Новости за 03.05.2017

A Marine Corps recruit who was hazed by his drill instructor suffered second- and third-degree chemical burns on his buttocks so severe that he needed skin grafts, according to documents newly released by the service.

The native New Yorker, whose image for decades was interwoven with his brash hometown, is making his first trip back to Manhattan since taking office, returning Thursday to mark the anniversary of an important World War II battle by making a speech on a decommissioned aircraft carrier docked on the Hudson River.

The House voted to approve a roughly $1.1 trillion spending bill which includes more than $15 billion in defense spending and $1.5 billion in money for U.S. border security. The measure is expected to come up for a vote later this week in the Senate.

Lt. Cmdr. Edward C. Lin is accused of passing classified information to Taiwan, and faces two counts of espionage, three counts of attempted espionage and five counts of communicating defense information, among other charges.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier paid his respects Wednesday to the victims of one of the worst massacres in German-occupied Italy during World War II.

Somalia's president says his country has a comprehensive plan to defeat the extremist group al-Shabab within two years.

Bodyguards for Somalia's auditor general shot dead a government minister near the presidential palace on Wednesday evening, police said.

Despite bleak prospects for success, President Donald Trump promised on Wednesday "to do whatever is necessary" to forge an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali says at least one person has been killed and nine wounded in an attack on its camp near the airport in the northern city of Timbuktu.

Africa is experiencing higher levels of poverty than previously thought because decades of economic growth have only benefited a small wealthy elite, says a report released by the British aid group Oxfam at the World Economic Forum Africa which started in South Africa's coastal city of Durban on Wednesday.

The bipartisan, $1.1 trillion government-wide spending bill finances agency operations through Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year. The bill has been endorsed by the White House, top congressional Democrats, and House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis. It provides President Donald Trump with an increase in the Pentagon budget but denies his request for construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin says his department is seeking to close perhaps more than 1,100 VA facilities nationwide as it develops plans to allow more veterans to receive medical care in the private sector.

Medal of Honor recipient Col. Leo K. Thorsness died Tuesday in St. Augustine, Florida, according to a news release from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. He was 85.

The first battle of the Civil War was in April 1861 at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. But two years earlier — in Harpers Ferry, in what was then Virginia — a rebellion led by a 59-year-old John Brown sparked the South’s secession and the war.

Several thousand Palestinians rallied in a West Bank square on Wednesday in solidarity with hundreds of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Speakers called for a new campaign of civil disobedience against Israeli rule.

When Latishe Andrews' contractions started at about 8:30 p.m. Monday, she, her mother and her older daughter, started heading to Langley Air Force Base hospital. But they got stuck when road crews stopped traffic to set up a lane closure for tunnel work.

The images show that North Korea has been working for at least five years on the islands near the western city of Sohae, about 130 miles from Pyongyang, the capital. Sohae is known as a testing site for intercontinental ballistic missile technology.

An unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile was launched Wednesday from Vandenberg Air Force Base to test the weapon’s reliability and ensure an “effective nuclear deterrent,” according to the U.S. Air Force.

An unarmed missile capable of sending a nuclear bomb across the world was launched Wednesday from a coastal California military base amid rising tensions between the U.S. and North Korea.

Silence on the battlefield is beautiful if it means an end or lull in direct combat. It’s also disaster if it means an inability to contact or communicate with friendly forces. Now the U.S. Air Force is using the power of silence in the fight against ISIS.

President Donald Trump will press Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday to end payments to families of Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli jails, according to U.S. officials, one of several actions Washington believes could lead to resumed peace talks with Israel.

Armed groups targeting civilians in revenge attacks over the past three months in Central African Republic have killed at least 45 people and displaced 11,000, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.

A U.S. Air Force unmanned MQ-9 Reaper drone crashed about seven miles south of Highway 70 near Holloman Air Force Base which is about eight miles from Alamogordo.

Three photographers appeared in a French court Tuesday over topless photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge, an alleged invasion of privacy that outraged Britain's royal family.

An American company that was paid nearly $700 million to secure an Iraqi base for F-16 fighter jets turned a blind eye to alcohol smuggling, theft, security violations, and allegations of sex trafficking — then terminated investigators who uncovered wrongdoing, an Associated Press investigation has found.