Новости за 22.05.2017

The Air Force is blaming Boeing mechanics for accidental contamination of the oxygen system aboard one of the modified Boeing 747 planes known as Air Force One used for presidential travel.

Nadia Murad managed to escape the Islamic State militants who enslaved her and other Yazidi women in Iraq. A comment betrays how deeply the scars from the ordeal run more than two years after she broke free.

Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Keithley’s moment of inspiration came during a drone demonstration by graduate students at the University of Hawaii. Why couldn’t the Navy use drones to find sailors who have fallen overboard?

President Donald Trump's U.N. ambassador called Monday for the U.N. and aid agencies to shift focus in how they support Syrians in need by boosting support for roads, schools and hospitals in neighboring countries that have been overwhelmed by millions of refugees.

Turkey summoned the U.S. ambassador on Monday to protest what it called "aggressive and unprofessional actions" by American security personnel against Turkish bodyguards in Washington during President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit last week.

For many years, the fighting game genre was pretty clearly defined two distinct philosophies. On one hand, there was the anime-based, fluid “Street Fighter” and its clones. On the other, much bloodier hand, there was the motion-captured grit of “Mortal Kombat” and its acolytes.

Homeland Security says nearly 740,000 foreigners who were supposed to leave the country during a recent 12-month period overstayed their visas.

Since Hollywood loves a nostalgic reboot, it’s no surprise that the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise is setting sail once again, six years after 2011’s “On Stranger Tides.” For this film, subtitled “Dead Men Tell No Tales,” Disney has hired a lesser-known filmmaking duo to reanimate the series - a pair of Norweigan filmmakers, Joachim Rg and Espen Sandberg, who helmed the 2012 oceanic adventure film “Kon-Tiki.” What they’ve delivered is a cookie-cutter Pirates movie that faithfully follows the formula.

Investigators hunted Tuesday for possible accomplices of the suicide bomber who attacked an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, killing 22 people and sparking a stampede of young concertgoers, some still wearing the American pop star's trademark kitten ears and holding pink balloons.

Brad Pitt and Gen. Stanley McChrystal — the inspiration to Pitt’s four-star Afghanistan commander in the upcoming Netflix war satire “War Machine “-- would seem to be worlds apart. One, an affable member of Hollywood’s elite; the other a hard-charging lifetime military man. But Pitt found one connection with his character: a swollen ego, and the damage done.

A Mississippi lawmaker is saying Louisiana leaders should be "lynched" for removing Confederate monuments.

The FBI is investigating the fatal stabbing of a black U.S. Army lieutenant visiting the University of Maryland as a possible hate crime after a white student with ties to a Facebook group that posts disparaging material about African-Americans was arrested in his death, authorities say.

A Syrian man has gone on trial in Germany for allegedly leading a militia in Syria that was responsible for torture and killings.

NASA has ordered up urgent spacewalking repairs at the International Space Station.

Nearly 60,000 Haitians who have been legally living in the United States for more than a decade could be deported if the Department of Homeland Security chooses not to extend what is known as Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for them.

The battle for Syria’s south is on, and the Trump team must decide if the United States will play a decisive role.

Iran's newly re-elected President Hassan Rouhani on Monday called relations with the United States "a curvy road," saying he hoped the Trump administration will "settle down" enough for his nation to better understand it.

President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination on Monday and declined to hand over documents sought under subpoena by a Senate panel investigating Russia's meddling in the 2016 election.

With President Donald Trump targeting federal employees' retirement programs and House Republicans taking aim at their compensation generally, Uncle Sam's goal of being a model employer looks shaky.

With President Donald Trump targeting federal employees' retirement programs and House Republicans taking aim at their compensation generally, Uncle Sam's goal of being a model employer looks shaky.

As President Donald Trump opened his keynote address in Saudi Arabia, he lavished praise on the "magnificent" kingdom and "the grandeur of this remarkable place."

Most of the so-called experts on the long search for peace between Israel and the Palestinians say there is little chance that President Donald Trump will break new ground in the bitter conflict when he arrives in Jerusalem on Monday.

China's President Xi Jinping was not trying to bully the Philippines at a recent meeting with President Rodrigo Duterte, according to the Southeast Asian nation's top diplomat.

The last handful of neighborhoods held by the Islamic State in Mosul will likely be the most difficult to retake despite nearly eight months of street-by-street fighting, the U.S. officer in charge of advising Iraqi forces in the area predicted.

Handcuffed, her inmate number 503 attached to her clothing, former South Korean President Park Geun-hye begins her corruption trial Tuesday in the same courtroom where a brutal dictator was sentenced to death two decades ago.