Новости за 16.06.2018

When the final whistle blew, Lionel Messi angrily kicked away the ball like it was poison and tore off his captain's armband as though it was cursed. A superstar of football knocked off his pedestal at the World Cup. By a bunch of guys from Iceland.

Foreign military sales at a Wright-Patterson agency are likely trending to a "new norm" of about half of last year, according to the leader of the Air Force Security Assistance and Cooperation Directorate.

Nearly two years after a historic peace accord ended Latin America's longest-running insurgency and garnered a Nobel Prize, an old scourge is again spreading across the rural valleys and jungle towns of Colombia's northeast – guerrilla warfare.

For several years, they were Europe's lifesaving workhorses – a fleet of humanitarian boats that patrolled the Mediterranean, rescuing migrants in distress and transporting them to the southern shores of this continent. But now that fleet is shrinking, along with the chances of migrants making it to their intended destination.

The premier U.S. aid agency is poised to send millions of dollars directly to Christian and Yazidi communities in Iraq under a rarely used, streamlined funding arrangement after coming under pressure from Vice President Mike Pence.

Ben Deri says he was just following orders as an Israeli border police officer when he opened fire on Palestinian protesters in 2014. But his gun was loaded with live ammunition, not the rubber bullets he'd been ordered to use. Deri started an eight-month jail sentence last month for causing the death of one of the Palestinians and was ordered to pay the family $14,000 in compensation.

Antarctica's ice sheet is melting at rapidly increasing rate, now pouring more than 200 billion tons of ice into the ocean annually and raising sea levels a half millimeter every year, a team of 80 scientists reported Wednesday.

Children who lost a father in the line of duty wrote letters to their dads for Father's Day this year in part as a grief exercise, in part to honor their fathers' legacies -- and also to be part of a project started by the Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation.

At least 17 people died early Saturday after a tear-gas canister was set off inside a club in a middle-class neighborhood of western Caracas, officials said.

British Prime Minister Theresa May said she was "disappointed" that an effort to make taking photos up someone's skirt without consent a criminal offense failed to advance in the House of Commons on Friday. Conservative lawmaker Christopher Chope was the only one to object to the bill, which was enough for it to be blocked.

Two Kansas sheriff's deputies who were shot and killed by an inmate while transporting him between the courthouse and jail were both parents, authorities said Saturday.

For the second time in barely more than a year, an Indonesian villager has been swallowed whole by a python.

Albert Einstein, the theoretical physicist who helped decipher the universe, inspired America's atomic bomb project and famously vowed to fight racism, had some pretty racist things to say about the Chinese back in the 1920s, according to his own travel diaries.

About 18 months ago, a story was published about how a forbidden love affair in Josef Stalin's Soviet Union resulted in the imprisonment of Lyudmila Khachatryan. When Khachatryan was finally released from the Gulag after Stalin's death in 1953 she did not know what had become of her "Yugloslav" as she likes to call her lover Radojica Cukeric; nor he, her.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani ordered an indefinite extension to a government cease-fire with the Taliban late Saturday, even as a blast in eastern Afghanistan cast a pall over a countrywide celebration of the Eid al-Fitr holiday and historic dual cease-fires.

When retired Marine Maj. Gen. and Medal of Honor recipient James Livingston was leading troops in Vietnam, the Georgia native had only two goals: get the job done and bring his boys home.

Mike Shinoda’s wife used to joke that his tear ducts were broken. As the painstaking sonic mastermind of Linkin Park, this Southern California native spent years creating carefully detailed tracks -- dense with serrated guitars and throbbing hip-hop beats -- that showcased the signature wail of the group’s talented but troubled frontman, Chester Bennington. Shinoda did more than program and produce; he rapped too, and with plenty of aggression to match the band’s forceful attack. Even at his most intense... Читать дальше...

The success of transgender female athletes participating in high school track and field events has parents, athletes and coaches in some communities calling for a change in the current rules, as they question a possible competitive advantage.

Testimony has amounted to a crash course in history for a jury largely unfamiliar with a conflict in a nation thousands of miles and an ocean away. The accounts highlight Liberia's complicated history with the U.S. and American efforts to influence the civil war.

At a recent World Cup warm-up match at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Mexico's national soccer team was missing Rafael Marquez, the team's captain and a legendary defender. Marquez, a four-time World Cup veteran, was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department last year for allegedly aiding a powerful Mexican drug trafficker.

Many have called him a coward, but former sheriff's deputy Scot Peterson had no legal duty to stop the slaughter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, his attorneys say. Peterson took shelter rather than confront the killer, but he did not act with malice or bad faith, according to his attorney

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have reassembled 16 pages of shredded documents seized from President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen, and recovered 731 pages of encrypted text messages.

The gulf between us was as vast as the demilitarized zone — laced with landmines and overgrown from 70 years of abandon — that separates North and South Korea. He was a North Korean cameraman, traveling with a young tyrant to capture his stunning debut on the world stage, and I a South Korea-raised journalist working for an American newspaper.

The ruling clears the way for Bilal Abdul Kareem, a freelance journalist who grew up in New York, to seek answers and try to clear his name after what he claims were five near-misses by U.S. airstrikes in Syria after he said he was mistaken for a militant because of his frequent contact with al-Qaida-linked militants.

The Black Panther vets have been getting together in various cities, every couple years, since 1969. Those early reunions, there would be a couple of thousand of the guys. This past week, 12 were able to make the trip to Florida. Black Panther John Reitz played taps on his trumpet to end it all.