Новости за 09.05.2017

Clean-up efforts are under way following a weekend oil spill from a power transformer that's seeped into the East River off Brooklyn.

Syria's military launched a new assault Tuesday aimed at reasserting its authority in the east of the country, battling U.S.-backed opposition fighters in the remote desert near the borders with Iraq and Jordan.

Two active servicemen will retrace a Colorado ski route used by soldiers in 1944 during the four-day Trooper Traverse expedition.

A portion of a tunnel containing buried rail cars full of radioactive waste collapsed Tuesday at a sprawling storage facility, forcing an evacuation of some workers at the site that made plutonium for nuclear weapons for decades after World War II.

Ten-year-old Carl Scheckel organized a campaign that gathered roughly 3,000 comic books that he donated last month to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey. The comics were shipped around the globe.

More than 7,000 troops from 24 nations are participating in a massive exercise in Jordan, training to combat improvised explosive devices, cyberattacks and other threats.

South Sudan's army chief of staff, who had been proposed for U.N. sanctions and accused of directing last year's fighting in the capital that left hundreds dead, has been removed from his post, a presidential spokesman said Tuesday.

As the Trump administration signals a de-emphasis of human rights in U.S. foreign policy decisions, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that he's concerned America's approach will erode support for such rights in other countries.

Iran’s potential role in enforcing a security zone in southern Syria has raised concerns for Israel, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford said Tuesday.

Lockheed Martin Corp.'s new King Stallion helicopter for the Marine Corps is likely to cost $144 million each, 4 percent more than projected by the service, and be ready to deploy a year later than planned, according to the Pentagon's cost assessment office.

New court documents reveal that federal agents continue to probe a soldier’s 2013 hanging at Camp Pendleton, with her civilian husband a top suspect in the case.

The number of troops that the United States will add to the fight in Afghanistan will depend on how many additional forces NATO supplies to expand the battle against terrorists there, Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Tuesday.

The United States will directly supply military gear to the Syrian Kurdish militia that it has long supported in the fight against the Islamic State despite Turkish objections, Pentagon officials said Tuesday.

Republican senators said it's unclear whether their chamber will repeal all of the taxes imposed under Obamacare as they set aside the health-care bill passed by the House and prepare to write their own from scratch.

Cadet Kaleb Estes, who was set to earn an English degree from the school on May 24, was a veteran skydiver who had made more than 500 jumps before a fatal parachuting accident on Sunday.

Executive pay should be determined by truly independent entities, and should be linked with long-term benefits for the whole range of stakeholders, not just shareholders.

Members of Congress sent a letter to the Department of Veterans Affairs asking for more information about the department’s experiments on dogs.

Mexico has surpassed Iraq and Afghanistan to become the world's second-most deadly conflict zone after Syria, according to a study of wars around the globe.

Russian meddling in elections around the world is not slowing, and the United States does not have full capability to defend its key infrastructure from their rapidly growing cyber threats, Adm. Michael Rogers, director of the national security agency and the U.S. Cyber Command, acknowledged Tuesday.

German authorities have arrested a second soldier on allegations he was part of a far-right plot to assassinate prominent political figures and blame the attack on refugees.

Deep below an aircraft carrier’s flight deck, where jet fighters zoom off to bomb enemy targets, engineering crews carry out the unglamorous work that’s vital to the mission and the ship’s survival.

Four Chinese government vessels — including one with what appeared to be a gun turret — entered Japanese territorial waters near a contested island group Monday, the latest in a series of challenges to Japanese sovereignty in the East China Sea.

German authorities have arrested a second soldier on allegations he was part of a far-right plot to assassinate prominent political figures and blame the attack on refugees.

French police searched Tuesday for three men suspected of plotting an Islamic State group-inspired attack after authorities conducted a major operation at a Paris train station.

If you were looking for the ultimate exemplar of early '70s soft rock, you could hardly do better than the 1972 song "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" by the largely forgotten one hit wonder Looking Glass.