Новости за 16.09.2017

Following the reports of six SDF fighters injured in an air strike in Syria Pentagon blames Russian air forces.

The Hong Kong Red Cross announced that gay and bisexual men will be allowed to donate blood as long as they have not had sex with other men for a 12 month “safety period,” changing a previous lifetime ban, the Hong Kong Free Press reported.

Cambodia has shut down Pentagon programs in the southeast Asian country searching for the remains of US Vietnam War soldiers after Washington denied visas for senior Cambodian foreign ministry officials and their families - a response to Phnom Penh’s refusal to accept dual-Cambodian/US citizens who have been convicted of crimes in America.

The escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula, a UN peacekeeping mission in Donbass and Syrian civil war could be among the priority issues that the Russian delegation headed by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will raise during the high-level segment of the UN General Assembly next week.

After a judge on Friday acquitted former St. Louis, Missouri, police officer Jason Stockley from charges of first-degree murder in the 2011 killing of 24-year-old Anthony Lamar Smith, hundreds of protesters took to the streets in downtown St. Louis, clashing with heavily-armed law enforcement squads.

The fight against terror needs a radical new approach to eradicate al-Qaeda, Daesh and other terror groups, Dr. Paul Rogers, Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, told Radio Sputnik.

Hillary Clinton recently claimed that one of the reasons she lost the 2016 race was because Vladimir Putin had a "personal vendetta" against her. Speaking to Radio Sputnik, US politics observer Alexei Zudin suggested that Clinton's problem is that she just can't accept the real reasons behind her defeat, which go far beyond personal politics.

Russia's Special Presidential Envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentiev said in an interview on Saturday that Moscow seeks to restore peace, and not to gain influence in the region, by carrying out an operation in Syria.

'Does the Media Lie?' This is the provocative question media observer and author Jens Wernicke asks in his new book of the same name. Speaking to Sputnik Deutschland, veteran German journalist and commentator Volker Brautigam points to the almost unbearable one-sidedness evident in much of Germany's mainstream media.

Twenty years since Scotland voted to get its own parliament and devolved powers from London, many Scots don't believe that devolution has done that much for Scotland, Dr. Craig McAngus of the University of Aberdeen told Radio Sputnik.

The Fulham Broadway station of London's tube has been reopened after evacuation over "security alert" on Saturday, the Transport for London (TfL) said.

"Live doll" model Lulu Hashimoto attracted a lot of attention from passersby as she strutted along the streets of the Japanese capital.

The Russian military announced Saturday that more than 50 Syrian opposition militants, including six field commanders, have defected to the official government forces over the last day.

Extreme conditions, including natural and man-made disasters, might cause disruptions to the work of ATMs and bank branches, as well as bank card terminals at retail locations, rendering consumers in the affected areas unable to acquire the cash they need to survive.

Dr. Phil Reed, a psychologist specializing in internet addiction, has spoken to Sputnik about some of the negative ways the digital revolution has negatively affected our key brain functions and made us, for lack of a better word, dumber.

Ankara is ready to conclude an arms agreement with Russia, a country which it considers ready to meet Turkey’s defense needs, a Turkish MP told Sputnik, commenting on his country's agreement to buy Russian S-400 missile systems.

Life in the recently liberated city of Deir ez-Zor is slowly returning back to normal, as soldiers of the Syrian Arab Army continue to press on to liberate the rest of the province from the clutches of Daesh (ISIL/ISIS) terrorists.

London's Fulham Broadway station was evacuated over "security alert" on Saturday a day after bombing at the Parsons Green station.

Founded over 50 years ago, the once ordinary settlement of Huaxi, located in the Jiangsu Province of China, became known as the richest village in the country and the Number One Village Under The Sky.

Russia-based software firm Kaspersky Lab, whose products have been banned from use in US government agencies over alleged links to the Russian authorities, is unlikely to get a fair trial in the United States as it has become entangled in the complicated relationship between Washington and Moscow, experts told Sputnik.

The Iraqi military announced on Saturday it had launched an operation to clear the parts of eastern Iraq under Daesh control fro terrorists.

The FBI investigation into Sputnik is a direct threat to the freedom of the press which comes at a time when owners of large media corporations are trying to crack down on alternative news outlets, American investigative historian Eric Zuesse told Radio Sputnik.

If the Iraqi Kurds proclaim independence in their September 25 referendum, Israel will be the first country to recognize it, Aydin Selcen, Turkey's former consul general in the Kurdish Regional Government's capital Erbil, told Sputnik.

You'd have to laugh – if it were not so grave. The Trump administration says that it is running out of patience for a diplomatic solution to the Korea crisis.