Новости за 12.01.2017

China should not be allowed access to artificial islands it has built atop disputed reefs in the South China Sea, Rex Tillerson, Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state, said Wednesday.

Capt. George Doyon has taken command of Amphibious Squadron 11, part of the USS Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group based at Sasebo, Japan.

Times and dates for theaters in Japan, Okinawa and South Korea

It will take months to repair more than 300 damaged buildings at wind-whipped Fort Carson. The damage on post from Monday's 100 mph wind gusts is so extensive that Fort Carson Public Works Director Hal Alguire couldn't even guess at the price tag.

Times and dates for theaters in Belgium, England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, The Netherlands and Spain and Turkey.

The National Veterans Art Museum in Chicago has acquired 31 screen prints by the American writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims have been described as the most friendless people in the world. But for the past four years they had one powerful friend - and he lived in the White House.

The U.S. government plans to remove TNT and lead contamination from a former World War II manufacturing site in western New York.

Lawmakers will question President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be the next defense secretary, retired Marine Gen. James Mattis, on Thursday in a confirmation hearing expected to center on the threat from Iran and an intensifying American rivalry with Russia.

Violence and military operations claimed the lives of more than 16,000 civilians in Iraq last year, a research group that tracks civilian deaths in Iraq said Thursday, making it one of the deadliest years for war-weary Iraqis since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

In November 2012, Marine Gen. James Mattis delivered an urgent message: An Iranian fighter jet had fired errantly on a U.S. drone flying over the Persian Gulf. In a memoir, Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta wrote of the incident saying, "I could sense that Mattis did not want to back down... As I already knew, the White House didn't fully trust Mattis, regarding him as too eager for a military confrontation with Iran."

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday pledged $8.7 billion worth of business opportunities and private investments along with speedboats and other counterterrorism equipment to the Philippines, whose president has boosted ties with China.

Thanks to an oral history project with aging military veterans underway at Millville High School in New Jersey, stories of World War II veterans should be in living memory long after their generation is gone.

The top diplomats from Britain, Greece and Turkey on Thursday joined U.N.-hosted talks aiming to reunify long-divided Cyprus, as the negotiators tackle crucial security issues for the east Mediterranean island where tens of thousands of Turkish troops are stationed in the breakaway north.

Cyprus, a small, divided island nation in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, has played an outsized role throughout history because of its status as a jewel coveted by much bigger powers.

Santiago spent two years in Alaska, working as a security guard and National Guardsman and while he wasn't exactly a ghost, he didn't make much of a mark either — except with law enforcement from a string of domestic disputes with his girlfriend and mother of his infant son. But, increasingly, his life was falling apart.

The Navy has scheduled sea trials in March and April, said Capt. Thurraya Kent. Delivery to the Navy would take place in April, pending the results of sea trials.

Reacting to the increasing acceptance and popularity of body art, the Coast Guard has revised its tattoo policy to make it less restrictive.

State officials have announced that tests of Alaska seafood continue to show no detectable amounts of radiation, five years after a deadly earthquake and tsunami set off a nuclear disaster at a Japanese power plant.

The first of 15 homeless military veterans who will live in the innovative Potter’s Lane housing complex constructed from cargo containers surveyed their soon-to-be new homes on Wednesday.

Some coaches and teams hate to use the term moral victory. For them, it’s only the final tally on the scoreboard that matters.

Jahron Mitchell waited and watched on the left wing, awaiting his turn to shoot, while the ball buzzed around the perimeter like an angry hornet. It was a three-point drill, to see how many shots the players could make during a certain time span.

Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn., recently took over as chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs only after making certain Donald Trump was interested in “more than paying lip-service to veterans,” he said.

A Japanese contractor is ready to maintain the Marine Corps’ Osprey fleet in Chiba Prefecture, far from the political tensions that surround the aircraft’s operations on the island of Okinawa.

Since its recovery in July 2016 from a local nonprofit that used it to train rescue dogs, Kuncl’s amputated limb has become a key piece of evidence in a federal legal dispute.