Новости за 30.01.2019

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., introduced the “No First Use Act” in their respective chambers to codify in law what they said “most Americans already believe — that the United States should never initiate a nuclear war.”

Saudi Arabia's unprecedented anti-corruption sweep that saw top princes, businessmen, military officers and officials detained at the Ritz-Carlton hotel has concluded after netting the government around $106.6 billion, the Royal Court said Wednesday.

The U.N. humanitarian chief urged Syria's warring parties on Wednesday to ensure the delivery of desperately needed aid to Syrians stranded near the border with Jordan and warned again that a major military operation in extremist-controlled Idlib would be a humanitarian catastrophe.

New rules proposed by the Department of Veterans Affairs could mean less travel time and more choices for veterans seeking mental or physical care.

The new reliability issues add to doubts the carrier, designated as CVN-78, will meet its planned rate of combat sorties per 24 hours — the prime metric for any aircraft carrier — according to the annual report on major weapons from the Defense Department’s operational test office.

The project came out of the Cascadia Rising exercise in 2016, which highlighted issues the coast likely would experience trying to resupply after a disaster such as a major earthquake and a tsunami.

News of the increase in suicides came within days of commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert Neller’s “Message to the Force 2019,” which was drafted Jan. 25, according to a copy provided to Stars and Stripes. In that document, Neller said he felt compelled to address the issue.

A Turkish citizen who worked as a translator for the U.S. Consulate in Adana was convicted on terror charges Wednesday but will be freed from prison, Turkey's official news agency reported.

The Boeing 777 belonging to Russia's Nordwind Airlines arrived Monday night and was still on the tarmac at Maiquetia airport outside the capital on Wednesday. One rumor sparked by the plane's presence claims that President Nicolas Maduro's administration is looking to whisk what's left of the nation's depleted gold reserves out of the country.

A list of U.S. Army soldiers who have been promoted to the rank of sergeant major, master sergeant or sergeant first class as of February 1, 2019.

New rules proposed by the Department of Veterans Affairs could mean less travel time and more choices for veterans seeking mental or physical care.

The “Kirtland Air and Space Fiesta” will feature a STEM and Space Pavilion containing displays and hands-on demonstrations by the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Space and Missile Systems Center and Air Force Space Command.

In Yamaguchi and Akita prefectures, where the Aegis Ashore systems likely will be deployed, concerns over environmental damage and their proximity to populated areas could make their planned deployment in fiscal 2023 challenging.

President Donald Trump challenged the perceptions of his intelligence chiefs on Wednesday after they told Congress that North Korea is unlikely to dismantle its nuclear arsenal and that the Iran nuclear deal is working. "They are wrong!" Trump tweeted.

Last year, Navy Chief Petty Officer Shannon Kent was slated to attend a clinical psychology doctorate program. But an obscure Navy rule derailed those plans and led to her fifth combat deployment. She was killed less than two months later in Syria. Now, her family wants to finish the fight she started to undo the regulation.

The exercise came just ahead of high-level U.S.-China talks scheduled for Wednesday in Washington aimed at finding a solution to a trade war that has cast a growing shadow over the world’s top two economies.

A town hall meeting to discuss reductions in some healthcare services got heated Wednesday, as Defense Department civilians complained of eroding access and difficulties with cross-cultural medical care, prompting the head of U.S. Army Garrison Italy to take to the microphone to defend health clinic officials.

Prosecutors have charged a Naval Air Station Oceana sailor with one specification of wrongful interference with an adverse administrative proceeding, as well as an aggravated arson charge. He's also charged with lying to investigators about his whereabouts.

The number of loose ends that remain in Mueller’s investigation — some of which could take months to tie up — simply appears inconsistent with acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker’s prediction.

It does not have to go like this. The United States could announce that talks won’t proceed beyond the framework, to matters of substance, without the full inclusion of the Afghan government.

For years, Israel has quietly carried out air strikes against Iranian targets inside Syria. This month, in a dramatic about-face, it began talking about it, provoking the Iranians," and increasing the risk that the region will tumble into a new war.

"There has been no change in the situation on the ground," said Ilham Ahmed, who heads the executive committee of the Syrian Democratic Council.

"There has been no change in the situation on the ground," said Ilham Ahmed, who heads the executive committee of the Syrian Democratic Council.

The Kaiserslautern Raiders earned a key DODEA-Europe Division I basketball sweep over the Wiesbaden Warriors on Tuesday evening, picking up a 38-18 girls victory at home and a 59-49 boys win on the road.

Wiesbaden hosts a championship meet Saturday that is both the first championship event of the DODEA-Europe calendar year and the final chapter of a fascinating marksmanship season.