Iraqi Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba Shiite militia group has thanked the Lebanese Hezbollah movement for its support in fighting against the Daesh terrorist group (outlawed in Russia), according to the media.
South Korea and five Southeast Asian countries, located along the Mekong River, namely Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, have agreed to boost diplomatic and economic cooperation, local media reported Friday.
The US state of Texas is boosting supplies of gasoline to alleviate concerns over accessibility to fuel in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Governor Greg Abbott told reporters on Friday.
The Russian Trade Representation in Washington, DC, has begun to move its belongings out of the building after the White House ordered to close down several Russian diplomatic compounds in the United States, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the scene on Friday.
Moscow should not impose mirror restrictions on Ukraine in retaliation to Kiev's decision to toughen its migration laws for foreign citizens, including Russians, Konstantin Kosachev, the chairman of the upper chamber of the Russian parliament's foreign affairs committee, said Friday.
Senator Robert Menendez’s (D-NJ) request to allow for breaks in his corruption trial has been denied by a federal judge. The corruption trial will begin on September 6 as planned, with Menendez’s Senate seat in jeopardy if he is convicted.
The Russian side has sent documents to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) about the lawfulness of measures taken in regards to the opposition figure Alexey Navalny in light of his detention at an unauthorized rally in Moscow, the press service of the Justice Ministry told Sputnik on Friday.
Polish police have detained a 28-year-old female and are looking for two male suspects in connection with an attack on Ukrainian students in southeastern Poland, according to local media reports.
Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court questioned on Friday the first two witnesses in former Russian Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev's $2-million bribery case.
Almost immediately after the Pentagon corrected the record on troop levels defense officials had previously misrepresented, Defense Secretary James Mattis signed a new order authorizing more troops in Afghanistan but refused to tell the public how many soldiers were included in the new force.
Several suspects in the court case on the May 2014 massacre in Ukraine's Odessa have announced a “dry” hunger strike with no water, a suspect’s lawyer Valentin Rybin told Sputnik on Friday.
President Donald Trump’s new strategy on Afghanistan will keep losing the war there because the United States has no credible options left to apply in the country, analysts told Sputnik.
Detention of two German citizens in Turkey could result in the revision of bilateral ties, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday, adding that Germany should firmly respond to the issue.
The representatives of Syrian armed opposition are not excluding their participation in the upcoming Astana talks on Syrian reconciliation, according to Free Syrian Army (FSA) Chief of Staff Ahmed Berri.
A Dutch Jewish civic group has filed a police report over anti-Semitic chants shouted by protesters in Rotterdam recently.
A former Forbes journalist has claimed that Google pressured her employer into unpublishing a 2011 piece she wrote that was critical of the tech titan - and then scrubbed the cached version from search engine results.
Konstantin Kosachev, the chairman of the Russian upper house's Foreign Affairs Committee, said Friday that he would meet Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and UN Special Envoy for Syria in Geneva next Tuesday to discuss the possibility of the participation of lawmakers in the Syrian settlement process.
"The demands of the US authorities create a direct threat to the security of Russian citizens," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Friday. US special services plan to search the Russian consulate in San Francisco and even scour the residences of consulate workers on Sepetember 2.
Wanting to help out Texas, Christine St-Pierre, Canada's minister of international relations, offered to give the flooded state supplies, but it turns out Texas officials think the state only needs spiritual succor.
The agrochemical giant Monsanto is attacking scientists' reputations in an effort to ensure its controversial weed killer glyphosate gets another license for use in the EU, Alexis Baden-Mayer, Political Director of the Organic Consumers Association, told Radio Sputnik.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday that the US special services intend to carry out a search on September 2 at the Russian Consulate General in San Francisco, including in the apartments of diplomatic missions.
Russia has earned its reputation as an "unbiased broker," according to RIA Novosti contributor Gevorg Mirzayan. The academic emphasized Russia's balanced approach toward the Middle Eastern affairs, stressing that Moscow is interested in maintaining the balance of power rather than taking sides.
US and Chinese aerospace companies are ratcheting up the stakes in a race to create the ultra-high speed transport network of the future. This week, SpaceX/Tesla released video of its Hyperloop pusher pod in action shortly after Chinese scientists announced the start of development of an incredible 4,000 km per hour HyperFlight transport system.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May's insistence that she will stay on to fight the next election in 2022 is "a clever move" that maximizes her chances of staying in office despite a recent disastrous electoral performance, Dr. Mark Garnett told Radio Sputnik.