Новости за 13.01.2018

The camps are run by ethnic Kurdish forces who have some distinctly progressive ideas about women. It's been something of a culture shock for many of the residents who for three years had lived under the crushing religious fundamentalism of Islamic State.

Residents of Senegal's Casamance region are calling on the government to step up efforts to find attackers who killed at least 14 people who had been gathering wood.

Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has called the military's investigation into the deaths of Rohingya Muslims found in a mass grave a "positive indication," state media reported Saturday.

In a matter of weeks, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is expected to announce that it has all but completed construction of a new hospital in Aurora, Col. – a major milestone for a project that drew national outrage in 2015 when the agency admitted it was $1 billion over budget.

The warrant was issued for Larry Goynes earlier Friday in the early morning Jan. 6 shooting death of 27-year-old Kyle LeFlore outside the Reign Lounge in north Omaha.

Keith Jackson, the folksy voice of college football who for decades weaved backwoods wit through Saturday afternoon ABC broadcasts, has died. He was 89.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, who rode a wave of voter unhappiness with President Donald Trump to electoral victory, took the oath of office Saturday with a pledge to make politics less toxic and more productive.

In the weeks since the Trump administration withheld nearly $1 billion in security aid for Pakistan, Washington and Islamabad officials have been working to patch things up and avert a dangerous deterioration in their often troubled relationship.

Supporters of the Charles H. Coolidge Medal of Honor Heritage Center slated for downtown Chattanooga have raised $1.25 million of its $6 million campaign goal so far, officials said Friday.

In November 1972, 1st Lt. Jack Harvey's fighter jet disappeared over the mountainous jungle of South Vietnam. His body has never been found. His widow, and a daughter who never knew him, continue to cope with the loss. But they can now find some solace in knowing that his name soon will be inscribed on the Okaloosa County Veterans Memorial in Crestview.

Before being roasted in-house, finely ground and boiled in a raqwa pot at the chic, wood-accented digs at 6655 Schaefer Road, these beans embarked on a perilous journey that began in the mountains of Yemen, a country afflicted with hunger, blockades, and a war that has claimed thousands of lives.

Black Forest sweeps Rota in rematch of last two Division II title contests.

Defending champion Stuttgart breaks two-game losing streak by topping Ramstein.

Japan's prime minister says his country has entered into a pact with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to boost economic and political ties with the three former Soviet republics.

Another hurdle has been cleared in bringing a Fisher House to New Mexico, as stakeholders have signed a memorandum of agreement allowing the project to move forward.

They were both from Chicago, but one was a Cubs fan and the other a Sox fan. They had to learn how to get over that barrier and a lot more. An essay about their friendship that began in Vietnam has now gotten the two war veterans tickets to the Super Bowl.

As of Friday morning, there is no pending nominee for 245 of the 626 jobs we're tracking. Among them: deputy secretary at Treasury and Commerce, director of the Census, director of ATF, director of the Office on Violence Against Women at Justice and commissioner of the Social Security Administration.

Despite the proliferation of global communications, North Korea's leaders have long pursued Tokugawa-like isolation from foreign influences. One of the few sanctioned exceptions is the crisis "hotline" that allows daily telephone conversations between North and South Korean military figures within the demilitarized border town of Panmunjom.

To understand Stalin, you need Shakespeare, and Rolin invokes Macbeth's conception of life as but "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." He calls on an ensemble of writers, poets, witnesses and visionaries – Anton Chekhov, Vasily Grossman, Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam – to ground the story.

FDR had an amazing ability to maintain a Herculean schedule, as a self-described juggler who could handle domestic pressures as well as, later, a two-front world war that would have taxed the abilities of mere political mortals.

After years of operating at a financial loss, the General Henry Knox Museum has launched a "calling all angels" fundraising campaign to keep the museum open for another year.

A local company that disposes of explosives discarded by the U.S. military received a permit to expand its plant east of Joplin, Mo. EBV Explosives Environmental Co. was set to begin full operation of machinery that destroys propellants used to power rockets and missiles, after approval from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.

A new bill reflects a new agreement reached by White Sands Missle Range and White Sands National Monument in February 2017, which optimizes boundaries to address current needs better than the 1996 legislation. The Army will be able to retain approximately 2,500 acres to the northwest of the monument that the previous legislation would have transferred from WSMR to the monument.

"Don't ask, don't tell" is how many veterans have approached health care conversations about marijuana use with the doctors they see from the Department of Veterans Affairs.