Новости за 13.01.2017

FBI Director James Comey, already under fierce public scrutiny for his handling of the election-year probe of Hillary Clinton, faces a new internal investigation into whether he and the Justice Department followed established protocol in the email server case.

A soldier at Fort Hood was found Wednesday unresponsive at his place of duty, becoming one of nearly a dozen soldiers assigned to the Texas base to die stateside in recent months, the Army said.

Iraqi special forces entered Mosul University on Friday in their latest advance along the eastern front as they battle Islamic State militants for control of the city, according to senior Iraqi officers.

Lockheed Martin Corp.'s chief told President-elect Donald Trump it's close to a deal with the Pentagon to lower costs "significantly'' for the next production lot of its F-35 fighter jet and will boost hiring at the Texas factory where the advanced aircraft is made.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is preparing to give out an estimated $2.2 billion during the next five years to thousands of veterans suffering from serious illnesses caused by contaminated water at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.

One hundred and fifteen disabled veterans are learning to ski and snowboard as part of a special week-long program in Park City.

Eight upgraded Navy Crosses and eight upgraded Silver Stars were presented Friday to Navy SEALs at a ceremony held in Virginia Beach, Va., the Navy announced. The awards are part of the Pentagon’s review of all Silver Stars and service crosses awarded for actions in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001.

Rep. Steve Russell, an Army Ranger graduate who commanded infantry troops in Iraq, charged Democrats with a bias against the “warrior class” in their efforts to reject a special legal exemption for retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis to be defense secretary.

Rep. Steve Russell, an Army Ranger graduate who commanded infantry troops in Iraq, charged Democrats with a bias against the “warrior class” in their efforts to reject a special legal exemption for retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis to be defense secretary.

Serbian police said Friday they arrested two Serbs sought by Montenegro for alleged involvement in a pro-Russian plot to overthrow the Balkan country's government.

Turkey must continue to underwrite the security of Cyprus, even if there's a deal reunifying the island that's divided along ethnic Greek and Turkish lines, Turkey's president said Friday.

David Kirk was a career Marine pilot with a top-secret security clearance and a record of flying classified missions. He was in the cockpit when President George W. Bush and Vice Presidents Dick Cheney and Joe Biden traveled around the nation's capital by helicopter. With credentials like that, Kirk was stunned to fail a lie detector when he applied for a pilot's job with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Serbia warned on Friday that it would ignore future possible extradition requests for terrorism and other suspects wanted by France and other European countries if French courts don't hand over a former Kosovo prime minister.

The head of the D.C. National Guard, Maj. Gen. Errol R. Schwartz, said Friday that he has been ordered removed from his command effective Jan. 20, 12:01 p.m., just as Donald Trump is sworn in as president.

The USS Indiana, SSN 789, which will be christened April 29 and launched for duty in May, is the first Navy vessel to be named after the Hoosier state in more than 70 years. Efforts are underway to promote and celebrate what is being billed as the "next generation attack submarine."

The U.N. human rights envoy for Myanmar arrived Friday in tense Rakhine state, where soldiers are accused of widespread abuse of members of the Muslim ethnic Rohingya minority, including torture, rape and killing of civilians and the burning of thousands of homes.

It had taken 10 years for the couple to have a pregnancy that took. Along the way: three miscarriages, hormone shots, disappointment, a thousand tears. Then, on Oct. 7 while driving to a local Wendy's, Staff Sgt. Jevon BcBride and his wife, Julie, who was six months pregnant, were hit by an oncoming vehicle.

The U.S. Mint has unveiled a commemorative $100 gold coin that features an image of Liberty as a black woman.

As Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara presides over Africa's fastest-growing economy and leads a ruling coalition that's just won a fresh majority in parliament, he still faces a key threat to national stability: the army.

Gunfire broke out Friday in Ivory Coast's second-largest city, where the defense minister was expected to resume talks on an army mutiny there a week ago, witnesses said.

China on Thursday stressed mutual respect and cooperation with the U.S. in response to tough talk from President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of state, who said the administration would block Chinese access to its fortified man-made islands in the South China Sea.

The upgrade of medals is part of a review by all of the services to determine whether airmen, sailors, Marines and soldiers who have fought in the war on terror were properly recognized for the efforts. The review was sparked by concerns that few Medals of Honor were awarded for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in which millions of Americans have served.

A hunter in Germany has put on show a block of ice containing a fox that he says fell into the chilly Danube and drowned, in what he calls a warning of the dangers of the icy river.

Three suicide bombers exploded at a checkpoint where scores of people were being searched for a bustling weekly market Friday in Nigeria's northeastern town of Madagali, witnesses said. The blasts killed two self-defense fighters who wanted to search them.

Vietnam is moving to firm up key relationships after the rise of unpredictable politicians in the U.S. and the Philippines upset its trade and security strategy.