Oddly enough, global warming and milder winters have led to more severe ice conditions in the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia. Today, icebreakers are already struggling to get through towering compacted ice and the problem may become exacerbated in the future, unless more powerful icebreaking vessels step in.
The joint drills of the United States and South Korea are aimed at keeping stability on the Korean peninsula, while their purpose is to practice coordination between the two countries' command centers, Robert Wood, US Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament, said Tuesday.
A two-year-old boy from the Australian city of Gold Coast is no ordinary fellow. He had become famous on the Internet after his parents published photos of him with snakes and other reptiles on Instagram.
Thailand's government is holding talks on purchase of a submarine for its Navy from a foreign state, local media reported Tuesday citing Deputy Prime Minister Gen. Prawit Wongsuwan.
Recent statements by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who compared the current policies of the German government with those of the Nazis, caused shock not only among German politicians, but also among the country's media. Below are comments of the main German media outlets on the recent unprecedented incident.
Wikileaks has announced the start of a new series of leaks on the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The leaks are code-named "Vault 7."
Iran’s national football team has excellent chances of making it to the 2018 World Cup finals and many of its fans will come to Russia next summer, unfazed by chiller-dillers like the BBC’s "Russia's Hooligan Army” documentary, Abbas Ismail Beigi, leader of Tehran’s Persepolis FC told Sputnik.
Russian citizen Viktor Bout, sentenced to 25 years in the United States, does not expect that the election of Donald Trump will end his imprisonment, he told Sputnik in an interview.
Some of the British Labour Party's top donors have withheld funds from the organization under the leadership of left-winger Jeremy Corbyn, who has been accused of being a "disaster" by top physicist and Labour supporter Professor Stephen Hawking.
Two highly advanced frigates with anti-aircraft rocket-artillery systems and guided missiles will be delivered to the Russian Navy by the end of 2020, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday.
On today's BradCast, while the US media and public are obsessed by whatever Trump's relationship is or isn't with Russia and his bizarre tweets over the weekend, real policies and federal agencies - relied upon for decades by millions of Americans - are about to be gutted by the President and his Republican friends in the US Congress.
The search operations at the site of the avalanche in the southeast of France have been completed and there have been no victims, the French Police said Tuesday.
The gap between The Republicans' presidential nominee Francois Fillon and far-right National Front (FN) party leader Marine Le Pen has widened by 4 percent to 16 percent over the past 24 hours, if the to candidates stand against each other in the second round of the French presidential elections, a poll showed Tuesday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has finally responded to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 'Nazi' jibes - but while she condemned the comments, she also called for calm, continuing the trend for German politicians to play down the provocations.
International Organization for Migration (IOM) Turkey has assisted over 15,000 Syrians apply for Germany’s Family Assistance Programme (FAP), aimed at helping applications for family reunification visas, the organization stated in a press release on Tuesday.
Russian President and Hungarian Prime Minister in a phone conversation expressed satisfaction with the European Commission aid for a joint NPP expansion project, the Kremlin said Tuesday.
New Delhi will continue the implementation of the defense agreements with Moscow on procurement of strategic defense equipment, despite the US sanctions imposed on Russian United Shipbuilding Corporation’s entities, Indian ambassador to Russia told Sputnik Tuesday.
On Saturday, militants of the Ahrar al-Sham Islamist coalition shot down a MiG-23 fighter jet of the Syrian Air Force. Debris of the plane was found near the Turkish border with Syria.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched a program on Tuesday to help the civilians suffering due to the conflict in Eastern Ukraine, allocating $25 million to support over 180,000 people.
A Turkish national working for the US consulate in the city of Adana in southern Turkey was detained Tuesday for the second time on suspicion of having links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), outlawed in Turkey, local media reported.
The deployment of the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system in South Korea is carried out according to earlier agreements and is not linked to the current aggravation of the situation in the region, a US Army in South Korea representative told Sputnik.
Russia will take into account US actions in the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-ballistic missile system deployment in South Korea in its foreign policy and military planning, a senior Russian Foreign Ministry official told Sputnik on Tuesday.
On the eve of March 8, International Women's Day, the Russian Ministry of Defense held an All-Russian Beauty Contest.
The Council of the EU has adopted a regulation of the Schengen Borders Code (SBC), the Council's press service said in a statement.
While the shrinkage of Arctic ice is indeed an environmental catastrophe, Arctic countries may still get an unexpected "silver lining" in the form of extensive fiber optic cable coverage that would give northerners better internet access and give a major boost to local job markets.