A YouGov survey has found that 49 percent of Britons believe US president Donald Trump's state visit to the UK this year should go ahead, compared to 36 percent who would like it canceled.
Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget, has been confirmed by the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Thursday.
Russia is against politicizing natural gas deliveries, but Moscow needs guarantees to avoid losses, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed his call for creating a united front against terrorism.
There are no Ukrainian armed forces' tanks in the eastern town of Avdiivka, there are only police armored vehicles, an official representative of the press center of the Ukrainian security forces special operations Leonid Matyukhin told Sputnik on Thursday.
US top diplomat Rex Tillerson on Thursday urged State Department employees to set aside their political differences and work together as a team.
Russia is ready to fully finance the project to complete the construction of Hungary's Paks Nuclear Power Plant in the amount of 12 billion euros, if a relevant agreement is changed, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday.
The United States is putting together an immigration system that would ensure immigrants share American values and reject any form of discrimination, President Donald Trump said on Thursday at a National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC.
Famous American groundhog Phil from Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, made his traditional weather forecast. He saw his shadow, which means that winter will last another six weeks. Find out prophesies of other rodents in different countries around the globe.
The United States has issued a license permitting certain transactions with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), which has been sanctioned over alleged interference into the 2016 US presidential election, the US Department of the Treasury said on Thursday.
Deliveries of PAK FA fifth-generation fighter aircraft to the Russian Armed Forces are most likely to start under the new 2018-2025 arms procurement program, Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said Thursday.
Hungary and Russia expect to begin joint preparations for construction of the Hungarian nuclear power plant Paks in 2017, with the construction itself beginning in 2018, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in Turkey for meetings with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss developments in Syria and Iraq and talk about topics ranging from press freedom, terrorism and the refugee crisis.
According to the Hungarian prime minister, the anti-Russian sanctions resulted in a $6.5 billion loss in the Hungarian-Russian turnover
The Pentagon's operation aimed at countering Daesh's online propaganda and recruitment efforts on social media is said to have been plagued by amateurism and mismanagement in what is the latest embarrassing incident for the US Department of Defense. It is unsurprising then that Washington has been unable to achieve success in this area.
The Trump administration’s latest threat of retaliation against Iran for a ballistic missile test and attacks on US and allied ships reinforces a belief in Tehran that the White House intends to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal, according to a report by the private intelligence firm Soufan Group on Thursday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin explained three reasons behind the aggravation of the Ukrainian crisis.
Russian representatives in the Russian-Turkish commission on the Syrian truce have registered three violations of the ceasefire regime over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday.
In the Iranian city of Isfahan a child was born from an embryo which was frozen by scientists back in 2003. This birth has set a record for the longest term for embryo preservation, spanning 14 years.
According to Syrian news agency SANA, the Syrian Foreign Ministry has sent two letters to the UN Security Council in connection with Turkey's "attacks" against the Syrian people.
The first troops of NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) battalion battle group will arrive in Lithuania at the beginning of February, the country’s Defense Ministry said in a statement Thursday.
More than half of the respondents in six European countries believe that Europe needs NATO and the United States to defend itself, according to a new poll conducted by IFop Research Company. In an interview with Sputnik, Turkish political analyst Barış Doster said that Europeans are influenced by threats created by NATO to maintain funding.
Earlier this week, Sputnik obtained the full text of the Syrian draft constitution proposed by Russia. Last week, the constitution prepared by Russian experts was presented to the Syrian opposition during the intra-Syrian talks in the Kazakh capital of Astana.
India and China are involved in a race to build ports in Indian Ocean over the years. Slow action on proposal by Indian government had irked Iran last year. Now, India wants to win back confidence of Iranian government and other Indian Ocean countries through special fund allocations.
Ukraine needs to speed up implementing the Minsk agreements on settling the conflict in east Ukraine and proceed with constitutional decentralization reforms, Council of Europe (CoE) Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland said Thursday.