Новости за 17.02.2019

The Janesville Leadership Academy project “Through the Eyes of Rock County Veterans” aims to preserve veterans’ stories in video recordings to be available as learning tools for schools and community members.

Iron Airman, which combines some of the toughest standards of physical fitness tests from each branch of the military into one “supertest,” began in 2012 as an initiative of the 11th Bomb Squadron at Barksdale Air Force Base, La.

The U.S. Army continues to field test a new rifle that the service hopes infantry, armor, cavalry scout or combat engineer squads can carry to provide precision fire between 300 and 600 meters — without losing close-range lethality.

On Sunday, the Springfield Chapter of the National Association for Black Veterans joined the Shirley Jackson Whitaker Foundation and Stone Soul Inc. in recognizing present-day patriots who served in the military as well as those who have died.

As a young man, Lyman Gammon, now 95, spent three years aboard the USS SC-505, chasing Japanese submarines across the Pacific Ocean in World War II.

Acting Pentagon chief Shanahan said the military’s Joint Staff had been conducting a “mission analysis” on ways to deal with drugs and migrants at the border. “Based on that, we can do an assessment of what would be appropriate,” he said.

The family of a British teenager who ran away to join the Islamic State group and now wants to return to the U.K. said Sunday she has given birth to a baby boy.

British defense secretary Gavin Williamson said Britain will fund the development of “swarm squadrons of network enabled drones capable of confusing and overwhelming enemy air defenses,” noting that such vehicles would complement the British fleet of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.

A spokesman for the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighting the militants said Sunday that the Islamic State is preventing civilians from leaving the area, closing a corridor from which nearly 40,000 residents have managed to escape since December.

Insurgents routinely plant explosives targeting Afghan security forces, but the bombs often end up killing or maiming civilians.

Comments come as global leaders wrap up three days of security talks in Munich, where the conflict in Syria was among the agenda items.

Comments come as global leaders wrap up three days of security talks in Munich, where the conflict in Syria was among the agenda items.

About 6,500 strong, the active-duty and National Guard soldiers sent to the southern border perform secondary tasks that free up border patrol agents, thanks to an 1878 law forbidding the military from domestic law enforcement.

A Moscow court has ordered a U.S. investment fund manager to be jailed for two months while facing fraud charges.

Dominique “Kenshin” Wallace won a four-round unanimous decision over Takuya Kanda on Sunday at Arena Tachikawa Tachihi in Tokyo’s western suburbs.

For the first time in six years, there appears to be no clear favorite entering this week’s Far East wrestling tournament, at least in the Division I field.

President Donald Trump's decision to take $3.6 billion out of military construction projects approved by Congress last year to spend on a border wall has Ohio lawmakers worried that money earmarked for facilities across the state is now at risk.

A team of scientists, astronomers and engineers meets weekly in a conference room on a Howard County, Md., research campus and plans to save the world. "Keep calm and carry DART," reads a poster on the wall. DART – the Double Asteroid Redirection Test – is their plan to avert catastrophe.

It looked as though the rapture had come to the Daggett County Jail. Red lights on a command board in the secure room where the warden once stood were still glowing – each one representing an open cell door. A desk calendar next to it was stuck on April 2017.

The prime minister of Republic of North Macedonia hopes that his country's imminent NATO membership will be part of a wider process that would put the region into the European Union and lay the foundation for its economic development over the next decade. But the rise of nationalists in the EU parliamentary elections in May could block that goal.

Three suicide bombers killed eight people in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri Saturday morning, Lagos-based Channels TV reported. The attack happened hours after the nation delayed by a week a general election scheduled for the same day.

As Venezuela grapples with a crisis that has left millions hungry and displaced, British billionaire Richard Branson - founder of the Virgin Group - has announced his plans to host a concert to raise funds for humanitarian action. His goal? About $100 million in two months.

A Baltimore law firm has joined a host of other firms across the country filing lawsuits over earplugs issued to the military that some allege to be defective. A case against 3M was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Maryland by Joshua M. Keiner, an Army combat veteran who served two tours in Iraq.