Turkey has announced the overhaul of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution from its high school curriculum at the start of the 2017-2018 academic year, claiming that it is controversial and too complicated to understand, according to Education Minister Ismet Yilmaz.
In a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday, US President Donald Trump raves about the Bastille day parade he saw in Paris on July 14th, and says he wants a Bastille Day-like parade on July 4th on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC.
The US Navy fighter pilot team behind the June 18 shootdown of a Syrian Air Force jet have opened up about the engagement, offering a detailed blow-by-blow account of the fateful eight minute air battle. The shootdown was the first US military air-to-air “kill” since 1999, and the US Navy’s first since 1991.
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea warned that UN sanctions against the country only motivates the military to accelerate nuclear weapons development, according to the state-run Korea Central News Agency (KCNA).
As retribution for the violent attack on peaceful protesters outside of the Turkish embassy in May, the Trump administration is withdrawing from a deal to sell $1.2 million worth of weapons to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's security detail.
High-ranking Brazilian executives involved in a major corruption scandal have apparently attempted to buy their way into Europe via the Portugal Golden Visa program.
The US has “pretty much exhausted all the things that we can do at the [UN] Security Council at this point,” Nikki Haley, US Ambassador to the UN, said Sunday regarding North Korea’s continued missile tests, adding she would be “perfectly happy” to pass the situation onto Pentagon chief James Mattis who has “plenty of military options.”
A Chinese man is being investigated by officials for running a “veterinary” clinic that cuts the vocal cords of “noisy dogs” for a fee between $8 and $12, depending on the dog’s size.
On Monday, the US Navy released a statement that it has relieved two more commanders in 7th Fleet in connection to the recent high-profile fatal collisions involving Navy warships.
Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro playfully joked that there is a resemblance between himself and late Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
The United States is far ahead of North Korea in terms of resources and capabilities, but a direct military confrontation with Pyongyang may still backfire, experts told Sputnik.
The Russian Defense Ministry denied on Monday claims of deliberate violation of the Lithuanian airspace on September 16 by two Russian military transport plane during the Russia-Belarus Zapad-2017 strategic exercises.
A detachment of Chinese Navy warships arrived in Vladivostok on Monday to take part in the second phase of the Russian-Chinese Joint Sea-2017 naval drills. In a special analysis for Sputnik, Russian military observer Vasily Kashin explained what makes the drills unique as far as Russian-Chinese military cooperation is concerned.
Moscow regrets that Albania and Montenegro support anti-Russian sanctions, Russia's Ambassador to Albania Alexander Karpushin.
Donald Trump is powerless to break the vicious circle of anti-Russian policies championed by the US foreign policy establishment, US academic Vladimir Golstein told Sputnik. Under these circumstances Russia needs to concentrate on building partnerships with other countries, ensuring security and economic development, he believes.
US President Donald Trump discussed with Chinese President Xi Jinping over the telephone the issue of North Korea and both expressed a commitment to put maximum pressure on Pyongyang by strictly enforcing existing UN resolutions, the White House said in a press release on Monday.
Popular torrent tracker The Pirate Bay appears to be employing a discreet cryptocurrency-mining JavaScript on some of its pages, which essentially hijacks users’ CPUs to enrich the website.
Israeli authorities agreed to pay a compensation to the IAEC scientists, who are suffering from cancer, local media reported Monday.
Amid US hysteria over Turkey's purchase of Russia's S-400 missile system, and concerns among some Russian observers that the sale will mean having Moscow's latest air defense technology falling into NATO's hands, RIA Novosti military analyst Andrei Stanavov outlined why armchair experts really have nothing to worry about.
An explosion hit central Lugansk, a capital of the self-proclaimed republic in the east of Ukraine, damaging a monument to the perished paratroopers, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday observed anti-terrorism drills during the ongoing Russia-Belarus Zapad-2017 strategic military exercises.
Iraqi Airways hopes to launch direct flights from Iraq to Russia, the head of the newly-opened air carrier’s Moscow office told Sputnik on Monday.
Russia has been in the talks with the United States over the alleged attack by Russian jets on the positions of US-backed rebels near Deir ez-Zor, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said Monday.
After dark on September 16, Salt Lake City residents observed a number of strange lights in the sky. Several videos snapped by stunned witnesses show the lights zooming through the night sky.