Новости за 31.05.2018

The Trump administration delivered a gut punch to America's closest allies Thursday, imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum from Europe, Mexico and Canada in a move that drew immediate vows of retaliation.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reported "good progress" in meetings with a top North Korean official Thursday as they sought to salvage an on-again, off-again summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

The U.N. Security Council adopted a U.S.-sponsored resolution Thursday that threatens an arms embargo on South Sudan and sanctions against six people including the country's defense chief if fighting doesn't stop and a political agreement reached.

To mimic gore, they used makeup and pig's blood. They shot bullet holes in one of his sweatshirts. And to top off Arkady Babchenko's staged murder, they even took him to the morgue.

If you’re looking to challenge your bravery while catching mesmerizing metropolitan and seaside views, a ride aboard the jewel of Yokohoma’s skyline will do.

A Texas man who had been collecting identifying information, such as driver's license and Social Security numbers, from trash cans belonging to Hurricane Harvey victims, has been sentenced to 75 years in prison for stealing identities, federal authorities say.

Residents at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo can enjoy live music without having to hop on a train into the city. In fact, they barely need to leave the base at all.

Non-governmental organizations and hospital sources say 13 people have been killed in attacks on demonstrators in Nicaragua's capital.

The $87 million contract covers maintenance for DDG 51s and FFG 7s. The work will be performed in Bath by February 2019.

Seretta Lawson was recently promoted to the rank of sergeant major, making her the first African-American woman to reach that rank in the Oklahoma Guard.

The Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Durham, N.C., spent more than $1.3 million on medical supplies that it didn’t need or use, according to documents released Thursday by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.

The contract calls for the company to provide 20-ton heavy dump trucks to the U.S. Army through May 2025.

On June 24, 1948, the Soviets, in one of the opening moves of the Cold War, blockaded all rail, road and water access to West Berlin. Two days later, what is sometimes called the greatest peacetime aerial supply operation in history began — the Berlin Airlift.

Spain's conservative government appeared doomed Thursday to lose a no-confidence vote in parliament, with the center-left Socialist party poised to take power.

What started last year with an unusual arms deal has expanded to include military training and talk of mining exploration. Now, some observers believe, Russia is in position to expand its influence throughout the continent, unsettling Western countries who have supported the Central African Republic for years.

Major League Baseball parks sat empty during World War II, and Chicago Cubs owner Philip Wrigley devised a plan to fill them, and boost domestic morale. He drafted a team of baseball advisers to modify existing women's fast-pitch softball rules and fronted the money for four teams in the industrial Midwest.

Egypt may have to import more wheat -- and at higher prices -- as problems from payment disputes to a fungus-tainted cargo disrupt supplies to one of the world's top importers.

Now that she has finished her final race — even if she did crash out of the Indy 500 after qualifying seventh — it seems fair to rehash the subject: Should Danica Patrick really be in the Hall of Fame, or was she just over-hyped?

The total liability in Las Vegas if the Golden Knights win the Stanley Cup has been estimated at $5 million to $7 million, which would likely mark the city's biggest loss on futures betting.

It has become the rivalry that we can't stand, yet can't ignore. No one without a strong rooting interest is really thrilled about Cleveland-Golden State Part IV because it defies the false, preconceived notion that parity drives sports.

Judith Van Aman has been homeless on and off since she returned to the United States from service in Japan and England in the 1980s. Since 2015, she has lived in an apartment complex owned by Missouri Veterans Endeavor – a nonprofit organization that provides long-term housing to veterans and their families at an affordable price.

Just three weeks before the draft and exactly one month before free agency, the Philadelphia 76ers organization is investigating possible improprieties by the man in charge of its roster.

As international defense chiefs gather at a conference in Singapore this week, U.S. officials will face a barrage of questions from allies struggling to unravel the chaotic fits and starts of American and North Korean diplomacy.

As they attacked, the Marines "left behind fourteen decades of small-scale skirmishes with insurgents [and] pirates ... and entered the industrialized world of massive fire power and wholesale slaughter," historians Edwin Howard Simmons and Joseph H. Alexander have written.

The course for the men's and women's marathon events of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, announced Thursday, features many of the capital's famous places.