Новости за 16.05.2018

Kayrat Samarkand says his only "crime" was being a Muslim who had visited neighboring Kazakhstan. On that basis alone, he was detained by police, aggressively interrogated for three days, then dispatched to a "reeducation camp" in China's western province of Xinjiang for three months.

Israel says the military has delivered eight trucks full of humanitarian aid and medical supplies to the Gaza Strip, where Israeli troops firing from across the border killed nearly 60 Palestinians at mass border protests on Monday.

Joshua Dias, 14, will play the role of Colin Wolfe, a Marine killed in Iraq at the age of 19. Both grew up in Prince William County, Virginia. Both were encouraged to dance by their parents. And both felt tugged early in life toward joining the military.

Thomas J. Murphy, who was Navy pharmacist mate, was killed by a gunshot wound on Nov. 20, 1943, during Tarawa, a battle in the Pacific Theater. He was 22. His body was recovered and his identification was officially announced on Oct. 11, 2017.

The Taliban’s one-day assault on the capital of strategically important Farah province is over, as militant forces withdrew early Wednesday after intense strikes by U.S. and Afghan airpower.

A British cybersecurity expert credited with stopping the worldwide WannaCry computer virus was headed to court Wednesday for a hearing about statements prosecutors say he made in a recorded jailhouse phone call acknowledging that code he wrote wound up in malware.

The rumble of World War II planes soared over the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force on Wednesday in a tribute to the restoration of the iconic B-17F Memphis Belle.

Times and dates for theaters in Belgium, England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Turkey and the Netherlands.

Base tours offer an easy way to see Europe with other members of the military community. Here is a sampling of current trips scheduled.

Netanyahu’s domestic politics in Israel plus Trump’s domestic politics have created a situation where more Palestinian violence is almost certain.

President Vladimir Putin's handlers had thought of nearly everything for the christening of a $4 billion bridge linking Russia to Crimea. But there was one hitch: Putin was actually beaten across the bridge. By a cat.

President Vladimir Putin's handlers had thought of nearly everything for the christening of a $4 billion bridge linking Russia to Crimea. But there was one hitch: Putin was actually beaten across the bridge. By a cat.

In new financial disclosure documents, President Donald Trump reported reimbursing his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, for an expenditure over $100,000 last year — an apparent reference to the $130,000 that Cohen paid to ensure the silence of an adult-film actress who claimed she'd had an affair with Trump.

Airlines need to speed the inspection of older jet engine fan blades like the one that led to a passenger death after it broke loose last month on a Southwest Airlines Co. flight, U.S. regulators said Wednesday.

About 230 people displaced by Kilauea Volcano’s eruption are living at the Pahoa Community Center, where the Red Cross has opened an emergency shelter. Residents were also staying in tents erected outside. A shelter spokeswoman said it was an unusual set up, but that it matched the rural character of the community.

The Army has given the Civilian Marksmanship Program thousands of surplus M1911 .45 caliber pistols to sell. Getting one won't necessarily be easy, however.

A police chief says a school resource officer saved lives when he confronted an armed 19-year-old former student at a high school in northern Illinois.

Michigan State University has agreed to pay $500 million to more than 300 women and girls who said they were assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar in the worst sex-abuse case in sports history, the university announced Wednesday.

When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a decades-old law that essentially limited sports gambling to one state, the immediate reaction was to ask how it will affect the NFL, NBA and MLB. But you could argue the sport best-positioned to capitalize on the legalization of sports gambling is NASCAR.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday the U.S. hasn't been notified about North Korea's threat to cancel his planned summit with Kim Jong Un next month.

Iraqi officials said Wednesday that armed men have trapped election workers inside their offices in Kirkuk, disrupting the vote count in the northern city at the heart of a long-running dispute with Iraqi Kurds.

A technology failure at Frankfurt airport has caused the cancellation of dozens of flights. Backup procedures were activated, but weren't able to handle the airport's normal capacity.

An Army Corp of Engineers team is planning the formal decommissioning of the only nuclear power plant built in Alaska. Fort Greely's SM-1A plant provided steam and electricity to the Army post near Delta Junction off and on between 1962 and 197

After he left for a hike, Jeremiah Adams, a 2012 Oswego East High School graduate and Navy sailor stationed in Washington state, was reported missing. His body was found Saturday after nearly a week-long search at the bottom of an embankment in the vast Olympic National Forest.