New US Sanctions Target Venezuelan State-Owned Oil Company PDVSA
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that Trump's newly signed executive order to impose sanctions on Venezuela will prevent US persons from engaging with PDVSA.
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that Trump's newly signed executive order to impose sanctions on Venezuela will prevent US persons from engaging with PDVSA.
A man is under arrest after attacking police outside of Buckingham Palace with a knife Friday evening. The UK Metropolitan police say two officers sustained slight injuries while taking the man into custody.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said that the allegations of Russia's involvement in forest fires in Georgia are "sick fantasies".
The American health insurance company Aetna has landed in hot water after it revealed the HIV status of roughly 12,000 of its customers when sensitive information was mailed out in an incorrect envelope.
Deputy Commander of the Russian Air Force of the High Command of the Aerospace Forces says that Russian anti-aircraft missile system covers targets within 250 miles.
A man was shot in the Brussels city center after he attacked two soldiers with a machete. Belgian authorities have reported that the attacker has died while both soldiers were lightly injured, and that they are treating the incident as an act of terrorism.
The Monday collision of the USS John S. McCain with a Liberian oil tanker will not impact the American doctrine of “freedom of navigation” in the disputed South China Sea, according to the commander of US Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) on Friday.
Labeled a "life-threatening storm" by the National Hurricane Center, officials have raised Harvey from a Category 2 storm to a Category 3 after the storm gained strength from the Gulf of Mexico's warm water.
A US Defense Department watchdog says that US European Command (USEUCOM) force levels may not be large enough to maintain the military’s movement into Eastern Europe, possibly endangering the three-year campaign.
The US Air Force has given Lockheed Martin and Raytheon the go-ahead to develop a new nuclear-capable cruise missile to replace the aging AGM-86B air-launched cruise missile used by its long-range bombers. Russian observers comment on what can be expected of the prospective weapon, and how it stacks up against Russian cruise missile designs.
An investigation was launched after locals who saw the change in the animals complained to city authorities. The toxic dye is also turning some of the canines blind.
The group of experts includes Mutuma Ruteere, the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, discrimination, xenophobia; Fernand de Varennes, the Special Rapporteur on minority issues; and Anastasia Crickley, the Chairperson of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination concerned over ultimatum given to Igbo in Nigeria.
The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) needs to understand that the al-Nusra Front terrorists and their allies will continue to adjust their tactics in the Idlib province and actively operate in different directions, targeting moderate opposition, Russian military analyst Andrei Koshkin told Radio Sputnik.
Vatican Secretary of State said that Russia is meant to play an important role on the international arena due to its geographical position and history.
The US-North Korean crisis didn’t emerge overnight, US peace activist Jan R. Weinberg said, stressing that Donald Trump's warmongering policy toward Pyongyang is the continuation of Barack Obama's Pivot to Asia strategy. However, as polls show, Americans are not happy about the escalation of tensions in the peninsula.
Two notable US media outlets ended up quarreling because of a new 'Russian propaganda tracker' known as Hamilton 68.
Head of the Russian General Staff's Office for the Development of UAVs stated that Russia has deployed defense systems to be used against unmanned aerial vehicles in Syria.
The raid carried out by Somalian and US forces in Lower Shabelle region of southern Somalia on Friday left 10 civilians dead, according to local media.
The Cairo platform of the Syrian opposition opposes joining forces with the High Negotiations Committee (HNC) without participation of the Moscow platform of opposition, the Cairo group's representative Jamal Suleiman told Sputnik on Friday.
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A total of 734 police officers will be reinstated in Turkey over suspected links to the movement of Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, which Turkey refers as the Fethullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) and blames for the 2016 coup attempt, according to local media.
Turkey does not recognize Iraqi Kurdistan as an independent state, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Friday, reiterating Ankara's call on the Kurds to refrain from holding an independence referendum in late September.
Russian military forces operating in Syria have successfully tested a new method in the organization of secure communications, using the networks of foreign telecommunications operators, Lieut Gen Khalil Arslanov, chief of the Main Communications Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces, has said.
The incessant flow of refugees and illegal migrants from Africa and the Middle East to Europe has effectively created a lucrative market that helps swell the coffers of profiteering corporations.