Новости за 31.01.2017

"Since he was a freshman in high school, this kid decided he wanted to protect his country (and) he never once wavered from that," Cody Jackson said. "Not everyone knows what they want to do in high school, but he did. He wanted to be a Navy SEAL."

Specifics of the case are murky, and no Russian government officials have commented publicly. Russian media have been filled with lurid, often contradictory, details that most assume are leaked by warring factions of intelligence officers.

The multilateral exercise Unified Trident began Tuesday in the Persian Gulf amid rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran.

President Trump is expected to select Neil Gorsuch of Denver or Thomas Hardiman of Pittsburgh. The two federal appeals court judges were each asked to go to Washington on Tuesday. The announcement is expected at 8 p.m. Washington time.

Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek has told reporters that his ministry's email system was hacked by what appears to be a foreign state -- and that the attack was similar to those carried out against Democrats ahead of last year's U.S. vote.

U.S. allies worry that a partnership between Washington and Moscow could undermine a historic balance of power dating to the early days of the Cold War.

A proposed White House cybersecurity policy would empower the federal government to take a greater role in protecting the nation’s digital infrastructure, much of which is in private hands.

Erik Smith, president and CEO of Saab Defense and Security USA, said the company plans to significantly expand its defense business in the U.S. and most of the new jobs will be created as a result of that growth.

Japanese organizers for next month's Asian Winter Games said Tuesday that contentious history books will be removed from guestrooms at a hotel that will be used to house athletes.

There are four components to the external threat facing the European Union, according to European Council President Donald Tusk: China, Russia, "terror and anarchy in the Middle East and in Africa" and . . . the United States.

The Air Force is working with the State Department and Pentagon to identify and obtain exemptions for dozens of Iraqi pilots who are training in the United States to ensure they are not affected by President Donald Trump’s immigration ban.

President Donald Trump's top trade adviser said Germany was using a "grossly undervalued" euro to "exploit" its trading partners in Europe and the U.S., comments which triggered a spike in the euro's value to a one-week high.

David Shulkin, President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, could face some scrutiny about his plans to reform the agency Wednesday during his Senate confirmation hearing.

More than a dozen interviews with Christians in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and other countries revealed sharply divided opinions about the ban.

Democrats blocked planned Senate committee votes on President Donald Trump's picks to be Health and Treasury secretaries on Tuesday, boycotting the session and demanding more information on the two nominees' past financial behavior.

The sudden house arrest of a high-profile Islamist cleric in Pakistan on Monday sparked peaceful protests Tuesday by his followers. Pakistani officials insisted they were implementing the terms of a United Nations resolution that declared Hafiz Saeed's Jamaat-ud-Dawa movement group a terrorist organization after the Mumbai attacks.

A major new World War II museum in Poland unexpectedly gained at least a few more weeks of independence before it is expected to come under government control, thanks to a last-minute court order on Tuesday.

Four Iraq war veterans in the House are asking President Donald Trump to exempt Iraqis who assisted the U.S. military from his temporary ban on refugees and immigration.

Ethnic tensions are rising in Kosovo, setting the stage for an early test of U.S.-Russian relations under President Donald Trump in a Balkan country where U.S. troops keep the peace decades after a NATO air campaign ended Serb rule over the Albanian population.

Hookah smoke drifted through the restaurant as Elias Shetayh and Aziz Wehbey spoke intently about their support for President Donald Trump, whose temporary halt on immigration from war-torn Syria - their homeland - had touched off a political firestorm.

For the soldiers from the 96th Civil Affairs Battalion, the exercise represented real world experience to help prepare them for possible deployments overseas. For the city, it was new and valuable data to help future rehabilitation efforts.

“If you consider the Navy is like a corporate entity, it’s the entity that has the right product for the time,” said retired Vice Adm. Peter Daly, chief executive officer of the U.S. Naval Institute.

Thailand's military government wants neighboring Laos to send back about half a dozen Thai citizens who have reportedly taken refuge there to escape being arrested for insulting the Thai monarchy, a crime punishable by up to 15 years in prison.

Robert O'Neill, the Navy SEAL who has said he fired the shots that killed Osama bin Laden has a memoir, "The Operator," coming out this spring. According to book publisher Scribner, O'Neill's book will "vividly recount" a career that included some 400 missions, notably the May 2011 raid on bin Laden's compound in Pakistan. O'Neill also was on the missions that helped rescue Capt. Richard Phillips from Somali pirates and SEAL Marcus Luttrell from Afghanistan.

The Arkansas House on Monday approved a tax break for retired military veterans, but the proposal is drawing objections from conservatives over a plan to raise taxes on soda, candy and digital downloads to help pay for it.