In a move that may portend a stronger US presence in the Baltics, defense officials in Washington have said a battery of Patriot missiles may be deployed to Lithuania, likely in response to perceived aggression from Russia.
The US Central intelligence Agency announced establishment of a mission center in South Korea, which will harness the full resources, capabilities of the US intelligence services in a stated aim of countering threat posed by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
After using the desperate suffering of a hunger-striking Palestinian political prisoner to sell its product, a representative of the corporate fast food chain Pizza Hut has apologized, following international condemnation.
Owners of exotic dance clubs are using an obscure legal and accounting distinction to oppress wage earning potential in a way that is “gender specific,” Colorado-based attorney Mari Newman tells Sputnik.
Sometimes, massive amounts of energy are released from unstable magnetic fields on our sun, a phenomenon known as a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). At other times, these CMEs come from stable, quiet regions of the sun with no prior indication and nobody knows why. Now, new research may have explained the phenomenon of “stealth CMEs.”
The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, passed in the first reading the controversial legislation that defines Israel as "the national home of the Jewish people," causing backlash among Arabs, the major minority in the country.
Moroccan law enforcement arrested six people on suspicion of being linked to Daesh militants operating in Iraq and Syria and preparing to conduct terrorist attacks in the country.
Ron Johnson, a chairman of the US Senate Homeland Security Committee, suggested Wednesday that aside from the Intel Panel's inquiry into President Trump's alleged ties to Russia, the a new probe could be launched.
Bulgaria's center-right the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) party tabled on Wednesday a draft legislation to introduce a majoritarian system for electing lawmakers, local media reported.
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Tax police in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia state investigate possible tax evasion of German companies through offshore companies in Malta, local media reported Wednesday.
A reporter from the Public News Service was arrested at the West Virginia State Capitol for “aggressively” approaching Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price with questions about the American Health Care Act, the bill Republicans pushed through the House in early May to replace “Obamacare.”
North Korea’s ambassador to the UK has said his country is “not afraid” to continue its missile and nuclear weapons activity, and that Pyongyang intends to conduct its sixth nuclear test as soon as the leadership deems it necessary.
Passengers on a Tuesday Southwest Airlines flight from Dallas, Texas, to Burbank, California, held their own impromptu fight club, as a pair of them came to blows. The entire fight was caught on camera and uploaded online.
The US Navy’s recent mission to send a guided-missile submarine into the waters surrounding the Korean Peninsula appears to have struck fear into the top leaders in Pyongyang.
According to several reports, in the days before FBI Director James Comey was fired by US President Donald Trump, he had asked the Justice Department for more money for the investigation into alleged ties between Trump and Moscow. The DOJ is calling the claims “completely false.”
Three women, arrested by the UK Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command in various parts of London in late April, were charged with preparation of a terror attack, the police said in a statement on Wednesday.
In a new attempt to exert pressure on Seoul to end the deployment of US missile systems on its territory, Pyongyang released on Monday what it claims are high-resolution satellite photographs detailing the THAAD missile defense system’s installation in an area of South Korea close to its northern border.
US Secretary of Defense James Mattis made a number of civil service appointments, including the assignment of Thomas Goffus as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Europe and NATO, the Department of Defense said in a press release on Wednesday.
US President Donald Trump has been thinking of removing James Comey from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director post since the day he took office on January 20, White House spokesperson Sarah Sanders said in a briefing on Wednesday.
The United States plans to increase the number of troops deployed on the Baltic states’ territory to observe Russia-Belarus joint military exercises dubbed Zapad-2017 ("West-2017"), slated for September, media reported Wednesday citing US defense officials who wished to remain anonymous.
According to the White House deputy spokesperson, the US Department of Justice is encouraged to complete the ongoing Trump-Russia investigation despite Trump’s termination of former FBI Director James Comey.
The French government tendered resignation on Wednesday as a formal step following the results of the recent presidential elections, the French presidential office said.
US' weapons supplies to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia will contribute to the liberation of Raqqa from terrorists as the Kurds are the only force on the ground capable of it, Hisyar Ozsoy, the deputy chair of the Turkish opposition pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in charge of foreign affairs, told Sputnik.