An EU source said that the Council of the European Union's Committee of Permanent Representatives agreed on Wednesday to expand the list of anti-Russian individual sanctions on the initiative of Berlin.
Russia's envoy to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov said that the further interaction between Russia and the European Union depends on how Brussels reacts to the new anti-Russian sanctions that could be imposed by the United States.
The North Korean embassy in Beijing was raided by officials from Pyongyang after a diplomat was caught watching a South Korean television drama. Now embassy officials are being stringently investigated for potential faults in ideology or South Korean sympathies.
Rex Tillerson said he has no plans to resign from his position and will continue to serve as long as President Donald Trump allows him.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi pledged to liberate both the city of Tal Afar and Al-Hawija district from Daesh terrorist group in the same manner in which the liberation of Mosul was conducted.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Russian airborne troops have gained over 3,000 modern military hardware pieces in the last two years.
Since the landmark health care law was passed in 2009, GOP leadership has voted to repeal the law several dozen times. But even with a majority in both chambers of Congress, Republicans have yet to make good on their promise to eliminate Obamacare.
A case destined for "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" has concluded with a former New York Police Department sergeant being handed a guilty verdict for tossing his semen onto a co-worker's leg.
The scandal surrounding the Siemens turbines that were allegedly moved from mainland Russia to Crimea against the terms of the company's supply contract is a high-cost mistake that hampers Russia-EU relations, Russian Union of Industrialists and Enterpreneurs head Alexander Shokhin said Wednesday.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said that Donald Trump’s administration anticipates that the Russia sanctions bill may be further modified.
On Tuesday, the US Air Force finally acknowledged responsibility for contaminating the water at a east Colorado Springs air base and its surrounding areas.
Canadian Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan said that the Canadian government will purchase more than 1,100 new machine guns from a local business unit of the US-based Colt arms manufacturer in a deal worth around $25.6 million.
Hillary Clinton’s new book will focus on her defeat in the 2016 presidential election - specifically, how nefarious Russian hackers and former FBI Director James Comey cost her a victory in an election she was heavily favored to win.
The Chinese navy will conduct a massive experiment with underwater drones equipped with "real-time data transmission technology," in hopes of building up Beijing’s capacity to detect hostile submarines in the South China Sea.
A Los Angeles man is behind bars, following the discovery of three very live and venomous two-foot-long king cobra snakes hidden inside potato chip cans in a package addressed to him.
The United States sanctioned 13 current Venezuelan government and military officials, the US Department of the Treasury announced on Wednesday.
The first shipment under the Caracas-Moscow deal of Russian grain deliveries will be dispatched to Venezuela on August 9-10 and will be a crucial step in developing bilateral relations, Venezuelan Ambassador to Russia Carlos Rafael Faria Tortosa told Sputnik on Wednesday.
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) rocket has been chosen for a 2019 lunar rover mission during the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, the private space company Astrobotic announced in a press release on Wednesday.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro did not personally alter lyrics of Despacito hit song used to promote an upcoming Consitutent Assembly vote in the country, Venezuelan Ambassador to Russia Carlos Rafael Faria Tortosa told Sputnik.
Russia and Turkey are currently at the final stage of negotiations regarding the delivery of the Russian-made S-400 missile defense systems to Ankara. The US signaled that Turkey buying the missiles would become a major concern for Washington.
Chairman of the Russian upper house of parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee Konstantin Kosachev on Wednesday ruled out any attempts of the Russian side to interfere in the US lawmaking process during US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher's visit to Moscow in April 2016.
North Korea has threatened to deliver a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the US. The threat came on the eve of the 64th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, North Korean agency KCNA reported.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on the ratification of the Council of Europe's Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime and on the Financing of Terrorism, according to the government portal of legal information.
Russian and Chinese navy tactival groups are training amid naval Joint Sea-2017 drills in the Baltic Sea, spokesman for the Baltic Navy Capt. 1st Rank Roman Martov told Sputnik Wednesday.