If NATO's role in maintaining Europe's security diminishes Brussels may start considering a European army. However, if created such a military would risk facing the same problems as NATO currently has.
The Trump administration is effectively freezing out CNN, declaring that the White House has no desire to send its representatives to appear on "fake news."
Remember the Terminator and the Iron Man neither diseases nor enemies could kill? Sputnik has learned about a revolutionary system which improves hand function invented by Nuada, a startup company in Portugal. Russia too is working on technology to turn people into “Supermen.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday sent a congratulatory telegram to new US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, expressing hope for improvement of relations between Moscow and Washington, a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Indian government will set up a Computer Emergency Response Team to strengthen security amid push for digitization.
According to a DPR official, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are concentrating troops and armaments near the town of Avdiivka for an offensive.
National Front leader and candidate for the French presidency Marine Le Pen said Thursday she would introduce a new tax affecting the employment of foreigners in the country.
The ruling of the Romanian authorities on reducing penalties for corruption signals that Bucharest is backtracking on fighting corruption, First Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans said Thursday, adding that it risks to go back to "what the situation was in the past."
The Crimeans are calling on Western countries to take control of “barbaric” policies of the Ukrainian authorities in their attempt to unleash a conflict on the border with Russia, a Russian lawmaker representing Crimea said Thursday.
Most marine creatures are camera shy and prefer to run (or swim) for their life when disturbed by curious humans, but not this octopus. Watch the sea animal attack the diver who dared to disturb it.
North Korea's provocative behavior is the only reason behind the US deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system on the South Korean territory, US Defense Secretary James Mattis said Thursday on his first official overseas trip, reiterating that the defense of Seoul is the purpose of deployment.
In this third, Level Talk program on drones, we frame our discussion on whether drone warfare has changed the concept of warfare. No longer, it is argued in this program, is warfare to do with the age-old principles of "Just war," enshrined in the Geneva Conventions and other international treaties.
The Syrian government forces have dislodged Daesh terrorists from 32 villages around the city of Aleppo, according to the Syrian army's statement cited by Syrian news agency SANA.
US President Donald Trump's election campaign office paid his businesses $12.8 million throughout the course of the presidential race, the Politico website reported citing the Federal Election Commission data.
Forget about decaffeinated coffee and coffee-like drinks made of chicory! Today, coffee made of mushrooms is the trendiest health craze among hipsters and gym sharks alike.
Seventeen French lawmakers from right-wing The Republicans party and center Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) have extended their support to conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon engulfed in a scandal involving his wife's allegedly fake job, in a joint article published in Le Monde newspaper on Thursday.
“If I knew that I as a musician could help save cultural monuments in Kosovo and Metohija, I would do my very best to give a concert there,” the famous Russian conductor Gergiev, who performed in Syrian Palmyra in 2016, said when meeting with reporters in Belgrade.
The peace talks which took place in Kazakhstan in late January have become the most effective platform designed to put an end and bring lasting peace to war-torn Syria, Oktay Aksoy, Turkey's former ambassador to Jordan, told Sputnik Turkey.
The final nuclear agreement turned Iran into an attractive destination for foreign investments. After the agreement was signed, a free economic zone on the Iranian island of Qeshm managed to attract investments from 10 countries.
The deal between Australia and the United States to resettle refugees from Manus and Nauru islands is no longer to be implemented, a source familiar with the deal said as quoted by The Guardian Thursday.
Recent cyberattacks across the world have cost its victims from $300 billion to $1 trillion, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said Thursday.
South Korea welcomes the confirmation of Rex Tillerson as the new US Secretary of State, the South Korean Foreign Ministry's spokesman said Thursday.
US President Donald Trump demonstrated a intention to work with Russia "without phobias" during his phone talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
US Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly expressed hope that the wall on the US-Mexican border that is expected to stop the illegal migration from Mexico would be constructed in two years, in a interview with the Fox News broadcaster.
Igor Pavlovsky, Ukraine's deputy defense minister, has confirmed that Kiev-led forces have been on an offensive in eastern Ukraine. In an interview with Radio Sputnik, Russian political analyst Sergei Sudakov asserted that these activities are linked to the new US administration coming to power.