Новости за 07.05.2017

The challenge is a 5-mile course of obstacles, mud and winding sandy trails through the Fort Gordon woods.

Insurgents have been fighting for Kashmir's independence from India or merger with neighboring Pakistan since 1989.

Two weeks ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would not receive German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel if the visitor stuck to plans to meet with Breaking the Silence. Gabriel chose the soldiers instead.

There are a lot of ways to stop a bullet. Feet of concrete work. A few dozen pounds of steel work, too. Modern fibers like Kevlar work, if you have enough.

An Air Force athletic department spokesman laughed out loud at the suggestion. But was it really that far-fetched?

Seventy-five years after the 4th Marine Regiment was virtually wiped out on Corregidor, members of the present-day unit have returned to mark the anniversary of the epic World War II battle.

A soldier assigned to U.S. Army Africa was found dead Friday night in Vicenza, Italy, four days after being reported missing.

It was 80 years ago Saturday that a radio announcer from Chicago stood at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey and uttered those words into a microphone as the German airship burst into flames.

As Islamic State steadily loses ground in Iraq and Syria, its ability to sponsor and inspire headline-grabbing attacks abroad looms larger than ever — providing the militants the appearance of lethal viability despite the caliphate’s collapsing borders.

France's election campaign commission said Saturday "a significant amount of data" — and some fake information — has been leaked on social networks following a hacking attack on centrist Emmanuel Macron's presidential campaign. It urged citizens not to relay the data on social media to protect the integrity of the French vote.

Lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by a former health care provider at a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Leavenworth are piling up and an attorney for many of the plaintiffs said the federal government is putting up an unusual fight against the suits given the circumstances.

At least 35 people were killed, most of them young children, after a bus carrying students lost control and crashed in northern Tanzania, police said Saturday.

The decapitated bodies of a father and his two sons recently kidnapped by Islamic militants were found on Saturday lying in the street in the northern Sinai town of Rafah, according to security officials and witnesses — the latest grotesque act of brutality in the country's long-running insurgency.

Violence left at least four opposition fighters dead and a child wounded in central and southern Syria Saturday despite relative calm prevailing across the war-ravaged country after a deal to set up "de-escalation zones" in mostly opposition-held areas went into effect, opposition activists and government media outlets said.

Eighty-two Chibok schoolgirls seized three years ago by Boko Haram have been freed in exchange for detained suspects with the extremist group, Nigeria's government announced early Sunday.

At least 62 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped three years ago by Boko Haram extremists in northern Nigeria have been released into military custody, authorities said late Saturday. Family members said they were eagerly awaiting a list of names and "our hopes and expectations are high."

Japan, whose relations with South Korea have been bedeviled by its brutal 1910 colonization of the country, is paying close attention to the race to replace disgraced former President Park Geun-hye, hoping for a favorable outcome when voters go to the polls Tuesday.

Originally from the remote southwestern region of Gambella in Ethiopia, Peter Ojullu fled the country after 400 members of his tribe were massacred in December 2003.

A former special-education teacher was found guilty of capital murder Friday for a bloody rampage that left four women dead and four children seriously injured. Jurors ultimately didn't buy the former Mavs ManiAAC and military veteran's defense — not guilty by reason of insanity.

The National Endowment for the Arts is breathing a sigh of relief this week. After President Trump threatened to eliminate the federal agency, Congress approved a spending bill that not only funds the NEA for another year, but increased its $148 million annual budget by nearly $2 million. Lost in all of the acrimonious debate over whether the NEA should live or die is the organization’s support for cultural programs that cater to military veterans, active duty service members and their families.

Ever since the South’s Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to the North’s Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, groups across the United States have advocated seceding from the country, their own states, or in a few cases, their cities. Recently, these efforts have ranged from fairly large, ongoing campaigns in Texas and California to smaller pushes in Oklahoma, Maine, Utah, West Virginia and New York’s Long Island, among others.

After a man drove a cargo truck through a crowd on a promenade in the French city of Nice in July, University of California, Berkeley students Tyler Heintz and Anjali Banerjee frantically searched for a friend.