Новости за 18.02.2017

The Wiesbaden Vikings pulled a 2-1 upset and won the Division I championship after a close game against favored Stuttgart Mustangs.

A boom that sparked panic in South Florida Friday night was caused by two military jets racing from Homestead to intercept an "unresponsive" plane over Palm Beach County, where President Trump is staying for the weekend.

Four matchups, four splits as DODEA-Europe teams end final weekend on mixed notes heading into championships.

China will suspend all imports of coal from North Korea until the end of the year, in a surprise move that would cut off a major financial lifeline for Pyongyang and significantly enhance the effectiveness of U.N. sanctions.

The rally came during Trump's third straight weekend at his private south Florida club, Mar-a-Lago. It was another working weekend for the president, who planned to interview at least four potential candidates for the job of national security adviser.

President Donald Trump plans to interview John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster while in Florida for the weekend. Finding a new national security adviser has proved challenging.

Omar Abdel-Rahman, the so-called Blind Sheik convicted of plotting terror attacks in the United States in the 1990s, has died. He was 78.

Spain's defense ministry says one of its naval ships has rescued 112 migrants off the coast of Libya.

Navistar International Corp. has been awarded a $35 million contract to deliver 40 armored vehicles to Pakistan from its Mississippi plant.

Publishers say they have closed down Turkey's once top-selling satirical magazine following a cartoon that was deemed to be offensive to Jews and Muslims.

Iraqi forces are poised to launch a long-anticipated offensive against the Islamic State group holed up in western Mosul, one of the last bastions of fighters in a city the militant group seized control of three years ago, Iraq Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said.

Six of the seven Panthers who reached the final match claimed the championship in their weight class, giving Stuttgart the edge over the runner-up Ramstein Royals.

A Navy plane making frequent flights over Colorado's western mountains is part of a big NASA push to build a satellite that can measure the moisture in snowpack.

Two Marine Corps veterans each held a small vial in their wrinkled hands, inspecting the black, volcanic sand contained inside. "That's the sands of Iwo Jima right there," veteran Bub Harvey said, looking at his vial. "I was right there on that."

When World War II ended, the federal government turned most of its military sites to federal, local or private entities. Several of those sites, including the area in and around Palm Beach International Airport have previously been tested. But state officials returned last month to recheck for contaminants.

For the last nine months, soldiers with the 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment have flown more than 6,000 hours over the skies of Korea. More than 350 soldiers from the squadron, part of the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, have returned home this week.

“You won’t read or hear of a more beloved and dedicated officer and soldier than Lt. Gen. Moore,” said Gen. Robert Abrams, commander of U.S. Army Forces Command. “He was a combat infantryman known for his courage, bravery and deep love for soldiers.

On Friday, the 201st Field Artillery, also known as the “First West Virginia,” celebrated its 282nd anniversary as the oldest continuously serving National Guard unit in the U.S. Army.

Retired Vice Adm. Robert Harward rejected President Donald Trump's offer to serve as national security adviser after the White House reportedly refused his request to pick his own team. The former Navy SEAL's decision to turn down the prestigious job highlights how Trump's chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, has entrenched himself as a powerful figure in the White House.

The lean, 62-year-old Air Force veteran strode into the Texas State Capitol in late January wearing a charcoal-gray pinstripe suit and an American flag tie, with the mission of warning all 181 lawmakers about a Muslim group sponsoring a gathering of Texas Muslims at the Capitol the following day.

Iraqi forces, after capturing the east in January, have been gearing up for a final assault on the west that officials say could come at any time. In past weeks, people have been slipping out of the western sector, saying a mix of poverty and low food stocks meant that getting food had become a serious problem.

Police say an unexploded World War II bomb was inadvertently transported across Germany before being discovered at a waste disposal facility, where it was defused.

In more than two decades in power, the autocratic leader of Belarus has cast his nation as Moscow's closest ally. At the same time, President Alexander Lukashenko has occasionally reached out to the West to win concessions from Moscow. Now, the Kremlin finally seems to have lost patience with its unruly ally, spelling an end to a relationship that has been described as giving away "oil for kisses."

Natural gas for at least 10 days has leaked from an underwater natural gas pipeline in Alaska's Cook Inlet. The U.S. Coast Guard warned mariners to stay at least 1,000 feet from the bubbling gas. Another federal agency expressed concern over possible adverse effects on marine mammals.

At Guantanamo last week, guards brought a Yemeni forever prisoner to a prefab trailer and shackled his ankle to the floor so he could talk by videoconference to six bureaucrats sitting in a boardroom near the Pentagon.