Новости за 12.04.2017

A government watchdog found the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in the nation’s capital was putting veterans at “unnecessary risk” by failing to sterilize storage areas and running out of various medical equipment, according to a report released Wednesday.

Laying bare deep and dangerous divisions on Syria and other issues, President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that U.S. relations with Russia "may be at an all-time low." His top diplomat offered a similarly grim assessment from the other side of the globe after meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

A worker who died during an explosion at an ammunition plant in Missouri has been identified as a 55-year-old man from suburban Kansas City.

For everyone involved, listening to the crew bravely work to save the ship and themselves was a brutal exercise. Brian Young, chief investigator for the NTSB, and many of the others in the room had been merchant mariners.

The men who came from a far-away place and spoke a strange language offered the Haitian children cookies and other snacks. Sometimes they gave them a few dollars. But the price was high: The Sri Lankan peacekeepers wanted sex from girls and boys as young as 12.

Sgt. Harley Jelis, a New Milford, Connecticut resident, was selected for the honor during the Army's annual Keith L. Ware Communications Award competition.

President Vladimir Putin's intervention in Syria has saved President Bashar Assad's government from imminent collapse and raised Russia's global clout. But after last week's chemical weapons attack their relationship is increasingly becoming a burden for Putin, jeopardizing chances for improved relations with the U.S.

President Donald Trump Trump will host NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in the Oval Office in the afternoon, and the two men will answer questions in a joint news conference.

Somalia's military has rescued eight Indian crew members who had been held hostage by pirates, an official said Wednesday.

House Speaker Paul Ryan will lead a bipartisan delegation to Europe next week, his office said Wednesday, to meet with leaders of key NATO allies including Estonia, a nation seen to be on the front lines of Russian aggression toward the West.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Wednesday that his attempt to compare the Holocaust and Syrian President Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons was "inexcusable and reprehensible" and was made all the worse by this being a holy week for Christians and Jews.

Hampton Roads leaders told Sen. Mark Warner on Tuesday that Virginia could attract and develop more drone businesses if the region leveraged not just its aerospace expertise but also its waters.

Notes left at the scene of a bombing of a German soccer team bus demanded that Ramstein Air Base be closed and German aircraft withdrawn from the fight against the Islamic State, police said Wednesday as they announced one suspect had been detained in the blast.

The men who came from a far-away place and spoke a strange language offered the Haitian children cookies and other snacks. Sometimes they gave them a few dollars. But the price was high: The Sri Lankan peacekeepers wanted sex from girls and boys as young as 12.

The men who came from a far-away place and spoke a strange language offered the Haitian children cookies and other snacks. Sometimes they gave them a few dollars. But the price was high: The Sri Lankan peacekeepers wanted sex from girls and boys as young as 12.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs took all the clinical and administrative data for veterans over the last two years and created a predictive model to try to identify "at risk" veterans, said Suicide Prevention Coordinator Patricia Parmeter.

A Tunisian man whose asylum application had been rejected appears to have been the sole perpetrator of the attack on a Berlin Christmas market even though he was in contact with a member of the Islamic State group outside Germany, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Now that President Donald Trump is in the White House his team is figuring out that Russia is "never up to any good," the top Senate Republican said Wednesday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman says that comparing Nazi war crimes to present-day situations "leads to nothing good" - a reaction to his U.S. counterpart's remarks about Syrian President Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons.

A U.S. aircraft that specializes in detecting radioactive debris after the detonation of a nuclear device has arrived on Okinawa amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula.

So, a U.S. president has met a “what-if” situation affirmatively and may have to go further. It’s a challenge each commander in chief faces in a volatile world.

President Donald Trump is appearing to rule out deeper American military intervention in Syria beyond retaliatory strikes if Syrian President Bashar Assad continues his assault on civilians with chemical weapons.

President Donald Trump did the right thing, the necessary thing, in striking in response to the Assad regime’s gruesome gas attack on civilians. The test of his learning curve will rest on whether he recognizes the need to hold firm with Putin — and whether he will invest in a diplomatic strategy for Syria that leverages his military action.

One of the most memorable moments in Cmdr. Russell Caldwell’s Navy career came in his final week at the helm of the USS Ross. Caldwell supervised the ship’s cruise missile strike against Syria’s Shayrat air field on April 7.

Marine Maj. Mark Thompson, the former U.S. Naval Academy instructor charged with lying in a sexual misconduct case, was slated to stand trial this week, but instead a plea hearing is scheduled for Thursday at Marine Corps Base Quantico, according to the military's online court docket.