Новости за 12.04.2017

A new federal report says the data from an existing registry of troops’ downrange exposure to burn pits cannot be used to establish a link with health problems they are now experiencing, making it difficult to prove they are entitled to special benefits.

An Afghan official says that a suicide bomber has detonated his payload near government offices in the capital.

Syria's government and rebels have exchanged more than 30 prisoners and nine bodies, part of a larger agreement to evacuate thousands of residents from four besieged areas in different parts of the country, activists and officials said Wednesday.

In the ruins of a tropical hideaway where jetsetters once sipped rum under the Caribbean sun, the abandoned children tried to make a life for themselves. They begged and scavenged for food, but they never could scrape together enough to beat back the hunger, until the U.N. peacekeepers moved in a few blocks away.

Adolf Hitler gassed and killed 6 million Jews during World War II — a genocide that makes his reluctance to use sarin against his military adversaries an enduring mystery.

There was a time when Germany's welcoming attitude toward the hundreds of thousands of refugees entering the country seemed unbreakable. a majority of Germans now say the country has reached its limits and many will mention one specific date when asked to explain why: New Year's Eve at the beginning of last year. That night, hundreds of mostly immigrant men sexually assaulted women in Cologne and other cities, causing a reconsideration of previous refugee policies.

Russia's top diplomat accused the United States on Wednesday of carrying out an unlawful attack against Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces as he opened a fraught meeting with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

Donald Trump's tweet Tuesday claiming North Korea is "looking for trouble" is stoking the sense of unease that's wiped $30 billion from South Korean equity values this week and driven a spike in the nation's debt risk.

Marine Le Pen doubled down on her comments absolving France of responsibility for the deportation of Jews under the Nazi occupation in World War II, while President Francois Hollande raised alarm over the possibility of a contest between the far-right candidate and Communist-backed Jean-Luc Melenchon in the second round.

India is close to signing two defense deals with Israel as it seeks to deepen ties with the Middle Eastern nation before Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit in July, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The Trump administration's effort to underscore its certainty that Syria carried out a chemical weapons attack has demonstrated a potential new U.S. policy: The use of nerve agents like sarin will prompt a military response, even if it's less likely that unleashing other chemical weapons, such as chlorine, will.

Iran's former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday stunned the country by unexpectedly filing to run in the May presidential election, contradicting a recommendation from the supreme leader to stay out of the race.

A Nepali who was once the oldest climber to scale Mount Everest is attempting to regain that title, at age 85, with hopes that the feat will help him spread a message of peace.

German police said Wednesday they are investigating "in all directions" after three explosions went off near a soccer team bus, injuring one of the team's players.

China says President Xi Jinping has stressed the need for an end to North Korea's nuclear weapons program in a phone discussion with Donald Trump that followed tweets from the U.S. president urging China to play a more active role.

Radical Islamic militants from Boko Haram are increasingly forcing children to carry out bombings, with the number of attacks since January already nearly reaching the total for all of last year, according to a report released Wednesday by the U.N. children's agency.

Egyptian churches, in the southern city of Minya, said on Tuesday that they will not hold Easter celebrations in mourning for 45 Coptic Christians killed this week in twin bombings of churches in two cities during Palm Sunday ceremonies.

Budget director Mick Mulvaney says many jobs will remain unfilled as the White House embarks on a government-wide effort to overhaul the executive branch and significantly reduce its work force.

Four soldiers — two from Camp Humphreys and two from Camp Stanley — have been accused in separate cases of using the Military Postal Service Agency to try to smuggle illegal drugs. South Korean prosecutors are investigating the possibility that both cases were linked to a smuggling ring.

The 16th Sustainment Brigade is based in Germany, but soldiers with the only large logistics unit in Europe aren’t home very often. In the past two years, the brigade has doubled the amount of time it’s spent in eastern European, training with NATO partners, validating convoy routes and distributing fuel and supplies to forward-deployed troops.

The search for a driver missing since a flash flood swept his vehicle into a flooded creek at Fort Hood continues.

The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said.

China is turning back shipments of North Korean coal from its ports, a sign of Beijing's growing concern over the nuclear weapons capability of its wayward neighbor.

With one offhand remark, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson left European diplomats befuddled at a gathering in Italy.

The United States has not ruled out more attacks against the Syrian government if it continues to use chemical weapons against its people, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday.