Новости за 07.02.2019

A great place to relax after a hard day of skiing or marveling at snow sculptures is only an hour’s drive or bus ride from downtown Sapporo. Jozankei is one of Hokkaido’s most popular hot springs drawing 1.6 million visitors each year, including 180,000 foreigners — twice as many as came a decade ago.

What can possibly cheer one up on a drab German day in the dead of winter along a Kaiserslautern road named, drearily, Mill Street?

Visitors flock to Pompeii and Herculaneum to see the ruins of two cities that Mount Vesuvius buried in ash and lava almost 2,000 years ago. But a lesser-known ancient town called Oplontis, where the Roman elite built seaside villas, also fell victim to the volcano.

Neeson’s comments can be read as a bit of honesty to talk about the things we seldom talk about. But to “scratch the surface,” as he said, is one thing in film but quite another in real life.

Army owns bragging rights over Navy on the football field, but apparently that has not automatically translated to the recruiting landscape.

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Merryl Tengesdal has apparently grown quite comfortable with the great distances in her life – she's based in northern California, 2,800 miles from her Bronx, N.Y., home, and she pilots the famous, high-altitude U-2 aircraft at more than 13 miles above the Earth!

An unarmed Minuteman III missile was fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base late Tuesday night as part of a test of the U.S. nuclear weapons system. The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation raised concerns about the test held just days after U.S. officials announced Feb. 1 it would be withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia.

A Navy veteran who last year admitted he brandished a pistol at four men in western Maine after a night out drinking was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District in Bangor to one year of probation.

Two crewmen repairing lifeboats on an oil tanker where hurled into the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday, after one of the boats accidentally launched itself off the ship. A Coast Guard cutter was 20 miles away and rushed to the scene, pulling one man off the lifeboat and the other out of the ocean, officials said.

It's been seven months since Cpl. Joseph Maciel was killed in action in Afghanistan. And now he has a place on Fort Stewart's Warriors Walk, along with 468 other 3rd Infantry Division soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Army combat veteran was offered an opportunity to "make money fast," his lawyer wrote, and "unfortunately agreed to transport marijuana" from California, where it was legal, into Nebraska where it is not. As a result, the "decorated soldier found himself a convicted felon."

Army veteran Henry A. Jaume Sr., a Saints fan who "determined not to watch Super Bowl LIII" got his wish and died hours before kickoff, according to his obituary published this week in The New Orleans Advocate.

A nonprofit organization that received congressional approval to build a Global War on Terror Memorial at the National Mall in Washington wants to raise $50 million for the project and involve Fort Bragg soldiers and families for input on the design.

A House committee will take a closer look at the “tremendous problem” of sexual assault in the military following a damning report on the service academies, the chairwoman of a House subpanel said Thursday.

The worker, whose name was not disclosed, reportedly discussed child rape fantasies and visiting child pornography sites in a previous federal job interview.

An Air Force base employee who reportedly discussed child rape fantasies and visiting child pornography sites in a previous federal job interview was terminated last month, after service officials learned of the interview in September.

The top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee warned Thursday that Congress must play a part in making any decisions that could lead to a U.S.-led military intervention to oust Venezuela’s embattled dictator, Nicolas Maduro.

AFRICOM has picked up the pace of its airstrikes in Somalia, going from 35 in 2017 to 47 last year. The command's top leader says that won't be enough to defeat the Islamic militants operating in the country.

The controversy surrounding the continued use of dogs in medical experiments at Department of Veterans Affairs facilities heated up again this week when the agency’s inspector general announced it would initiate an investigation into the practice.

While working to build a relationship with onetime Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos in 2016, Russian Sergei Millian offered to serve as a conduit to the Trump campaign for a Belarusan author in Florida with connections to the Russian government, according to emails obtained by The Washington Post.

During his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Donald Trump defended his recent attempt to pull U.S. troops out of Syria and the administration's peace talks with the Taliban, which could lead to a U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. "Great nations do not fight endless wars," he said. Yet, Trump glossed over Iraq.

The number of veterans eligible for health care services in their communities, using networks of private-sector providers contracted by the Department of Veterans Affairs, is expected to jump this summer when regulations setting new access standards for community care become final.

Veterans are taking their own lives on VA hospital campuses, a desperate form of protest against a system that they feel hasn’t helped them. "My son served his country well," said Greg Miller, his voice breaking. "But they didn't serve him well. He had a gun in his truck the whole time."

The Army’s newest armored vehicle training tool in Germany is outfitted with Xbox controllers, luxury gaming chairs and foot pedals designed for racing games.

France has recalled its ambassador to Italy amid repeated attacks by Rome on President Emmanuel Macron, the French foreign ministry announced Thursday. The recall marked a major rift in the typically congenial politics of postwar Western Europe.