Новости за 16.04.2019

Constructing better training simulators for sailors on surface ships is one of the initiatives being undertaken by the Navy as it implements recommendations made after the deadly USS John S. McCain and USS Fitzgerald collisions, Adm. William Moran, the vice chief of naval operations, said Tuesday.

The new Palestinian prime minister has accused the United States of declaring "financial war" on his people and said an American peace plan purported to be in the works will be "born dead."

An exhibition hall displaying a fishing boat that was exposed to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at the Bikini Atoll in the central Pacific has reopened in Tokyo, with new exhibits including 3D images from aboard the vessel.

Australia's prime minister said Tuesday that hurdles remain to repatriating three orphaned Australian children of a convicted terrorist from a Syrian refugee camp and that national security interests must come first.

A Russian court on Tuesday granted parole to a Moscow student who was sent to prison for trying to join the Islamic State group in Syria.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., and Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., asked acting Department Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan to testify before Congress and to provide the names of all DHS employees who were present when Trump was reputed to have asked him and other agents to break asylum laws and to block asylum seekers' entry into the U.S.

If a deal is reached, President Donald Trump is considering traveling to Poland in the fall, in part to commemorate the agreement to establish an American military base in the former Soviet Bloc country.

“Stipulations of fact” submitted by men linked to the death of Green Beret Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar in Mali on June 4, 2017, remove a veil of secrecy from a culture in which womanizing and heavy drinking were said to be commonplace despite alcohol restrictions and warnings about kidnappings and terrorist threats.

The inferno that raged through Notre Dame Cathedral for more than 12 hours destroyed its spire and its roof but spared its twin medieval bell towers, and a frantic rescue effort saved the monument's "most precious treasures," including the Crown of Thorns purportedly worn by Jesus, officials said Tuesday.

Recent clashes between rival Libyan militias for control of the capital Tripoli have displaced nearly 20,000 people, the U.N. said Tuesday, and prompted the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to warn that she could investigate and possibly prosecute new offenses.

Philippine police on Tuesday arrested four women they said were wives of Abu Sayyaf commanders who took care of their financial transactions, helped procure guns and bomb parts and arranged the travels of foreign militants to the country.

The Department of Defense said the contract includes hardware and software development and integration, ground and flight testing, configuration management, studies and analyses and modernization.

Texas native R.V. Burgin's unflinching account of several battles he survived during the war helped inspire “The Pacific,” a miniseries produced by HBO in 2010.

The Sexual Assault Accountability and Investigation Task Force, or SAAITF, will focus largely on reforms and improvements that can be made to the military judicial process to ensure servicemembers’ confidence in the system, acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan wrote on March 27.

Women are expected to take part in meetings in Qatar this week as part of an effort aimed at ending the 17-year war, but they will not be part of the Taliban’s peace negotiating team.

It’s all part of the Collings Foundation’s Wings of Freedom Tour, a nearly three-day educational stopover in Bakersfield that includes a B-17 Flying Fortress, a B-24J Liberator nicknamed Witchcraft, a B-25 Mitchell medium bomber and a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk.

“We delivered our message and received quite positive feedback,” Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak told reporters Monday after he explained to President Donald Trump why Turkey needs missiles that have raised questions about its alliance with the West.

The AK Party submitted an “extraordinary objection” to the election board on Tuesday while a partial recount of the votes in some districts was underway. It alleged irregularities tainted the results of the March 31 vote that put an opposition candidate ahead in the mayoral race.

The hit Warner Bros. superhero film “Shazam!” is based on a character whose origins begin with an Army veteran’s little-known struggle a century ago to adjust to life after war.

The rise in Stalin’s standing follows Kremlin efforts to play down his tyranny in school history books and to recast him as a modernizer who transformed the Soviet Union into a superpower through rapid industrialization and victory in World War II.

Dropping her kids off at school used to be the hardest part of Kacey Ruegsegger Johnson's day. She would cry most mornings as they left the car, and relied on texted photos from their teachers to make it through the day.

Jeans, long forbidden for cadets on duty, will be allowed by Lt. Gen Jay Silveria, who wants cadets to consider the toll of sexual attacks after a Pentagon report in January found that more women at the school faced unwanted sexual contact but fewer were reporting it.

Collard greens, Cajun gumbo, pork ribs, mac and cheese, fried chicken and homemade banana pudding are on the menu in Chef Keeta’s kitchen, wherever that kitchen may be, whether at home, at sea or Manama’s Adliya area, which is popular for its nightlife and upscale restaurants.

Jose Gonzalez Carranza was deported to Mexico and then returned to Phoenix, according to his lawyer, who says Gonzalez's fate is now back in the hands of an immigration court.

The Justice Department announced Monday that it expects to release the redacted version Thursday morning, sending the findings of the nearly two-year probe to Congress and making them available to the public.