Новости за 25.03.2017

The State Department said Friday the secretary would stop in Brussels on March 31, the day after he meets with Turkish leaders in Ankara. A NATO official said that "consultations on scheduling" among the alliance's 27 other members for that date "are ongoing" but that an announcement was expected Monday.

Tracing its history to the Carolina Charter of March 24, 1663, which granted the right to “levy, muster and train men” to defend the property and people of the Carolinas, Maj. Gen. Gregory A. Lusk, the state adjutant general, said the soldiers honored were part of a lengthy tradition that predates the United States.

Wounded veteran Kirstie Ennis recently hiked to the summit of Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro to raise awareness for East Africa rural communities' need for clean drinking water.

Although the new standards outlined in a March 17 Tillerson cable are still being refined, and others reiterate existing procedures, they offer a glimpse of how the Trump administration plans to impose "extreme vetting" even though courts in Hawaii and Maryland have issued injunctions against portions of the proposed travel ban.

Retired Sgt. Joseph Engles was presented with the military distinction on Monday during a ceremony in his hometown of Murrieta, in Southern California, for gallantry in the face of the enemy during the Battle of Suoi Tre in March 1967.

Pakistan's new ambassador to the United States, Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, has only been in his post for 12 days, but already is busy trying to explain the profound changes in Washington to his government in Islamabad.