Thousands Flee Bulgarian Refugee Camps to West Europe
Over 3,500 migrants and refugees have escaped camps in Bulgaria in an attempt to reach Western and Central Europe since the start of this year, official figures seen by local media have revealed.
Over 3,500 migrants and refugees have escaped camps in Bulgaria in an attempt to reach Western and Central Europe since the start of this year, official figures seen by local media have revealed.
The US state of Arkansas has not executed anyone since 2005, but now it wants to execute an unprecedented eight men in 10 days. But they are rushing to source the right drugs to conduct the lethal injections.
The Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania, following an alert from a lawmaker Laurynas Kasciunas, is looking into what portion of TV content aired by Lithuanian broadcasters is produced in Russia, the head of the commission's Public Information Division, told Sputnik on Monday.
The Egyptian General Prosecutor’s Office agreed Monday to release the country’s former President Hosni Mubarak, Al-Watan newspaper reported.
Russia is always ready to restore the cooperation with European institutions, including with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and the European Parliament, Konstantin Kosachev, the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Russian upper house of parliament, said Monday.
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Russia strives for the demilitarization of Central Europe, French National Front (FN) party leader and presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen said in an interview Monday.
The state of California is joining several other US states in a lawsuit against President Donald Trump's latest immigration executive order, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a press release on Monday.
A delegation of French lawmakers will discuss anti-terrorism cooperation, situation in the Middle East, the future of the EU and bilateral relations between Russia and France during the group's visit to Moscow on March 16-17, Thierry Mariani, an incumbent member of the French Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, told Sputnik on Monday.
Russia expresses its concern over the plans of the Saudi-led coalition to storm Yemen’s largest port as it will cut off the country’s capital from humanitarian aid supplies, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday.
Ankara does not rule out the possibility of a fresh meeting between top military commanders from Turkey, Russia and US in the future, Turkish Ambassador to Russia Huseyin Dirioz said Monday.
US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Monday directing every agency to conduct a spending review and identify ways to improve services, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said.
Syrian President Bashar Assad said Monday that Russia had been working closely with Damascus since the uprising in Syria six years ago, discussing every step of its policy and later military action regarding Syria.
The Israeli Defense Forces Artillery is to begin testing a new drone, which according to sources, will greatly improve intelligence gathering and can be used in combat zones.
On Sunday, Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen called on his Turkish counterpart to delay a planned March visit because of intensifying friction between Ankara and the Netherlands. At the same time, a high-ranking Turkish politician visited Sweden, which ended in riots.
Four multinational NATO battalions will be deployed in the Baltic states and Poland by June, the alliance’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said on Monday, unveiling the NATO 2016 annual report.
Ankara is still considering the purchase of Russia's advanced S-400 missile systems as part of the effort to boost Turkey's missile defense, Turkish Ambassador to Russia Huseyin Dirioz said Monday.
Setting up safe zones in Syria will ensure security for refugees returning home, Turkey's Ambassador to Russia Huseyin Dirioz told Sputnik Monday.
US Envoy Brett McGurk said on Monday he met with Iraqi Kurdistan President Masoud Barzani to discuss the operation to liberate the city of Mosul from the Daesh terror group (banned in Russia).
A diplomatic crisis between Ankara and Amsterdam will further solidify the positions of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to Togrul Ismail, a professor at the Ankara-based TOBB University of Economics and Technology.
The joint Zapad-2017 Russian-Belarusian military exercises should be conducted in full compliance with the Vienna Document on confidence and security-building measures to avoid the escalation of tensions in the region, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday.
US President Donald Trump is not planning to increase cooperation with Russia in Syria against Daesh terrorist group, according to US News and World Report.
Turkish Minister for EU Affairs considers the Dutch decision not to let Turkish ministers hold the meetings with Turkish expats to violate EU fundamental values.
A failed attempt to stage a coup in Montenegro serves as an argument for the country to join NATO, not against it, as every nation can choose a security arrangement for itself, the alliance's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday.
An explosion hit a minibus in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul on Monday, local media reported.