The super-rich in Britain are paying US$1.25 billion less in taxes than they were in 2009, despite a special unit being set up to stamp out aggressive tax avoidance, with many exploiting image rights abroad to reduce their tax burden in Britain, Sputnik has been told.
Thomas Clay, the president of the High Authority for the Left-wing Primaries, stated that the cyberattacks were carried out from the outside of France, adding that more detailed information on the matter would be provided the following week.
New US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said Washington is going to demonstrate its values at the UN by showing its strengths.
Baran Hadizadeh, who is among the first generation of female motorcycle racers in Iran, is heading to the top of the motocross world, inspiring many other Muslim women to go in for male dominated sports.
Belgium, the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom have reached an agreement on joint database on passengers traveling by international trains in an effort to counter possible terrorism threats, Belgian RTL radio reported on Friday.
Japanese chain store Loft has a hit on its hands after publishing 2017 souvenir calendars featuring the Russian leader. The immense popularity of the calendar reflects the growing public interest towards Vladimir Putin’s personality amid excitement both before and as a result of his visit in December 2016.
Even though UK Prime Minister Theresay May is the first world leader to officialy meet US President Donald Trump on Friday, January 27, since his inauguration earlier this month, both countries' relations go back quite a long way.
Mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi on Friday blasted Italian media over claims she had struck a plea bargain in an ongoing abuse of power investigation.
Another seven settlements have joined the ceasefire regime in Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The Russian part of the joint Russian-Turkish commission on issues related to violations of the Syrian ceasefire has not registered violations over the past 24 hours, while the Turkish side has registered six truce violations, according to the statement of the Russian Defense Ministry.
Earlier in January, ex-WADA chief Richard Pound said that Russia could lose the right to host the World Cup if a number of key teams refused to participate.
At least 1,500 human trafficking cases have been registered in Syria in the past year, according to the country's Interior Ministry.
The Turkish General Staff said Ankara's airstrikes had killed 57 PKK fighters on January 13-14 in an area in Iraq.
Volunteer with the General Command of the Syrian Military Council (MFS) from the United States Albert Avery Harrington was killed in Syria, according to the statement of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).
Mexico’s first division football club Jaguares de Chiapas (Chiapas' Jaguars) has released a video of a very non-traditional training session of its midfielder Christian “Hobbit” Bermúdez, who was hypnotized to make him score. The results of the training are yet to be seen, as the club ended up even right afterwards, with no goals from Bermúdez.
Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders stated that it is very important to conduct the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Brussels as soon as possible.
Environmentalists and the Standing Rock Sioux tribe are unlikely to give up their protest despite Donald Trump's executive order for the Dakota Access pipeline project to restart construction, Scott L. Montgomery, US author and geoscientist, told Radio Sputnik.
Carolyn Miles, President & CEO of Save the Children USA said that the refugee resettlement program is a vital way of saving refugee lives, while the current extensive vetting process makes it safe for the United States.
Deputy Coordinator of the Syrian opposition's High Negotiations Committee (HNC) Yahya Kodmani on Friday explained the absence of the umbrella organization at the meeting in Moscow with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying the invitation had only been sent to the HNC head rather than the entire committee.
With President Donald Trump already in office, Kiev is now facing at least three main threats in its relationship with the US, political analyst Oleg Onopko told Sputnik.
A group of warships will return to Russia in early February after having attained their combat objectives in Syria.
The Northern Ireland Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) will join the Scottish National Party (SNP) to challenge the UK government’s hard Brexit legislation, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said on Friday.
The US-based research firm Potomac Foundation and Poland's Casimir Pulaski Foundation teamed up this week to simulate a full-scale war scenario with Russia, based on a hypothetical Russian attack on the Baltic states. Using the Hegemon computer-based simulation platform, the wargames were sponsored by Western and Polish defense companies.
Migration has contributed to the growth of Germany's population, according to statistical data.