Новости за 18.03.2017

In 2008, a group of thieves stole $700,000 from Russia's central bank the old-fashioned way: they infiltrated a processing center, handcuffed a guard, and made off with the cash. These days, the criminal attacks on the Bank of Russia are far less labor-intensive – and far more lucrative. Over the course of last year, hackers looted up to $21 million from accounts opened with the Bank of Russia.

Analysts and social media monitors say the blasphemy law is a powerful tool to silence critics. Some say it is being used by extremists to silence moderates at a time when Pakistanis are increasingly speaking out against violence and extremism, and voicing support for a government crackdown on Islamic militants.

The young hacker was told in no uncertain terms: You are safe with me. "I am not trying to find out your true identity," AP journalist Norm Weatherill assured the teenager in an online chat. But Norm Weatherill was no reporter. He was FBI agent Norman Sanders Jr., and the whole conversation was a trap. Within hours, the 15-year-old hacker would be in handcuffs.

Scores of Syrian opposition fighters and their families began leaving the last rebel-held neighborhood in the central city of Homs on Saturday as part of a Russian-backed evacuation deal signed earlier this week.

President Donald Trump wants the United States to be at the "top of the pack" with nuclear weapons. But his goal already hit a snag: The infrastructure that supports the country's nuclear weapons is crumbling to "alarming" levels, a Congressional panel warned Thursday.

On the morning of Oct. 24, 2014, Bernetta Hutchinson woke up in the California home she shared with her husband, Terry. Wandering sleepily out to the living room, she found a note on the table. It began, “Bernetta, I am sorry. Call the VA.”

Matthew Muller was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for a kidnapping so elaborate and outlandish that investigators first thought his victims were carrying out a bizarre hoax.

Turkish leaders, soldiers and flag-waving spectators are commemorating a World War I campaign in which Ottoman armies held off an Allied expeditionary force, a bloody event that helps to underpin staunch nationalism in Turkey today.

Soldiers at Paris' busy Orly Aiport shot and killed a man who wrestled one of their colleagues to the ground and tried to steal her rifle Saturday, officials said.

The Canadian government apologized on Friday to three Canadians who were tortured in Syria and said it had paid them compensation to settle lawsuits.

New Zealand authorities say they're unable to investigate an incident involving a U.S. Embassy staffer based in Wellington after the U.S. government elected to shield him by invoking diplomatic immunity.

Wind farms constructed near military installations can disrupt low-level flying routes used for aircrew training, the Altus, Okla., Chamber of Commerce says in letters asking Oklahoma lawmakers to give a state military planning commission the ability to approve the location of some turbines.

Hillary Clinton's gradual return to the public spotlight following her presidential election loss continued with a St. Patrick's Day speech in her late father's Pennsylvania hometown of Scranton.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Beijing on Saturday for his first face-to-face talks with Chinese leaders expected to focus on North Korea's nuclear program, trade and South China Sea territorial disputes.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Beijing on Saturday for his first face-to-face talks with Chinese leaders expected to focus on North Korea's nuclear program, trade and South China Sea territorial disputes.

Michael and Maria Brennan must repay nearly $47,000 that they illegally obtained in benefits and donations for a charity they created to honor their military veteran son who committed suicide.

"I just want to let the world know I am 100 percent in favor" of the measure, Trump said at the White House after meeting around a dozen House lawmakers and shaking hands on revisions. "We're going to have a health care plan that's going to be second to none."

Phillip E. Thompson, a petroleum specialist at Fort Stewart, is charged with being a party to the crime of murder by “intentionally aiding and abetting” Sgt. Shaquille D. Craig, who is charged with two counts of murder.

Retired Master Sgt. Kristopher Parker was honored with the third-highest military combat decoration that can be awarded to a member of the United States Armed Forces. Parker told reporters after the ceremony at Dyess Air Force Base that he was simply “doing my job.”

Leaders in the mental health and veteran fields say that New Hampshire is the first in the nation to implement a statewide effort to identify mental health patients with a military background and fashion outreach and treatment programs for them.

Trump's unproven recent allegations against his predecessor have left him increasingly isolated, with fellow Republican as well as Democratic lawmakers saying they've seen nothing from intelligence agencies to support his claim.

A California man carrying Mace roamed for nearly 17 minutes inside the secured White House perimeter before he was taken into custody March 10 near the South Portico entrance, the Secret Service acknowledged Friday.

Starting Jan. 1, all military contractors must assure the government that they’ve taken steps to protect sensitive information from cyber attackers. If it turns out they didn’t, the contractors can wave goodbye to lucrative contracts in the future.

In his more than a decade at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver, President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court has written hundreds of opinions and participated in thousands of panel decisions. But beyond which side he might be on, Gorsuch's rulings give clues of the kind of judge he is, and perhaps promise a glimpse of the kind of justice he would be.

A Russian air cargo carrier that paid former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn more than $11,000 had been blacklisted without warning by the Pentagon months before he became Donald Trump’s top campaign adviser on military matters, according to documents obtained by McClatchy.