In the second round of France's presidential elections, National Front candidate Marine Le Pen is likely to face a pooling of support similar to that which her party faced following a first round victory in 2002 and regional elections in 2015, expert in French politics Dr. Pierre Haroche told Radio Sputnik.
Russia launched a snap combat inspection of its Caspian Flotilla.
April 27 will see the release of an Italian documentary film which is expected to disclose the uncomfortable truth about the euro and the policy of austerity which hit Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain especially hard.
In Iraq, even the animals are doing their part to fight the jihadis.
The government of the United States is trying to distract the international community from the necessity of thorough investigation of an alleged chemical attack in the Syrian province of Idlib by sanctioning the Syrian scientists, according to Konstantin Kosachev, the chair of the Russian upper house of parliament Foreign Affairs Committee.
The US defense giant Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract to provide training system hardware, contractor logistics support, spares and software development for Romania's F-16 jets.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has visited Afghanistan and Iraq in the light of Australia’s national Anzac Day in commemoration of country’s servicemen, who died in military conflicts
A Fox News correspondent and anchor was named as the Trump administration’s new lead foreign policy spokesperson, the US Department of State said in a media note on Monday.
The United States has allocated some $27 million to overhaul Iraqi Navy's vessels, the US Department of Defense said in a press release Monday.
The discovery was made by astronomers working on the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE), one of the many instruments within the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile.
A former Colombian intelligence chief, who was charged with torture, was deported from the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a press release.
A new theory regarding the iconic ‘The Scream’ painting is that the painter, Edvard Munch, was inspired by a rare type of cloud that only appears at high altitudes.
Protesters in Izmir, Turkey have not enjoyed the right to free assembly in recent weeks, following a hotly debated referendum that expanded the constitutional powers of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
On Monday, former Black Panther and political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal appeared in a Philadelphia courtroom, in an attempt to challenge previously denied appeals on his life sentence for the shooting death of Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, a crime Mumia and his supporters maintain he did not commit.
US President Donald Trump will nominate a former Middle East policy advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney to a senior position in the Department of Defense’s bureau on global security, the White House said in a press release.
An alarming 410 people died every day, on average, in accidents on the heavily traveled roadways of India in 2016, according to a new report.
The Pentagon has awarded a maintenance contract for Taiwan's aging fleet of US-built F-16 Fighting Falcons, which first entered service over 30 years ago.
Researchers at Columbia University’s Earth Institute have discovered that the melting of the Antarctic ice is happening at a much faster rate than previously believed.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson honored Monday the six million Jews systematically murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators during the World War II.
A law firm representing Berkeley College Republicans and the Young America’s Foundation has filed a lawsuit against the University of California over their rescheduling of Ann Coulter’s appearance on campus to take place when students are not in class.
A retired US Army lawyer has called the attempts of the Trump administration to prosecute WikiLeaks founder and head Julian Assange "spurious," saying the government is seeking to eliminate those who expose information of its war crimes.
The World Health Organization has commenced field testing on the first ever malaria vaccine, to determine whether it is possible to cure infected children in impoverished Africa.
Achin District, in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, holds little information as to how many human casualties stemmed from the 21,600-pound bomb, dubbed the US military’s biggest non-nuclear weapon, which the Pentagon dropped there earlier in April.
The Saudi energy minister has been invited to participate in the 2017 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak announced Monday.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry has criticized US President Donald Trump for his statement in commemoration of the Armenian genocide, saying that his words are historically inaccurate and based on a one-sided approach to the event.