Новости за 17.08.2018

Federal and local officials arrested 12 men suspected of being members of the MS-13 gang in February 2017. Local officials later said they were duped into helping make immigration arrests, violating city laws. Charges against the suspects include murder, extortion, arson and drug trafficking.

With anger and grief, Italians began burying some of their dead Friday from the Genoa highway bridge collapse, holding funerals in the victims' hometowns. Several angry families rebuffed the offer of a state funeral and the cardinal of Naples was merciless in his condemnation of negligence by Italian officials.

A lack of accountability resulted in caregivers for injured veterans being blocked for months – and sometimes years – from a Department of Veterans Affairs program created to assist them, a VA watchdog reported.

Romania's prime minister on Friday defended the use of force by riot police during a violent anti-government protest that left more than 450 people injured earlier this month.

Al-Qaida's chief bomb maker, Ibrahim al-Asiri, was killed in a U.S. drone strike, Yemeni officials and a tribal leader said Friday. Al-Asiri is believed to have built the underwear bomb that a Nigerian man tried to detonate on a passenger jet over Detroit in December 2009. He is also behind bombs hidden in printer cartridges placed on U.S.-bound cargo jets in 2010.

When residents here describe their town, they describe a paradise. There's no crime and everyone – black and white – gets along in neighborhoods just a few miles from the banks of the Eastern Shore's Tred Avon River in Talbot County. Those waters, however, once led to one of the most prominent slave ports in the country.

Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire and another 60 injured at a protest along the Gaza border amid ongoing Egyptian efforts to broker a cease-fire, Gaza's Health Ministry said Friday.

Yemen's al-Qaida branch has denied an Associated Press report saying it struck secret deals over territories it controls with the Saudi-led coalition fighting Shiite rebels in the country.

Servicemembers will see a rash of changes with the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act that could impact their pocketbooks, especially if companion legislation to fund the newly signed law gains congressional approval in the coming weeks.

Signaling that he is not finished with revoking security clearances, President Donald Trump tweeted that it was a "disgrace" for Bruce Ohr to be in the Justice Department. Ohr's wife worked for the firm involved in producing a dossier on Trump's purported ties to Russia. His comments came two days after he yanked the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan.

Lockheed Martin gave a first look at what human space habitats might look like Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center, where the aerospace giant is under contract with NASA to build a prototype of the living quarters.

Tiger Woods gave golf a much-needed boost with his run at the PGA Championship last week. NASCAR feels it had a similar moment when Chase Elliott finally won his first race earlier this month at Watkins Glen.

An Iraq war veteran, Esteban Santiago was diagnosed, after the January 2017 Florida airport shooting that left five people dead, as schizophrenic but was found competent to understand legal proceedings.

The Trump administration is ending funding for Syria stabilization projects as it moves to extricate the U.S. from the conflict, citing increased contributions from anti-Islamic State coalition partners.

The bombers, which are capable of carrying nuclear and conventional weapons, flew into Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam on Wednesday from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.

German authorities say they're looking into a Yazidi woman's claim that, after arriving in Germany, she ran into a man who bought her as a slave in an Islamic State-ruled area of Iraq.

The $82 million National Veterans Memorial and Museum in Columbus will throw open its doors to the public on Oct. 27, with retired Army general and former Secretary of State Colin Powell set to give the keynote address

Many of Afghanistan's remaining Soviet-made T-55s and T-62s are gradually succumbing to the ravages of time. Maintainers can barely keep the beasts running, and those they can’t are being cannibalized for parts or sold off as scrap.

Hafeez Nawaz was 20 years old when he left his religious school in southern Karachi to join the Islamic State group in Afghanistan. Three years later he was back in Pakistan to carry out a deadly mission: with explosives strapped to his body, he blew himself up in the middle of an election rally last month, killing 149 people and wounding 300 others.

The United States has decreased its annual U.N. peacekeeping contributions by almost $300 million since Trump took office. Roughly a third of those savings would now be spent on his parade instead (though of course the money comes from different departments).

Barcelona on Friday marked the first anniversary of terror attacks that killed 16 people, though the divisive local issue of whether to pursue the region's independence from Spain intruded on the proceedings in the Catalan capital.

In 1967, promoter Pervis Spann placed a crown on Aretha Franklin’s head and recognized her as the Queen of Soul. The accolade is easily justified.

Iraqi security officials said one of the two airstrikes by F-16s targeted a meeting of would-be suicide bombers who intended to strike in Iraq during next week's Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday.

The Buenos Aires stop on Mattis’ first trip to South America, after Brazil and before Chile and Colombia, was seen as a significant step in rebuilding a military partnership that had all but disappeared in preceding years.

A detained American pastor has become a symbol of a growing rift between Turkey and the United States, but problems in the Cold War-era alliance as well as Turkey's own financial crisis are unlikely to dissipate even if he is released and Washington eases economic penalties.