Many believe that Russia’s veteran Tu-95 strategic bomber is hopelessly passé, but more than sixty years after it hit the skies in 1952, Tupolev’s legendary “Bear” still remains a formidable weapon to be reckoned with.
Ankara is likely to "exploit" the newly established de-escalation zones in Syria to pursue its own interests in the war-torn neighboring country, Gregory Copley, an editor of Defense & Foreign Affairs and president of the International Strategic Studies Association, told Radio Sputnik.
North Korea has detained another American citizen suspected of "hostile acts" against the country, KCNA state news agency reported.
Afghanistan's security forces killed 23 militants in the past 24 hours, the Afghan Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
European Athletics president Svein Arne Hansen was being paid for substituting doping samples in the 1980s, Norwegian media reported Sunday, citing former high jumper Patrik Sjoberg.
The Second World War commemoration event, dubbed "Immortal Regiment," took place in the Lebanese capital on Sunday, with about 400 people with children marching in the city's center carrying posters with photos of the ancestors who took part in the war.
A passenger plane from South Africa, chartered by St Helena's government, landed at the airport of the South Atlantic island of St Helena.
On May 4, the guarantors of the Syrian ceasefire, Russia, Iran and Turkey, signed a memorandum to establish four safe zones (also referred to as "de-escalation zones") in the war-torn country. The plan officially came into effect as of midnight of Saturday.
French En March! movement leader, centrist Emmanuel Macron is coming ahead of his right-wing rival, former National Front party leader Marine Le Pen in the presidential runoff in France’s overseas territories, Belgian media report citing exit poll.
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) reportedly cut of all supply routes to Raqqa approximately two months ago, but Daesh fighters have been able to move out of their de facto capital and bring reinforcements from the neighboring province of Deir ez-Zor, political analyst Anton Mardasov told RT.
On the eve of Victory Day, the Russian Ministry of Defense published two unique WWII videos on its official website. The videos were released as part of the multimedia project named "Capturing Our Victory."
Release of coal mine gas in China's southeastern province of Hunan left three people dead and many injured, local media reported Sunday.
Supporters of leftist Jean-Luc Melenchon who did not make it to the second round of the French presidential elections are predominantly refusing to give their votes to centrist Emmanuel Macron on Sunday, media report.
President Vladimir Putin has largely remained an enigma for the West in the nearly two decades he has spent at the highest echelons of power, political analysts told Sputnik, offering their take on what drives the Russian statesman, his key achievements and next policy priorities.
The representatives of media were banned from access to the polling stations opened in Belgium’s capital for the second round of the French presidential election without any comment on behalf of the Consulate of France, French media reported.
Some 50,000 residents of the German city of Hanover were ordered to leave their homes on Sunday as experts were preparing to defuse five unexploded World War Two bombs, local media reported.
Police have been called to the Louvre Museum courtyard in Paris, where presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron plans to celebrate after voting in the runoff is over on Sunday, local media reports.
With voter turnout in Sunday’s presidential runoff in France expected to be the lowest since 1969, activists on both sides are bending over backwards to get as many people to come to the polling stations as possible.
The WWII commemoration event dubbed "Immortal Regiment" will take place in the Chinese capital on May 9, organizers of the event said Sunday.
New Zealand police published a photo of their cutest employee - Constable Elliott. A guinea pig dressed in a police uniform is set to remind drivers of the importance of safe driving, especially near schools.
Both French presidential candidates, right-wing Marine Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron, have cast their ballots in the Sunday runoff election.
French citizens in Brussels are mostly voting for En March! movement leader, centrist Emmanuel Macron in the runoff of the presidential election, media report citing their survey data.
These cute seals are preparing for the Victory Day celebrations in Russia's Irkutsk.
Outgoing French leader Francois Hollande has cast his vote in the Sunday runoff presidential election in the south-western town of Tulle.
Topless activists from the feminist group Femen on Sunday staged a protest against French right-wing presidential candidate Marine Le Pen in front of a polling station in the northern town of Henin-Beaumont.