Members of the European Parliament are calling on the EU Commission to investigate - and possibly take legal action against - Hungary after it passed a law effectively closing the internationally renowned Central European University (CEU), founded by Hungarian-born billionaire George Soros.
The village of Majdal in the north of Hama Province is one of the most important strategic sites that terrorists attacked in late March.
No new UN Security Council resolutions on the reported chemical attack in Syria's Idlib this week would be needed if the original US-UK-French attitude was overhauled, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Thursday.
Stars don't have to be massive to destroy material from around nearby stars and affect their ability to form planets, a new study suggests - and the project's lead researcher has told Sputnik the discovery has significant implications for planet formation.
A Palestinian rammed his car into a group of Israelis Thursday at a bus stop near the Ofra settlement in the West Bank, killing one Israeli and injuring another, a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.
The United Nations is asking members of the International Syria Support Group, including Russia, Iran, Turkey and the United States for a green light to reach one million civilians in Syria’s besieged areas and 72-hour ceasefires, adviser to the UN special envoy for Syria on humanitarian issues said on Thursday.
Swedish maritime researchers are preparing to explore the depths of the Baltic Sea with the help of seals. Nature's arguably best freedivers have been deemed most fit for the mission.
Venezuela is interested in purchasing a new batch of Russia's Su-30 fighter aircraft, Deputy Director of Russia's FSMTC Anatoliy Punchuk said Thursday.
Russia's Zvyozdochka ship repair center said Thursday it had finished work on the Oscar II-class nuclear-powered attack submarine Orel and sent it to the Russian Navy.
Visitors to a zoo in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province have been sneaking over its walls with help from locals to avoid paying full price for a ticket - despite the death of a tourist who similarly snuck into another zoo earlier this year.
Russian security agencies should intensify their efforts amid the deadly St. Petersburg metro bombing, the Kremlin spokesman said Thursday.
On Wednesday, two Ukrainian thermal power plants (TPP) suspended operations, including one in the Kiev Region, due to a shortage of anthracite coal. Another TPP is planning to suspend operations Thursday.
The Syrian government in Damascus on many occasions warned the UN Security Council about attacks that the US-led international coalition had carried out against civilians across Syria, its Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said Thursday.
According to the chairman of the Russian Federation Council's Committee on Defense and Security, Moscow is ready to cooperate with the US-led anti-terrorist coalition in Syria on condition of no "double standards" in the joint work.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the use of chemical weapons in Syria's Idlib is a "dangerous and monstrous crime."
On April 5, 1977, the very first VAZ-2121 Niva rolled off the conveyor belt. Since 2005, this off-road vehicle has changed its name to the Lada 4x4. This model, designed and produced by the Russian (former Soviet) manufacturer AvtoVAZ, is still considered one of the Russian automotive industry’s greatest cars.
Damascus has repeatedly warned the UN Security Council and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) that the terrorists of Daesh and Nusra Front were bringing weapons to Syria from Iraq and Turkey, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said Thursday.
Russia is concerned about the pause in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which will undermine the prospects of settlement, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
The Lebanese Armed Forces shelled terrorists’ hideouts in the mountainous regions on the Lebanese-Syrian border, local media reported Thursday.
More than 200,000 migratory birds visit the greater Duchang Lake district in East China's Jiangxi Province annually.
These days, you'd better be safe than sorry. Obviously influenced by this logic, the Swedish police has been toying with the idea of reinforcing its personnel with submachine guns.
The French presidential election is turning into a four-way race, with chances of left-wing political movement La France Insoumise (Unsubmissive France) candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon noticeably rising after Tuesday night's televised debates to 17 percent, a fresh Harris Interactive poll showed Thursday.
Chased by heavily armed soldiers, John Marston wants to protect his family and is eventually killed in a stand-off against a firing squad. But the death of the protagonist in the video game Red Dead Redemption did not stop the developers from continuing to work on this spectacular Western series.
Syrian leadership could not have used chemical weapons in the attack that took place in Khan Shaykhun, a town located in the rebel-held province of Idlib, since Damascus eliminated toxic agents in its arsenal and remains committed to this decision, political analyst Mosib Na'imi, who heads Iranian newspaper Al-Vafagh, told Sputnik Persian.
The US Navy suspended all T-45 Goshawk aircraft training flights for three days after 100 instructor pilots had refused to fly the jets, protesting against the Navy leadership's refusal to tackle problems with the aircraft oxygen system, a Navy spokeswoman wrote in an email to the Fox News broadcaster Thursday.