The UK court ruling allowing the country to continue exporting arms to Saudi Arabia is likely to encourage other EU member states to sell arms to countries with poor human rights records, peace activists told Sputnik on Tuesday.
Turkey and Russia have reached an agreement on financing the Turkish Stream pipeline. This shows Turkey's full support for the investment project, energy expert Vladimir Feigin told Radio Sputnik.
During his visit to INNOPROM-2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned that he drove a Nissan car for several years while working in St. Petersburg City Hall in the 1990s. Sputnik runs through the other cars the head of state has used through the years.
Turkey sent 200 cargo aircraft, loaded with goods worth more that $20 billion to Qatar, subjected to an economic blockade by the Gulf countries since early June due to its alleged terror support, Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci said Tuesday.
France's oil and gas company Total does not expect the crisis in Qatar to affect bilateral cooperation with Doha on the oil field development, Total’s President of Exploration and Production Arnaud Breuillac told Sputnik.
Police taser use against children leaped 25 percent in the UK in 2016 compared to the previous year, with 597 deployments in total compared to 467. The figures come as police are being equipped with a growing number of ever more powerful tasers, with the potential to kill.
The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is becoming incurable, as it was in the 1920s, before the first drugs to treat it were discovered. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) more than 60 percent of countries surveyed around the world have reported cases in which last-resort antibiotics simply don't work anymore.
The EU Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee adopted a legislative report, which reviews EU Instrument Contributing to Stability and Peace (IcSP), allowing the European Union to supply non-lethal weapons to third countries, the Group of the European People's Party (EPP) in the European Parliament said Tuesday.
A decision by the Trump administration to cancel plans for a new Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters puts US national security at risk, according to a press release from lawmakers from the state of Maryland, which had been a favored candidate for the new facility.
The United States and Qatar have signed an agreement intending to disrupt financing of terrorist organizations, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said at a press conference on Tuesday.
Donald Trump Jr. announced in a statement on Tuesday that he was making public the email chain with a publicist Rob Goldstone about a meeting with a Russian lawyer about compromising information on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Moscow regards Kiev's plans to introduce entry for Russian citizens by biometric passports as a policy aimed at severing contacts with Russia, and regrets Ukraine's attempts to build a new "Berlin Wall", the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
Nearly a third of US voters say they believe the recent meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Hamburg was good for the United States, a newly published Rasmussen Reports poll showed on Tuesday.
The 2017 G20 summit in Hamburg was accompanied by a panoply of security measures critics say bordered on dystopian – predator drones, robots of uncertain purpose prowling the sewers, water cannon, heavily militarized police, "no-protest" zones and more. German Justice Minister Heiko Maas now leads calls for a Europe-wide extremist database.
Russian requests to assess the quality of life of those children who were adopted in Russia and taken to the United States before the so-called "Dima Yakovlev Law" banned the process altogether are being ignored by the US side, Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Anna Kuznetsova said Tuesday.
The investigation into connections between the campaign of President Donald Trump and Russia and the 2016 US election has moved beyond obstruction of justice and into a new phase that potentially includes treason, US Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia told reporters in the US Capitol on Tuesday.
The world needs to promote all available clean energy sources and use oil, gas and energy in more efficient manner, following the example of the United States, which leads the world in reducing carbon dioxide emissions by switching from coal to natural gas, International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Birol told Sputnik on Tuesday.
The Trump administration is considering prohibiting all US federal agencies from using products developed by the Russian cyber-security firm Kaspersky Lab because of its alleged ties to Russia's intelligence services, media reported on Tuesday, citing government officials familiar with the matter.
British Petroleum (BP) and Russia's Rosneft expect to sign a final agreement on deliveries of Russian gas to Europe this year, with annual supply volumes reaching up to 20 billion cubic meters, BP Group Chief Executive Robert Dudley told Sputnik on Tuesday.
Russia will continue cooperation with Turkey in the framework of the Astana consultations on the Syrian crisis settlement, newly-appointed Russian ambassador to Ankara said Tuesday.
Russia categorically disagrees with US claims that Iran's missile program is carried out in violation of a UNSC resolution on the issue as the United States and some other Western countries attempt to misrepresent the situation, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told Sputnik on Tuesday.
It appears that Brussels is about to pin its hopes on Libyan National Army Gen. Khalifa Haftar, who has recently liberated Benghazi from Islamists, Radio Sputnik contributor Vladimir Bychkov noted. In contrast to other Libyan "leaders" Haftar has real power, he added.
The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade is ready to cooperate with Japanese counterparts on industrial cooperation on the disputed Kuril Islands.
Russia's Foundation for Advanced Research Projects (FPI) has completed the development of the advanced control system of aircraft structures state, which is based on the principles of the nervous system of living organisms and is expected to significantly improve flight safety, head of the project Dmitry Uspensky told Sputnik on Tuesday.
There may be no British Grand Prix in 2019 after the Silverstone racetrack pulled out in a row over money. But Formula 1 bosses may instead opt for a street race like the Monte Carlo Grand Prix.