Новости за 26.12.2017

Tunisia tried to smooth out emerging tensions with the United Arab Emirates on Monday after Emirates airline barred Tunisian women from boarding its flights and the North African country responded by suspending the Dubai-based carrier's operations in the air and on the ground.

A nonprofit privacy group cannot stop President Donald Trump's election fraud commission from collecting millions of voter records, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.

The United States imposed sanctions Tuesday on two North Korean officials who are considered key to their country's development of ballistic missiles.

Perhaps it took the passage of tax reform to finally get employers to accept the labor market environment for what it is today, and not what it was in 2010.

The U.N. Security Council has unanimously approved a tough, new resolution to combat the movement of foreign terrorist fighters.

The first thing that Amtrak Cascades 501 victims and their families likely will learn, as we did, is that this accident didn’t have to happen.

The surge of complaints comes as the White House moves to redefine America's role in the global economy. "Corporate America thinks the Trump administration is going to grant it protection," said Chad Bown, a fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a research and policy organization focused on global trade.

Almost a year into Donald Trump's presidency, the border wall he passionately promoted throughout his election campaign amounts to eight prototypes, no more than 30 feet long each, sitting in a desert outside San Diego. No funding has been appropriated by Congress to advance the project beyond the testing phase.

Japan is considering remodeling the Maritime Self-Defense Force's largest-class destroyer, the Izumo, into an aircraft carrier on which fighter jets can take off and land, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. If the plan materializes, it will be the first aircraft carrier to be possessed by the Self-Defense Forces.

Three large U.S. cities have filed a federal lawsuit against the Defense Department, saying many servicemembers who are disqualified from gun ownership weren't reported to the national background check system.

One by one, Republican congressional leaders — some wise elders, others designated fawners — addressed the White House’s carefully choreographed tax reform victory ceremony last Wednesday. As if scripted, each gifted a gleeful President Donald Trump with a gushing word-bath of praise.

In his wide-ranging speech on national security, Trump highlighted what he called the broadening of U.S. influence throughout the world. But one year into his presidency, many international leaders, diplomats and foreign policy experts argue that he has reduced U.S. influence or altered it in ways that are less constructive.

The New York National Guard says its honor guards are expected to have conducted more than 11,000 military funerals by the time 2017 ends.

Four Afghan border police officers were killed after their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Dawlatabad district of Faryab province on Tuesday afternoon and five people were killed late Monday after Taliban forces stopped a vehicle in Ghazni city, took the passengers out and shot them, officials said

Profound differences between House and Senate Republicans may play as big a role as GOP fights with Democrats on how the legislative agenda plays out when Congress returns in January.

After months of conflicting messages, last week the Trump administration took a big step toward drastically expanding punishments for human rights abusers and kleptocrats all over the world.

At this point in December -- after the first wave of film critics' groups have named their winners and the voting members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Screen Actors Guild have announced their nominations -- those of us who follow such things have usually been granted a measure of clarity about the state of the Academy Awards race.

Where to get your glow on at light shows and winter illuminations in Japan, Okinawa and South Korea.

The ship traffic came days after the head of the British military warned in an interview of the threat of Russian submarine activity near the sensitive undersea data cables that carry Internet traffic between North America and Europe.

The ship traffic came days after the head of the British military warned in an interview of the threat of Russian submarine activity near the sensitive undersea data cables that carry Internet traffic between North America and Europe.

In November, the powerful blast flipped a 20-ton RG-33 armored vehicle into a ravine and onto its roof. The incident is part of a pattern of such attacks that’s developed in Kandahar this fall.

There are 9,000 Filipino World War II veterans still living in the Philippines. Supporters hope to hold a ceremony there next year and present 100 replicas of the Congressional Gold Medal awarded on behalf of Filipino veterans in October.

There are 9,000 Filipino World War II veterans still living in the Philippines. Supporters hope to hold a ceremony there next year and present 100 replicas of the Congressional Gold Medal awarded on behalf of Filipino veterans in October.