Новости за 10.02.2017

President Donald Trump, fresh off patching up ties with China, reassured Japan's leader Friday that the U.S. will defend its close ally. Together, the pronouncements illustrated a shift toward a more mainstream Trump stance on U.S. policy toward Asia.

Ljubisa Beara, a former senior Bosnian Serb security officer convicted of genocide by a U.N. war crimes tribunal for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, has died in a German prison, authorities said Friday. He was 77.

Germany's defense minister agrees with America's call for European NATO members to shoulder more of the burden in the alliance.

President Donald Trump's national security adviser addressed U.S. sanctions against Russia in his conversations with the country's ambassador while President Barack Obama was still in office, a new report said, contradicting previous claims that the issue was not discussed.

It was just after midnight on March 21, 1980, when a Navy destroyer navigated by Stephen Bannon, a junior officer, met with the supercarrier USS Nimitz in the Gulf of Oman. The convoy headed near the Iranian coast, where a secret mission would be launched a month later to rescue 52 U.S. Embassy hostages held in Tehran.

President Donald Trump thanked Japan’s prime minister Friday for hosting U.S. military bases and described the U.S.-Japanese alliance as critical in the Pacific at a time of growing concern over North Korea’s nuclear threat.

Days before the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush set out from Norfolk last month, the Navy had to scramble to fix the engines on three of the squadron's four E-2C Hawkeye aircraft because of improper engine oil servicing.

The Defense Department has awarded the University of Maryland University College a $16.2 million contract to continue delivering educational services to U.S. troops serving in the Middle East and Africa, the school said.

The British government announced Friday that it is shutting down a contentious seven-year-old inquiry into allegations of abuse by U.K. troops in Iraq.

Warrant Officer 1 Shawn Thomas, 35, was killed in a vehicle accident in Niger, according to a statement released by U.S. Africa Command. Another soldier was injured in the accident.

The VA must receive congressional approval to lease medical facilities with annual rent payments totaling more than $1 million, according to federal law. Combined, the 24 facilities – most of them outpatient clinics -- would cost about $228 million during the leases, which in some cases can last 20 years.

Two earthen dams — Miller and Upper Blackwelder — showed signs of weakness, the base said on Twitter. The 9th Civil Engineer Squadron and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers worked to repair the problems.

Dana Point has become the third city in south Orange County to agree to help Vietnam War veterans Steve Colwell and Nick Warr create a Vietnam War memorial at Camp Pendleton.

Organizers with the Thiokol Memorial Project have found another way to tell the story of the Feb. 3, 1971 explosion in Woodbine that claimed the lives of 29 people and injured another 50.

Officials at Fort Bragg say the commander and senior enlisted leader of Womack Army Medical Center have been temporarily suspended pending an investigation.

When Scott Klund fired 24 rounds with an assault rifle through his bathroom door last spring, he was trying to “neutralize a threat,” he said.

A coffee shop served as a ceremonial hall Thursday for a Marine Corps veteran who 72 years earlier earned a medal fighting a critical battle in World War II.

As 2015 neared its end, Jeffrey Dean Morgan was a busy actor.

The dozens of American diplomats taken hostage by revolutionary students who seized the U.S. embassy in Iran in 1979 may have had some secret company during their 15-month captivity: U.S. intelligence agencies had a squad of military-trained psychics using ESP to watch them, according to declassified documents in a newly available CIA database.

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

A Fort Bliss soldier has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for trying to smuggle two immigrants through a South Texas border checkpoint.

Authorities in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki distributed fliers and put up posters Friday as part of preparations to evacuate about 75,000 people in order to defuse a 500-pound unexploded World War II bomb.

A Serbian court has rejected an extradition request by Montenegro for a suspect in an alleged pro-Russia plot to overthrow the small Balkan country's government.

The scene in the Oval Office was remarkable: The foreign minister of Mexico – the very country that Donald Trump had turned into a campaign-trail piñata – huddled with now-President Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians held rallies around the country Friday to mark the anniversary of the Islamic revolution, amid heightened tensions with the new U.S. administration and its vow to isolate Iran.