Новости за 17.06.2017

Fifty-eight people who were in Grenfell Tower are still missing and are presumed to be dead, London police announced Saturday, raising the death toll in the horrific inferno that turned the public housing block into a charred hulk.

The church was having a sale in its parking lot and people had dropped off items to be sold, South Whitehall police Chief John Christman said. One of the boxes left overnight contained the suspicious item, he said.

Qatar is the size of Connecticut, with a population of 2.6 million, only about 300,000 of them Qatari citizens. It’s oil- and gas-rich, and its leaders have managed to defy larger Arab neighbors in recent years in part by leveraging that wealth and ties with another neighbor, Iran, and the United States — 10,000 U.S. troops are based at Al Udeid Air Base outside Doha.

Two Fort Carson soldiers were held in the Douglas County jail Friday afternoon, a day after a shooting on the post left one soldier injured and led to heightened security.

Hampton Roads would see $274 million in brick-and-mortar military construction projects next year under legislation approved this week by the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee.

A U.S. Consulate in Turkey has alerted its citizens of heightened security in an Istanbul neighborhood because of a possible terror threat.

Romanian border police have detained 32 Iraqis hidden in a truck transporting furniture who told authorities they were trying to reach a country in Europe's visa-free Schengen travel zone.

With its flag lowered one final time, Australia on Friday ended 53 years of helping to keep the peace on ethnically divided Cyprus by pulling out its last three police officers serving with a United Nations peacekeeping force.

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman, vowing to come back again soon, on Saturday wrapped up a low-key and incident-free visit to the North Korean capital.

Prominent evangelist Franklin Graham says he finds it "very disturbing" that immigration authorities have arrested many Iraqi Christians for possible deportation.

The U.S. Navy will pay Huntington Ingalls Industries $3 billion to design and build an amphibious assault ship at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Mississippi.

A voicemail message directed to Arizona Rep. Martha McSally last month warned "our sights are set on you, right between your ... eyes." She's not alone. Since the shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise Wednesday, members of Congress have spoken more freely about threats of physical violence or death directed towards them.

Seven U.S. servicemembers were wounded and at least one Afghan soldier was killed Saturday in the second insider attack in a week, NATO and Afghan forces said.

Bill Cosby's trial on sexual assault charges ended without a verdict Saturday after jurors failed to reach a unanimous decision in a case that helped destroy the 79-year-old comedian's image as "America's Dad."

The Gaza Strip is in the midst of an electricity shortage that has left residents with just a few hours of power a day, turning many aspects of everyday life in the Hamas-ruled territory upside down and raising concerns about a humanitarian crisis.

Seven sailors are missing and three more, including the commanding officer, were confirmed injured after the USS Fitzgerald collided with a merchant vessel early Saturday off the coast of Japan.

First-year hHigh school softball coach Rob Jenkins doesn’t consider his job to be very stressful. After serving in the Army for 22 years, including three tours of duty in Iraq, Jenkins has developed a healthy perspective on life. He was a tank commander and he also drove Stryker Combat Vehicles.

Larry Seaboyer would be the first to say the century-old officers' quarters house at Fort Revere is in bad shape. When the property's new curator moved into the state-owned house a couple of weeks ago, he and his son had to remove a raccoon family from the attic.

The Trail of Tears has footsteps across several Arkansas counties, and one group wants to ensure those steps are not forgotten.

When retired Army veteran Kevin MacDonald walked into Giant City Stables for the first time, it was because he got a phone call from the Marion VA wondering if he would be interested in participating in a pilot project. The project offered equine therapy to veterans suffering from PTSD and other mental health issues through Specialized Equine Services' therapeutic program, which was already in place at the stables.

A science teacher specialist at Hampton City Schools, McAllister was at the marina at Langley Air Force Base with educators and two dozen fifth-graders from Booker Elementary who had arrived to build the school's first oyster reef on the Back River. "Here come your babies!" McAllister shouted. "Here come your babies!"

Terry Jung, the executive director of the Lone Survivor Foundation, was looking for support. Months after the foundation announced plans to build a retreat north of Fayetteville, Jung was at the site of the Lone Survivor Foundation’s future East Coast facility in search of something far more important than donations, he said.

Officially begun in 2001, with roots extending back to the late 1980s, the F-35 program is nearly a decade behind schedule, and has failed to meet many of its original design requirements. It’s also become the most expensive defense program in world history, at around US$1.5 trillion before the fighter is phased out in 2070.

A top Afghan security official says army security forces recaptured Tora Bora in eastern Nangarhar province.

Nearly five months into his presidency, President Donald Trump is heading to Camp David, the government-owned retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, for the first time.