Новости за 19.12.2015

Fierce fighting in northern Yemen near the Saudi border has killed more than 75 troops over the past three days, Yemeni security sources and witnesses said Saturday, casting a cloud over already tenuous peace talks in Switzerland.

Officials of Poland's new right-wing government, backed by troops, entered the office of a fledgling NATO counterintelligence center and replaced the head of the center with a person loyal to the new leadership. "I believe it has never happened in the history of NATO that a member state attacked a NATO outpost," said Tomasz Siemoniak, who was defense minister in Poland's previous centrist government.

A bust of Josef Stalin stands on the front lawn of a house-turned-museum in this small village, where the Soviet leader is said to have stayed the night on his only visit to the front during World War II.

An airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition this week killed 10 Iraqi soldiers, the Iraqi government said on Saturday, in an apparent friendly fire incident in which the U.S. defense secretary says both sides shared responsibility.

They are connected to one another like never before. And they are as disconnected from American politics as ever.

A Sudanese opposition party is seeking international help for Sudanese asylum seekers deported from Jordan on Friday, saying they "face serious danger" on arrival in their home country.

Israeli police say a Palestinian stabbed three Israelis in the central city of Raanana, seriously wounding one of them, before being shot and then arrested by Israeli security forces.

He was new on the job, trying to find out why morale was so low. In gathering two senior managers, he asked what they didn't like about their work. One of them said, "I hate that we dump," noting that the company was cutting corners making the background checks used in granting security clearances.

The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad said it has received information on possible terrorist attacks in the Pakistani capital in late December, warning Americans to avoid busy public places during the Christmas and New Year holiday period.

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter met Saturday with naval commanders on U.S. and French warships in the Persian Gulf, saying that there will be more to come in the battle against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.

When Air Force veteran Ken Licklider heard in November that a French police dog named Diesel had been killed by the terrorists suspected of organizing the Paris attacks, his response was immediate. Licklider, owner of Vohne Liche Kennels, flew in Diesel’s French police handler, Joss, to pick out a new K-9 to replace his 7-year-old partner who died while defending Paris.

An avalanche smashed into 10 houses Saturday on the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, sending eight people to the hospital and leaving several others missing, authorities said.

On a raw December day when a bitter wind blew and the sky was the color of depression James Beavers was laid to rest in Riverview Cemetery. He had no known relatives, but hundreds turned out to pay their respects to the Vietnam Veteran on Thursday.

World War II veteran Jack Hood, 92, believes one is never too old to change people’s lives. A visit to a blood bank on Friday marked the 176th time he has donated, bringing his total to 22 gallons of blood.

Fred Kaffenberger Jr., 80, a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, while wearing the colonial attire and tri-corner hat of society members, died last week in Leavenworth National Cemetery while laying Christmas wreaths at the graves of veterans.

An Afghan civil society leader says hundreds of men marched through a central provincial capital to call for the reinstatement of their woman governor, who was reappointed last week.

A rare French painting depicting a French military camp scene from the mid-18th century has been added to the art collection at Fort Ticonderoga.

After a somber start to his vacation, President Barack Obama arrived in Hawaii on Saturday to celebrate Christmas and ring in his final year as president.

Armenian authorities say a former deputy defense minister has been detained in connection with the investigation into a shadowy group that allegedly was stockpiling weapons and ammunition in preparation for attacks on politicians.

A funeral is being held Saturday for an Army Ranger from New Hampshire who died after being injured during a training exercise in Georgia.

China's Defense Ministry said Saturday that the U.S. committed "a serious military provocation" by recently flying two Air Force B-52 bombers over a Chinese-controlled man-made island in the South China Sea, a mission that the U.S. appeared to indicate had strayed off course.

The United States said its two B-52 bombers had no intention of flying over a Chinese-controlled man-made island in the South China Sea, after Beijing accused Washington of "a serious military provocation" in the strategic waters with overlapping claims.

Based on a 1950s civilian turboprop airliner, the slow-moving Ilyushin Il-18 Coot seems an unlikely addition to Russia’s growing arsenal of modern weapons systems deployed to Syria to fight rebel forces there.

Eight Afghan Air Force pilots graduated Friday morning from a training program hosted by the 81st Fighter Squadron. The graduation occurred a little more than a week after two Afghan air force maintenance trainees were reported missing from the base.

This week’s GOP presidential debate in Las Vegas turned into a contest of “Can You Top This?” with each candidate vying to show how tough they would be against the Islamic State group and terrorism.