Новости за 14.01.2017

Turkish authorities have arrested two ethnic-Uighur Chinese nationals for suspected links to the deadly mass shooting at an Istanbul nightclub in the early hours of New Year's Day.

The first passenger train from the Serbian capital of Belgrade to Kosovo was stopped on Saturday over a security threat, local media reported.

Turkey finished building concrete wall along the state’s border with Syria and Iraq for security reasons, local media reported Saturday, citing the Turkish General Staff.

Human Rights Watch calls US President-elect Donald Trump and several other high-profile world leaders threats to human rights in its 2017 World Report.

Serbian authorities have sent a tricked-out train bearing slogans inside and out to a Serbian-dominated area of Kosovo, an act Kosovo authorities are calling aggressive and provocative.

The Syrian government’s negotiator Ahmad Ghadban was killed on Saturday by militants in Barada Valley, a source in a security agency told Sputnik.

On Sunday, Vice President Joe Biden will pay his third and final visit to Ukraine. Last week, President Obama awarded the vice president with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, including for his efforts to create a "smarter foreign policy." What will Biden get up to in Kiev? Will the farewell trip be another effort to put a spoke in Trump's wheels?

North Korea's Cabinet newspaper criticized the administration of US President Barack Obama and said it was time for "a fresh way of thinking," between the nations January 14, seemingly a direct statement to US President-elect Donald Trump.

One person died and 16 people were injured after the double-decker citybus flipped over to the side on the road in Hong Kong's district of Kwun Tong, according to local media.

A team of enterprising Russian scientists managed to develop a unique power generator that uses both solar and wind energy at the same time to produce electricity.

While the US intelligence community and the British government signal they have nothing to do with the unverified report on Donald Trump's alleged ties with Russia, a former British intelligence agent believed to be behind the so-called "Trump dossier" has gone underground. So who is Christopher David Steele?

Waging a valiant crusade against what they perceive as ‘Russian propaganda’, certain Western media outlets apparently tend to forget about bothersome and insignificant things like facts and fact checking.

At least 23 people died and 12 more are feared dead capsizing of the overloaded boat on the Ganges near the India's city of Patna in the state of Bihar, according to local media.

Beijing and Hanoi agreed on the settlement of the South China Sea dispute through negotiations, avoiding any escalation of the conflict, during the visit of Vietnam’s leader Nguyen Phu Trong to China.

This girl becomes spooked when objects in her house start moving apparently on their own.

Last week, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu confirmed that work is continuing on Liana, a new constellation of military satellites capable of advanced scanning for ground and sea-based radio signal emissions. Expected to be completed this year, the system will significantly improve Russia's space-based electronic intelligence capabilities.

The US aerospace company SpaceX has launched its Falcon 9 rocket carrying an Iridium satellite first time following the September accident. On September 1, a SpaceX-built Falcon 9 rocket with a commercial satellite on board exploded during fueling on the launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

South African photojournalist Shiraaz Mohamed was kidnapped in Syria, the disaster relief organization Gift of the Givers reported on Saturday.

President Mahmoud Abbas and Pope Francis exchanged gifts and discussed the opening of the Palestinian embassy to the Holy See.

The negotiations on the format of the Astana meeting are not completed yet, the work is at full swing, while Russia, Iran and Turkey – are guarantors of the signed ceasefire agreements that are basis for the meeting in Astana, according to a source.

Currently, there are 36 Rosatom units construction projects in Europe, the Middle East, South-East Asia and Africa, according to official data.

Russian nuclear state corporation Rosatom returned to active work in Turkey on the construction the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in Turkey, according to Rosatom’s CEO Alexey Likhachev.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that the promise of Donald Trump to move the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem will not promote settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

A military aircraft with the bodies of the United Arab Emirates' diplomats killed in an explosion in the Afghan city of Kandahar arrived in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi on Saturday.

Baby Boomers were much more financially secure than Millennials, a study has found.