Новости за 15.04.2017

The GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator was built to burrow into the ground and then explode. A B-2, which can carry up to 160 smaller bombs, can carry just two on a flight. Special cranes are needed to load the behemoths.

Fire and law enforcement officials believe that people armed with these skills can save lives because they’re often the first ones at a crime scene. Many of those injured in the Boston Marathon bombing survived in part because bystanders started creating makeshift dressings and tourniquets before paramedics showed up, experts say.

Turkish voters will decide Sunday whether to endorse President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s attempt to centralize power in his hands in the most radical shake-up since the republic was formed 93 years ago.

A stalled population transfer resumed Saturday after a deadly explosion killed at least 100, including children, government supporters and opposition fighters, at an evacuation point — adding new urgency to the widely criticized operation.

Italian rescue ships have plucked some 2,000 migrants from unseaworthy smugglers' boats off the coast of Libya, with hundreds of them arriving Saturday in southern Italian ports.

April 15 is the most important day in the North Korean calendar, and Kim Jong Un has celebrated his grandfather's birthday with great fanfare as a way to boost his own legitimacy as the successor to the communist dynasty.

After completing their on-scene examination to determine the cause of Tuesday's fatal explosion at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, investigators have determined the blast was accidental, according to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Retired Maj. Gen. James Grazioplene is charged with six charges of rape of a minor between 1983 and 1989, the Army announced. The criminal investigation remains open, according to the Army.

Retired Maj. Gen. James Grazioplene is charged with six charges of rape of a minor between 1983 and 1989, the Army announced. The criminal investigation remains open, according to the Army.

A car bomb in northern Syria killed more than 100 people Saturday when it ripped through buses evacuating residents from a besieged government town.

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday he does not view recent U.S. missile strikes on ally Syria as a message for Iran, which he called a "powerful country" that the U.S. cannot harm.

Lakenheath sprinted, leapt and threw for first place in 15 events against visiting teams from Bitburg, Brussels, Alconbury and Baumholder.

A giant statue of Mary, the mother of Jesus, stands with open arms in a park that divides one of the busier roads in this suburb of the Kurdish region’s capital, where a U.S. consulate is located and American military helicopters often cross the skies. It’s an appropriate symbol for this Christian enclave, where some 12,000 displaced Iraqi Christian families have taken refuge.

The U.S. Coast Guard is focusing its recruiting efforts on Maui's water polo players, surfers and others who spend much of their time in the water.

Ted Salisbury and Jennifer Vollbrecht are living proof that military veterans come in all shapes, sizes and genders. He is a 94-year-old Stocktonian who earned three Purple Hearts during World War II and in Korea. She is a 31-year-old Mantecan who served in Iraq and became the one of the few women in the Marines to earn a Combat Crew Insignia. The common thread between them is a love of the Marine Corps and pride in serving their country.

The Cherokee Nation honored three veterans with the Medal of Patriotism at the April Tribal Council meeting this week.

The museum has on display a ship’s bell from the Hornet that is on loan from the Navy and is normally at a Pearl Harbor munitions depot that’s off-limits to the public.

The Solomon Elementary School campus on Schofield Barracks in Wahiawa is expected to get a major overhaul with the help of a federal grant totaling more than $70 million.

Russia called for international inspectors to visit Idlib, where the U.S. accused Syrian leader Bashar Assad of carrying out a deadly chemical-weapons attack.

A foiled attack on a central Philippine resort island this week was a kidnapping and bombing mission by at least three extremist groups affiliated with the Islamic State group in one of their most daring terror plots, security officials said Saturday.

When they were drafted at the age of 18 while juniors at El Paso High School and shipped to the southwest Pacific during World War II, it would only make sense that they would seek to be together and protect each while fighting the Japanese. The two started off as excited new members of the U.S. Air Force, but within weeks were sent to the 24th Infantry Division, 34th Regiment, Company H, when replacements were needed.

Stuttgart dominated the girls’ distance events, sweeping each of the 800 meters, the 1,600 and the 3,200 with a deep rotation of runners in those events. On the boys’ side, the Royals ran away from the field.

Food aid will be cut for more than a million hungry Nigerians affected by Boko Haram's insurgency if promised funding from the international community doesn't arrive, according to a United Nations official.

Up-to-date Microsoft customers are safe from the purported National Security Agency spying tools dumped online, the software company said Saturday, tamping down fears that the digital arsenal was poised to wreak havoc across the internet .

A decade ago, he was a young Army soldier training Iraqi troops when he noticed their primitive filing system: handwritten notes threaded with different colors of yarn, stacked in piles. For organization's sake, he built them a simple computer database.