Новости за 03.02.2018

Born in the French-occupied area of Germany following World War II to an American father and a British mother, Robert Lightfoot was the baby born without a country. The pair's story began in 1951 when Lightfoot's mother's ice dancing show traveled to a town near his father's base in Germany.

The Special Operations Detachment of the Maryland National Guard, like most of the 15,000 U.S. troops now in Afghanistan, has the primary mission of training, advising and assisting the Afghan National Security Forces. SOD-O, as the Maryland unit is known, focuses on training the Afghan Army's special forces commandos.

Falcons back at .500 and now trail only Stuttgart, Ramstein, Kaiserslautern and Naples in standings.

Officials found an 82nd Airborne Paratrooper dead Thursday morning in Fayetteville, the division reported Saturday.

Turkey said eight of its troops were killed Saturday in Ankara's military operation against a Syrian Kurdish militia, the deadliest day in the two-week-old offensive in the enclave of Afrin, while in another part of Syria, al-Qaida-linked militants downed a Russian fighter jet, then shot and killed the pilot.

AFNORTH duo combined for 91 points in weekend split, while Ansbach's Kevin Kamara nets 90 in two games.

Before Hurricane Maria struck four months ago, 3.3 million people lived on the bankrupt island. Now, so many have left that it's impossible to count.

A boy said his sister was tied down on at least two occasions while two women blew fire over her face and cut her on the arm and in the collar area with a needle-like object, drawing blood, according to police.

The influenza pandemic that broke out 100 years ago was far more virulent than this year's nasty flu season. Dubbed the Spanish flu, it is estimated to have killed 50 to 100 million worldwide. More than 675,000 Americans perished from the illness – a number that dwarfs the 117,000 U.S. servicemembers who died in World War I.

Haiti President Jovenel Moise said he was "taken aback" by the "bizarre" derogatory remark U.S. President Donald Trump allegedly made about Haiti in a White House immigration meeting last month. Despite the undiplomatic language, the two leaders would find common ground when it comes to foreign aid. Moise said billions have been squandered in Haiti.

While the news that Fidel Castro's oldest son – Fidel "Fidelito" Castro Diaz-Balart – had committed suicide Thursday made headlines in South Florida and elsewhere, it wasn't even front-page news Friday in Granma, the newspaper of Cuba's Communist Party.

Porter isn't a bomb-sniffer. He can't detect drugs or weapons. Instead, his military job was to be a professional patient at the Army Medical Department Center & School at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. For years, he was poked and prodded while soldiers learned how to administer medicine and treat animals.

Within weeks after an Allied victory was declared, Oskar Klausenstock was serving as an interpreter for the occupying U.S. Army. He spent time working for Gen. George Patton just before the general died from injuries in a traffic accident. Klausenstock chose to serve the U.S. Army and moved west to Fort Huachuca, Arizona, where he served as a captain and the fort doctor.

The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed that a Russian Su-25 warplane crashed in Syria and that the pilot was killed in fighting on the ground.

Panthers have top four individual finishers to win fifth straight championship.

Robert Meilhammer was hunting as part of a larger party when a flock of geese flew overhead. The group fired on the birds. One goose fell, striking Meilhammer and knocking him out.

Members of the Baltimore Ravens Cheerleading Squad visited NATO’s Resolute Support headquarters in Kabul on Saturday to perform and meet with troops.

The four-page document released Friday contends that the FBI, when it applied for a surveillance warrant on a onetime Trump campaign associate, relied excessively on a former British spy whose opposition research was funded by Democrats.

As the fight against the Islamic State winds down, the issue of the so-called Popular Mobilization Forces has only grown in prominence – pitting international fears of sectarian tension and growing Iranian influence in Iraq against powerfully entrenched political and military forces within the country.

Jose Reyes, the founder of NuScale Power, showed off the facilities like an owner appraising his barn of prize thoroughbreds. “Year by year we are getting closer to our goal,” he said. If Reyes and other experts are right, his steel cylinder — a one-third scale model of the reactor his company hopes to build — will lead a revival of commercial nuclear power.

Police found what appeared to be a WWII bazooka round in a car parked near a Jack in the Box restaurant.

Rodger Wilson – a U.S. Army veteran – passed away on Friday, surrounded by members of Helping Cleburne Homeless while at the Community Hospice of Texas Hospice House in Burleson. He had been homeless for 17 years, carrying around nothing more than the shirt on his back.

Eleven Wisconsin nonprofits were awarded a total of $250,000 in funds to be used toward services and assistance for veterans and their families. Funding came from a nonprofit grant program passed in spring 2014.

Eleven Wisconsin nonprofits were awarded a total of $250,000 in funds to be used toward services and assistance for veterans and their families. Funding came from a nonprofit grant program passed in spring 2014.

As the military prepares for future fights in cold climates, officials spent the week in the north country discussing the strategy and equipment they'll need to be effective.