Новости за 30.11.2015

The head of the Pentagon's investigative office, Jon T. Rymer, said Monday he is resigning, effective in January.

For Sylvester Stallone, it was deja vu. There he was, a few Fridays ago, at the top of the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, having a proclamation read to him by the mayor. Mayor Michael Nutter was declaring Nov. 25 “Creed Day” in honor of the new movie Creed, which stars Stallone as some mug named Rocky Balboa, and Michael B. Jordan as Adonis Johnson, the son of Rocky’s best pal, boxing legend Apollo Creed.

Prosecutors in South Korea have reopened the case of a U.S. soldier who allegedly tricked a local woman into a bigamous marriage and left her $50,000 in debt when he returned to his wife in America, according to South Korean news reports.

An undeterred U.S.-led coalition in Syria has conducted at least 13 airstrikes against Islamic State targets since Russia deployed advanced anti-aircraft missile systems to the war-torn country last week.

The United States has delivered more than $260 million in non-lethal military equipment to help the government of Ukraine in its fight against a Russian-backed insurgency, but some of the U.S.-supplied gear meant to protect and transport Ukrainian military forces is little more than junk.

The British military scrambled two aircraft and a warship to a remote area of the South Atlantic to rescue a cruise ship passenger bitten by a seal.

Old foes China and Taiwan have swapped high-level convicted spies in a sign of goodwill linked to the first meeting ever between their presidents.

Dependents of U.S. servicemembers assigned to the United Kingdom will no longer need a British visa.

Germany is planning to send up to 1,200 troops to support the international coalition fighting against the Islamic State group in Syria, officials said Monday.

Carl Zeidler was among thousands of Milwaukeeans to join the military in the weeks and months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He didn't have to. He was the mayor of the 12th largest city in the country, running a community of 580,000 that was rapidly gearing up for war.

St. Louis's Soldiers Memorial, completed 77 years ago as a monument to the doughboys of the Great War, is about to undergo an extensive restoration and refitting for the digital age.

In the 12 years since Paul Hill's execution, dozens of people have taken up his call, attacking abortion clinics with bombs and bullets, acid and axes. They have ambushed doctors in their homes and offices, killing four. They have even killed clinic receptionists. At least 11 people have died in such attacks since 1993.

When Guy Hawkins Jr. reminisces about his younger brother who died in World War II he now has something extra to add. An unexpected Veterans Day gift recently gave him information he never knew and an item that will be a treasured family heirloom.

Fighting between U.S.-backed Syrian rebels and rival militants has killed more than 20 people in northern Syria over the past two days, opposition activists said on Monday.

The Pentagon’s glitch-prone, $2.7 billion system of radar-equipped blimps — designed to safeguard the nation’s capital against cruise missiles and other airborne threats — has long been a source of frustration to military leaders. A month ago, it became a punch line.

Officials said they did not have any information on possible targets, timing or method of the possible attack, but they warned American citizens “to exercise extreme caution if moving around the city.”

Obama spent the start of his first term on an unseemly apology tour for the policies of his American predecessors. He should turn that experience to good by admitting his mistakes in Syria and explaining how he will correct them.

Are we ready to endorse the precept that no human communication can ever take place without the U.S. government being able to monitor it?

Pushing for a powerful climate deal, President Barack Obama called the global talks opening Monday outside Paris an "act of defiance" against terrorism that proves the world stands undeterred by Islamic State-linked attacks in Europe and beyond.

Three districts near the construction site of a contentious Marine runway in Okinawa will receive direct federal subsidies of a yet-to-be-determined amount in what may be a government bid to soften protests over the project.

Iraqi officials say a suicide bombing in Baghdad targeting Shiite Muslims taking part in an annual pilgrimage has killed nine people and wounded another 21.

The opposition in Kosovo said Monday it would turn to street protests to get the government to cancel deals with Serbia and Montenegro after its lawmakers were barred from Parliament after they again broke up a session with tear gas.

American aid worker Alan Gross, who was imprisoned for five years in Cuba, said he made little attempt to disguise his work setting up Internet connections for the communist island's small Jewish community.

It's known as "burrowing in" — no, not what gophers and groundhogs do, but the quadrennial tradition practiced by that unique Washington animal: the federal worker.

Some 180 countries have already presented plans to cut or rein in their climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions.