Новости за 17.11.2015

Escalating violence and corruption have driven optimism and hope among Afghans to the lowest level in a decade, the Asia Foundation said in a survey published Tuesday.

The U.S. military has been rolling back the Islamic State's territorial expansion in Iraq and Syria, but the ability of the group to launch a massacre like last week's Paris attacks is triggering calls for a change in strategy for combating the extremists.

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne will double funding for Britain's cyber defenses as Europe braces for further attacks from Islamist extremists.

Twelve days and some 1,000 miles away from where it began, Lili Kobayashi and Nana Yoshimura finally put an end to the delayed girls doubles final of the Far East High School Tennis Tournament.

German police say they are questioning five people arrested near the western city of Aachen after a tip that one of them might be linked to the Paris attacks.

Illinois officials on Monday sweetened their bid to lure a federal spy agency across the Mississippi River with an additional 200 free acres of farmland, more than doubling their offer of open ground in the regional competition for a $1.6 billion plum.

The father of a freelance journalist slain in the Middle East said Monday that the death of his son’s killer was “too little, too late.”

The effects of climate change on China will present a “major security challenge” this century for the United States and Asia, according to a report released Tuesday.

The European Union activated its mutual security clause on Tuesday in response to last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris, as NATO said France had not asked the alliance to invoke its own collective defense provision.

The Paris attacks are rapidly weakening U.S. support for bringing in thousands more Syrian refugees, as pressure grows in Congress and the Republican presidential campaign to reverse course and governors once open to resettlement try to shut their states' doors.

The Japanese government filed suit Tuesday in Okinawa in what is largely seen as the first step in the final showdown between Tokyo and Gov. Takeshi Onaga over the closure of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma and the relocation of its flight operations to Camp Schwab.

The coordinated terror attacks in Paris have galvanized French and U.S. efforts to intensify airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Monday.

Given France's strict gun laws, the terrorists who attacked Paris on Friday may have turned to black market sources for the weapons they used.

Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg, Stephen Sondheim, James Taylor, Itzhak Perlman, and Gloria and Emilio Estefan are among the 17 individuals to receive the 2015 Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor.

The settlement with Education Management Corp. resolves a long-running federal whistleblower case in which former employees alleged the company was illegally paying recruiters based on the number of students they enrolled. The U.S Justice Department intervened in the case in 2011, along with several state attorneys general.

Within hours of last week's Paris attacks, as outrage and sympathy flooded his social media feeds and filled the airwaves, Baghdad resident Ali al-Makhzomy updated his Facebook cover photo to read "solidarity" - and his friends were shocked.

After setting aside $500,000 in grants for veterans, Fort Walton Beach, Fla. was named the 10th best city in America for veterans to develop a business or a new career after they leave the military.

Next year, when the USS Gerald Ford joins the Navy's fleet as the first of a class of bigger, mightier nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, Capt. John Meier will be its commanding officer, putting him at the helm of one of the world's largest fighting ships.

Back when Timothy J. Kendall was getting ready to graduate from high school in 1965, his guidance counselor suggested that he join the Navy because he had difficulty learning and work in the civilian world might prove daunting.

The United States said Monday it was increasing its support for French airstrikes against the Islamic State in the wake of weekend terrorist attacks in Paris, even as President Barack Obama dismissed critics who have called for the U.S. to change or expand its military campaign against the extremists.

Retirement from a long military career will mean more time to help civilians for Dr. David Bitonti, whose 30-year Navy career included overseeing the $2.4 billion merger of Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md.

400 teens, military spouses and female servicemembers took part in Operation That's My Dress, a day of beauty and fashion hosted by the United Service Organizations that sends participants home with giveaways, including a formal dress for prom or other functions.