The United States will keep an open line of communication with its Russian counterparts to deconflict operations in Syria after the US military shot down a Syrian fighter jet, White House spokesperson Sean Spicer said during a press briefing on Monday.
Major US stock indexes closed higher on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard and Poor’s 500 reaching record levels as technology stocks performed well.
The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed on Monday that the next meeting on the Syrian settlement in the Kazakh capital of Astana will take place on July 4-5.
Otto Warmbier, who was released by North Korean authorities and returned to the United States on June 13, was comatose. He was hospitalized in Cincinnati, Ohio. The family and the hospital have both stated that he has died. He was 22.
A US defense attache in China was assigned to the National Security Council, the US Department of Defense said in a press release on Monday.
"Don’t kill me! I am here to defect," the man shouted to South Korean soldiers as he paddled down the Han River outside of Seoul, according to Yonhap News Agency.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Monday he was uncertain that the European Union is capable of creation a common migration policies amid unfolding refugee crisis on the continent.
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko will hold his first official meeting with US President Donald Trump on Tuesday, media reported Monday.
Rosoboronexport, Russia's state arms exports agency, is offering to service and repair Afghanistan's entire Soviet and Russian helicopter fleet of over 200 units, the company's Director General Alexander Mikheev said Monday.
The Swedish police have launched an investigation into the incident with the shooting in the city of Stockholm.
A Russian lawmaker said on Monday that the suspension of the memorandum of understanding between Russia and the United States will help preventing such incidents as an American attack against the Syrian aircraft.
The US Air Force is testing a new high-tech sensor in a desperate effort to unveil the “mosaic of events” causing episodes of hypoxia aboard Lockheed Martin F-35As that forced the grounding of 55 jets at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona.
South Korean officials have told state news agency Yonhap that Seoul will begin mass production of a new mid-range missile interceptor, the Cheolmae-2, as a crucial part of an expanded missile defense system against their increasingly-belligerent neighbor to the north.
Almost one hour after a collision that would claim the lives of seven US Navy sailors, the containership that had crashed into the USS Fitzgerald hadn’t reported the incident—and officials can’t figure out what caused the delay.
The French minister of territorial cohesion will resign to lead President Emmanuel Macron’s now ruling La Republique En Marche party in the National Assembly, local media reported on Monday.
Sometimes we run into a "bare" person, but occasionally, we just encounter bears.
The United Nations is analyzing available information about the attack near a mosque in London and early data indicates it was a terrorist act, UN Secretary-General spokesman Stephane Dujarric said at a briefing on Monday.
Latvia will increase its defense capacity as a NATO member state, Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis stated on Monday.
According to information from sources in the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) the United States has delivered a seventh round of heavy weapons and armored vehicles to the forces.
By extending sanctions against Crimea, the European Union is punishing the Crimean people rather than hurting the Russian government, the chair of Russia's Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs Konstantin Kosachev said on Monday.
A Japanese research group comprising of government and business representatives is scheduled to visit Russia's disputed southern Kuril Islands at the end of June, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday.
It is too soon to determine whether US-China collaboration in pressuring North Korea to curb its nuclear program has been successful, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford said in remarks at the National Press Club on Monday.
The USS Fitzgerald destroyer hit a Philippine merchant vessel southwest of the Japanese city of Yokosuka on Saturday. All seven previously missing sailors from the destroyer were found dead on Monday. Sputnik spoke with military expert Constantine Sivkov and Vladimir Evseev in an interview about why the destroyer suffered major damage.
The White House has confirmed that US Vice President Mike Pence will meet with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Washington, DC on Tuesday, spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters.
The United States will promote further communication with its Russian counterparts on Syrian issue, White House spokesperson Sean Spicer said during a press briefing on Monday.