Новости за 14.09.2015

It was a onetime Nazi showpiece, an indelible emblem of defiance during the Cold War’s Berlin airlift, and more recently, an unexpectedly beloved public space in the most postmodern of cities.

In ramping up its military involvement in Syria's civil war, Russia appears to be betting that the West, horrified by the Islamic State group's spread and an escalating migrants crisis, may be willing to quietly tolerate President Bashar Assad for a while, perhaps as part of a transition.

Okinawa's governor said Monday that he was preparing to revoke approval for work needed to relocate a U.S. military air base from one area of the southern Japanese island to another, just days after the work was restarted.

Conversations ran together and were intertwined with roars of laughter and hand claps as the Navy veterans got re-acquainted with one another as they were in the same place for the first time since 1970.

Since it first opened 24 years ago, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Center for Public Affairs, with its permanent exhibit on the two-term Republican president, has become a hilltop summit for conservative Reagan mavens.

On the U.S. Army base in Oji, Japan, in the waning years of the Korean War, they were always looking for ballplayers.

By the middle of March 1865, the Union army effectively claimed Eastern North Carolina from Confederate forces that tried to make one last stand. The Battle of Wyse Fork was that stand, as in the coming days it became clear the only thing standing between the remaining Confederate army in North Carolina and defeat was acceptance of the obvious.

The body of 21-year-old Navy Seaman Andrew Villolovos, who died in a freak accident in Hawaii, will return home to Ohio on Tuesday for burial.

Virgil Olney McKee Jr. was a stern Marine who suffered frostbite and near starvation, but he is most remembered for his depth of character and tender love for his family.

The military exercise Jade Helm 15 generated enough conspiracy theories this year that it garnered mockery on late-night television, commentary from presidential candidates and reaction from the Texas governor. The exercise will end quietly Tuesday, however.

A Pentagon spokesman says the Russian personnel and military equipment arriving in recent days at a Syrian air field suggests Moscow intends to operate military aircraft from the base. But he says the U.S. has not yet seen any fighter jets or attack helicopters arrive.

Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone will receive the Airman’s Medal and the Purple Heart at a Pentagon ceremony Thursday for his heroics aboard a Paris train last month.

Federal officials are trying once more to sell New Hampshire properties formerly owned by now-jailed tax militants, including a 100-acre parcel that may be booby-trapped.

Among the surging number of migrants headed to Europe are pregnant women who are giving birth - whether it's in Libya as they wait to cross the sea, on rescue ships or at Budapest's Keleti train station.

Egyptian security forces hunting for militants in a remote area of the western desert mistakenly fired on a group of tourists on a safari, killing at least 12 people, including two Mexican nationals, officials said Monday.

Austria and Slovakia rushed Monday to join Germany in reintroducing border checks, putting even more pressure on European Union ministers meeting in Brussels to come up with a common strategy to handle Europe's unwieldy immigration crisis.

The slightest indication of sympathy toward the Islamic State, even among the youngest, naturally triggers an immediate, visceral reaction from security personnel. It should, given the possibilities.

Morocco's anti-terrorist investigative unit announced Monday the dismantling of a militant cell that was in contact with the Islamic State group and awaiting an expert to come train it to manufacture explosives.

Maybe Putin he is calculating that the Obama administration will respond to his belligerence in Syria the same way it did to that in Ukraine: by broadly conceding his demands and trying to get its Syrian and Arab allies to accept them.

Two consecutive car bombs struck different parts of Syria's predominantly Kurdish northeastern city of Hassakeh on Monday, killing 20 people, including a woman and her two children, Syrian state media reported.

Australia's beleaguered prime minister was ousted from power in an internal party ballot on Monday as the ruling conservative party attempts to win back a disenchanted public by replacing the nation's polarizing, gaffe-prone leader with his more moderate rival.

The South Korean and Philippine defense chiefs signed an accord Monday to regulate and protect exchanges of classified military information on regional security, including on potential hostilities between the rival Koreas.

A key suspect in last month's bombing at a Bangkok shrine that killed 20 people has fled to Turkey, Thai police said Monday, in another indication that the attack could be the work of members of China's ethnic Uighur minority who have sympathizers in Turkey.

A Loop restaurant has apologized to a military veteran visiting Chicago after asking him and his service dog to leave.

Hobbyists who scrutinized reports to the FAA of alleged close calls with drones found that pilots reported near misses in only a small fraction of the cases, according to a study obtained by USA TODAY.