At least eight militants of the Taliban terrorist group, outlawed in Russia, were killed in airstrikes conducted by the US forces in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar, media reported Monday, citing local security officials.
Germany offered its mediation in the search for a political solution to the Yemeni conflict, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.
Chinese physicists have converted a conventional projector into a 3D origami printer. The complex three-dimensional structures can now be printed using a conventional projector or even a PowerPoint program.
The Philippines are ready to carry out military exercises with the participation of the Chinese warships, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Monday.
US aerospace company SpaceX said Monday that the launch of its Falcon 9 carrier rocket with a spy satellite was successful.
Damascus delegation head Bashar Jaafari arrived Monday in the Kazakh capital of Astana to take part in an international meeting on Syria, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed hope on Monday that the Indian authorities would banish from India organizations linked to US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who stands accused by Ankara of masterminding the last year’s failed coup.
Russian Emergencies Ministry has rescued over 8,000 people from the ongoing fires in Russia's Siberian Federal District, the ministry said in a statement Monday.
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker is joined by activist, educator and author Bill Ayers, by Juan Jose Gutierrez, the executive director of the Full Rights for Immigrants Coalition, and by Nathalie Hrizi, editor of the magazine "Breaking the Chains: A Socialist Perspective on Women's Liberation."
Taiwan has launched an annual Han Kuang military exercises, conducted in the country since 1984, to repel an alleged attack by mainland China, media reported.
A total of three German citizens died after a small plane crashed in southern Spain, Spanish media reported Monday.
The Russian Armed Forces will start receiving new designed for the protection of deminers later in the year, Chief of the Russian Armed Forces' Engineer Troops Lt. Gen. Yuri Stavitsky said on Monday.
Russian sappers from Russian military base in Armenia have started mine-clearing activities, the spokesman of Russia's Southern Military District told Sputnik on Monday.
An agreement on Russian-French Youth Exchange signed on September 20, 2008 entered into force on Monday, a document published at Russia’s official internet-portal of legal information said.
Iran's moderate president Hassan Rouhani and five other candidates will take part in the presidential election scheduled to be held on May 19.
The chances of French independent presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron to defeat his rival Marine Le Pen increase by 1 percent since Friday, a fresh OpinionWay poll showed Monday.
Azerbaijani and Turkish armed forces launched joint tactical exercises on Monday under the agreement on military cooperation, Sputnik Azerbaijan reported.
South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se expressed confidence on Monday that the US would remain committed to the terms of the bilateral agreement on the deployment of the THAAD anti-ballistic missile system to South Korea, despite Trump’s claims that Seoul should pay for the system’s deployment.
Two Indian soldiers died and three more were injured in the crossfire between Indian and Pakistani armed forces in the Poonch sector of the Indian side of Kashmir.
Members of Russia’s Night Wolves biker group were prevented from entering into Poland as part of their Moscow-Berlin ride to mark the end of World WarII, the group’s leader Alexander Zaldostanov said in a televised interview.
French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen sought to radically change the EU structure: to replace it with the European alliance of free and sovereign states.
North Korea will boost measures "at the maximum pace" to build up nuclear deterrence forces, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Monday, citing a statement by the speaker of the North Korean Foreign Ministry.
Russian proposals on de-escalation in Syria envisage the creation of four zones of reduction of tensions in the country, with safety lines along them with checkpoints and monitoring centers, paper with Russian proposals, given to opposition members and seen by Sputnik, reads.
On April 29, submarine forces of Russia's Northern Fleet held defense drills to protect their main base from intruders.
The UK Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command arrested three women on suspicion of terrorism in eastern London, the police said in a statement on Monday.