Новости за 04.07.2018

Some of the boys do not know how to swim and flooding in the caves means the boys would likely have to dive to be able to escape, which rescue experts say could be extremely dangerous, especially for people with no experience with scuba gear.

From a World Cup bracket that looks like a bright, imaginative, big-hearted child might have drawn it, maybe even in crayon, and especially if that child were Russian, one of the following four teams will appear a week from Sunday in a rare and motley final: Croatia, Russia, Sweden or England.

On Facebook on Tuesday, Westdale said it had instead donated $50,000 to the Military Warriors Support Foundation, a nonprofit charity based in San Antonio. While officials regret the way the company handled the situation, its president said it sparked a “catalyst for a nice donation.”

The Islamic State group says the son of its top leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed fighting Syrian government forces.

With some 25,000 armed forces personnel here for the annual RIMPAC exercise, a holiday that could involve another free-for-all “floatilla” party off Waikiki and a forecast that calls for 2- to 3-foot waves along Oahu’s South Shore, officials are urging everyone to practice aloha this Independence Day.

Five active duty members of the military were injured — one critically — when their car smashed into a tree near a Brooklyn golf course Wednesday, police said. The driver was charged with driving with a suspended license.

The roughly 75-year-old, 48-star flag (made before Alaska and Hawaii became states) remains in good shape because Everett Fitchlee usually only brings it out for special occasions.

A 24-year-old Navy hospital corpsman based at Kaneohe Bay remained missing for a third day, officials said, but the case took a turn when a Navy investigator said a text was sent Tuesday from his phone to his parents saying, “I love you and I’m alive.”

A 24-year-old Navy hospital corpsman based at Kaneohe Bay remained missing for a third day, officials said, but the case took a turn when a Navy investigator said a text was sent Tuesday from his phone to his parents saying, “I love you and I’m alive.”

After years of tending to memorial markers honoring 26 residents who died in World War I, Marty Cameron was the one honored Tuesday, when he was surprised with a granite bench, with a view of the veterans' markers at Plains Field.

Joey "Jaws" Chestnut extended his reign as champion eater at the Nathan's Famous July Fourth hot dog eating contest Wednesday, downing a record 74 wieners and buns in 10 minutes to take home the coveted Mustard Belt for an 11th time.

A U.S. Coast Guard lifeboat was returning from a search-and-rescue mission when its four-man crew spotted a large light-colored shark crossing the boat’s bow.

Just days before the first 25-percent levy is slated to hit $34 billion in Chinese products, U.S. companies in China say they're already feeling the sting in the form of stalled product approvals, worker visas and licensing applications.

Unruly ethnic factions remain a persistent challenge to central authority and stability in Afghanistan, periodically clashing with government forces and following leaders like Abdurrashid Dostum, who broke with the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani government that had handpicked him to serve as a bridge to his ethnic group.

Fort Bliss personnel will start construction Thursday on temporary shelters that will be used to house immigrant families at the post, said A.F. "Tom" Thomas, a Texas civilian aide to the U.S. Secretary of the Army.

The ceremonial first pitch at a July Fourth baseball game in Rhode Island will be reminiscent of the same ritual at a game played during World War I a century ago.

Kylie Mohr’s son, Lincoln, survived, but 10 months later she still hasn’t recovered from the complications of his birth. “It’s just exhausting,” said Mohr, who along with her husband is a member of the Georgia Air National Guard.

Alvin Holsey's closest contact to an aircraft was watching a yellow crop duster spraying a soybean field, but while bagging groceries at the Piggly Wiggly, he told the store manager he wanted to be a pilot. "He said, 'Being a pilot is too hard.'"

Puget Sound’s first July 4th celebration in 1841 was quite a party. They had a barbecue, drinks and shot off two howitzers sailors carried off a ship. And like so many do-it-yourself fireworks displays, there was a mishap.

German authorities say they have deported 69 Afghans whose asylum requests were rejected back to their home country.

Across the country, older adults and retirees are stepping up to the lifeguard chair - a job that historically has been a rite of passage for high-schoolers and college students.

Apple and Facebook have figured out how to keep us glued to their devices and platforms. But they haven’t figured out how to curb the misinformation that plagued them during the 2016 election and have struggled to regain public trust.

There are still reminders of the Syrian civil war, but life in the capital appears to be returning to the chaotic normality that has long characterized the city of 2.6 million people.

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

American flags could be seen in all corners of NATO’s Resolute Support headquarter in Kabul on Wednesday as U.S. servicemembers celebrated Independence Day.