Новости за 12.08.2017

President Donald Trump on Saturday blamed "many sides" for the violent clashes between protesters and white supremacists in Virginia and contended that the "hatred and bigotry" broadcast across the country had taken root long before his political ascendancy.

In what his family believes was his last letter home, Sgt. Harold Davis wrote that his only dream was to see America again. He died Feb. 1, 1944 on Mount Kenevi in New Guinea. He was to be buried Saturday at the foot of his mother's grave.

SDSU's midday practice Friday at MCAS Miramar was preceded by the Aztecs seniors going to breakfast in the Officers Club with members of the air station's Falcons football team.

Gunmen early Saturday stormed an office of a Syrian paramedic group that is active in opposition-controlled areas, killing seven of its members and stealing two vehicles and other equipment in a northwestern region, the group and opposition activists said, while a suicide attack south of the country killed at least 23 rebels.

Nearly 45 frustrating years of waiting and fighting with the federal government – and the help of Army veterans – brought Francis "Mac" McKenna, a former Air Force sergeant and munitions expert, the closure he sought for so long.

An international chemical weapons delegation will visit Syria in the coming days and Damascus will facilitate its mission to uncover who used chemical weapons in the country earlier this year, a Syrian official said Saturday.

Pakistan's army says "terrorists" have targeted a military truck with a bomb killing eight soldiers and seven civilians in the southwestern city of Quetta.

Hundreds of people chanted, threw punches, hurled water bottles and unleashed chemical sprays on each other Saturday after violence erupted at a white nationalist rally in Virginia. At least one person was arrested, as Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency.

An F/A-18 fighter jet that took off from the USS Nimitz suffered an engine problem and crash landed at Bahrain International Airport. The pilot ejected from the aircraft after it ran off the runway and escaped unharmed, authorities said.

In an escalation of Kenya's deadly election violence, police on Saturday fired live ammunition at rioters and used tear gas on vehicles carrying opposition officials trying to enter a Nairobi slum where they have strong support.

Thirty-five members of the 120th are heading to Afghanistan, after a period of training at Fort Hood, Texas. Two-thirds of the 35 soldiers have deployed before.

At least 30 children died Thursday night and into Friday at a hospital in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh after its supply of liquid oxygen was disrupted over an unpaid bill, a home ministry official told the Press Trust of India, citing police reports.

The Google engineer who blamed biological differences for the paucity of women in tech had every right to express his views. And Google likely had every right to fire him, workplace experts and lawyers say.

Guam is an ideal vacation spot for many South Koreans, and not even nuclear threats against the tropical island appear to be keeping them away.

Two Fort Worth men pleaded guilty Friday afternoon to playing a role in an alleged $36 million fraud scheme involving unnecessary lab tests of saliva and urine that were billed to the U.S. military's health care system.

"Keep em' flying. Keep em' climbing," Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson, the academy's first-ever female superintendent, told Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria after she transferred command in a ceremony Friday.

The guided-missile submarines USS Ohio and USS Michigan are based at Naval Base Kitsap, but operate out of Guam, which North Korea this week threatened to ring with missiles.

A Danish court ordered the owner of an amateur-built submarine Saturday held in pre-trial detention for 24 days while police investigate the disappearance of a Swedish journalist who had been on the ship before it sank.

Danish prosecutors urged a judge Saturday to hold in pre-trial detention the owner of an amateur-built submarine who is suspected of being responsible for the disappearance of a Swedish journalist who had been on the ship.

Israel Kristal, the world's oldest man who lived through both World Wars and survived the Auschwitz concentration camp has passed away just a month short of his 114th birthday, his family said Saturday.

An Afghan official says at least 13 civilians, including women and children, have been killed after their house was hit by mortars during a battle in northern Faryab province.

The Ramstein Air Force Sergeants Association and the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center Detachment 4 booster club hosted the annual Color Run at Ramstein on Saturday.

Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in Hawaii on Thursday to meet with U.S. Pacific Command leadership on the first leg of his second Asia trip in three months.

Chinese President Xi Jinping made a plea for cool-headedness over escalating tensions between the U.S. and North Korea in a phone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday, urging both sides to avoid words or actions that could worsen the situation.

Members of the Whiteman Air Force Base gathered Friday morning as John J. Nichols, commander of the 509th Bomb Wing, was promoted from colonel to brigadier general.