Новости за 01.07.2017

German team captain Julian Draxler thanked Russian fans and the organizers of the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup.

A team of researchers from the Berlin-based German Archaeological Institute found what appears to be the remains of a “skull cult” in the world’s oldest temple.

India and Pakistan exchanged through diplomatic channels the lists of nationals of each country, held in the jails of the other country, according to the statement of the Indian Foreign Ministry.

Born in the Russia’s Leningrad Oblast, a foal named Gulliver is the contender for the title of the smallest horse in the world.

Pres. Trump is talking healthcare on Twitter and he is saying "repeal it!" plus the President meeting with the new president of South Korea and the US inks a new arms deal with Taiwan that has China seeing red.

The work of the Bundestag NSA investigation committee, which presented its final report on Wednesday, faced obstruction from Berlin and Washington, Hans-Christian Stroebele, a Green politician who served on the committee, told Sputnik Deutschland.

Trump sends Federal Agents to Chicago with the help of Mayor Emanuel; US arms deal in Taiwan, stressing relations with China.

Take a look at the works of photojournalists entered in the My Planet category for the 2017 Andrei Stenin International Photo Contest, organized by Rossiya Segodnya under the auspices of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO.

Commenting on the recent developments in the Persian Gulf and the remarks of Bahrain's Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa towards Qatar, Turkish security expert Abdullah Agar explained to Sputnik that these are clear attempts of the West to pit the countries in the region against each other, which could provoke a new world war.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Walter Smolarek fills in for Brian Becker and is joined by author and journalist Patrick Lawrence.

Berlin has levied accusations against Turkish special services, reflecting a crisis of confidence within NATO, former Turkish Minister for EU Affairs Egemen Bagis told Sputnik Turkey.

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said that Serbia is ready to develop the sphere of high technologies based on the experience of Russian.

India witnessed a million deaths due to waterborne diseases and is unlikely to weed out shortage of water in the next decade as the government needs to invest about $291 billion by 2030, which is higher than New Delhi’s annual budget.

A day after China referred to the 1962 war and that Indian Army should learn “historical lessons”, India’s Defense Minister Arun Jaitley asserted the “India of today is different from what it was in 1962”. Jaitley said the Sikkim stand-off between Indian and Chinese troops was triggered by Beijing.

Russian Defense Ministry said that commission on the Syrian truce have registered a total of eight violations of the ceasefire regime in Syria over the past 24 hours.

According to Azerbaijani Defense Ministry, Armenia has violated the ceasefire in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh 120 times during the past 24 hours.

Commenting on the recent claims of the White House that the US allegedly "observed potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime" and a subsequent CNN report on the deployment of the US warships targeting Syria's Shayrat airbase, Syrian politician Ammar al-Asad explained to Sputnik the real reason behind the claims.

Saudi Arabia and its allies gave Qatar a list of 13 far-reaching demands as a prerequisite for ending the Gulf Crisis, though Doha said that not only does it outright reject some of them, but that it won't enter into dialogue until the nearly month-long blockade is lifted first.

Israel bombed Syria two times over the weekend in an unprecedented escalation of hostilities between the two neighbors, both of which have a completely different narrative about what happened.

Next week's prospective meeting between the Russian and American Presidents at the G20 Summit in Hamburg can either see the two sides make progress on a "New Detente" or both leaders walking away without any deal whatsoever.

With Washington planning to sell Taiwan 1.42 billion dollars in arms, Russian experts gave their thoughts on what prompted the White House to make the decision.

Russia has been forced to prolong counter-sanctions after the US and EU decided to prolong their sanctions against Russia and "increase the level of conflict" in the world, political scientist Vladimir Kireev told Radio Sputnik.

Deputy Head of Rossotrudnichestvo stated that Russia and the United States are working together to arrange of a forum of twin cities in the near future.

Regardless of the obvious size difference, this bunny easily keeps up with the huge pooch as they race across a home garden in Albany, Western Australia.

According to reports, Ukrainian government forces breached the truce timed to the harvest season three times during the past 24 hours in the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic.