Новости за 14.09.2017

Donald Trump’s new Voting Commission is off to a rocky start. Garland and Lee discuss voting issues with guests Logan Churchwell and Andrea Miller.

Winter is coming, and Swiss professional skier Andri Ragettli is not wasting his time. The 19-year-old athlete works hard on his parkour skills as he trains for PyeongChang 2018. Check out Andri’s training video, where he perfectly completes his “Road to Olympics” full of astonishing acrobatics!

A Crimean official blamed Ukraine for attempts he considers will fail in isolating it from the rest of the world by imposing information, political and economic blockades on Russia's peninsula.

Russian scientists have tested a new material for neurocomputers that can store and process data in a similar way to human brain neurons.

A former gambling addict has begun landmark legal proceedings in Melbourne, Australia alleging that slot machine games, often referred to as 'pokies', mislead players into falsely thinking they have won.

India’s 'Operation Insaniyat' aims to provide humanitarian support to Rohingya Muslims taking refuge in Bangladesh after fleeing the ongoing military operation in Myanmar.

Four states may join the Syrian peace process initiated by Russia, Turkey and Iran as the Astana talks are currently underway with the creation of a safe zone in Idlib on the agenda.

The US is allegedly running an arms pipeline for Syrian rebels, undermining the UN’s Arms Trade Treaty, as many of those weapons risk ending up in the hands of terrorists, a recent report by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) revealed.

Swedish authorities, which have long denied any connection whatsoever between the influx of migrants and the unparalleled surge of sexual attacks, seem to have tacitly admitted the problem by releasing a "sex guidebook" teaching immigrants the basic rules of consensual sex.

Hundreds of thousands of people rallied across Catalonia on Monday to celebrate the Spanish region’s National Day, the Diada. This comes amid the autonomous community’s adamant decision to hold a new independence referendum on October 1, despite strong opposition from the central government.

Turkey urges the Iraqi Kurdistan regional government to abandon the referendum that could result in tensions in the region.

Russia will not submit the 11 million euro ($12.39 million) fee to participate in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in 2018 until the right to vote for national delegations is restored.

Indian government awarded BAE systems a contract for 145 M777 howitzers last year despite a leaked Indian Army document claiming the artillery guns had failed to meet certain critical performance requirements during field evaluation trials.

In what is believed to be one of the largest data security breaches in Swedish history, which has already led to the downfall of several ministers, is now threatening Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, after the Sweden Democrats, which are in effect Sweden's only opposition party, have called a vote of no confidence over his handling of the crisis.

The decision by American authorities to discontinue using Kaspersky Lab products has evoked a swift and blistering response from the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Elon Musk will present Tesla 'platooning' self-driving semi truck very soon.

The Zapad 2017 joint strategic military exercise involving 12,700 servicemen from Russia and Belarus has begun.

Three fifth grade students from a Shanghai school, China, set the new world record for the most number of "Double Dutch" jump ropes in 30 seconds.

Austrian oil and gas company OMV's CEO Rainer Seele says that he expects changes in the financing scheme of the Nord Stream 2 amid US sanctions.

Human Rights Watch reports that millions of dollars in aid money for Syrian refugee children did not reach them or arrived late.

A RIA Novosti correspondent tells about the launch of the Syrian army's offensive against Daesh controlled territories of Deir ez-Zor he witnessed.

Russian deputy defense minister Alexander Fomin is sure that Eastern Europe and Baltics have nothing to worry about amid the upcoming Zapad-2017 drills.

The British Foreign Office says that UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson will meet with his American counterpart in London on Thursday to discuss policy issues ranging from the consequences of Hurricane Irma to Libya and North Korea.

Russian Navy spokesman reports that icebreaker Ilya Muromets has completed the second stage of trials.

A US federal judge has sent Martin Schkreli to jail for Facebook post offering payments for Hillary Clinton's hair.