Новости за 16.08.2017

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed legislation making it easier for a Missouri World War II vet and others of his generation to receive benefits to treat conditions from secret mustard gas experiments they were subjected to more than 60 years ago.

A U.S. servicemember died Wednesday after being wounded during partnered operations with Afghan forces in eastern Afghanistan, the military said.

A U.S. servicemember died Wednesday after being wounded during partnered operations with Afghan forces in eastern Afghanistan, the military said.

The Trump administration has added a Kashmiri militant group fighting to end Indian rule in the disputed Himalayan region to several terrorism blacklists.

The Minnesota attorney general’s office Wednesday filed suit against two companies that required veterans and senior citizens to sign over significant portions of their monthly pension payments in exchange for loans of relatively small sums, often to cover household emergencies and basic living expenses.

Two U.S. soldiers, already Olympic medalists, won medals in track and field events at the world championships in London.

French authorities filed preliminary murder charges Wednesday against a security guard who intentionally sped his car into a crowded pizzeria east of Paris, killing an adolescent girl and injuring a dozen other people.

An ex-nurse accused of assisting in a veteran’s emergency surgery while drunk could see his charges dismissed following competition of a federal diversion program.

The future of roasted eel, the Japanese summer delicacy, is in question as the creatures with their mysterious migrations become increasingly endangered.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday criticized President Donald Trump's threat of military action to resolve Venezuela's political crisis, saying Latin America successfully got rid of foreign intervention and this must be safeguarded.

Iraq is asking the U.N. Security Council for assistance in collecting evidence to prosecute extremists from the Islamic State group for possible crimes against humanity.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan ordered the national and state flags to fly at half-staff on Aug. 16 in memory of Staff Sgt. William Joseph Kundrat.

Ryan Reynolds hasn’t been getting a lot of sleep lately. In fact, he was so tired over lunch recently that he declined to eat the vegetables served with his salmon because it would require too much effort.

The Basilica di San Francesco di Paola defies the conventional design of a Catholic cathedral or even the city’s other domed churches. Its striking incongruence and grandeur make it worth a visit.

By Wednesday, the top generals from the Army, Marine Corps, Air Force and National Guard and the Navy’s top admiral had individually condemned intolerance following racist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Spc. Alex Beall, an Oregon National Guard member who fought in the war in Afghanistan, is being deployed along with more than 100 fellow guard members to take on a different foe: A wildfire at the state's iconic Crater Lake.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Wednesday that tensions on the Korean peninsula are at their highest level in decades and said it's important "to dial down the rhetoric and to dial up diplomacy."

As many as 60,000 people will come to this corner of southwest Ireland for an annual singles soiree that has been going on for 150 years.

Dillon Hopper’s service with the Marines ended in January, according to federal records, several months after the Anti-Defamation League says he took charge of the white supremacist group Vanguard America.

The repeal of the law, which had been in place since the 1940s, follows years of campaigning by women's rights advocates. Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt have canceled similar "marry the rapist" clauses over the years, and Jordan's parliament recently repealed a similar law.

The Falcons have been training players at different spots in hopes that doing so will help them prepare for whatever might arise later this season.

Times and dates for theaters in Japan, Okinawa and South Korea

A picture of a man wearing a hat with the insignia of the Army's 82nd Airborne giving a KKK salute in Charlottesville circulated Twitter this week, prompting a response from the division.

How can South Koreans still oppose a U.S. missile-defense system even though the North shows rapid progress in its nuclear weapons program?

Searchers spent Wednesday retrieving wreckage from an Army helicopter that went missing the night before about 5 miles off the coast of northwest Oahu; however, no trace of the five crewmen had been found by mid-afternoon.