UN Secretary-General spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that the United Nations is disappointed by the decision of the US President Donald Trump to withdraw the United States from the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
German Cabinet spokesman Steffen Seibert said that Angela Merkel during a phone call with US President Donald Trump expressed disappointment over Washington's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.
Three of Europe's largest economies called US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord inked by the previous administration "regretful." They also denied the possibility of a renegotiation of the accords, something that Trump repeatedly suggested during the press conference announcing the withdrawal.
Russia's ALROSA diamond mining company and India's GJEPC signed on Thursday a memorandum of cooperation in the diamond industry.
Mayors of 61 US cities have issued a pledge to implement the Paris climate deal.
According to a report by the PEW Research Center, the fortunes of US daily newspapers continued to decline in 2016, setting a new low for daily circulation in records going back to 1940.
Vladimir Putin said that Russia and India have agreed to ramp up the bilateral trade turnover and the cooperation in the spheres of economy, humanitarian affairs and politics.
European Parliament President Antonio Tajani said hat Europe will move forward with the implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Venezuela’s Foreign Trade and International Investment Minister Jesus German Faria Tortosa said that Venezuela is interested in receiving foreign investment from Russian companies not only for the oil and gas industries, but also a vast number of other spheres.
Donald Trump said he will push ahead with plans to renegotiate trade agreements.
Russian Deputy President Dmitry Rogozin said that Russian State Armaments Program for 2018-2025 will be presented to President Vladimir Putin in September.
As the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline is set to become operational in the US, new revelations show that the movement to halt its construction was being spied on by private security firm Tigerswan.
On Thursday, the US joined Nicaragua and Syria as the only nations in the world that won’t formally participate in the Paris Agreement to keep global temperatures from wreaking havoc on life as we know it.
Russia and India seek to coordinate efforts on introducing trade in national currencies, a declaration adopted at SPIEF said.
A cybersecurity firm has reported the discovery of 60,000 files from a US intelligence agency left on an unsecured public server with absolutely zero protection, not even a password.
Gunfire and explosions were reported at a resort complex in the Philippines capital Manila late Thursday, with dozens said to be injured in the clash. Police, firefighters, and SWAT teams were deployed to the scen.
Russia provided $1.1 billion of assistance to the poorest countries in 2016, Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak said Thursday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), adding that it was a significant volume of financial aid, given Russia is a country with emerging economy.
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emailed classified data to the Clinton Foundation's employees, the watchdog group Judicial Watch said on Thursday.
According to rosy estimates, the soonest Martian colonization might kick offis in the 2020s. But could people create an autonomous settlement on the Red Planet right now? Russian participants of Mars experiments told Sputnik how real this stellar dream is and what challenges the first colonizers of Mars are likely to be faced with.
Israel is disappointed that US President Donald Trump has decided to keep the US embassy in Tel Aviv rather than moving it to Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement on Thursday.
Moscow is considering appropriate response to the latest US sanctions against Russian companies but does not want to bring bilateral relations to an impasse, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told Sputnik on Thursday.
Russia's Republic of Tatarstan is expected to keep its leadership in the Regional Investment Climate Index due to be presented at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on Friday, while Russia's Far East is looking to improve its positions in the rating, experts told Sputnik.
The vast majority of media reports about the ongoing investigations into Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 US election and collusion with the Trump campaign are completely untrue and misleading, former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page said in an interview on Thursday.
Supplies of weapons by the United States to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria to fight jihadists do not befit the two countries' alliance, Turkey's National Security Council (MGK) said Thursday.
It appears that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) has caught the FBI red-handed: the agency shared intelligence on Americans with non-government parties. "I believe these latest revelations are explosive," Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel told Sputnik, explaining who is benefiting from the FBI's spying practices.