South Korea has been in political turmoil for months and Sunday, March 12, the disgraced President Park Geun-hye finally left the Blue House after being impeached over a corruption scandal. The man tipped to succeed her could signal a move away from the US' hawkish policy towards North Korea and China.
The Nord Stream 2 pipeline project is controversial and the European Commission considers the legal concerns to be analyzed, European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager said Monday.
Kurdish fighters have been America's go-to ground force when it comes to tackling Daesh in the Middle East, but Washington's support for and reliance on the ethnic group which has long tried to achieve greater autonomy, if not independence, has fueled concerns over the true motives of the United States in Syria.
Far-right National Front (FN) party leader Marine Le Pen’s chances to win in the second round of the French presidential election increased both against independent candidate Emmanuel Macron and The Republicans' candidate Francois Fillon, an OpinionWay poll showed Monday.
Scotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon says she will seek next week mandate of the Scottish government to legislate independence vote.
Russian scientists are working on an ultra-sensitive detection system for very small doses of drugs and explosives that could rival a dog's acute sense of smell, the project leader at the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects (RFARP) told Sputnik on Monday.
Culpa de Rusia, or Russia is Guilty, is a Spanish-language internet project making fun of the tidal wave of Russophobic materials that the European and US mainstream media is awash with these days.
Russia may complete the destruction of all its chemical weapons stockpiles this year, presidential envoy to the Volga Federal District, chairman of the State Commission on Chemical Disarmament Mikhail Babich said Monday.
The cooperation between Warsaw and Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister who was re-elected European Council president last week, is possible when the emotions are reined in, Marek Magierowski, a spokesman for Polish President Andrzej Duda, said Monday.
The Syrian armed opposition will make a decision on whether to participate in or to boycott the Astana talks on Syria in the coming hours, Ahmed Berri, the Chief of Staff of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), told Sputnik on Monday.
US President Donald Trump is intending to host Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in April, local media reported Monday.
China has an interest in, and potential for playing a mediator role in easing tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, Russian experts told Sputnik. At the same time, Beijing’s efforts may face obstacles from the United States and in the event of political changes in Iran after the presidential election.
Specialists from a Russian private military company worked at a plant in Benghazi under a contract with a Libyan cement company, not with the Libyan armed forces, Libyan army’s spokesman Col. Ahmed Mismari told Sputnik on Monday.
Moscow is "tired" of absurd claims about alleged ties between US President Donald Trump and Russian officials during the 2016 US presidential campaign, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.
An opposition's delegation representative told Sputnik that the Syrian armed opposition would not attend the upcoming talks in Astana on Syria on March 14-15.
Syrian Armed opposition units to leave Homs within 6-8 weeks, the province's governor Talal Barazi said Monday.
Russia condemns the recent terrorist attacks in Damascus and believes that terrorists should not be allowed to derail the efforts in Astana and Geneva on Syria ceasefire, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Monday that China is ready to reinforce anti-terrorist cooperation with Syria and several other countries.
The US Navy's Sea, Air, and Land (SEALs) Team will participate in annual military exercises in South Korea to practice countering and neutralizing the possible threat from the North, a military official told Yonhap news agency on Monday.
Seven out of the 40 people detained during the protests in the Georgia's southern city of Batumi have been arrested, Georgian Interior Minister Giorgi Mgebrishvili said on Monday.
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry does not yet confirm its presence at this week's Syria reconciliation talks in Kazakhstan, Ministry spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid told Sputnik on Monday.
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker is joined by John Kiriakou, former CIA analyst and case officer as well as a prominent whistleblower; and by Ben Norton, who is a contributor to AlterNet’s GrayZone Project.
Democrats said they may withdraw from a panel investigating alleged Russian attempts to meddle in the US presidential election. They expect that the committee would work out a credible report.
The world's largest Wi-Fi network for educational institutions will be set up in nearly 2,000 schools within the Russian capital by 2018, the official website of the Mayor and the Government of Moscow said on Monday.
The conferences and discussions held during the Army-2016 Expo in Russia helped to optimize a more balanced approach toward the country’s military and technical policy.