Новости за 08.07.2017

The Greek Foreign Ministry on Saturday blamed Turkey for the failure of the Conference on Cyprus reunification in Swiss Crans-Montana.

Poland’s former president and Nobel Prize winner Lech Walesa, aged 73, said on Saturday that he has been hospitalized in the Polish city of Gdansk due to health issues.

The visits of US President Donald Trump to Poland and the Group of 20 (G20) international summit in Germany were very "productive," White House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Saturday.

Piaggio Aerospace restarted test flights of its Hammerhead drone July 5, just over a year after an initial prototype crashed into the Mediterranean Sea.

Egyptian security forces have killed 14 militants in a special operation in the north-east province of Ismailia, situated on the west bank from the Suez Canal, local media reported Saturday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday strongly condemned violent protests that broke out in the German city of Hamburg amid the G20 international summit.

Russia's delegation in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) will vote against the resolutions on territorial integrity of Ukraine and on the situation with human rights and freedoms in Russia and other Eastern European countries, the head of the delegation said Saturday.

Doctors from Germany and the US consulted with Chinese cancer experts on Saturday to decide how Liu Xiaobo should be treated, according to the First Hospital of China Medical University.

Meeting with Asian leaders on the sidelines of the G20 summit, US President Donald Trump on Saturday described North Korea as a “problem and menace.”

Commenting on the People's Liberation Army Navy's growing presence in the world's oceans, Russian military observer Alexander Khrolenko notes that China's activities are making it more and more difficult for the US to use its main military advantage: its global naval hegemony.

Threats by US Congressmen to pull out of a landmark 1987 arms control treaty which prevents the proliferation of certain types of missiles are just an excuse to deploy missiles in the Middle East and Asia, Retired Russian Major-General Pavel Zolotaryov said.

Nearly 50,000 protesters took part in Saturday's rally against the G20 summit in Hamburg, according to local police reports.

"Everybody knows that Russia meddled in our elections," US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said in an interview clip aired Saturday.

Although the Obama administration did whatever it took to spoil US-Russian relations, there is still a chance for Moscow and Washington to reach compromise on Syria, Russian academic Mikhail Roshchin told Radio Sputnik. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled that Washington has become more pragmatic in regard to Syria.

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Battulga Khaltmaa, a Mongolian Democratic Party candidate who won the election and became Mongolia's new president-elect.

It appears that the US' decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement had far-reaching consequences as Turkey also moved to suspend the ratification of the deal.

Pyongyang won't give up nuclear weapons unless it receives some sort of security guarantee that North Korea won't be attacked by the US, political analyst Lin Shaowen told Radio Sputnik.

Russia's defense industry is fully prepared to begin production of the Barguzin ICBM-carrying railway missile train, according to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin. Independent military analyst Vladimir Tuchkov outlines the secretive system's expected capabilities, and its implications for the global strategic balance.

North Korea's nuclear missile program poses a serious challenge to the regional stability of East Asia, Sputnik contributor Alexander Khrolenko writes. However, it hasn't turned up out of the blue, the journalist noted, adding that the US also bears responsibility for the tensions simmering over the Korean Peninsula.

The world leaders who participated in the G20 summit in Hamburg pledged to further strengthen mutual trade and vowed to ensure that all their citizens become "digitally connected" by 2025.

Apparently too cheeky to consider humans a threat, this seal decided to take a break and relax aboard a rubber boat.

Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed claims about Russia's alleged intent to meddle in the upcoming elections in Germany, stating that Moscow and Berlin enjoy good relations.

Russia welcomes the liquefied natural gas shipments from the US to Europe as it will help boost healthy competition that will benefit all parties.

While the interests of Russians and Ukrainians appear to coincide, it seems that Ukraine's leadership seeks to undermine this harmony, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Moreover, Turkish President Erdogan hopes Iraqi Kurds will abandon the idea of holding of independence referendum.