Новости за 03.10.2017

Iran's foreign minister on Tuesday met with Qatar's ruling emir as a quartet of Arab states continues its boycott of the energy-rich nation, in part over relations that Doha maintains with Tehran.

House Republicans and Democrats on Tuesday lashed out at the former head of Equifax, demanding answers for the massive data breach that compromised the sensitive personal information of an estimated 145 million Americans.

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., said Tuesday that Republican leaders had no plans to advance a bill that would make it easier for Americans to purchase gun silencers.

A South Carolina teenager accused of trying to fight for Islamic State won't be tried until next year, giving lawyers more time to review classified evidence.

Suspected communist rebels staged an attack on a police car in the central Philippines on Tuesday and two Swedish citizens and their driver in a passing van were wounded in the crossfire, police said.

Islamic State on Tuesday claimed a pair of suicide bombings in Damascus and released a video purporting to show two Russian soldiers the extremists claim to have captured in fighting in eastern Syria.

A key group of senators took the country’s top defense officials to task Tuesday over their inability to obtain crucial details from the Pentagon or the White House on the U.S. war strategy in Afghanistan.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, in a full day of congressional hearings, discuss the political and security situations in Afghanistan and South Asia.

Until recently, James Hicks’ life in Germany could best be described as idyllic. But on Sept. 28, when Hicks returned home after a monthlong temporary posting, he found his car had been stolen and his house had been picked clean by burglars.

Come Thursday, students at Kaiserslautern-area schools can sleep in an extra hour before heading to school.

Robert Ledbetter was a scout sniper for the U.S. Army Rangers during one tour of duty in Iraq. He was trained for war. Those instincts kicked in on Sunday night at a different battlefield: about 40 yards from the stage where Jason Aldean was performing.

A coalition of Muslim and Iranian-American advocates and a nonpartisan legal institute filed the first lawsuits against the Trump administration's new travel restrictions for citizens of eight countries.

Wells Fargo's chief executive Timothy J. Sloan on Tuesday defended the bank against withering criticism from lawmakers that the mega bank has not done enough to reform itself since admitting last year it had opened millions of fake accounts customers didn't want.

Paris police said a neighbor alerted authorities to suspicious activity early Saturday in the building. A judicial official said an explosive device was found and deactivated and that counterterrorism prosecutors have opened an investigation.

If you sing karaoke, you’ve probably performed “American Girl.” If you play guitar, you’ve likely strummed “Learning to Fly.” And if you’ve driven a car while celebrating some personal achievement or another, you’ve almost certainly belted out “Free Fallin’” at the top of your lungs as you drummed the steering wheel, just like Tom Cruise in that indelible scene from “Jerry Maguire.”

The new U.S. ambassador to Russia presented his diplomatic credentials to President Vladimir Putin at a ceremony Tuesday in the Kremlin, a move that marks the formal start of Jon Huntsman's work in Russia.

Authorities in the U.S. have linked Pyotr Levashov to a series of powerful botnets, or networks of hijacked computers capable of pumping out billions of spam emails.

A U.S. senator wants to know how well the country's top six voting machine manufactures protect themselves against cyberattacks. An assessment by the Department of Homeland Security found that Russian hackers targeted state election systems.

Rob Ledbetter's battlefield instincts kicked in quickly as bullets rained overhead. The 42-year-old U.S. Army veteran who served as a sniper in Iraq immediately began tending to the wounded, one of several heroes to emerge from the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

The U.S. soldier killed in a roadside bomb blast Sunday in Iraq was a 20-year-old transport driver less than a month into his first overseas deployment, according to the Pentagon.

Kurdish officials say former Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has died in a Berlin hospital at the age of 83.

The victims just kept coming. In cars, in ambulances waiting four or five deep, from the walking wounded to the barely alive, they arrived in droves.

Saudi Arabia is looking at unprecedented deals to acquire oil and gas assets in Russia, deepening ties between the world's largest energy exporters as the Saudi king prepares to visit Moscow this week.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday called the gunman who killed 59 people and wounded hundreds others at a music festival in Las Vegas a "very, very sick individual."