Новости за 14.06.2019

Russia conducted a "continued and sustained" disinformation campaign against Europe's recent parliamentary elections, the European Union reported Friday, the latest sign that Russia's high-tech efforts to influence democratic votes have not slowed down.

U.S. House Minority Whip Steve Scalise largely waved off the backlash that President Donald Trump has faced over remarks he made in an ABC News interview about taking dirt from foreign governments on his political opponents.

Harry "Pete" Shaw, 95, who fought in Normandy during World War II, arrived home this week from the D-Day commemorations in France and plans to tell his stories to the community on Saturday.

Hawaii has some of the most beautiful and memorable golf courses in the world. And the quiet island of Kauai may have the most picturesque courses on the islands — or anywhere else.

The reports on six deaths, one high-profile shooting, an assault and a fatal car accident over the course of a year have darkened the Dominican Republic’s typically sunny skies. The Caribbean country had been experiencing an upswing before the full brunt of the tragedies hit: Nearly 605,000 tourists visited in the first two months of the year, an 8 percent rise over last year. The spate of incidents could trigger a rush of cancellations, but experts are advising travelers to consider the larger picture before abandoning their beach plans.

Governments, automakers and even oil and gas giants are part of a growing coalition pushing a larger role for hydrogen as the world seeks to reduce carbon emissions while still providing reliable electricity to a growing population and powering complex industrial processes, the International Energy Agency said in a report released Friday.

A new command team took over the 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade in the morning as Commander Col. Mark Johnson passed the torch to Col. Michael McFadden. At Hunter Army Airfield, officials welcomed a new garrison commander as Lt. Col Kenneth Dwyer relinquished command to Lt. Col. David Escobar.

The Archdiocese of Paris announced that a Mass will be celebrated on Saturday at 6 p.m. — two months after the fire that left much of the structure, including the spire, damaged.

Iraqis watched with trepidation Friday as tensions soared between the United States and Iran, raising the prospect their country could fall victim to a violent tug of war between the two powers.

U.S. prosecutors and attorneys for Michael Flynn on Friday asked to update a federal judge in mid-August about setting a sentencing date, which would be after President Donald Trump's former national security adviser is expected to testify at the July federal trial in Alexandria, Virginia, of his former business partner.

Thosusands of Palestinians held protests along the volatile Gaza-Israel frontier Friday, after a night of Israeli airstrikes in retaliation for a rocket that hit a building in southern Israel.

American Legion Post 44 in Northumberland, Pa., planned to host its annual Flag Day retirement ceremony with an estimated 5,000 flags to burn.

Senior Chief Petty Officer Shannon Kent, who was killed in Syria in January during her fifth combat tour, could get a Navy ship named after her.

Iran's naval forces have a split personality. There is the regular navy with conscripts and career officers with a chain of command to the defense minister. And then there are the more elite seagoing divisions run by the Revolutionary Guard, whose commanders answer directly to the nation's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Military experts and political analysts have followed developments in Iran's two navies for years. Both have grown in size and scope.

Navy Secretary Richard Spencer announced Friday that Rear Adm. Shoshana Chatfield will be the next president of the Navy’s senior leader college in Newport, R.I.

Yovanny Jadiel Lopez had been on life support at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn since he was born on April 23, cut from the womb of his teenage mother Marlen Ochoa-Lopez. Doctors had told the family that he had suffered severe brain damage from lack of oxygen.

The U.S. military released a video Friday it said showed Iran's Revolutionary Guard removing an unexploded mine from one of the oil tankers targeted near the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting Tehran wanted to hide evidence of its alleged involvement.

A memorial Monday at an Alaska National Guard armory will celebrate a Special Forces veteran whose role in the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria was relatively unknown before he died in a climbing accident last month.

Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Tibor Nagy pushed Friday for Sudan to carry out an "independent and credible" investigation into a June 3 military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters that left scores dead.

Times and dates for theaters in Belgium, England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Turkey and the Netherlands.

The Trump administration and Congress owe more than $7 million in expenses from Trump's inauguration to the District of Columbia, according to federal and city financial records. As a result, the city has been forced to dip into a special fund that covers annual security costs for protecting it from terrorist threats and hosting other events such as demonstrations, state funerals and the visits of foreign dignitaries.

The billionaire French donors who publicly promised donations totaling hundreds of millions to rebuild Notre Dame have not yet paid a penny toward the restoration of the French national monument, according to officials. Instead, it's been mainly American and French citizens, via charitable foundations that have footed the bills.

Fredrik Backman became a dad, had no clue how to handle it and ended up on the floor of a grocery store, defeated by a dozen types of formula looming on the baby food shelf overhead. Those who find the experience familiar will appreciate his analysis of new-parent whiplash: “We actually haven’t got a clue to what we’re really doing — having kids is in many ways like trying to drive a bulldozer through a china shop,” he writes in his new essay collection, “Things My Son Needs to Know about the World.”... Читать дальше...

Merle Smith, a sailor who died in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor returned home this week. His previously unidentified remains had been buried in an unmarked grave at Punchbowl National Cemetery near Pearl Harbor for decades.