Новости за 25.08.2017

Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said that the upcoming Russian-Belarusian joint military drills Zapad-2017 (West-2017) might cause "dangerous military incidents."

As many as 29 people were killed in clashes outside a court in Panchkula city in the northern Indian state of Haryana after popular religious leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was convicted of rape, local media reported on Friday.

Unexpected heavy rain has transformed the usually desolate wastes of Atacama Desert in Chile into something of a flower garden.

More than 25,000 fighters have joined forces into a single terrorist group that fights in at least four Syrian provinces, the chief of Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate said Friday.

Indian naval satellite GSAT-7 and long-range maritime patrol aircraft P-8I had tracked 13 Chinese naval ships in the Indian Ocean over the last three months. India is also skeptical as China’s submarine deals with Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Pakistan would mean an increased number of Chinese ships floating overwhelmingly close to its littorals.

India is launching a new satellite IRNSS-1H next week to replace the malfunctioning IRNSS-1A. IRNSS-1A, a component of India’s very own global positioning system (NavIC), had developed a glitch after its three rubidium atomic clocks had stopped functioning earlier this year.

Thousands of people will be attending the Notting Hill Carnival in London this weekend. But this year's event will be overshadowed by the towering inferno at nearby Grenfell Tower, which killed 80 people and made dozens homeless.

Amazon claims its cloud storage capacity is “unlimited,” prompting one resourceful enthusiast to test it with millions of gigabytes of porn.

Amid the US-South Korean Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG) joint military drills in South Korea, Russia's strategic aircraft performed routine flights in the area. In doing so, Russia "simply and concisely showed its interests and capabilities" near the Korean Peninsula, according to Russian political commentator Alexander Khrolenko.

According to a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Iran expects to finalize reconstruction of a heavy-water nuclear reactor in the country's northwestern city of Arak by 2022.

Berlin believes the issue of German reparations to Poland for the atrocities committed during the World War II has already been resolved, a government spokesperson told Sputnik Friday, commenting on Warsaw's bid to get additional compensation.

A former Czech soldier is to undergo psychiatric evaluations after he confessed to stabbing a Scottish tour guide to death in Lapland, December 2016.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim stated that German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel should not interfere in Turkey's domestic affairs.

The Russian armed forces may receive the next-generation Ratnik-3 infantry gear by 2025, the Russian Land Force’s Military-Scientific Committee Chair Alexander Romanyuta told Sputnik on Friday.

The number of police officers and civil staff killed in the recent attacks targeting police stations and outposts in Myanmar has reached 12, while the number of killed attackers is estimated at 59, the press service of the country's State Counsellor Office said in a Friday statement.

Environment Minister said that South Korea, China and Japan agreed on Friday to disclose the results of the joint research into cross-border air pollution.

This man munched on an apple sitting very still on a log in the woods of northern Ontario, Canada, until several does and fawns came out to investigate and surrounded him like Disney's forest animals.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim warned Friday that the United States' continued support of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) may become a "problem" for the bilateral relations.

During his visit to Kiev for celebrations of Ukraine's Independence Day on Thursday, US Secretary of Defense James Mattis said that the US was "actively reviewing" the supply of "defensive lethal weapons" to Ukraine. Ukrainian and Russian observers told Sputnik the move would have disastrous prospects, not just for Kiev, but for Washington as well.

The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) may continue the projects initially led by foreign banks but later suspended due to anti-Russia sanctions, Dmitry Pankin, the chairman of the EDB Management Board, told Sputnik Friday.

Tehran dismissed Manama's allegations that it had links to the suspected terrorists recently detained in Bahrain as "baseless," Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said Friday.

All births tend to be a joyous, special occasion as that wonderful miracle of nature unfolds. However one, in particular, now has a whole nation literally on tenterhooks as it promises to make history - albeit at a hefty price!

An Australian court has dismissed the appeal from local environmental activists against the approval of a coal mine project on Australia’s eastern coast, the court ruling showed on Friday.

The Syrian army supported by the Russian forces is focused on defeating the Daesh terror group (outlawed in Russia) in the area of Syria's eastern city of Deir ez-Zor, the Russian General Staff said Friday.

On Saturday night, August 26, the unbeaten boxer Floyd Mayweather will take on UFC fighter Conor McGregor in one of the most eagerly awaited fights in boxing history. Although it has been dismissed as a "circus" by many boxing purists, Sputnik takes a look at where the bout ranks among the greatest clashes in the ring.