Новости за 14.12.2015

When Enrique Marquez didn't show up on Friday, Dec. 4, for his shift as a doorman at Morgan's Tavern, a pirate-themed neighborhood bar in nearby Riverside that's popular with the punk-rock crowd, his co-workers became concerned. Then they saw a strange, garbled note that he had posted on his Facebook page after midnight that Thursday:"I'm. Very sorry sguys. It was a pleasure."

We are not that far off from a day when one autonomous weapons system — read robot or drone — takes on another autonomous weapons system.

French voters turned out in droves on Sunday to prevent a surging anti-establishment, anti-immigration party from capturing regional office, a week after the once-fringe group shocked many by leading the nationwide vote in the first round of elections.

The U.S. government asked its citizens to leave Burundi as soon as possible Sunday after 87 people were killed Friday in an escalation of the violence surrounding the disputed third term of President Pierre Nkurunziza.

Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, introduced a bill last week that would offer some relief to cash-strapped Puerto Rico and could serve as the starting off point for negotiations over what Congress can do to help the island manage its debt problems.

In a small army camp on the northern edge of Ramadi, a group of Iraqi soldiers eavesdropped on an Islamic State leader as he attempted to rally his men.