Новости за 16.08.2016

When journalist Guy Lawson sold the movie rights to his 2011 Rolling Stone article about two Miami Beach stoners who landed a $300 million contract with the Pentagon, he envisioned the resulting film would be a serious expose.

With the Tanana River cutting to within 14 feet of a more than century-old building at Big Delta State Historical Park, the state took protective action last week and moved the landmark — and unearthed some artifacts in the process.

A French citizen with family ties to the attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper in Paris will be extradited to France to face terror charges, a Bulgarian court ruled Tuesday.

Prosecutors in western Turkey have demanded a life sentence for U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Turkey accuses of masterminding the failed coup, the state-run news agency reported Tuesday.

For Navy pilot Lt. Graham "Boss" Cleveland, landing the Navy's Joint Strike Fighter aboard a moving aircraft carrier was a relief. That relief came not because landing the Navy's new fighter is more difficult, but because this day has been a long time coming.

Health insurer Aetna will stop selling individual Obamacare plans next year in 11 of the 15 states where it had been participating in the program, joining other major insurers who've pulled out of the government-run markets in the face of mounting losses.

Moldovan separatists say Russian troops have joined their troops in the breakaway republic of Trans-Dniester for joint military exercises for the second time this month.

Explorers in Poland began digging Tuesday for a legendary Nazi train said to be laden with treasure and armaments.

In a speech in which he denounced the Islamic State for its "barbaric practice," Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gave a stern warning to the extremist group, saying he can be "10 times" more brutal.

A breakaway Taliban faction in Afghanistan has appointed a new leader for the group, the nephew of the faction's longtime leader who was killed in fighting with rivals last year.

A knife-wielding man attacked passengers early Tuesday on a train in western Austria, seriously wounding two, police said. The suspect was arrested.

Greece's coast guard says it's conducting a search-and-rescue operation after a speedboat and a tourist vessel collided off the island of Aegina, leaving at least three people dead and three others injured.

Russian warplanes took off on Tuesday from a base in Iran to target Islamic State fighters and other militants in Syria, Russia's Defense Ministry said, widening Moscow's bombing campaign in a major development in the country's civil war.

Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces say they have completed the operation to retake a string of villages east of the city of Mosul from the Islamic State group, an advance that is part of laying the groundwork ahead of the key battle for Iraq's second-largest city.

Did boisterous celebrations over an Olympic victory by the world's fastest man lead to a false alarm about gunfire and a panicked evacuation of Kennedy Airport?

Renata Phillip was 11 years into a satisfying teaching career when she shocked her friends and family last August by deciding to make a drastic career change: become a police officer.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he would personally like to see a woman lead the United Nations for the first time since it was established more than 70 years ago.

The U.S. Army chief of staff is visiting China amid tensions over American ally South Korea's decision to deploy a powerful missile defense system.

Three South Korean sailors were killed and another seriously injured in an apparent gas explosion Tuesday at a southeastern naval base, military officials said.

The telegraph station at Big Delta was part of the U.S. Army's Washington to Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System and named McCarty Station after Daniel McCarty, the owner of the trading post there, according to state parks.

Despite losing his leg as a result of an injury sustained while in Iraq, Staff Sergeant John Joss, a member of the United States Army Marksmanship Unit, hasn't let his amputation get in the way of his Paralympic dreams.

The approval comes after the tanker successfully completed refueling tests of an F-16 Fighting Falcon, a C-17 Globemaster III and an A-10 Thunderbolt II using its boom as well as an AV-8 Harrier II and an F/A-18 Hornet using both hose and drogue systems.

Chinese state-run media on Monday slammed a reported plan by Tokyo to develop a new land-to-sea missile and place it on remote southern islands, saying the move would make Japanese military sites there a “target” for Chinese forces.

The head of the agency that manages Tricare was on Okinawa Tuesday to address medical facility commanders about upcoming changes to the military’s health care program for servicemembers, dependents and retirees.

A former Camp Lejeune Marine is scheduled to have his first appearance in court after allegedly shooting a fellow Marine in 2013.