital is being renovated.

Several hundred protesters rallied at a park and outside the Pakistani Embassy, demanding that the Kabul government do more to protect its citizens and that Pakistan stop fostering insurgents.

Meredith Sieller wants to be one of the Coast Guard's elite, the ones called on to perform unthinkable acts of bravery when someone's life is at stake. Like jumping out of a helicopter into rough, frigid waters some 30 feet below to save someone's life.

Chelsea Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison, and dishonorable discharge from the Army in 2013. While her case is on appeal, she is on a technical form of unpaid active duty, putting her political campaign at odds with Department of Defense regulations that prohibit military personnel from seeking public office.

Bitter recriminations have exposed painful historical baggage between Poland and Israel despite years of reconciliation efforts.

The graves are the newest piece of evidence for what looks increasingly like a genocide in Myanmar's western Rakhine state against the Rohingya, a long-persecuted ethnic Muslim minority in the predominantly Buddhist country.

City officials are blaming the poor condition of the World War II-era machine shop on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which acquired the 27,500-square-foot structure in 2006.

Federal officials on Thursday blamed a lack of leadership, money and communication in Puerto Rico for setting back hurricane recovery efforts in the U.S. territory. Bureaucratic red tape was also implicated. "In an emergency, when you have eight layers of approval to get something done, it's not working for us," she said.

The Missile Defense Agency was probing test data to determine why the interceptor, known as a Standard Missile 3 Block IIA, did not hit its target, said Dana White, a Pentagon spokeswoman.

A California Democrat in office from 1981 until his death in 2008, Hungarian-born U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos frequently visited his homeland, often warning against anti-Semitism while also supporting Hungarian minorities in neighboring countries.

John Eugene Chapman, testifying on his own behalf, explained for jurors how he wrestled a knife away from the victim. “It’s like she was so intent on pushing that knife in my chest and I … and my, my training kicked in,” he said. “And then I’m defending myself. I don’t think. I don’t feel.”

A Georgia man will spend 23 months in prison for stealing military supplies from Robins Air Force Base.

Armed groups, some linked to the self-styled Libyan National Army, have prevented thousands of internally displaced families from returning to their homes in the eastern city of Benghazi, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.

The frontier drama “Hostiles” stars Christian Bale as cavalry Capt. Joseph Blocker, a renowned Native American hater nearing retirement in 1892. His last assignment is to unwillingly escort a recently released Cheyenne war chief and his family on a dangerous trek from New Mexico back to his Montana homeland.

Qatar wants to make Al Udeid Air Base more family friendly for U.S. forces in the hopes that the strategic military hub will be counted as one of the Pentagon’s permanent overseas installations.

The sellout would represent roughly $10 million in sales of Elon Musk's flamethrowers bearing the logo of his Boring Company tunneling and infrastructure venture.

The workers were trapped underground in a gold mine after a power failure. Sibanye Gold is using a generator to get the workers out of the mine, but is "having some problems," according to a spokesman. He said there were no fatalities and the workers are fine.

Members of Arizona’s congressional delegation are making an eleventh-hour appeal to suspend a decision to cut the number of Apache attack helicopter battalions in the Army National Guard and disband a unit based in Marana.

With uncertainty high over conflicting signals, observers seized on the news as evidence that President Donald Trump may be leaning toward a unilateral first strike.

Unsettling myths about the military are rising among recruit-age youth and “influencers” — parents, teachers, clergy and coaches — in part because increasingly they have no personal or family ties to the armed forces, said Lernes “Bear” Hebert, acting deputy assistant secretary of defense for military personnel policy.

Russia’s Defense ministry said Thursday that it would continue to tail U.S. aircraft flying near its territory over the Black Sea and suggested the Navy give its pilots updated maps showing the Crimean Peninsula within Russian borders.

Employees at a Goodwill store were shocked when they discovered what appeared to be a loaded grenade launcher inside a box of donated items. The device is a toy Airsoft replica of the military's M203 grenade launcher.

The two-story Hangar E-Club for junior-enlisted personnel boasts a VIP lounge, poolroom and food court on the first floor, and four bars and a large dance area on the second, a Marine Corps statement said.

The two-story Hangar E-Club for junior-enlisted personnel boasts a VIP lounge, poolroom and food court on the first floor, and four bars and a large dance area on the second, a Marine Corps statement said.

In an instant, on a sunny Thursday of Feb. 1, 1968, in what was then called Saigon, Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams' camera shutter clicked once and one of the most powerful pictures of the Vietnam War, or any war, was taken.