Новости за 01.07.2017

Move over, Mendelssohn!

South Korea's new President claims that North Korea could help restart bilateral talks by releasing US nationals.

Moon Jae-in vowed to continue joint US-Korean military drills, which he said should be viewed separately from the North Korean nuclear dilemma.

The Department of Defense said that Raytheon will provide electronic upgrades to the AEGIS air and missile defense systems on board Arleigh Burke destroyers and Ticonderoga cruisers.

Some people in China have expressed concerns and anger about overseas students' safety after the US police failed to find a visiting Chinese scholar who had gone missing for 18 days.

US President Donald Trump wants every voter’s data. So far, 24 states, including some Republican states that swung for Trump, have said they won’t let that happen.

European political heavyweights will gather in the French city of Strasbourg on Saturday to take part in a farewell ceremony for Germany’s reunification chancellor Helmut Kohl.

A potentially deadly brain-eating amoeba has been discovered by health officials in the water system of a Louisiana parish.

Defence Minister of Singapore Ng Eng Hen said Tuesday that some 18,000 full-time and operationally ready national servicemen will be receiving counter-terrorism training annually, starting July.

Attention senators, representatives and any fun-loving radio listeners in Washington, DC: Radio Sputnik is now available at 105.5 FM 24/7 and you don’t want to miss a second of its broadcast.

Venezuela’s prosecutor general Luisa Ortega Diaz asked a pan-American human rights watchdog for protection.

Russia's lower house of parliament international affairs committee chair Leonid Slutsky said that the June session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe turned into a triumph of antidemocrats and Russophobes with each day of the session being marked by double standards

The US Department of Defense announced that Sikorsky was awarded a more than $3.7-billion contract to manufacture Black Hawk helicopters for Saudi Arabia and provide engineering support services.

The USS Fitzgerald is heading back to the US following a deadly collision the caused major damage to the guided missile cruiser.

China and Japan agreed to launch an air and maritime contact mechanism as early as possible at their seventh round of high-level consultations on maritime affairs held in Fukuoka from Thursday to Friday.