US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate deal is an inconclusive move which could see the United States return into the fold after the next presidential election, experts told Sputnik on Friday.
Serbian Minister of Economy Goran Knezevic said that Russian companies using the most advanced technologies are interested in establishing special economic zones in Serbia, in addition to the ones that exist already.
Toyota Motor North America announced that some 32,000 pickup trucks in the United States are being recalled to correct a potential malfunction.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said that he will sign the legislation to further cut down the greenhouse gas emissions in the city.
Vladimir Putin and Sigmar Gabriel discussed Russian-German relations on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
Thom Yorke of the legendary rock group Radiohead has broken his silence about the band’s controversial planned show in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement has urged Radiohead to cancel the show, an act that Yorke called “patronizing in the extreme.”
Special Assistant to the US President on Counterproliferation Christopher Ford said that discussions between Russia and the United States on ballistic missile defense will be qualitatively different if threats posed by North Korea and Iran are brought under control.
Police are evacuating visitors at the Rock am Ring music festival at the Nuerburgring circuit due to a potential terrorist threat.
The US Department of Commerce said that the US trade deficit in goods with China has continued to increase and grew by $3 billion within a month reaching $27.6 billion in April.
Hinting at a major offensive against terrorists in Kashmir, the Indian Army has planned a major procurement to purchase 13,000 night sight thermal imaging devices for AK-47 rifles and 14,000 autogated night sight image intensifiers via global tender.
An investigation by the European Commission into questionable business practices that directed user searches to Google’s own shopping services is likely to result in a massive anti-competition penalty for the Mountain View, California giant.
Lt. Col. Ray Tiongson of the Philippine Army claims Daesh’s invasion of Marawi City and the spiraling security crisis the sudden attack spawned is "not the reason" Brig. Gen. Nixon Fortes, the general tasked with combating hostile elements on the island of Mindanao, has been let go.
The trade dispute between the Canadian government and American defense contractor Boeing has placed the lucrative defense relationship in jeopardy, as Canadian authorities seek foreign defense contractors to fill the gap and European firms begin to close in.
Conservative political commentator and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan wrote in a Thursday blog post that the US should withdraw from Afghanistan, reasoning that Washington is fighting a war that is “slowly being lost.”
Russian presidential aide Andrei Belousov said that representatives of foreign businesses showed special interest in digital economy, offered a number of projects in this sphere at the Friday’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of SPIEF.
Representatives of foreign business circles focused on the discussion of their ideas on improvement of their projects in Russia at a Friday meeting with President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Russian Trade and Industry Minister Denis Manturov said.
The US is working to determine talks with Russia on nonproliferation, US Special Assistant to President on Nonproliferation Christopher Ford told Sputnik on Friday.
The United States, Britain and Germany have kicked off a new initiative aimed at arming and training Peshmerga military forces, General Helgurd Hikmet, an official representative of the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs at the Kurdistan Regional Government, told Sputnik.
The parliamentary faction of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova has submitted a motion of no confidence in the Moldovan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration over the expulsion of five Russian diplomats, the deputy from the Socialists’ Party Vladimir Turcan said.
Turkey must not stand against cooperation with the Syrian Kurds because currently the main task is to prevent the escalation of the war between Sunnis and Shiites in Syria, according to former Turkish Armed Forces member and security expert, Abdullah Agar.
The federal program for the development of Russian space launch centers for the period of 2017-2025 may be adopted as early as by September, the head of Roscosmos State Space Corporation Igor Komarov said Friday.
The US will continue to engage in discussions about reduce greenhouse gases' reduction, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt at a White House press briefing on Friday.
The abuse of power in global politics leads to problems like the situation around North Korea, adding that Pyongyang defends itself from external pressure, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).
Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich's murder continues to stir up public opinion in the US. Speaking to Sputnik, Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel assumed that Rich's death could have been part of a massive conspiracy aimed at appointing Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as successor to Barack Obama.
According to the latest estimation by the Global Peace Index that annually analyzes the costs of security of living in countries and regions, worldwide terrorism is at an all-time high.