The commander of the "Somali" battalion of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Mikhail Tolstykh, was killed in a terrorist attack, DPR leader Alexander Zakharchenko confirmed Wednesday.
The relations between the European Union and the United States are likely to stay complex in the near future, given the views of the new US administration, Russia's Ambassador to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov told Sputnik in an interview.
A possible victory of a candidate who would favor rapprochement with Russia in French presidential election can have a major impact on the whole EU policy on Russia, turning it in favor of Moscow, Russia's Ambassador to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov told Sputnik.
UK police paid tens of millions of pounds to informants over the past five years for clues in murder, terrorism and organized crime cases, figures obtained by the BBC broadcaster showed Wednesday.
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French Jews are wary of the potential victory of French far-right National Front party leader Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election and most of them will then leave the country, head of the European Rabbinical Council Pinchas Goldschmidt told Sputnik on Wednesday.
Around 20 Il-76 strategic airlifters are taking part in relocations as part of the Russian Aerospace Forces snap checks, the Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday.
Tokyo prosecutors have questioned the Japanese Olympic Committee president over payments made by Tokyo’s team to a Singaporean consultancy that allegedly led to winning the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics bid, local media reported Wednesday.
US President Donald Trump's executive order suspending entry to the country for seven Muslim-majority countries will have an indirect impact on the European Union, Russia's Ambassador to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov told Sputnik.
The Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket and the Orion spacecraft located at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have not been impacted by a tornado raging in the state of Louisiana, the agency said.
Russia avoids interfering in the territorial dispute around the South China Sea and is warning other states against doing so as such intervention could result in a negative effect, Russian Ambassador to China Andrey Denisov said.
Around 2200 women of Lambani tribe and Dalit community lost their uterus due to greed of the doctors, who carried out the operation to inflate the bills in four private hospitals in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.
Russia has maintained its presence on Chinese markets despite recent economic decline, Russian Ambassador to China Andrey Denisov said.
Russian Ambassador in China Andrey Denisov talks about the relations between Russia and China.
Moscow and Beijing are working on energy cooperation, the most important component of the economic bilateral relationship, Russian Ambassador in China Andrey Denisov said.
After it was revealed that Vizio smart televisions were spying on owners without their consent, the manufacturer is now settling for $2.2 million and deleting all data to avoid privacy-invasion charges.
Radio Sputnik’s By Any Means Necessary speaks with Elizabeth Kucinich, former policy director at the Center for Food Safety, about her travels in Syria and about Western media’s misrepresentation of the situation on the ground, as well as how the US can learn about internal political reconciliation from countries in crisis.
Critics and protesters have derided US President Donald Trump’s extreme vetting of foreign nationals from seven predominantly-Muslim countries, additionally suspending entry for 90 days, but Trump sees his temporary executive order as essential to national security.
US Senator and former presidential hopeful Marco Rubio claims that the growing influence of foreign Islamic radicals inside Syria has made arming the rebels a more difficult and less productive option for the United States now than it was at the beginning of the conflict.
US Senator John McCain said that there cannot be any comparison on moral grounds between Russia, led by President Vladimir Putin, and the United States.
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit on Wednesday the southwest of Pakistan, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center reported.
A small aircraft crashed near the city of Marcos Paz in the Argentian province of Buenos Aires, resulting in the death of five people, local media reported.
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten says that the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as US education secretary, a person who does not support public schools, makes it a sad day for children.
Municipal elections in Nagaland, India, have been postponed due to protests by a coalition of male-dominated native tribes aiming to subvert a government decision to secure 33 percent of seats in the state’s urban civic bodies for women.
The Center for Media and Democracy said in a press release on Tuesday it has launched a lawsuit against Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).