Новости за 13.05.2017

The cyberextortion attack hitting dozens of countries spread quickly and widely thanks to an unusual confluence of factors: a known and highly dangerous security hole in Microsoft Windows, tardy users who didn't apply Microsoft's March software fix, and a software design that allowed the malware to spread quickly once inside university, business and government networks.

The North Dakota National Air Guard's 119th Wing will receive two unmanned aircraft this summer.

An Oregon man who made threats to kill former President Barack Obama over social media will serve five years in federal prison.

President Donald Trump is considering at least a dozen candidates to succeed ousted FBI Director James Comey, choosing from a group that includes several lawmakers, attorneys and law enforcement officials.

Warriors also defeat Bitburg during weekend to head into next week's championships with momentum.

On Friday morning under gray skies, family, friends and dignitaries gathered along Route 2 South to dedicate the South River Bridge in honor of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Christopher Swanson, who was killed by a sniper on his third tour of Iraq on July 22, 2006.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi reiterated a call on the international community to lift an arms embargo on Libya on Saturday, which would allow weapons to be delivered legally to a powerful general he backs in the fractured country's east.

Warsaw's mayor on Saturday unveiled a monument to a World War II hero who volunteered to go to the Auschwitz death camp and informed firsthand on atrocities there but later was killed by the communist regime.

Iraq's joint operations command says an Iraqi air force helicopter has been downed west of Mosul after coming under fire from Islamic State militants.

President Donald Trump said Saturday that "we can make a fast decision" on a new FBI director, possibly by late next week, before he leaves on his first foreign trip since taking office.

President Donald Trump said Saturday that "we can make a fast decision" on a new FBI director, possibly by late next week, before he leaves on his first foreign trip since taking office.

Syrian Kurdish-led forces were closing in Saturday on the de-facto capital of the Islamic State in Syria, seizing a cotton mill only a couple of miles north of the city and clashing with the militant group on a number of fronts, activists and Kurdish media reported.

The remains of a 20-year-old soldier killed in the Korean War in 1951 have been returned to Vermont and are being laid to rest in a cemetery next to his family.

The Coast Guard says no Cuban migrants were intercepted at sea trying to reach the U.S. during April, the first time in seven years that has happened.

Teams of technicians were working "round the clock" Saturday to restore hospital computer systems in Britain and check transport services in other nations after a global cyberattack that hit dozens of countries crippled the U.K.'s health system. In Russia, where a wide array of systems came under attack, officials said services had been restored or the virus contained.

A top North Korean diplomat said Saturday that Pyongyang would be willing to meet with the Trump administration for negotiations "if the conditions are set."

To hear Gary Littrell recount the relentless four-day enemy assault on his battalion in Vietnam is to understand why the Medal of Honor recipient earned the military’s most prestigious award. And why many recipients don't live to talk about it.

Florida's tourism marketing agency, which has come under fire in the past year for signing a secret contract with rapper Pitbull and other expenses, was forced this week to sign a new contract with an advertising firm after a newspaper pointed out the initial contract called for advertising to potential Syrian tourists.

The Italian captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner that crashed into a reef in 2012 and capsized, killing 32 people, was headed to a Rome prison after losing his final appeals bid Friday.

Vandals have struck overnight at Rome's largest cemetery, smashing and shattering some 70 headstones and memorial monuments.

A man armed with fake weapons held a taxi driver hostage for about six hours Friday at a bank in a small Austrian town.

An Afghan official said at least three civilians have been killed in the capital Kabul after their vehicle was attacked with a sticky bomb.

Veterans are lobbying state lawmakers for a measure requiring Colorado's colleges and universities to have a firm policy to award credit for military service.

The nonprofit's mission is to provide homes, programs and services for veterans struggling to adjust to civilian life.