Новости за 10.01.2017

Spokesperson for Russia's Embassy in the United States Nikolai Lakhonin said that the Russian ambassador received and accepted invitation to the inauguration of Donald Trump.

Bender Jewish Community Center CEO Michael Feinstein claims that leaders in the US Jewish community are seeing a discouraging trend in the violent targeting of Hebrew institutions evidenced by Monday’s series of bomb threats.

Pakistan reached a new milestone this week with the successful launch of a submarine cruise missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, a demonstration of credible force for Islamabad to display against long-time neighboring rival India.

Former CIA officer Larry Johnson says that there is not a shred of evidence in a recent US intelligence report to back up charges that Russian President Vladimir Putin directed cyber attacks to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has reported that 41 of its soldiers died while on duty in 2016. This included two reserve and 10 career soldiers.

Advances in genetics and the cataloging of biomarkers have made it possible for a single blood test to reveal if a person is aging in a healthy manner and how to observe caution for the risks of developing specific age-related health conditions.

A Canadian judge in Hamilton, Ontario, has been suspended after wearing a Donald Trump hat on the day after Trump’s victory in the US presidential election. The judge, Bernd Zabel, reportedly made explicit pro-Trump comments in court. Both actions violate a judge’s obligation to be politically neutral.

The NAACP is involved in an incident after a Virginia waitress received a racist note instead of a tip from a white couple she served on Saturday morning.

Reports Monday that Donald Trump’s transition team asked senior officials at the National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA) to leave their posts are unfounded, according to a current NNSA employee.

On Monday, Iranian lawmakers approved an increase to the country’s military budget of five-percent of the GDP, up from the 2 percent it occupied in the 2015-2016 budget. Spending will include the development of Tehran’s long-range missile program, which US President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to stop.

Serbian Foreign Ministry possesses information on a possible siege of the state’s diplomatic mission in the United States or Europe, which is being planned by Albania’s diaspora in the light of the upcoming trial over the case of the former Kosovo guerrilla commander and Prime Minister Ramush Haradina, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said.

Arizona Republican Senator John McCain announced on Monday that he will join Democratic Senators Ben Cardin and Robert Menendez to push for additional sanctions against Russia.

Uber, the online-reservation taxi service, has agreed to share some data regarding client trips via a new web site.

Explosive device went off Monday near a post office in northeastern Syria’s city of Qamishli, killing one person and injuring one more, police source told Sputnik.

Donald Trump has formally selected his son-in-law Jared Kushner to serve as senior advisor after the New York billionaire takes office on January 20.

Astronomers say that study of a sun-like star 190 light-years from Earth has revealed significant evidence of a planet around the star’s debris disk. Modern telescopes are not powerful enough to directly image the inner debris disk, but researchers say they have deduced the planet’s existence by studying a shadow cast over part of the disk.

Convicted murderer and imprisoned cult leader Charles Manson may not be alive much longer, as emergency surgery was canceled after doctors determined that his health was so poor that he would likely die on the operating table.

On Monday morning Earth barely escaped being struck by a newly-discovered asteroid dubbed 2017 AG13.

The US intelligence report alleging Russian hackers interfered in the 2016 election is useful despite the lack of certainty surrounding its conclusions, former CIA Director James Woolsey told RT in an interview.

Amazon and other US online grocery shops will now accept food stamps for SNAP, a state-administered but federally-funded program for needy families, among fears regarding a significant administrative reshuffle under Donald Trump.

The State Department said that John Kerry will discuss the future role of the United States in the world in a speech he will give at the US Institute of Peace.

Chinese state media confirmed that Beijing has received a delivery of Sukhoi Su-35 “Flanker-E” fighter jets from Russia. The China Daily newspaper reported that the four aircraft arrived in late December 2016.

National Assembly of Venezuela declared Monday that President Nicolas Maduro abandoned his post, local media reported.

Czech Defense Minister Martin Stropnicky said that the air forces of the Czech Republic and Slovakia will cooperate in protection of the air space over the two countries starting from summer 2017.