Новости за 27.02.2016

Partial election results in Iran on Saturday point to major gains by reformists and moderates who favor expanding freedoms and engaging with the West, and who defended the recently implemented nuclear deal with world powers against opposition from hard-liners.

Cameroonian and Nigerian forces have freed several hundred hostages in a border town held by Boko Haram including young girls who were being trained as suicide bombers, the commander of Cameroonian forces said Saturday.

A Marine formerly based at Camp Pendleton who lost both legs and suffered severe brain injury serving in Afghanistan received a mortgage-free house from nonprofit Homes for Our Troops.

Veronica Renov staggered under the weight, sweat popping out on her temples as she struggled to stand upright. And she hadn't even put on the helmet yet. "Walk up a hill with this? My back actually hurts," said Renov, a third-year student at the Medical College of Wisconsin, weighing about 100 pounds more than before she pulled on the "battle rattle."

Hillary Clinton hoped to win and win big Saturday in South Carolina's Democratic presidential primary while rival Bernie Sanders, expecting defeat, abandoned the state and looked ahead to a strong showing on Super Tuesday.

In its fight with the FBI, Apple insists it's defending the privacy and safety of all iPhone users by resisting government calls to help unlock an extremist's iPhone. And now other big tech companies such as Google and Facebook are rallying to Apple's side.

Before country singer Carrie Underwood performed for a crowd of nearly 20,000 Thursday in Washington, D.C., she met with four special people: the Vaughn family. Army Sgt. Phillip Vaughn, his wife and two children live in a Gaithersburg transitional housing facility through the national nonprofit Operation Homefront.

Nearly 500 swimmers from seven countries are taking part in this year’s finals, one of the largest of its kind for American youth living in Europe.

Thousands of Poles chanting "We will defend democracy!" and "Lech Walesa!" rallied Saturday in Warsaw to protest moves by Poland's three-month-old conservative government that they say undermine freedoms and the constitution.

The United States' economy is in better shape than the presidential candidates make it seem, investor Warren Buffett said Saturday, even though businesses like his still face challenges.

Sunday marks 25 years since President George H.W. Bush declared a cease-fire in the first Gulf War. The order came just four days after a coalition of United Nations forces began a ground offensive to push Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait.

Thousands have marched through London to oppose the renewal of Britain's Trident nuclear weapons system in what demonstrators describe as the biggest such rally in a generation.

A suicide car bomb exploded Saturday on the edge of a government-held central town, killing two people and wounding four, hours after a cease-fire brought relative calm to parts of Syria, the state news agency and opposition activists said.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in southwest Ohio is canceling an annual celebration of music and fireworks due to budget cuts.

Army veterans Dabney N. Montgomery and William DeFour fought during World War II as members of the Tuskegee Airmen, black aviation personnel whose success helped end segregation in the U.S. military. Speaking to elementary school students in New York on Friday during a Black History Month program, they urged members of a fifth-grade class not to allow discrimination to dissuade them from success.

Four retired commanders were on Fort Benning Friday to talk to current Army leaders about the lessons learned in the first Gulf War, which was fought 25 years ago.

Federal jurors revealed on Friday they were deadlocked over the fate of aspiring attorney Mario Melton, a law student accused of playing a key supporting role in a Miami drug ring that imported Molly from China to his family's shipping business.

A 22-year-old man was ordered held without bail after being charged with fatally shooting a 62-year-old disabled Vietnam War veteran who had called police to complain about a loud party at a neighbor's Near West Side apartment, prosecutors said Friday.

Saudi-led airstrikes targeting Shiite rebels killed at least 30 people, mostly civilians, when they hit a market area outside the capital on Saturday, Yemeni security officials said.

The win avenged the 50-44 loss to Ansbach suffered in Friday’s round-robin matchup, and denied the Cougars a Division III sweep after the school’s cheer and girls basketball programs claimed early titles Saturday.

A legal battle over Florida's restrictions on doctors discussing firearm ownership with their patients will soon be decided by an appellate court.

Clashes have erupted in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeastern city of Diyarbakir during protests against security operations.

Salvatore Giunta was at the Air Force Academy on Friday to talk about his heroics in Afghanistan but said he was awed by the future heroes in the audience. Giunta, a retired Army staff sergeant, earned the Medal of Honor in Afghanistan for braving enemy fire in a 2007 battle to rescue a captured comrade.

Donald Trump is sticking to his new explanation for why he can't yet release copies of his recent tax returns: The IRS is auditing him, as Trump says it has for the past 12 years.

In describing how little room the Pentagon has to extend the life of its decades-old nuclear forces, the top U.S. nuclear war-fighting commander, Navy Adm. Cecil Haney, says "we're at the brick wall stage."