Новости за 28.12.2019

Sen. Collins recently hosted the retirement ceremony for Sgt. Maj. Derek Gondek, his family and friends on Capitol Hill, where she thanked him for serving his country, and for his one-year commitment as her Army Legislative Fellow in 2017.

After 624 Sundays, 12,000 loaves of bread and nearly 94,000 sandwiches, Army veteran Michael Fontes is moving on, excited to explore new ways to volunteer his time.

An avalanche killed a woman and two children who were skiing on a glacier in the Italian Alps on Saturday.

At 13 pounds, Sandy may not look like your stereotypical service dog. The Shih Tzu-yorkie mix, found abandoned in an alley, has a face that seems more doll-like than dutiful. But for owner Teri Pleinis – 23-year Army veteran diagnosed with PTSD after serving in Iraq – Sandy has been life-changing.

Mysterious drone sightings have been reported in three more rural counties in the northeast corner of Colorado and at least one county in Nebraska as local law enforcement officials and residents remain clueless as to what's flying above them at night.

For five years, Hyebin Schreiber and her parents – retired Army Lt. Col. Patrick Schreiber and his wife, Soo Jin – have been battling the U.S. government, which claims the young woman must go back to South Korea.

Petty Officer 1st Class Beirut Pakbara was receiving treatment for the infection, but his condition worsened when it spread to his bloodstream, according to a Facebook post from the Royal Thai Navy. He died this week and was buried on Dec. 27

A small plane crashed into the parking lot of a post office in Louisiana shortly after takeoff on Saturday, killing five people and fully engulfing a car on the ground in flames, authorities said.

Lafayette Fire Chief Robert Benoit told KLFY-TV that the aircraft was an eight-passenger plane. He said there was one survivor in addition to the five fatalities.

Dozens of African men sat on the cement floor of the packed migrant detention center, the air thick with body odor. Three days earlier, they were among a group that had climbed into a smuggler's boat destined for Italy. But they were picked up by a European Union-funded Libyan coast guard boat and taken back.

The New York Army and Air National Guard are on track to provide military honors at the burials of about 11,050 veterans during 2019, the state Division of Military & Naval Affairs said Saturday.

It was the worst attack in Mogadishu in more than two years, and witnesses said the force of the blast reminded them of the city's devastating 2017 bombing that killed hundreds.

Over 250,000 people have fled from the Idlib region in northwestern Syria in just the past two weeks, according to the United Nations, as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, backed by Russian forces, pushes forward with an all-out assault on the country's last main rebel-held territory.

As freezing water thrashed their rowboat in some of the most treacherous waters in the world, six men fought for 13 days to make history, becoming the first people to traverse the infamous Drake Passage with nothing other than sheer manpower.

A 60-year-old man who was punched and kicked during a $1 mugging on Christmas Eve has died, police said Saturday.

In all, there were 41 mass killings, defined as when four or more people are killed excluding the perpetrator. Of those, 33 were mass shootings. More than 210 people were killed.

Technical failure, pilot error and weather conditions are being considered as possible causes of the plane crash in which 12 people were killed and more than 50 injured, officials in Kazakhstan said Saturday.

When President Donald Trump agreed to met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in 2018, flying in the face of all past precedent and protocol, both Koreas jumped at what appeared to be the biggest opportunity in decades to shake up the situation on the Korean peninsula.

President Rodrigo Duterte has warned that Americans who want to enter the Philippines will be required to obtain a visa if the U.S. refuses entry to officials involved in the detention of one of his main critics.

It was a bad year to be any kind of socialist in Europe. The decline has been long and agonizing for a once-dominant force, but in 2019 falling popularity reached new depths and raised questions over whether reinvention can lead to a revival.

Russia, seeing prospects for multibillion-dollar deals, ruled out extending a United Nations-approved arms embargo on Iran that expires in October next year, rejecting U.S. warnings that lifting the restrictions will jeopardize global security.

The proposal would shrink the size of the fleet from today's level of 293 ships to 287 ships, a far cry from the official goal of 355 ships established in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act.

Last month, U.S. negotiators walked out of a meeting on troop funding in Seoul after South Korea balked at a $5 billion price tag for hosting U.S. troops — a fivefold increase.

McDonald’s employees in California helped rescue a woman who mouthed “help me” in a drive-thru window from a man who threatened to kill her on Christmas Eve, the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a Facebook post.

Fareed Mumuni pleaded guilty in February 2017 to conspiring to provide support to the Islamic State and attempting to murder a federal agent. His plea was not part of a deal with prosecutors, and federal sentencing guidelines recommended 85 years in prison for the crimes he admitted to.