Новости за 24.02.2017

The world’s most advanced centrifuge is scheduled to launch operations late this year, an event that promises to stamp Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as the center of gravity for aerospace medical research in the military.

This president does things differently, but this was a brilliant stroke.

Russian intelligence services have been using “fake news” and stolen information for more than a century to try to manipulate Europe and America.

Warriors get past Naples in double overtime, while Royals end Kaiserslautern's season with a loss yet again.

With the grinding battle for east Mosul all but over, Iraqi troops in recent days have begun their advance into the Islamic State-held western portion of the city, crossing the Tigris river and driving up from the south toward Mosul's airport.

Royals edge Lakenheath in one semifinal to set up showdown with Panthers, who blitzed Naples in second half.

Eight Sikh Army recruits have received waivers this year allowing them to maintain their religiously mandated beards and turbans in uniform, nearly doubling the number of observant Sikhs in the Army despite a decades-old policy barring visual symbols of faith.

Department of Veterans Affairs Chief of Staff Robert Snyder announced his retirement this week after just more than one year of overseeing day-to-day operations at the agency, the VA confirmed Friday.

For the roomful of archaeologists, scholars and Iraqi cultural officials on Friday, each neighborhood conquered in Mosul brought them one step closer to learning the fate of the ancient sites and artifacts seized by the Islamic State group.

At least two attacks Friday near a Syrian town just captured by Turkish forces and Syrian opposition fighters from the Islamic State group killed more than 60, mostly civilians and including two Turkish soldiers, as the group retreats from one of its last remaining strongholds in northern Syria, Turkey's news agency and Syrian activists said.

At Vanguard Industries East, the precise handiwork of more than 25 workers outfits members of the country’s military, Homeland Security and Civil Air Patrol, as well as airline pilots. The company makes 60,000 shoulder boards and 15,000 epaulets annually in Norfolk, one of two major manufacturers and suppliers to do so.

When Leonard Hess got his draft notice, his father, a Marine veteran who spoke little of his experience and wounds in combat on Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima during World War II, offered his son a few succinct words of advice: "Stay low, and keep out of the line of fire."

On the eve of his biggest mission, in a career marked by hard jobs done well, Col. H.R. McMaster explained to me how the United States could win the battle for the city of Tal Afar and, eventually, the Iraq War.

Army Sgt. John Ostrum was considered a hero who took swift action to save lives and property during the Dec. 7, 1941, sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. He wasn’t recognized for his efforts until Thursday when the medals he earned that day were given to his family.

The German weekly Der Spiegel reports that the country's spy agency had at least 50 numbers and email addresses of journalists among its surveillance targets.

A federal judge sentenced an Oran man Thursday to five years probation with special conditions, instead of prison time, for having bomb-making materials in his home last year. The materials were similar to those used in the Boston Marathon bombing.

The Dallas Cowboys and Caliber Collision are hosting the inaugural Military Combine Saturday at AT&T Stadium.

Even though Octavia Spencer is pleased with the record number of blacks nominated for acting Oscars this year, she’s still disappointed by the lack of recognition for other people of color.

The U.S. Army is preparing to deploy a battalion-size battle group to eastern Poland, some 100 miles from the Russian border.

The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit could leave Okinawa without sacrificing its value as a security provider in the Asia-Pacific, a Japanese think tank said following a study of alternatives to building a new runway opposed by the island’s governor.

Places in Japan and South Korea to celebrate the bloom.

It's only the latest sign that the relationship between the Trump administration political appointees and the State Department professional workforce is still very much a work in progress.

Officials say two Panama-flagged cargo ships have been detained on the Willamette and Columbia rivers because of safety issues.

A court in the Czech Republic has convicted a Czech man of an attempt to join the Islamic State militants in Syria and sentenced him to three years and three months in prison.

German officials are criticizing plans by the Russian military to build a replica of Berlin's Parliament building as a target for Russian teenagers to attack at a patriotic theme park near Moscow.