The US-led coalition's actions in Syria should conform to international law, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Friday, confirming Moscow's readiness for anti-terrorist cooperation.
Russia and the US still differ widely on the relation to the alleged chemical attack in northwestern Syria's Idlib province, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has outlined Moscow's dissatisfaction in a letter to the OPCW into the reported April 4 chemical attack in Syria, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.
On Wednesday, Serge Portelli, a senior court of appeals judge in Versailles, warned that judicial officers will resign if National Front leader Marine Le Pen is elected president. The French ambassador to Japan, Thierry Dana, earlier said that he too would walk out if Le Pen is elected.
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker is joined by Greg Mello, executive director of the Los Alamos Study Group.
The upper house of Japan's parliament ratified the Acquisition and Cross Servicing Agreements (ACSA), allowing the country to deliver supplies to its military allies in war zones, local media reported Friday.
As the luxurious refugee accommodation Cape East in the town of Haparanda in northern Sweden is closing down after the expiration of the contract, clothes and other items Haparanda's helpful townsfolk donated to refugees are thrown away as redundant.
Japan's Foreign Ministry expressed their objections over a phone call to China's Ambassador Cheng Yonghua to the entrance of the country's ship in the waters near the disputed Senkaku Islands, media reported Friday.
Gamer Johannes Loeffelmann smashed the Guinness World Record for the longest ever VR video game marathon in Vienna. Equipped with a PlayStation 4 Pro and PlayStation VR glasses, the 31-year-old gamer played "Job Simulator: The 2050 Archives" for 28 hours, 43 minutes and 24 seconds.
Crimean border guards have seized an Italian tugboat for violating Russian maritime border laws, and have arrested the crew members on board, Russia's Federal Security Service in Crimea said Friday.
The Afghan government has confirmed that it was a coordinated move, when the United States dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in its military arsenal in Afghanistan targeting Daesh (outlawed in Russia), media reported Friday.
The fifth Russian-hosted Afghanistan peace conference, set to be attended by 12 countries, is kicking off in Moscow on Friday.
Japan’s National Security Council (NSC) has been discussing plans to respond to the tensions on the Korean Peninsula since February, Japanese media report.
The use of the giant bomb, dubbed the Mother of All Bombs," won't give any strategic advantage to America in Afghanistan, despite US President Trump hailed the attack a great success, military analysts told Sputnik.
The recent US use of the 22,000-pound GBU-43 or Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb against terrorist forces in Afghanistan was a warning demonstration of power, including to North Korea, experts told Sputnik.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson failed to ameliorate dangerous tensions between Russia and the United States during his visit to Moscow, US analysts told Sputnik.
Despite US President Donald Trump hailed the first drop of "the Mother of all Bombs" in Afghanistan as "another success" of the American armed forces, military analysts doubt that the event will affect the course of the long-standing conflict in the country.
The Syrian General Staff said Thursday that the US-led coalition had struck a warehouse presumably storing toxic agents, which belonged to Daesh terror group (outlawed in Russia), as a result killing and poisoning hundreds of people, including civilians, the claims which Washington has denied.
An office of the Samsung Group in South Korea’s capital, Seoul, was evacuated amid fears of possible explosives in the building, media report.
The US Army announced it has successfully tested a new laser mounted atop of a combat vehicle, which destroyed an airborne unmanned aerial vehicle in a test.
More than 1,500 people were evacuated in Uruguay in connection with floods, the country’s National Emergencies System (SINAE) informs.
The Russian center for Syrian reconciliation has delivered humanitarian aid to almost 2,000 Syrians in the past 24 hours, having also helped with the distribution of UN aid in Syria, the center said in its daily bulletin.
The third international preparatory meeting of the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students will take place in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo in May, where the festival’s program will be discussed and approved, the festival organizing committee's press service told Sputnik Thursday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his counterparts from Syria and Iran, Walid Muallem and Mohammad Javad Zarif, will hold trilateral talks on joint efforts at resolving the Syrian crisis in Moscow on Friday.
The Russian Defense Ministry said Friday that the United States used the gas attack in Syria's Idlib province as a pretext for launching an attack against a Syrian airbase, failing to prove it was the Syrian government that used chemical weapons.