UK Strives to Build New Relations With EU ASAP - Position Paper
The UK-EU negotiations on Brexit issue and the future partnership are closely connected. Moreover, the United Kingdom is interested in forming these new ties as early as possible.
The UK-EU negotiations on Brexit issue and the future partnership are closely connected. Moreover, the United Kingdom is interested in forming these new ties as early as possible.
The United States and Israel were jointly preparing a military operation in Syria but the plan was abandoned following reports about S-400 missile defense systems put on combat alert in the region, according to Syrian political adviser Suleiman al Suleiman.
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement talks are not bearing fruits while tensions are growing along the zone of military operations between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Azerbaijan's Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel will not be able to take part in Russian-German events in Berlin on Thursday for health reasons, a source in the German capital told reporters. Later in the day, the information was confirmed by the German Foreign Ministry.
The task force, established by Siemens on Friday, is looking into reports about alleged supplies of the company's electricity turbines to Crimea, but is not able to provide any details on the latest media reports so far, the German company's spokesman Philipp Encz told Sputnik on Thursday.
Michel Barnier, the European Union's chief Brexit negotiator, is meeting Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in Brussels Thursday, June 13. Mr. Barnier will also meet the leaders of the Scotland and Wales as he seeks to gain an idea of what all sides want from Brexit.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) in Syria's late June investigation into the alleged use of sarin in Khan Sheikhoun was flawed, the Russian Foreign Ministry's nonproliferation department chief told Sputnik, calling on a more serious probe into the April incident.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on US President Donald Trump's statement claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin may have been better off if presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 election.
The WikiLeaks whistleblowing platform released on Thursday new documents from the so-called Vault 7 plan, which contained information on a CIA project that targets SMS messages sent and received on Android devices.
The Russian Black Sea Fleet is carrying out a combat readiness exercise in Crimea and in the Black Sea with coastal and naval units being put on high alert, the press office of the Southern Military District reported Wednesday. The report came amid the onjoing US-Ukraine joint naval war games in the Black Sea.
It is necessary to promote further rapprochement of Ukraine and the EU, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Thursday.
The authorities in the Balearic Islands have asked the Spanish government and the European Union to ban alcohol on planes which are heading there. Ibiza and Majorca are extremely popular with young people from Britain, Germany and Scandinavia but the authorities are getting fed up of what they call "anti-social tourism."
Technological products related to power generation and power industry placed in Crimea were made in Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Thursday, when commenting on reports on the supply of turbines allegedly produced by Germany's Siemens for power plants in Crimea.
According to the chairman of the Russian Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs, scandals aroud Trump's alleged ties with Russia will be fueling further to give a pretext for the president's impeachment.
The Mosul battle is almost finished. However, the civilians get into trouble while returning to normal life and they need help, representatives of international humanitarian organizations working in the area told Sputnik.
The United States' claim that a Syrian military aircraft dropped a sarin bomb near Khan Sheikhoun in April raises serious doubts, the Russian Foreign Ministry's nonproliferation department chief told Sputnik.
One of the largest icebergs ever split off in Antarctica on July 12. Scientists argue about the impact of climate change: some have not yet found any link to human-induced global warming; others argue it is crystal clear that it was yet another wake-up call. Explore Antarctica's dissolving icy landscapes in Sputnik’s photo gallery.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Sputnik he still plans to meet US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon next week despite reports to the contrary.
Russian energy giant Gazprom will issue 500 million Swiss francs ($518.1 million) worth of five-year eurobonds with a yield of 2.25 percent, a banking source told Sputnik Thursday.
As 2017's Wimbledon Championships heat up, UK food delivery service HungryHouse has courted food art guru Prudence Staite to serve up a scintillating series of dishes that recreate top tennis stars to a fault.
The United Kingdom may be looking into the calculation of the European Union's proposed Brexit "divorce bill," but will not pay more money than necessary under its obligations, junior Brexit Minister Steve Baker said Thursday.
Iraqi forces on Thursday rescued a Yazidi family from the militants of the Daesh terrorist group (banned in Russia) in the city of Mosul, a security source told Sputnik.
The three Syrian opposition groups and UN experts are discussing the possible outcome of the Syrian future, a special source told Sputnik.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas congratulated newly-elected chairman of the Israeli Labor Party Avi Gabbay on winning the opposition party's leadership, local media reported Thursday.
India is seeking to assert itself as a long-term rival of China in the Asia-Pacific region, by conducting a joint naval exercise with the United States and Japan, amid escalating border dispute with its eastern neighbor, experts told Sputnik.