Новости за 24.07.2017

Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak is set to discuss with Kuwaiti Oil Minister Issam Abdulmohsen Almarzooq the liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies from Russia to Kuwait.

A total of 24 people were killed and over 40 injured in the explosion that occurred on Monday morning in Kabul, local media reported citing the country’s Interior Ministry.

Turkey banning German lawmakers from visiting German personnel at the NATO military base in Konya is a matter of relations within the alliance, and Berlin must urge NATO to settle the issue, chairman of the Defense Committee of the German Parliament Wolfgang Hellmich said on Monday.

An explosion occurred in Kabul early on Monday, close to the house of second Chief Executive of Afghanistan Mohammad Mohaqiq, local media reported.

The Embassy of the United States in Venezuela on Monday issued a security message for the US citizens in the country, warning them to gather food and water ahead of the opposition protests expected this week.

The 2017 BRICS Youth Summit kicks off in the Chinese capital of Beijing on Monday and will last through Friday.

More than 1,200 military from 22 countries have already arrived in Russia to begin preparations for the Army Games 2017 competitions, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.

An Israeli tank attacked positions of the Hamas movement in the southern Gaza Strip, responding to a projectile launched at Israel shortly before, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said on Monday.

In what is said to be a major milestone in a long-running radioactive clean-up operation, an underwater robot has recorded images of significant deposits of what is suspected to be melted nuclear fuel at the bottom of one of the damaged reactors at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro promised to arrest all judges of the Supreme Court that were appointed by the opposition-controlled Parliament.

The opportunity to resist appears in many forms, and Matt Groening, the creator and mastermind of the longest-running cartoon show in television history, knows the moment when he sees it.

Russian President Vladimir Putin could possibly visit the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS), set to take place in Sochi in October, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

A Chinese military official said the country has nothing to hide from the joint naval exercises between China and Russia, which focuses on joint rescue and protecting maritime economic activities.

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Sunday reiterated EU support for Kuwait’s role of a mediator in the crisis with Qatar, stressing the need to find a peaceful solution for the situation, a statement released by the European External Action Service (EEAS) said.

Around 50 people, including militants, were killed as a vehicle with ammunition exploded late on Sunday in the city of Idlib in northwestern Syria, local media reported.

President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has called on the commission to urgently discuss the response of the European Union to possible new anti-Russian sanctions that could be introduced by the United States, media reported on Sunday.

The leaders of Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine, the so-called Normandy Four, will hold a telephone conversation on the Ukrainian conflict settlement on Monday.

According to a warning notice from the US Coast Guard for mariners who intend to traverse the thousands of miles between Kodiak Island, Alaska, and the Hawaiian islands next weekend, a live-fire THAAD missile test has been scheduled by the US military.

Delegation of Russian experts on air security will arrive in Egypt’s capital of Cairo late on Monday and on the next day begin to examine security measures undertaken in the second terminal of the Cairo international airport, local media reported on Sunday.

The sum of the contracts concluded within the 13th International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2017 in the Russian city of Zhukovsky is estimated at 400 billion rubles ($6,7 billion), according to the press service of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade.

The Joint OPEC-Non-OPEC Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) will hold a meeting in St. Petersburg on Monday to track the implementation of the Vienna deal on oil output cuts.

Western countries' use of the legitimate presence of Chinese naval ships in international waters to preach their "China threat" theory will not affect China's operations, Chinese military experts said.