Новости за 20.11.2018

Flying has become a game of inches, with airlines trying to squeeze as many passengers as possible on planes. They have made seats smaller, shrunk legroom and now made the bathrooms so small an average-size person feels squeezed.

One beauty of life is learning about different cultures through food — but in Okinawa, one of the smallest prefectures in Japan, finding authentic versions of dishes from around the world can sometimes be a bit difficult. Luckily, a small neighborhood restaurant on the island offers diners the chance to sample a type of Latin American cuisine that’s a rare find even outside of the Land of the Rising Sun: Peruvian food.

It’s not clear what damage the school sustained in the military training exercises, which included explosions that nearby residents said shook their homes. Local residents were surprised, saying they received no notification that such activity would be taking place.

In the wake of a killing spree, clues emerge that make people wonder out loud whether the impulse that led Ian David Long to slay 12 people at a country music bar had been forming in plain sight.

VetTech is an internship program started in 2016 at Fermilab in Batavia, Ill., to entice veterans with technical experience as a way of offsetting a generation of electrical and mechanical technicians now beginning to retire.

The 440-foot-long gray vessel is one of only two fully operational Liberty ships, which transported vast numbers of military personnel and countless tons of cargo during the war — and the only one sailing regularly out of the port city where it was built.

The conclusions of the 2017 audit appear to support federal and state lawsuits that accuse Navient of boosting its profits by steering some borrowers into the high-cost plans without discussing options that would have been less costly in the long run.

Actor James Woods used his Twitter account to call attention and help to a distressed veteran who was contemplating suicide.

President Donald Trump called the killing of Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul a “horrible crime” that the U.S. does not condone, but said Saudi Arabia is a “great ally.”

Overdue medical and dental exams were the primary reasons for failure to meet what the Army refers to as medical readiness in 2016.

Leon Panetta, who was CIA director during the Osama bin Laden raid and later served as secretary of defense, said President Donald Trump owed an apology to McRaven and to all of those in the military and intelligence agencies who played a role in tracking down bin Laden and carrying out the risky raid into Pakistan. He called Trump’s remark “patently ridiculous.”

Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said another woman had sought an order of protection in 2014 against Juan Lopez, who died following the shooting Monday at Mercy Hospital in which he shot his former fiancee.

Seventy-five years ago this week, the Battle of Tarawa was a bloody proving ground for Marine Corps amphibious doctrine in the Pacific.

A resurgent Russia is “challenging a lot of the system of rules and norms that have existed here in Europe and around the world for so long,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson said after an all hands meeting with sailors at the Navy’s base in Naples.

Drama unfolded on Twitter on Monday night with actor James Woods reaching out to help an Orlando-area military veteran who had tweeted that he was “gonna kill myself tonight. I've lost everything I have nobody, nobody cares." But Woods cared.

Virgin Galactic's next flight of SpaceShipTwo, its winged and sporty space plane, is scheduled for launch in the coming weeks and could, after years of trying, give Richard Branson his long elusive conquest of blasting through the atmosphere.

President Donald Trump has said that Saudi Arabia is a “spectacular ally” and that he’s not convinced that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was directly responsible for the Oct. 2 slaying of the editorial columnist for The Washington Post.

The U.S.-led NATO alliance warned Tuesday that the European Union should avoid competing with NATO as the key security pact on the Continent, after leaders in Germany and France raised the possibility of setting up a European army.

More spending isn’t the answer. Instead, Europeans realize they need more cooperation in procurement to bring down costs and introduce more uniformity.

His assumption has always been that the only reason a solution had not already been implemented is that he was not president. Well, now he is. So, how’s that working out?

A bomb blast ripped through Kabul at a wedding venue where hundreds of Afghans had gathered for a wedding and to celebrate the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad.

Work will start in summer and the first F-35s are scheduled to arrive in 2021.

Already serving life sentences for three brutal murders, 78-year-old Samuel Little says he has killed 90 women over four decades.

Opium production in Afghanistan has dropped sharply this year, but poppy cultivation remains at high levels and the revenue it produces will likely continue to hamper U.S. efforts in its longest war, according to a new survey.

The producers of the Netflix series hope the eight stories will inspire new generations of Americans and that they’ll be able to continue telling stories of the more than 3,500 Americans who have received the country's highest military award.