Новости за 22.01.2017

The European countries should accept and assimilate migrants instead of creating ghettos, Pope Francis said in an interview with El Pais newspaper.

Former French Minister of Economy Arnaud Montebourg, who finished third in the Socialist Party primaries, has called on Sunday for voting in favor of ex-minister of education Benoit Hamon in the second round.

The trilateral meeting of Russia, Iran and Turkey in Astana is an important step for Syria crisis settlement, UN's Special Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura said Sunday, adding that Syria needs truce stabilization.

The Turkish police detained the main suspect in an attack on the building of Istanbul branch of the ruling Turkish Party of Justice and Development Party (AK Party), media reported Sunday.

Russian businesses expect a balanced and unbiased approach from the United States, anticipating a change in Moscow-Washington ties, the head of Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) Alexander Shokhin said Sunday.

At a swearing-in ceremony for his senior White House team, new US President Donald Trump revealed that he intends to begin negotiations on NAFTA with the Mexican president before the end of the month and has several other meetings with international leaders lined up.

French former Prime Minister Manuel Valls and ex-minister of education Benoit Hamon have entered second round of the Socialist Party primaries to determine a presidential nominee, the High Authority for the French Left Primary said Sunday.

The first round of the French Socialist Party primaries to determine the presidential nominee has finished, the votes' counting is ongoing.

The Russian delegation to Astana is holding a meeting with UN's Special Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura and his deputy Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Sunday.

More than half a million people took to the DC streets to march against new US President Donald Trump yesterday, and none of them were arrested.

The meeting between the Russian delegation and the head of the Syrian government delegation to Astana Bashar Jaafari concluded after almost two hours, a Sputnik correspondent reported Sunday.

Eurosceptic parties gathered in the German city of Koblenz on Saturday in a show of strength ahead of important elections in several European countries this year, Alternative for Germany politician Hans Pretzell told Sputnik Deutschland.

The number of casualties of the train derailment in the India state of Andhra Pradesh reached 39, according to local media.

The US Navy's aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush and its strike group finally left Virginia January 21 to begin its new deployment, ending the unusual near-month-long carrier gap in the Middle East.

Don’t worry – Russia is not attacking the US with missiles, no matter what the New York Times says.

A scandal is brewing in London following the publication of a story in the Sunday Times revealing that the British government covered up a Trident II D5 missile test gone awry in June, just weeks before a crucial parliamentary vote on the future of the weapons system.

According to Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan, the heads of the delegations of both Syrian government and the opposition expressed their positive attitude toward the upcoming talks in Astana on Monday.

Alibaba founder Jack Ma has made a legitimate criticism of US politics, which failed to distribute huge amounts of wealth or penalize Wall Street traders for their role in the 2008 financial crash, lawyer Harley Lewin told Radio Sputnik.

This ship, operated by Norwegian company Ulstein, was designed to service offshore wind power plants in the North Sea.

Russia's special presidential envoy on the Syria settlement, Alexander Lavrentiev said that Russian delegation managed to hold consultations with the Iranian and Turkish sides, to have discussions in trilateral format and bring closer positions on Syrian settlement.

Last week, Ukraine filed a suit in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, claiming Russia had violated two international conventions – one on combatting the financing of terrorism, and another on the elimination of racial discrimination. Political and legal experts consider whether Kiev has any chance of actually winning the case.

Russia has cautiously welcomed the US presidency of Donald Trump, but still Moscow is wisely keeping a wait-and-see position on whether it can work with the new White House occupant to improve international relations.

Donald Trump's election victory has brought an end to the Clinton era of intervention in Serbia's internal affairs, including the murky web of connections between NGO's in the US and abroad, experts told Sputnik Srbija.

Over 140 flights have been canceled in Japan on Sunday due to heavy snowstorm, according to two of the airlines active in Japan.

Adviser to the Syrian opposition delegation Yahya Aridi said that an agreement on the consultations on the Syrian crisis settlement is not ready yet.