Finland Grants Citizenship to Record Number of Foreigners in 2016
Some 96 percent of new Finnish nationals retain their former citizenship.
Some 96 percent of new Finnish nationals retain their former citizenship.
Russia’s military delivered 1.5 tonnes of relief aid on Saturday to a makeshift village in western Syria that is home to thousands of displaced people, an officer told reporters.
Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO) announced Saturday it was loading nuclear fuel into the third reactor of the Takahama nuclear power plant in Japan’s central Fukui prefecture.
Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Saturday the government has prepared to to deal with any cybersecurity threat to the country's critical infrastructure.
Two US scientists resigned from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claiming the agency is "watering down" credible science, engineering and methodological rigor.
The US Justice Department has sought to obtain bank records of Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, in the probe into Russia’s alleged ties with the campaign, local media reported Friday.
An official from the Russian Foreign Ministry said that it is impossible to resolve the issue of the North Korean nuclear program in the same way the Iranian nuclear problem was settled.
The Ukrainian law on decommunization in its current version should be abolished as it violates human rights, a prominent international watchdog said Friday.
US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein does not consider it necessary to appoint a special prosecutor in the probe into Russia’s alleged election interference, local media said Saturday.
Russia will cybertechnology along with physical samples of arms and ammunition at the SITDEF defense technology that will be held in Peru in late May.
A US senator has sent a letter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) asking how an agency contractor with top-secret clearance moved to Syria and married a Daesh terrorist she was assigned to investigate.
The Pentagon said Friday it had awarded a nearly $19 million contract to provide system sustainment for the Space Command control systems of the Air Force.
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions will interview at least four candidates on Saturday for the job of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director, local media have reported.
The multifaceted issue of the US Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-ballistic missile system deployment in South Korea could be resolved only with the participation of the United States and China, analysts told Sputnik.
UK's Brexit Secretary David Davis said Friday that some EU officials and media wanted him sacked to have a different negotiator during EU-UK talks.
Brandon Bostian, the engineer of the Amtrak train involved in the crash that killed eight in Philadelphia in 2015, has been charged with manslaughter, US State of Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said in a statement.
The decision of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to recognize the suspension of Russian projects as legitimate showed that the institution is putting politically motivated pressure on Moscow, Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday.
The Pentagon said Friday it awarded a US company with a contract to produce more than a thousand seats for UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have received only light weaponry from the United States, not heavy ones, media reported Friday citing the military spokesman of the SDF.
Germany’s state rail operator Deutsche Bahn had its systems infected by malicious software on Friday that locked thousands of computers globally in an unprecedented cyberattack, local media said.
Afghan security forces with artillery support have eliminated at least a dozen of Taliban militants in the course of several operations in different parts of the country, local media reported Friday, citing the Afghan Defense Ministry.
More people in the United States disapprove than approve of Donald Trump’s controversial decision to fire Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) chief James Comey, a poll found Friday.
Thousands of elderly Venezuelans clashed Friday with police on the way to the office of the nation’s ombudsman in Caracas, in a new wave of protests against the government, media reported.
Emmanuel Macron’s ally Francois Bayrou said Friday a tentative deal between his MoDem party and that of the French president-elect has been reached on candidates for this June's parliamentary election.
US Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr suggested Friday that the firing of FBI Director Comey could hardly be linked to the probe into President Trump's alleged links to Russia, simply because investigators haven't got any evidence to prove the collusion took place.