Новости за 17.03.2017

Though presenting a study in contrasts, President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel took a similar tack Friday in sidestepping differences after their first meeting at the White House. Trump asserted with a smile they had at least one thing in common: being wiretapped by the Obama administration.

The fact that any age of maturity we choose will necessarily seem arbitrary shouldn’t blind us to the common-sense wisdom of having a uniform one.

As a veteran, I would prefer to spend our energy dollars in the Midwest, not the Mideast.

A Virginia Beach-based Navy SEAL has been charged with kidnapping and raping a fellow sailor in a hotel room near Fort Knox, Ky., according to the Navy.

A fourth contingent of U.S. airmen from the U.K.-based 100th Air Refueling Wing and 100th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron is deploying to Spain as part of Operation Juniper Micron, which supports French counterterrorism operations in sub-Saharan Africa.

Ten major veterans groups sat down with President Donald Trump on Friday to discuss veterans issues ranging from health care for women to creating a White House office dedicated to veteran empowerment.

Lockheed Martin said Thursday it has finished a 60-kilowatt laser system for the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command and is preparing to hand it over to the Army for further testing. The laser is what the company calls a "combined fiber" laser beam, bringing together individual lasers to form a single, stronger beam.

Command Sgt. Maj. Michael A. Grinston has been selected to serve as the next command sergeant major for the U.S. Army Forces Command, which is charged with preparing U.S. troops for operations around the globe.

In Germany, a sure sign of the approach of Christianity’s most important spring holiday is the appearance of Easter markets.

U.S. Army inspection reports from a 2013 visit to a federal training center in Anniston show the military distancing itself from the use by civilian first responders of respirator masks not certified for that use.

The U.S. Coast Guard said that a kayaker from Florida who went missing off Puerto Rico's west coast was found Friday on a nearby, uninhabited island.

U.N. experts say in a new report that South Sudan's government is spending at least half its budget on security and weapons while 100,000 people are dying of starvation as a result of famine caused mainly by an upsurge in government military operations.

Yolinda Hunter Doss, the widow of a Navy commander slain in his Orange Park, Fla. motel room three years ago, was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in prison for manslaughter in his death.

The House has unanimously passed legislation designed to speed up the hiring of doctors and nurses at the Department of Veterans Affairs. The vote was 412-0.

On Monday, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, located in California, uploaded to YouTube more than 60 films taken during U.S. nuclear weapons tests between 1945 and 1962. During this time, experimental nukes were dropped from bombers or propelled by rockets to altitudes as high as space.

The Marine Corps is launching a new recruitment ad campaign meant to draw millennials by showing Marines as not only strong warriors but good citizens.

Rights groups say thousands of people are fleeing a Nigeria slum as security forces use gunfire and tear gas to make way for demolitions in defiance of a recent court order.

The tourists, drawn to Etna to observe the spectacle of the active volcano erupting, were caught by surprise when its flowing magma hit thick snow, causing a phreatic explosion that rained rock and other material down upon them.

Syria fired missiles at Israeli warplanes early Friday after a series of Israeli airstrikes inside Syria — a rare military exchange between the two hostile neighbors that was confirmed by both sides.

The United States struck an al-Qaida gathering in northern Syria killing dozens of militants, and is investigating reports that civilians were killed, U.S. officials said Friday.

President Donald Trump's proposed deep cuts in foreign aid could mark the retreat of U.S. support for South Sudan, a nation America enthusiastically helped to create.

A military vessel and a helicopter gunship attacked a boat packed with Somali refugees off the coast of Yemen overnight Friday, killing at least 42 people, according to a U.N. agency, Yemeni officials and a survivor who witnessed the attack.

Democrats cannot win back the presidency without attracting people who disagree with some of their views. Doing that does not mean singing the same old songs louder and more clearly.

Given today’s politics, who could be sure that nothing crazy would be successfully proposed, and quite possibly ratified?

Exercise Allied Spirit, a training event held annually at the U.S. Army training area here, is the first multinational brigade-level exercise commanded by the Latvian military, officials said.