Новости за 08.08.2017

Celebrating National Dollar Day Monday night, anti-Trump activists beamed images of Russian President Vladimir Putin onto the side of the Trump Hotel in lower Manhattan.

NASA has released two artists’ renditions of what Kuiper Belt Object MU69 might possibly be like. One shows a single oblong bean-shaped object; the other depicts MU69 as two objects stuck together in the shape of a peanut shell.

A UK court on Tuesday found guilty a 43-year-old Italian national of Pakistani origin of an attempt to take a homemade explosive device in a suitcase to a flight from Manchester, local media reported.

A Houston, Texas, family is mourning the death of their King Charles Spaniel on a United Airline Flight on Sunday. According to the Rasmussen family, their five-year-old beloved dog died in the cargo hold while the plane stood on the tarmac for two long hours before taking off for San Francisco.

US President Donald Trump in a statement on Tuesday said rarely has an administration accomplished so much within its first 200 days, despite media polls suggesting otherwise.

Northrop Grumman announced in a statement on Tuesday it will install new radio terminals on board the US Air Force E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft.

The US military has said that an Army sergeant charged with the grandiose destruction of three Humvees last year will proceed to a court martial.

In one of US President Donald Trump’s three retweets of @FoxandFriends as of early Tuesday afternoon, the president helped spread leaked intelligence about North Korea’s cruise missiles.

Russia and Abkhazia will develop closer security cooperation in the Caucasian region, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.

The United States has no plans to conduct strikes in the Philippines against the positions of Daesh terror group (banned in Russia), US Department of Defense spokesperson Christopher Logan told Sputnik on Tuesday.

Only 5 percent of the Syrian refugees resettled in the United Kingdom are disabled while more than one in five refugees escaping the conflict have disabilities, local media reported on Tuesday.

Pyongyang "best not make any more threats to the US," US President Donald Trump told the press pool in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Tuesday, as any attempts at intimidation "will be met with fire & fury -- and frankly power -- the likes of which the world has never seen before."

Following reports that an Israeli Apache helicopter crashed Monday night, officials say preliminary findings indicate no link between the incident and the fleet’s recent grounding.

The Turkish authorities launched construction of a wall along the country's border with Iran as part of the efforts to protect the territory from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), listed by Ankara as a terrorist organization, local media reported Tuesday.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday appointed Indonesia's Samuel Tumiwa as the new institution's country director for Afghanistan, according to the bank's press service.

The Search and Rescue operations conducted by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in northern Niger helped 1,000 migrants since April 2017, the IOM said in a statement on Tuesday.

After 16 years, forensic experts have identified a new victim of the September 11 attacks by using novel DNA technology, according to the New York City medical examiner’s office.

As the US searches for the right pressure points to persuade North Korea to end its weapons development programs, the Pentagon is reviewing the ballistic missile regulation regime in place for South Korea, possibly paving the way for Seoul to possess more powerful projectiles.

"Well, if he gets in you can shoot him legally, right? Isn’t that breaking and entering?"

Turkey seems to be planning an advance on the Kurdish YPG militia in northwestern Syria, and could get the go-ahead from Damascus in return for reigning in anti-government fighters in Idlib or elsewhere in Syria, Turkish journalist Bora Bayraktar told Sputnik.

Daesh terror goup shelled with mortars residential areas of the eastern Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, according to local media.

US intelligence officials assesses North Korea has produced nuclear weapons for ballistic missile delivery, to include delivery by ICBM-class missiles, according to media reports.

China continues to win diplomatic victories versus the United States in Southeast Asia, RIA Novosti political observer Dmitry Kosyrev writes. According to the analyst, Washington has nothing to offer to ASEAN nations except military support in a potential conflict with China.

The main consequence of Brexit will fall most heavily on significant numbers of relatively low-waged workers in agriculture, according to the director of the Irish-based Think Tank for Action on Social Change (TASC).

The number of victims of the Tuesday earthquake in the Sichuan province in southwestern China has increased to 88 people, China's Central television reported.