Новости за 15.02.2017

A former National Security Agency analyst and counterintelligence officer tweeted on Wednesday that the intelligence community will now be “going nuclear” against Trump.

The ruling family of the United Arab Emirates has announced a 100-year initiative to build a city on Mars. To accomplish this end, they are partnering with space science groups at the Gulf Nation’s universities.

llegations of Russian cyberattacks on the website of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) are absurd, as Russia is making efforts to protect the organization from various attacks, the Russian presidents representative said Wednesday.

President Donald Trump's nominee for Labor Secretary is expected to withdraw his name from consideration for the post, US media reported on Wednesday.

US President Donald Trump offered the vacant job of national security advisor to retired Vice Adm. Robert Harward, according to a media report.

A new agreement on the withdrawal of banned weaponry from the contact line between conflicting sides in eastern Ukraine may be implemented only if the West pressures Kiev authorities to honor the deal, head of self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Alexander Zakharchenko told Sputnik on Wednesday.

On Wednesday China responded to rumblings about the US planning fresh naval patrols in the South China Sea by warning Washington not to impose on their sovereignty.

The two-state solution that has been a cornerstone of all Middle East peace initiatives in the last decades, might not be the only way forward, according to US and Israeli leaders.

Pope Francis made a Wednesday speech defending the rights of indigenous tribes to ‘their ancestral relationship to earth’. Although he did not mention it by name, his explicit comments on the subject suggest that he is a supporter of those protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline.

After a series of contacts with the new administration in Washington, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan kicked off a tour of the Gulf States, including Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Speaking to Sputnik, renowned Turkish Middle East expert Husnu Mahalli explained that Turkey is coming to an important crossroads on its Syria policy.

Russia is willing to ramp up the licensed production of its Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter jets in India, the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) told Sputnik on Wednesday.

The two attackers, detected by the surveillance camera, threw bottles with white paint at the Turkey’s Embassy in the Swedish capital of Stockholm, according to media reports.

A new full-length animated film soon to be released in Iran depicts an armed confrontation between the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ forces and the US Navy.

Any negotiations on the Syrian crisis settlement without the involvement and participation of the Kurds are doomed to failure and will not give any progress, Turkish parliament member from the pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Osman Baydemir told Sputnik on Wednesday.

EU membership has been highly effective for the Irish economy and the access to the EU Single Marker and the Customs Union is vital for the country, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said.

The UN World Food Program (WFP) will continue to support 220,000 food-insecure people in conflict-affected areas of eastern Ukraine throughout 2017, according to official statement.

Instead of recognizing the growing intellectual value of Sputnik and RT, Moscow is groundlessly accused of hacking, according to Russia's ambassador at large.

Wednesday: As the love story between Scotland and the EU continues to bloom, what might the future hold to make that happen? And the controversial CETA trade agreement passes through the European Parliament today.

US President Donald Trump's opponents are trying to persuade the public that the new administration could have had ties with Russian intelligence. By doing this they seek either to force Trump into following Barack Obama's foreign policy course or to impeach him like Richard Nixon, Russian scholar Vladimir Vasiliev told RIA Novosti.

Operation Inherent Resolve deputy commander Maj. Gen. Rupert Jones said that the US-led coalition against the Daesh cannot confirm that Daesh leader Abu Bakr Baghdadi was injured in an Iraqi strike.

NATO cannot return to friendly relations the alliance used to have with Russia, Dutch Minister of Defense Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert told reporters on Wednesday.

About 200,000 people were forced to leave their homes due to a spillway's collapse at America's tallest dam. Pets and livestock are being evacuated from the south of Oroville Dam in Northern California, too.

Uruguay’s President Tabare Vazquez has arrived in Moscow to discuss important political issues with Russian President Vladimir Putin and to improve trade relations between the two countries.

Germany's left-wing Die Linke party will do everything to make the EU-Canadian Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) an issue in the upcoming parliamentary elections and block its ratification, Fabio De Masi, a Die Linke member of the European Parliament told Sputnik on Wednesday.

Conflicting parties in Donbass reached an agreement on withdrawing the banned weapons from the contact line by February 20, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office to the Trilateral Contact Group Martin Sajdik said on Wednesday.