Новости за 21.08.2017

According to the Turkish prime minister, the country's forces has "neutralized" 4,600 Daesh terrorists in Syria and Iraq.

The US Secret Service has already spent the full amount of its overtime pay for 1,000 agents tasked with protecting President Donald Trump’s family due in part to their size and the frequency of their travel, Director Randolph Alles said on Monday.

It’s been 10 years since the very first rickroll occurred, involving an unexpected appearance of the 1987 Rick Astley hit "Never Gonna Give You Up." But it seems this prank never gets old. Foo Fighters, who performed at Tokyo’s Summer Sonic Festival on August 20, rickrolled their fans in the most epic way.

The US-led coalition carried out 35 strikes consisting of 114 engagements in Syria and Iraq against Daesh on Sunday, including 21 near the Syrian city of Raqqa, Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve said in a press release.

The first batch of US LNG has been delivered to the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda, the Lithuanian Energy Ministry said on Monday.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to discuss the crisis with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the BRICS summit to be held in September in Xiamen, China.

The Russian Aerospace Forces have so far launched more than 2,500 strikes this month in Syria, destroying up to 800 terrorists, the Russian military said Monday.

US Senator John McCain, this staunch US patriot whose claim to fame, and heroism, is his role in the bombing of poor peasants from the air during the war in Vietnam, is either ignorant or believes that everybody else is.

The US amphibious assault ship America arrived at Changi Naval Base in Singapore to support the John S. McCain, which is damaged after colliding with an oil tanker off the coast of Singapore, the US Navy said in a press release on Monday.

The German government is working on the rehabilitation of the diesel cars' reputation tainted by a major emissions scandal, in addition to also trying to prevent bans on diesel cars, Chancellor Angela Merkel told the Bild newspaper in an interview on Monday.

Russia's Rosoboronexport expects to hold meetings and talks with over 70 foreign delegations at the upcoming Army-2017 exhibition, the exporter's Deputy CEO Sergey Goreslavsky said Monday.

Anatoly Antonov, a senior Russian diplomat and military officer, was appointed to serve as Russian ambassador to the United States on Monday.

The central Syria has been almost liberated from terrorists, while Aleppo Province is already free from them, Col. Gen. Sergei Rudskoy, the chief of the Russian General Staff's Main Operational Directorate, said.

In an attempt to address activists in Boston on August 19, US president Donald Trump twice lost a battle to spellcheck on Twitter after he mistakenly wrote that the country needs protest in order to "heel" - and didn't go unnoticed.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that the Syrian government forces are advancing on the besieged city of Deir ez-Zor from three directions.

Bumblebees are facing extinction from insecticides. This is what a team of UK researchers have discovered. The study was posted on the Nature.com website this week. Radio Sputnik discussed this issue with Mark Brown, Professor in Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation from the School of Biological Sciences at Royal Holloway University of London.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said Monday that he handed over to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov a message from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The US University of Texas at Austin removed four Confederate statues on its grounds late on Sunday, local media reported.

Russian citizens applying for visitor visas to the United States would have to wait nearly three months for an appointment after the US Embassy in Moscow had announced curbs in visa processing, according to data on the US State Department website updated on Monday.

Republika Srpska (RS), one of the constituting parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, wants a referendum on the country joining NATO, RS President Milorad Dodik said in an exclusive interview with Sputnik.

More than 850 exhibits from Russia’s Hermitage Museum collection were delivered to London to share the story of the Scythians, powerful nomadic tribes from Siberia.

A number of UK companies are using the ongoing Brexit process to abuse the rights of their workers by freezing salary payments, refusing to pay bonuses or threatening pension schemes, the Unite trade union said Monday in a statement

German Chancellor Angela Merkel believes that the considerable experience she has garnered over the years will enable her to successfully lead the country for another term.

There are indications that the imam of the Spanish city of Ripoll, the suspected mastermind of the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils, died in an explosion in Alcanar just a day before, local media reported Monday.

Deputy Foreign Minister Anatoly Antonov will serve as new Russia's ambassador to the United States instead of Sergei Kislyak, who had held the position in 2008-2017.