Новости за 22.04.2017

The Louisiana National Guard says a burn chamber used to dispose of thousands of tons of explosive material will not be used again at Camp Minden.

The date was July 24, 1933. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was sitting behind a desk in the White House's Diplomatic Reception Room. That day, Roosevelt delivered his third radio address to the people. In his nearly 3,000-word progress report, Roosevelt talked about the achievements of his young presidency – the first 100 days "devoted to the starting of the wheels of the New Deal." Since then, the idea of the "first 100 days" has taken on a life of its own.

Thanks an early injury, SHAPE was forced to put inexperienced players on the mound. They walked Lancer after Lancer. And Lakenheath got plenty of practice stealing bases as well.

The aspiring jihadists began leaving here quietly in May, slipping away in twos and threes to avoid suspicion. By the time their relatives realized they were missing, five families - some with small children - had left their comfortable bungalows and jobs as doctors and businessmen to make the perilous journey to Islamic State-controlled territory in Afghanistan.

A University student who took an inappropriate photo of one of his military instructors that was shared on social media last November has had his suspension reduced. Dante Jamal Harris, on a $70,000 full scholarship from the Georgia National Guard, said he has learned his lesson. "Something I may see as funny, other people don’t see it that way."

The crew of the Coast Guard cutter Mohawk returned home to Key West Saturday, following a three-month counter-drug patrol in the Pacific Ocean.

During a Saturday ceremony at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., President Donald Trump awarded a Purple Heart to a soldier recently wounded in Afghanistan.

Shutout victories for the Kaiserslautern Raiders, Naples Wildcats and Ramstein Royals headlined a busy weekend of DODEA-Europe boys soccer as the European tournament looms just three weeks away.

The wins were the first of the spring for Kaiserslautern. The Raiders had played just one game, a 1-0 loss to rival Ramstein, entering the weekend.

Host Wiesbaden won the opener 5-4, while Kaiserslautern rallied for a 9-8 victory in the late game.

After a massive manhunt, Philippine forces killed at least four suspected Muslim militants Saturday in a central resort province where troops had foiled possible kidnapping and bombing plots by extremists earlier this month, officials said.

The people of this rugged North Atlantic island settled by Norsemen some 1,100 years ago have a unique dialect of Old Norse that has adapted to life at the edge of the Artic. Hundslappadrifa, for example, means "heavy snowfall with large flakes occurring in calm wind."

One of the reasons the U.S. Congress has launched an investigation into Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election is to "prevent the same kind of thing happening" to its NATO and other allies, U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said Saturday.

Missiles struck a medical center in Syria's northern rebel-held province, putting the facility built underground for protection out of service and killing a number of its staff, opposition activists said Saturday.

Carl Williams ran for 72 yards, had 118 receiving yards and returned a kickoff 102 yards for one of his three scores.

USO Kaiserslautern hosted the first Kinder Volksmarch in celebration of Earth Day and the Month of the Military Child at Rhine Ordnance Barracks on Saturday.

Before aspiring medical school students venture off on careers at hospitals, Army leaders hope to entice them to bring their critical life-saving skills to battlefields across the globe. Medical professionals from 26 universities in the Southeast visited Fort Bragg on a tour for a glimpse of Army medicine — both at installation hospitals and in tents on combat zones. The educational tour is a tool used to connect medical students to careers in the Army.

In the wake of a series of large scale civilian casualty incidents in the anti-Islamic State battle in Iraq and Syria last month, the Pentagon on Friday released a surveillance footage it says shows the coalition's restraint in striking when noncombatants are at risk.

President Trump's immigration agency is recommending that the U.S. end temporary protections by next January for 50,000 Haitians allowed to remain in the United States following a series of natural disasters that have crippled the poverty-stricken Caribbean nation.

President Donald Trump said he struck "no deal" for the release of an Egyptian-American charity worker who had been detained in the country for nearly three years.

Divisions among German nationalists erupted Saturday as delegates from the far-right Alternative for Germany party rejected an appeal by one of their leaders to seek a pragmatic political path instead of turning into a "fundamental opposition" party.

French voters make their choices Sunday in the first round of the country's utterly unpredictable presidential race. The vote could become yet another convulsive moment for a decades-old international security order that is still wobbling from the turbulence of President Donald Trump.

Drawn-out deaths. Communities torn apart. Survivor's guilt. Patrick Fallah says his memories of the days when the Ebola virus swept through Liberia are so awful that he sometimes has trouble focusing on the present.

Thirteen ferry passengers were injured when the boat slammed into a breakwater in a port on the Canary Islands, Spanish authorities said Saturday.