Новости за 26.04.2019

Rockets and mortar shells were reportedly fired on residential neighborhoods in Libya's capital Tripoli, where heavy fighting has led to a deteriorating humanitarian situation, the United Nations said Friday.

A drum that once belonged to Jordan Noble, the teenage drummer boy at the Battle of New Orleans who went on to become a local icon -- and which for a century was on loan to the Louisiana State Museum -- is on the auction block.

A lawsuit reveals the extent of the loss from a fire two years ago that burned the home of the former U.S. Central Command leader and destroyed its contents, including gifts from world leaders and art and antiques collected by his wife.

Leonard Fiume, 95, one of two elderly men hospitalized after a Monday altercation at the Gino J. Merli Veterans’ Center in Scranton, Pa., has died.

National Guard units from across the United States this week began the long process of building up Polish and Romanian training facilities as part of Operation Resolute Castle.

"Avengers: Endgame" is more than just Marvel’s latest record-breaking blockbuster. It’s the culmination of 11 years and 21 previous films -- all of which are integral to fully understanding and appreciating its epic plot. But some of its predecessors in the Marvel Cinematic Universe are more important than others.

Sleep-deprived and sometimes soaking wet and loaded down with gear, they marched, ran, swam, rappelled and swung hand over hand on ropes across a wilderness area at Fort Benning while firing rifles and machine guns, performing simulated combat rescues, navigating at night and tackling other daunting, back-to-back challenges.

If there’s a single phrase that sums up the guiding principle of the Marvel Cinematic Universe -- the interdependent series of superhero movies that, with the arrival of this week’s "Avengers: Endgame," now numbers 22 films -- it’s this: Hold that thought. (Truth be told, with "Endgame’s" running time of three hours, "hold that bladder" would also apply.)

Thirteen summers ago, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige was asked during a relatively small Comic-Con panel whether he could ever see his company’s characters interacting on screen. "Who knows?" Feige teased. "This is a big new experiment for Marvel. But it’s no coincidence that we have the rights to Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Cap" -- and right then, before he could finish, he was interrupted by the volume of audience glee and hopeful extrapolation. Fan imaginations leaped ahead at the possibilities.

Turkey launched a new round of its three-year crackdown on purported followers of a U.S.-based cleric it blames for an attempted coup, ordering the arrest of former employees of an opposition newspaper, active-duty military officers and police.

The new deployment will bring the number of active-duty troops operating along the southern border in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California to about 3,200. Another roughly 2,000 National Guard troops are also serving deployments along the border in a separate, but related, mission.

The Pentagon will expand the military’s mission along the southern border, sending nearly 300 additional active-duty troops there who will be authorized to have direct contact with migrants entering the United States to provide them food and shuttle them between locations, defense officials said Friday.

Fort Bragg officials issued an apology late Thursday, after realizing shutting off power to tens of thousands of post residents created alarm on the post and generated some rather bizarre conspiracy theories in the surrounding community.

Analysts say the Pentagon could benefit from having a leader who understands how industry works, and who has been on the other side of the negotiating table and can avoid being tricked.

A shortage of spare parts and difficulty managing and moving parts around the world kept the F-35 grounded 30% of the time during an eight-month period last year, a new GAO report found, with some training units unable to fly most of that time.

Only two West Point graduates went on to earn the rank of general and be elected president of the United States. Now there are statues of both men at their alma mater.

The amphibious assault ship USS Wasp, homeported at Sasebo Naval Base, and the guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem, at Yokosuka Naval Base, will return to the United States after spending several years in Japan, according to the Navy statement.

Islamists in Sudan long allied with ousted president Omar al-Bashir's regime called Friday for a rally to support military-backed Islamic rule in the face of alleged attempts by protesters to abolish it.

The Pentagon is preparing to approve a loosening of rules that bar troops from interacting with migrants entering the United States, expanding the military's involvement in President Donald Trump's operation along the southern border.

An 18-year-old Navy recruit died Tuesday after collapsing during physical training at the service’s boot camp at Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois, service officials said Friday.

The U.S. must not do Kim’s bidding. Our extradition treaty with Spain provides for a refusal to extradite if we regard the offense in question as political.

But if and when it becomes clear that Kim has decided not to give up his nuclear and missile programs for good, our patience must end and we must pivot to ramping up our deterrence, containment and pressure.

The Navy has awarded a $746 million contract to a Mississippi shipbuilder for a new heavy polar icebreaker, a move that was nearly sunk last year when its funding was diverted to build a southern U.S. border wall.

Lt. Col. James Compton was removed April 22 by Maj. Gen. Thomas Weidley, commander of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in Okinawa, due to a “loss of trust and confidence,” according to a statement from the III Marine Expeditionary Force.

The commander of All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 242 at MCAS Iwakuni has been relieved of command, according to a spokesman for the III Marine Expeditionary Force.