Steven Mnuchin, President Donald Trump's nominee for Treasury Secretary, is not going to stand up against powerful Wall Street interests to protect the American people, US Senator Elizabeth Warren stated on Friday.
Twenty-five year old student of psychology from Brazil, Gabrielly de Oliveira, is gaining popularity on social media for modeling for a clothing brand while battling breast cancer.
The White House will make 'a tragic mistake' if it rejects Russia's reported offer to extend the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), former US Secretary of Defense William Perry said in an interview on Friday.
The US-led anti-Daesh coalition has started disabling bridges south of the Syrian city of Raqqa, US DoD spokesperson Jeff Davis said in a briefing on Friday.
A team of Russian geologists from Ural Federal University recently returned from an expedition in the Lut desert in the east of Iran. The team found 13 kilograms of meteorite-like material. Sputnik Persian spoke with Viktor Grokhovsky a member of the Committee on Meteorites at the Academy of Sciences.
German police detained a Ukrainian truck driver on Friday for smuggling a dozen of Iraqis overnight across the eastern border with Poland, the Federal Police said in a statement.
On February 10 Russia celebrates Diplomatic Worker's Day to mark the achievements of outstanding Russian diplomats and commemorate the veterans of the Russian diplomatic service.
A new survey shows that the Americans trust President Donald Trump more than the news media. According to the recent findings by Emerson College, 49 percent of voters think that the Trump administration tells the truth. This is compared to 48 percent of those who trust the media.
Russian representatives have registered 10 violations of the Syrian ceasefire regime over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday.
There has been no sign of malevolent intent by Chinese pilots as the reconnaissance airplane they piloted came very close to a US Navy surveillance airplane on Wednesday, Department of Defense spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis told reporters during a briefing.
After a campaign season where now-President Donald Trump was highly critical of Japan on issues such as their contributions to mutual defense and trade, the nation’s Prime Minister Shinzō Abe has arrived in Washington for a bilateral meeting -- followed by a joint news conference.
The US-Russian mechanism for safety of flights over Syria has been effective in preventing incidents similar to friendly fire by Russian military on Turkish army near al-Bab, US Department of Defense spokesman Jeff Davis told reporters on Friday.
The Russian battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy docked in Severomorsk on February 9, 2017, after returning from Syria where it had been deployed since October 2016.
US President Donald Trump's travel ban can help Daesh and other terrorist groups to recruit, former director of National Intelligence James Clapper said on Friday.
A hundred years ago, just like today, Russia dominated the world news and invoked passions as intense and varied as they are now. The February Revolution of 1917 was hailed as a miraculous promise of peace and freedom amidst the slaughter and oppression of the Great War.
Millennials' attitudes towards food and cooking, partially fueled by the rise of photo sharing service Instagram, are helping create a food waste mountain, a report has claimed. However, a food wastage expert has told Sputnik the serious issue of food wastage across Europe has far deeper underlying drivers than mere social media.
Slovenian President on Friday called his ongoing visit to Moscow a sign of the Balkan countries' authorities trust to Russia.
The need for cyber experts in the US military could soon open a pathway that has long been available to licensed physicians, direct commissioning of officers without the need for basic training, according to a press release issued by the US Army on Friday.
Russia's Pushkin Institute launched a free online course to help FIFA World Cup volunteers learn Russian.
Spoof suicide mission posters are being sneaked into advertising spaces in London spelling out the reality of nuclear war if Britain were to lose. The posters appearing on bus stops in the UK's capital, replicate British Navy recruitment advertisements but with a very different rhetoric.
France's Front National party leader Marine Le Pen has now topped the polls in France, paving the way for her to become - potentially - the first female President and for the collapse of the long-time two-party grip on power. And her rise has been an extraordinary roller coaster.
Nicholas Daniloff, 82, the founder of the School of Journalism at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusets, and a former Moscow correspondent for the magazine US News & World Report, is one of very few Americans who have a personal connection to the February Revolution in Russia.
Russia and Slovenia can overcome economic issues, while bilateral trade turnover is expected to grow in 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
Although it looks as if US President Donald Trump has broken the ice with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, Beijing should not let its guard down, Russian political analyst Nikita Danyuk noted speaking to Radio Sputnik. Danyuk believes that Trump's policy toward China will be more aggressive than that of his predecessor, Barack Obama.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, former German Minister of Foreign Affairs and a leading Social Democratic Party figure, is due to be elected as German President on February 12. Mr. Steinmeier runs unopposed, and a German politics expert has told Sputnik this may well be a result of political machinations on the part of Chancellor Angela Merkel.