Number of New Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh Nears 150,000
The United Nations World Food Program reported that an estimated 146,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh since violence broke out in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state in late August.
The United Nations World Food Program reported that an estimated 146,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh since violence broke out in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state in late August.
The European Investment Bank will provide Poland with a loan for the country's energy and scientific sectors.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said that Paris continues looking for ways of holding constructive cooperation with Moscow.
The federal judge in charge of Senator Robert Menendez's (NJ) corruption trial told the Democrat’s lawyer to “shut up for a moment” on Wednesday.
A US State Department official said that the option of having UN peacekeepers in eastern Ukraine is worth studying in an attempt to resolve the situation in the country.
South Korea is reportedly looking to develop a ballistic missile with warhead capabilities in response to North Korea’s recent nuclear activities. The projectile would have to be strong enough to effectively neutralize Pyongyang’s wartime command and underground military facilities.
In spite of protests from Madrid, the Catalan Parliament has passed a law to hold an independence referendum at the beginning of October. The referendum will ask Catalonians whether or not they want the Spanish province to become "an independent country in the form of a republic."
China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) carried out large-scale defensive military exercises on Tuesday morning, mere miles from their border with North Korea. The Chinese military reported that the exercise, which seems to have come out of the blue, was itself a series of “rapid response” drills in case of “surprise attacks.”
Moscow strongly supports the unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iraq, as the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
A tiger spotted roaming the streets of suburban Atlanta, Georgia, Wednesday morning was shot and killed after it attacked a local dog.
After years of war, UN peace talks mediator Staffan de Mistura told reporters Wednesday that Syria's opposition members must to come to grips with the fact that they never won the war against President Bashar Al-Assad.
Newsweek published a bizarre story over the weekend that linked the Russian government to pretty much everything wrong in the world from the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing to the Syrian Civil War and ensuing refugee crisis.
This bird prefers the five finger – er, claw – discount!
Warren Jeffs, the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), a Mormon denomination whose members practice polygamy, must pay $16 million to the woman he pressured to marry her 19-year-old cousin in 2001, when she was only 14 years old.
Apart from its capability to fire ammunition at almost 48 kilometers, India’s locally developed ATAGS is the world’s only gun with a six-round “automated magazine” that fires a six-round burst in just 30 seconds.
The United States needs a certain pretext to maintain its presence in the Asian region, political expert Vladimir Terekhov told Sputnik, commenting on the recent escalation of the dispute over North Korea’s nuclear program.
The text of the US draft resolution as a response to the North Korean latest nuclear test was revealed.
The UK government has asked the country’s biggest companies to support Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit strategy, local media reported on Wednesday, citing anonymous sources.
Russian chemists have created a special type of nanoparticle, which acts as a very efficient “contrast agent” and allows for an early diagnostic test of cancerous tumors.
After several White House communications directors were dismissed by Trump with Anthony Scaramucci being the last one to be fired, media reports suggested that a new candidate, who previously had worked at the US president's favorite channel, has appeared for entering the department's team.
The level of security in Germany has dramatically dropped, the leader of the Alternative for Germany party, Frauke Petri, told Sputnik Germany, commenting on a recent rape incident that took place in Leipzig.
The creation of a sovereign Kurdish state in Iraq could result in the remapping of the Middle East and the collapse of the established status quo, Israeli political analyst Avigdor Eskin writes for RIA Novosti. Eskin notes that regardless of the potential repercussions the Iraqi Kurds are determined to hold an independence vote on September 25.
EU Ambassador to Russia Vygaudas Usackas acknowledged that the EU and Russia have entered a new stage of relations.
South Korean local residents are protesting against the US THAAD deployment missile systems. However, the recent protests evolved into clashes with police, local media reported Wednesday, citing anonymous sources.
Despite having disagreements over Hezbollah's fight against terrorists in Syria, as well as Iran, the Israeli prime minister noted "great changes" in the country's ties with Russia.