Новости за 08.11.2016

Nationally, the Department of Homeland Security, FBI and other federal and state law enforcement agencies have incident response teams ready to take action should any threats emerge while voting is underway.

The deaths of two Marine Corps recruits at Parris Island in South Carolina during the past eight months have renewed calls for congressional scrutiny into the service's tough training regimen.

She's delivered her closing pitch, concluded her final rally and cast her own vote. By Tuesday afternoon, there was little left Hillary Clinton to do but wait, and prepare for word of whether she'd be picked as the first woman to serve as U.S. president.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys worked for two years to figure out an appropriate sentence, which was complicated by the fact that the robber claimed to be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder caused by combat service in Afghanistan.

Defiant into the 2016 election's last day, Donald Trump raised doubts about the integrity of the U.S. election system on Tuesday as he cast his own ballot for president.

Shane Kimbrough - the sole American on the International Space Station this Election Day - cast his ballot via a special absentee ballot process established in the 1990s to help NASA astronauts "vote while they float."

While polls show President Rodrigo Duterte remains wildly popular in the Philippines, concerns are growing about the potential costs of breaking up with the Philippines’ second-biggest trading partner and most important military ally.

Kristian Gashaj was injured Oct. 28 in a two-story fall inside the depot’s recruit processing center. He’d been on the island just four days. His fall is one of three major incidents this year involving recruits.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday he never intended to influence the U.S. presidential election by publishing copies of emails linked to Hillary Clinton and suggested he would do the same to Donald Trump, if he could.

Several newly-elected mayors on Tuesday boycotted the swearing-in of a convicted war criminal as new mayor of the western Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa.

The important part of the various WikiLeaks dumps is what you don’t see. You don’t see reporters lying, dissembling or fabricating.

The violence within Ukraine reflects a wider tug-of-war for alliance and influence between the EU and Russia. That competition also encourages NATO involvement, at least indirectly.

What are the consequences, if any, for these recent years chock-full of so much misbehavior, both public and private?

If the Philippines is realigning its foreign policy, there’s not much the U.S. can do about it. It’s foolhardy as well as impractical for Washington to entreat the Philippines to maintain an alliance it doesn’t want.

Caleb Drown first served in Iraq as a Marine. Now he is an aid worker helping those fleeing the Iraqi offensive against the Islamic State group in and around Mosul.

Seven African leaders met at the African Union headquarter in Ethiopia Tuesday to launch a new initiative to solve the 5-year-old Libyan crisis.

Authorities have identified a Belgian named Oussama Atar as the possible organizer of deadly Islamic State attacks on Paris and Brussels over the past year.

A pair of Somali pirates were sentenced to life in prison Monday for their roles in a 2010 attack on the USS Ashland in the Gulf of Aden, while a third was given only 33 years because he cooperated with federal prosecutors in another piracy case.

If the students at Aviano Middle School and Aviano High School had their say, the United States would be electing its first female president.

Heavily armed gunmen killed five Niger soldiers and injured four others Tuesday in an attack on a town near the border with Mali, Niger's interior ministry said in a statement.

Critics of the dams say they will damage wild fisheries and a rice bowl delta that feeds 60 million people in the region, with the severest effects in the downstream countries Cambodia and Vietnam. The river basin is already under pressure from dozens of dams built on Mekong tributaries.

Iraqi investigators were probing a mass grave on Tuesday discovered by troops advancing on the Islamic State-held city of Mosul, where soldiers have captured a sliver of land but later halted their advance.

A polarized America went to the polls Tuesday to pick its 45th president, choosing to elect either Hillary Clinton as the first woman to be president or billionaire businessman Donald Trump, the final act of a long and rancorous campaign that upended U.S. politics.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has started talking about Turkey’s borders, hinting they should be shifted outward a bit. In Syria and Iraq, his army is involved in wars over territory once ruled from Istanbul. Maps of a Greater Turkey have circulated.

"No doubt we're all concerned about this election," Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes said during a three-hour webinar devoted to the election. The Army veteran added that "we're all concerned about the possibility of civil unrest or violence either on Election Day or shortly after."