Новости за 07.01.2017

Ivory Coast's president says a deal has been reached to end a mutiny by soldiers in the West African nation.

The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy has a culture of fear marked by a sense of victimhood and "us vs. them" mindset, according to a study commissioned by the federal agency that operates the New York military academy following concerns about sexual assault and harassment.

The brother of a man accused of killing five people at a Florida airport questioned Saturday why his brother was allowed to keep his gun after U.S. authorities knew he'd become increasingly paranoid and was hearing voices.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim commenced a two-day visit to Iraq Saturday, the first since the two governments quarreled over the presence of unauthorized Turkish troops in northern Iraq, straining relations between the two neighbors fighting the Islamic State group.

When Meach Sovannara boarded a flight to Cambodia in 2015, his wife and three daughters knew there was a chance he might never return to their modest Long Beach, Calif., home.

The Paris prosecutor's office says an investigation into alleged child sexual abuse by French soldiers in Central African Republic has concluded without anyone being charged.

A car bomb ripped through a busy commercial district in a rebel-held Syrian town along the Turkish border Saturday, killing nearly 50 in a huge explosion that damaged buildings and left rescuers scrambling to find survivors amid the wreckage, opposition activists said.

A Devils Lake bus service and the local Veterans Affairs office are offering free rides to medical appointments for veterans of limited means.

Turkey's economy is suffering in the face of a string of extremist attacks — including the nightclub massacre of New Year's revelers, most of them foreigners — and uncertainty following the failed coup in July against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that saw more than 270 people killed.

A former Georgetown professor who wrote an opinion article in support of President-elect Donald Trump has asked the university to intervene after a current Georgetown professor responded with insults and an obscenity on social media.

The Iraq war veteran accused of killing five travelers and wounding six others at a busy international airport in Florida appears to have traveled there specifically to carry out the attack, authorities said Saturday, but they don't know yet why he chose his target and have not yet ruled out terrorism.

The Iraq war veteran accused of killing five travelers and wounding six others at a busy international airport in Florida appears to have traveled there specifically to carry out the attack, authorities said Saturday, but they don't know yet why he chose his target and have not yet ruled out terrorism.

The division of Cyprus is now in its 43rd year. Next week may mark the decisive moment when the small eastern Mediterranean island nation starts to be stitched back together again.

Without a word, the gunman moved through the baggage claim picking off travelers until his handgun ran out of ammunition, leaving five dead and six wounded in Fort Lauderdale's airport.

The Libyan military reports that a captured militant has confirmed the killing of Wissam Ben Hamid, the leader of militia groups in the eastern city of Benghazi.

Heavy gunfire erupted Saturday at a military camp in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's largest city, witnesses said, a sign that a mutiny could be escalating despite government efforts to bring it to a swift end.

Navy veteran Anthony Scaletta will tell you he didn’t come to yoga, yoga came to him. “I was in Naval Special Warfare with the Special Boat Teams and we used small fast attack boats to insert and extract SEAL platoons and other special forces in and out of water-borne environments,” he said, adding that the job was great, but his body took a beating from it.

The Air Force Security Assistance and Cooperation Directorate handled $8.1 billion in foreign military sales in fiscal year 2016, a drop of more than half from the prior year. AFSAC Director Brig. Gen. Gregory M. Gutterman expects the Wright-Patterson headquartered agency to see a "spike" in future sales.

A celebration of life service for Lt. Cmdr. W.L. "Babe" Crouch, who died Nov. 17, 2016, was to be held Saturday in Hangar Bay 2 of the Lexington Museum on the Bay. "We worked on the Lexington for many years, so it's fitting to have his program on board," said his wife, retired Lt. Cmdr. Suzy Williams. "When I asked them if it would be all right, the people from the Lex were quick to say yes."

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim arrived in Baghdad on Saturday for a two-day visit, according to a report on Iraqi state TV. It's the first such visit since the two governments quarreled over the presence of unauthorized Turkish troops in northern Iraq.

Civil War letters written by soldiers from the 83rd Pennsylvania Regiment to loved ones range in content from exciting to mundane. Their thoughts, beliefs and fears are captured in about 200 letters the Historical Society of Erie County purchased in July that were included in a collection of 83rd Pennsylvania Regiment Civil War artifacts belonging to Mentor, Ohio, resident Ted Karle.

Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport has reopened following the terminal shooting that left five people dead and eight wounded.

Wahiawa’s Hongwanji Mission on Thursday was transported back to a darker time for Hawaii’s Japanese — the days and months after Dec. 7, 1941, when suspicion hung heavily on those with ancestral ties to the nation that had just become America’s enemy.

A return to the gridiron awaits Sgt. Ryan Moldovan on Saturday for the US Army All-American Bowl at the Alamodome in San Antonio. Moldovan is a special mentor to the teams and the bands after winning the Army Reserve Drill Sergeant of the Year competition this past September.

President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday named retired Sen. Dan Coats as national intelligence director, saying the former member of the Senate Intelligence Committee was the right person to lead the new administration's "ceaseless vigilance against those who seek to do us harm."