Новости за 28.07.2015

Just when nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan agreed to start high-level talks for the first time in more than a year, a terrorist attack has put everything on hold.

Turkey is striking PKK insurgents at home and in northern Iraq while bombing Islamic State in Syria, sending financial markets plunging. Erdogan, 61, is positioning himself to benefit from the crisis. The escalation comes seven weeks after the pro- Kurdish HDP won unprecedented support in Turkish elections, stripping the party founded by Erdogan of its parliamentary majority for the first time in 13 years.

The top U.S. military official warned Tuesday that the world risks becoming immune to the escalating global security threats and doing nothing.

Amazon sparked interest in drones more than a year and a half ago when it revealed on "60 Minutes" a program to use drones to deliver packages within 30 minutes. Since then the Amazon Prime Air engineers have largely kept a low profile as they test their technology overseas.

The Pentagon is poised within days to award one of the most coveted health technology contracts in history — the first phase of a deal that could ultimately be worth more than $10.5 billon over the 18-year life of the contract.

The Navy is launching an investigation into whether the operating conditions at the military commissions site at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are tied to a reported high rate of cancer among the personnel assigned there.

Fighting between the Turkish military and Kurdish rebels escalated Tuesday amid signs of unease from NATO allies attending an emergency meeting about Turkey's conflicts with the Islamic State group and the Kurds.

Jonathan Pollard, the former Naval intelligence analyst whose conviction of spying for Israel stoked fierce international passions, has been granted parole and will be released from prison in November after nearly 30 years.

It was the autumn of 1962, and Rushmore DeNooyer could tell by the way the adults in school were talking that they were scared. The Cuban Missile Crisis had begun, and the fourth-grader from Rye, N.Y., heard his teachers announce that President John F. Kennedy would soon be speaking about the possibility of a nuclear war. He didn't quite get it, and wasn't afraid.

Closing a historic visit to Africa, President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged the continent's leaders to prioritize creating jobs and opportunity for the next generation of young people or risk sacrificing future economic potential to further instability and disorder.

Military personnel living at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi had to wait two days longer than the rest of the city to stop boiling their tap water because a water sample on base had tested positive for bacteria.

The Defense Department has warned Congress that by the end of this week its health care system could run out of money to cover outside treatment for troops and dependents.

Diplomats from the 28-nation NATO alliance took no formal steps to bolster support for member state Turkey after concluding an emergency session on Wednesday that Ankara requested in response to recent attacks by the Islamic State on Turkish soil.

American soldiers here are testing a new fuse with a guidance system that both increases accuracy and decreases the risk that errant rounds will detonate.

Gunnery Sgt. Thomas Sullivan, one of five military servicemen killed during the July 16, 2015, attack in Chattanooga, Tenn., was buried Monday at Holy Cross Church in Springfield, Mass., where he attended services as a child. Fellow Marines said Sullivan helped 14 people escape over a fence as his unit rushed to flee the gunman's bullets.

U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann on Monday said he had gathered support for a bill that would grant Purple Heart awards for the five U.S. servicemen gunned down July 16 at the U.S. Naval and Marine Reserve Center in Chattanooga, Tenn.

The Pentagon's plea for Americans not to take up arms to guard military recruitment centers did not stop Martinez resident Jim Stachowiak from doing just that Monday. Stachowiak went armed with an assault rifle and a pistol to the entrance of a Wrightsboro Road shopping center with recruiting offices for the Marines, Army, Air Force and Navy.

The Defense Department has asked armed citizens standing watch in front of military recruitment centers to go home, citing potential security risks.

A former Greenbrae man has been charged with running an investment scam that rested on claims he was a former Navy SEAL who worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The Navy will create a task force for ballistic missile defense at its European headquarters here in an effort to consolidate command of new anti-missile ships and shore sites.

The command is compiling paperwork to submit to Air Staff for what’s called a group “remission of indebtedness” for all airmen affected, said Andy Coggins, chief of financial operations division for Headquarters USAFE-AFAFRICA.

Scientists and tech experts - including professor Stephen Hawking and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak - warned Tuesday of a global arms race with weapons using artificial intelligence.

Self-government at local levels is taking root in Syria and forms the basis for what should come next.

If the creation of a new mini-state within the borders of a Middle Eastern state seems worrisome, that’s because it is.

Do journalists really slant their coverage? To the extent that bias does exist, it’s in large part a market phenomenon.