Новости за 14.02.2016

"She's the most precious thing that ever came in my life," Gary Williams said during a phone call from Kabul, where he works on telecommunications in what remains a war-torn country.

Pilot Mountain native Molly Mae Potter is at the forefront of a national campaign against female veteran homelessness. The life journey of this small town girl has brought this cause close to home and compelled her to campaign for the title of Ms. Veteran America.

For as long as Dana Mueller can remember, the 72-year-old wedding cake on display in her living room has been a part of family lore - a symbol of the great love shared by her late parents.

It was an evening of memories and a ballroom filled with people who remembered exactly where they were 30 years earlier, on Jan. 28, 1986. Seared into every memory was the exact moment they learned of the space shuttle Challenger disaster.

The College of Coastal Georgia strives to be a military-friendly campus.

The blimp that broke loose from an Army facility in Maryland last fall, wreaking havoc with its mile-long tether, flew uncontrolled for hours because someone neglected to put batteries in its automatic-deflation device, Pentagon investigators have found.

Baghdad is plastered with Valentine hearts and roses, and newly engaged Nour and Ahmed are out and about, enjoying a rare lull in violence in the Iraqi capital but wondering how long it will last.

Among the eeriest scenes in "National Bird," a documentary which tracks the fallout of drone warfare from the point of view of American whistleblowers and Afghan victims, is the languid aerial footage of U.S. suburbs, sports fields and skyscrapers.

The federal government plans to spend $80 million assessing whether its hottest nuclear waste can be stored in 3-mile-deep holes, a project that could provide an alternative strategy to a Nevada repository plan that was halted in 2010.

A court in the United Arab Emirates has sentenced four people to death in absentia after finding them guilty of involvement with the Islamic State group.

Saudi Arabia says troops from 20 countries are gathering in the oil-rich nation for large-scale military exercises.

When Pope Francis visits the western state of Michoacan Tuesday, he will step into a plaza that holds the memory of one of the drug war’s most heinous acts of violence.

Samples of Zika virus from the outbreak raging across Brazil and Latin America arrived at the University of Washington last month, where they were quickly locked in a biosafety freezer, awaiting research aimed at stopping the germ tied to growing numbers of devastating birth defects.

This is the moment for Obama to assert his political prerogatives as firmly as his opponents always seem to do.

Charles Culliver left Pittsburgh at the age of 18 on a Pullman railroad car headed to Louisville, Ky. It was 1958, 10 years after President Harry Truman desegregated the U.S. military. Mr. Culliver had volunteered to serve.

Russia's Transport Ministry has ordered that Ukraine-registered trucks be stopped from entering in Russia, in response to growing efforts by protesters in Ukraine to block Russian trucks.

Sitting in the office of his Bayshore Boulevard home, Jay Hood holds a picture of five bearded men — all Taliban leaders taken off the battlefields of Afghanistan and detained at Guantanamo Bay until they were swapped for an Army sergeant who walked away from his post.

Danes have honored the two victims of attacks by a gunman at a cultural center and synagogue a year ago in the capital, Copenhagen, with flowers, speeches and a torchlight parade.

The commercials actually aimed at selling something are designed to be memorable. They have funny punchlines and catchy music. The politicians evidently take themselves much too seriously for any of that.

NATO warships are steaming toward the Aegean Sea in an escalated bid to impose order on the chaotic arrival of more than 1 million migrants, which has not abated despite the wintry weather in southern Europe.

The key for Kasich is to sustain himself in South Carolina, Nevada and the first Super Tuesday on March 1, so as to remain standing for the mid-March contests in Michigan, Illinois and Ohio.

Central African Republic went ahead with a presidential runoff vote Sunday that many hope will solidify a tentative peace after more than two years of sectarian fighting left untold thousands dead and forced nearly half a million people to flee to neighboring countries.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activist group says two fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces - a coalition of Kurdish and Arab fighters - have been killed and seven others wounded in the shelling.

Dutch foreign minister Bert Koenders has urged EU member states not to close their borders to migrants, suggesting that "effective border control is more important."

Hundreds of Bahraini youths shouting anti-government have taken to the streets in Bahrain despite a heavy police presence to mark the fifth anniversary of an uprising calling for political change in the tiny island kingdom.