Russian PACE Delegation Credentials Unlikely to Be Renewed in January
PACE President Pedro Agramunt stated that it is most probable that the credentials of the Russian delegation will not be confirmed by the end of this month.
PACE President Pedro Agramunt stated that it is most probable that the credentials of the Russian delegation will not be confirmed by the end of this month.
Over 150 women and children from Iraq’s Yazidi ethno-religious minority group have been liberated from Daesh captivity in Mosul since the start of the operation to retake the city from the jihadist group in October, local media reported Thursday.
A dog owner from Tula, a city 181 km south of Moscow, is likely to be fined for roping a dog to his car and then knowingly driving off, forcing the ill-fated animal to run in order to keep pace and later dragging it down the highway in front of horrified onlookers.
It has been reported that renewable energy may have reached a so-called 'Tipping Point,' as solar and wind generated electricity is now economically viable. But, as is discussed in this program, there are serious technical, political and commercial barriers to renewables actually taking over from fossil fuels.
Poland’s main opposition Civic Platform party members may face penalties for blocking the work of the country’s lower-house Sejm, including 10 years of prison according to the country’s Criminal Code, Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said Thursday.
Turkish journalist and political observer Mehmet Ali Güller has summed up the results of 2016, which was a rather challenging year for Turkey in its fight against terrorism. In an interview with Sputnik Turkiye, he also made forecasts for 2017, urging his home country to "stop flannelling" both Russia and the US and choose Moscow as its ally.
US intelligence community's report on alleged 'Russian hacking' of the US election is a perfect example of 'propaganda merry-go-round', Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said during her weekly press briefing.
Former Czech President Vaclav Klaus stated that he would be very much in favor of decreasing the level of tensions between East and West, between Russia and the US and Western Europe.
The risk of accumulation of technological lag in Russia is the most pressing issue for the country's economy, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday.
China’s encouragement to African countries to sign up to the “One Belt, One Road” initiative is being ably supported by Beijing’s “railway diplomacy” on the continent, an expression of its military as well as economic potential.
China supported Japan's goal of building up its defense capabilities in the 1980s, according to a newly declassified Japanese diplomatic file.
Daesh, al-Nusra terrorists have been 'seizing all opportunities' to break the Syrian ceasefire, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said during her weekly press briefing.
Indian government will spend $250 billion on defense purchases in the next 10 years, the Indian Defense Ministry's Secretary of the Department of Defense Production Ashok Kumar Gupta said on Thursday.
The UN Syria envoy said armed groups were preventing evacuations from the besieged areas of Fua and Kefraya in the Idlib province.
Talks to break the decades-long deadlock over divided Cyprus, attended by new UN chief Antonio Guterres, have been called too hastily and will not produce a "breakthrough," Sputnik has been told by a senior academic who has put forward an alternatives set of proposals for discussion.
The European Union's Committee on Legal Affairs on Thursday voted in favor of creating the world's first legislation governing and classifying the field of robotics, the European Parliament said.
A joint Russian-Serbian humanitarian center located in the city of Nis plays a vital role in handling the aftermath of natural disasters in the Balkan region.
Sometimes, things appear different from a distance. A Czech-Swedish journalist has recently raised hell in Sweden by portraying the Nordic country in a considerably unfavorable light. The Swedish media were quick to stigmatize the dissident journalist as a "spreader of Russian propaganda."
UN Special Envoy for Syria said that the cessation of hostilities in Syria has generally been holding, but it has not enabled humanitarian access to besieged areas.
Two California lawmakers introduced the Fake News Act of 2017, which aims to provide "upcoming generations of online readers" with the tools to distinguish real news from fake news.
The Israeli prime minister criticized the upcoming peace process conference slated for Sunday.
The country’s outgoing President Rosen Plevneliev said that Bulgaria strongly opposes the policies of the Russian authorities but, despite of that, is willing to develop the relations with Moscow.
Just like most people across the globe, North Koreans celebrated the end of 2016 and have now returned back to work.
The Israeli embassy was funding trips to Israel for Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) activists, and had launched smear campaigns, branding some Labour members who raised questions over the definition of anti-Semitism as racists, according to media reports.
Chair of Russian energy giant Gazprom’s board of directors said that a new round of EU-mediated talks on Russian natural gas supplies to Ukraine might be held next month.