Новости за 16.03.2017

Both Europe and Russia are interested in the reset of the EU, a senior Italian official told Sputnik.

Experts believe that human rights law has been more about giving voice to the corporations and allowing them the "right to profit." With the United Nations (UN) looking at how this can be changed, some are asking the question of what purpose the law has if it does not protect humans?

US authorities have declassified hundreds of videos chronicling the country’s 20th century nuclear weapon tests.

The deployment of US THAAD missile defense systems in South Korea stokes tensions on the peninsula, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.

India has turned to China for petrol and diesel imports in what could be a game-changer in continuing the trade between the two neighbors even as pressing issues between them simmer on the backburner.

Russia's envoy to the OSCE called for stopping external interference in the internal affairs of Macedonia.

The leaders of France and Germany condemned Ankara's rhetoric of comparing EU states' authorities with Nazis.

Gerry Adams, the president of the Irish republican party Sinn Fein, asked US Congressional leaders on Thursday to support Northern Ireland’s remaining in the European Union after Brexit.

Immigrants made up 17.1 percent of the total US workforce in 2014, or about 27.6 million workers out of 161.4 million, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center.

An exhibition dedicated to Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, opens in London.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has claimed that there is no difference in the Netherlands between liberal and fascist politicians. His comments come despite Dutch PM Mark Rutte seeing off a challenge from the overtly anti-Islam candidate Geert Wilders in the Dutch election.

US Congressman Tom McClintock said that the new US healthcare system bill faces a crucial hurdle in the House of Representatives Budget Committee.

President Donald Trump nominated Patrick M. Shanahan as his Deputy Secretary of Defense.

A federal judge in Maryland has blocked President Donald Trump's revised travel ban on Thursday.

A letter exploded after it was opened Thursday morning at the Paris office of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Ukraine's president has endorsed sanctions against five subsidiaries of Russian state banks.

The Chinese Embassy in Berlin has responded to German media reports which "over-interpreted" its gift of a statue to Trier, on the 200th anniversary of the birth of its most famous son, Karl Marx.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said that the issue of the appointment of a new representative of Russia to the United Nations is not resolved yet.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi on Thursday signed a decree on the establishment of the country's Permanent Mission to NATO, local media reported.

A group of MiG-31 interceptor jets of the Russian Pacific Fleet flew over 2,200 kilometers to participate in drills in the Far East.

The relations between Moscow and Ankara are returning to a mutually beneficial track, the Russian president said.

The far-right Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV) is gaining 33 percent of votes and will receive between 15 and 20 seats in Parliament, according to the party's leader Geert Wilders.

Commenting on the mounting tensions between Turkey and the European Union, after several European countries banned Turkish politicians, including the foreign minister, from holding rallies, Turkish political analyst Muhittin Ataman told Sputnik Turkiye that it is a real chance for Ankara to "escape from the EU's embrace."

Moscow opposes attempts to undermine international relations, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

The people of Crimea have avoided "a bloody Nazi regime, a civil war, state terror, poverty and havoc" in Ukraine by rejoining with Russia, the republic's head said on the third anniversary of the reunification referendum.