Новости за 03.08.2018

Basra was once known as the "Venice of the East" because of its freshwater canals. Iraq itself is still known as the "Land Between the Two Rivers" — the Tigris and the Euphrates. But upstream dams in Turkey, Syria and Iran have shrunk the rivers and their tributaries, seasonal rainfall has dropped and infrastructure has fallen into disrepair. The result is an acute lack of freshwater.

Authorities here evacuated more than 100 people after weather forecasters warned that heavy rainfall could cause a dam to fail and flood the city.

The United States is trying to ensure that humanitarian aid doesn't face unnecessary obstacles in getting to North Korea, where the U.N. says around 10 million people need food and other aid and about 20 percent of children are stunted because of malnutrition.

The United States is trying to ensure that humanitarian aid doesn't face unnecessary obstacles in getting to North Korea, where the U.N. says around 10 million people need food and other aid and about 20 percent of children are stunted because of malnutrition.

In the final months of Barack Obama’s presidency, the Drug Enforcement Agency announced it would license more growers to produce marijuana for scientific research – a decision that was meant to facilitate research into the drug. Nearly two years later, federal authorities haven’t approved or denied any applications.

In the final months of Barack Obama’s presidency, the Drug Enforcement Agency announced it would license more growers to produce marijuana for scientific research – a decision that was meant to facilitate research into the drug. Nearly two years later, federal authorities haven’t approved or denied any applications.

A German U-boat had torpedoed the Mirlo, a British tanker loaded with gasoline, seven miles from shore. The British had been transporting badly needed fuel from the United States for the forces in Europe during World War I.

We should continue to exclude China, hold our opponents close, add new partners, and make inclusion in RIMPAC something that Beijing so wants to be part of it will change its ways.

For nearly three years, buses have filed into Syria's Idlib province, bringing those evacuated from other opposition enclaves that fell to government forces — thousands of defeated rebel fighters, wanted activists and civilians who refused to go back under President Bashar Assad's rule. They now face what is likely to be the last showdown between Assad's forces and the opposition.

Alejandra Juarez, wife of a combat veteran and mother of two U.S. citizen-children, was deported to Mexico on Friday after losing her battle to remain in the United States.

NASA on Friday announced the crews of the first flights from U.S. soil since the space shuttle retired in 2011, an elite group of astronauts that the agency hopes will help open a new era of space travel.

Three nuclear-powered aircraft carriers will move to new homeports as the Navy shifts its ships around for maintenance.

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

High-intensity interval training has become a big deal among workout enthusiasts, who like the short bursts of intense exercise alternated with longer periods of rest. But some folks still prefer low-intensity workouts — repetitive moderate motion for 30 to 45 minutes. So which is better for you?

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe says that more than 160 people have been killed in fighting in eastern Ukraine since the beginning of the year.

German prosecutors say a man suspected of sending money to finance the Islamic State group has been arrested at Amsterdam airport.

In his new masterpiece, "Crossing the Swamp," Utah-based artist Jon McNaughton pays homage to Emanuel Leutze's iconic 1851 painting, "Washington Crossing the Delaware." Trump takes Washington's place in McNaughton's vision. He holds a similar pose but in place of a Continental Army uniform, Trump wears a tie and slacks with presidential bomber jacket and baseball cap.

An 18-year-old British woman was sentenced to a minimum of 13 years in prison Friday for plotting to attack the popular British Museum in London after failing in her ambition of becoming a jihadi bride in Syria.

In 1948, New Mexico's constitution barred American Indians living on reservations from participating in elections.Decades later, Native Americans have won seats in the Legislature and the state’s most populous city appears poised to elect a Laguna Pueblo woman to Congress.

A 39-year-old former Marine recruiter being called a “person of interest” by police in the disappearance of a young recruit whose body was found in March off a highway in Canton was held without bail yesterday in connection with an alleged assault in Roslindale.

The Navy’s newest submarine will make Groton its home after its Sept. 29 commissioning, which U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., said is seven months earlier than originally planned.

Generals, admirals and senior Pentagon civilians caught in sex scandals could lose their valuable access to classified information – even in retirement – under a new bill passed Wednesday by the Senate.

John Martin had been traveling down the Yukon River across Alaska on a one-person boat when he ended up in the open Bering Sea, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. He spent several days at sea in bad weather and eventually washed up on Russian shores.

Director Marc Forster turned to some big acting names to tell his story of a bear not much bigger than a honey pot in "Christopher Robin." The film opens nationwide Friday.

President Donald Trump is renewing his campaign against the media, claiming at a Pennsylvania rally that the media is the "fake disgusting news" and casting journalists as his true political opponent.