Новости за 09.04.2017

Two extremist attacks in Europe during the past week have tendrils to former Soviet Central Asian republics, drawing new attention to the poverty and repressive governments that observers suggest make the region's people ripe for Islamic extremist recruiting.

Much like the flags on the Stockholm skyline - some still flying half-staff, others at their peak - people here were divided over their country's friendly immigration policies two days after an asylum-seeker from Uzbekistan allegedly killed four people in the city's deadliest extremist attack in years.

As tensions with Russia and North Korea escalate, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is getting a chance to ease strains with his allies.

Mortimer Lawrence spent most of World War I taking aerial photographs high above enemy lines. One of his final shots turned out to be deadly and historic.

Since taking office in February, the former Exxon Mobil CEO has admittedly shunned the spotlight and the press. Yet Tillerson was surprisingly visible during the last week.

Russia and Iran renewed their support for the Syrian government in a flurry of calls on Sunday, saying last week's U.S. missile strike violated Syrian sovereignty but failed to boost the morale of "terror groups" in Syria.

French far-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon has denounced U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to launch retaliatory missile strikes in Syria as a "criminal, irresponsible act."

President Donald Trump has scrapped the tax plan he campaigned on and is going back to the drawing board in a search for Republican consensus behind legislation to overhaul the U.S. tax system.

Iran's official IRNA news agency is reporting that a hard-line cleric and close ally of the country's supreme leader has announced he will run in the May presidential election.

Norway's security service says a 17-year-old has been arrested in connection with an explosive device found near a busy subway station in Oslo and defused before it detonated.

The annual competition brings the state’s best combat engineers together at Camp Butner. But this year, Spc. Shelly Hyson’s participation signaled larger changes afoot in the Army.

The body of a police officer killed in last month's attack in London has been brought to lie in a chapel at Parliament, an honor usually reserved for senior politicians.

A top national security adviser to President Donald Trump is the latest official heading out in an ongoing shuffle within the National Security Council.

For the millions of Syrian refugees scattered across camps and illegal settlements, the chemical attack on a town in northern Syria and subsequent U.S. strike was a rare moment when the world turned its attention to Syria, before turning away again.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Sunday appeared to offer differing views on the future of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Egypt's Copts are one of the oldest Christian communities in the Middle East. They have long complained of discrimination and that the government does not do enough to protect them.

Suicide bombers struck hours apart at two Coptic churches in northern Egypt, killing 44 people and turning Palm Sunday services into scenes of horror and outrage at the government that led the president to call for a three-month state of emergency.

Residents of the Syrian town devastated by a chemical weapons attack last week said warplanes had returned to bomb them Saturday, despite a U.S. missile barrage and warnings of possible further response.

President Donald Trump on Saturday praised the U.S. military for carrying out the missile attack on a Syrian airfield and struck back at mounting questions over whether it would help achieve a momentum shift in Syria's bloody civil war.

39-year-old suspect's request for a residence permit was rejected in June 2016 but police could not find him to send him back to his native country because he was not at the address he had given.

Police in the Norwegian capital of Oslo cordoned off large section of a busy commercial street Saturday night after finding what they describe as a "bomb-like" device.

The exhibits explore four questions: How did people become revolutionaries? How did the revolution survive its darkest hour? How revolutionary was the war? What kind of nation did the revolutionaries create?

We were having a quiet night in. We had turned down an invitation to visit nearby friends because one of us wasn’t feeling well. A quiet night in. Until that quiet was punctuated by an explosion so close and so loud that our patio doors shook.

Five soldiers and at least 8 civilians travelling in a passing minibus were killed, said Capt. Mohamed Hussein, a senior Somali police officer.

The two Basel brothers, who have their military photos placed on a monument on their parents' graves at Benld Cemetery, soon will have two bronze military markers there as well.