On Sunday Donald Trump's administration has announced new travel restrictions which expand the previous travel ban to eight countries adding Venezuela, Chad and North Korea to the list. US Rights Group Director Albert Fox Cahn says that this step indicates Trump's support for white supremacist views.
Plastic waste in the ocean is now so extensive that blocks of polystyrene have been found on remote frozen ice floes in the Arctic, 1,000 miles from the North Pole, according to British scientists from Exeter University, who were part of Pen Hadow’s Arctic Mission to sail to the North Pole.
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLA) fired live rounds of ammunition at its newly opened overseas military base in the Horn of Africa last Friday, the South China Morning Post reported Monday.
A 45-year-old man was arrested Sunday at the Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka, after customs authorities discovered he was smuggling nearly one kilogram of gold in his rectum.
The main street of Okinawa’s capital and most populous city had to be evacuated for several hours as an unexploded 110-pound bomb leftover from World War II had to be removed by a bomb disposal squadron.
Garland Nixon and Lee Stranahan cover the NFL National Anthem protests. A pair of Sputnik correspondents talk live on 'Fault Lines' about recent elections in Germany and France. The show also discusses American foreign policy regarding Saudi Arabia and then covers the referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan with John Kiriakou.
Is it a plane? A rocket? E.T.? Multiple inquiring Californian minds want to know - and asked the internet after spotting a strange object streak across the sky September 23.
Iraqi Kurds hope to continue cooperating with Turkey despite the threats from Ankara, which strongly opposes Iraqi Kurdistan's independence referendum, Iraqi Kurdistan representative to Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States Xosawi Bebekir told Sputnik on Monday.
A rocket carrying a top-secret payload was launched from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Saturday evening, carrying a US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) satellite, virtually all aspects of which are classified.
Acid has become a popular weapon in gang wars in Britain because it can be purchased over-the-counter from shops, thrown from a distance and hidden easily, explains Jermaine Lawlor, a former gang member who is now a youth worker in Enfield, north London.
US health officials in Arizona issued a warning to travelers heading to Mexico after a batch of 7Up bottles laced with methamphetamine surfaced in stores in Baja California.
The government of Canada denied the entry of US whistleblower Chelsea E. Manning this month on the grounds that the crimes Manning was convicted of in the US “would equate to an indictable offense, namely Treason,” if the transgressions were committed inside Canadian borders.
Hitler’s surprisingly large monogramed underwear, which was expected to fetch between $4,000 and $5,000, was sold on Sunday at the Alexander Historical Auctions in Chesapeake, Maryland, for $6,700.
Russia hopes that new German government will remain focused on restoration of political dialogue and mutual trust between the two states, Russian Ambassador to Germany Vladimir Grinin told Sputnik on Monday.
Using electrical stimulation of a major nerve connecting the brain with the body's organs, French neuroscientists have been able to start bringing a 34-year-old comatose man back to a state of rudimentary consciousness after 15 years in a coma, a new study published in the journal Current Biology has found.
US Department of State East Asia and Pacific Affairs Bureau spokesperson Katina Adams has commented on the remarks by the North Korean foreign ministers, who said that Pyongyang is at war with Washington and has the right to shoot down US strategic bombers outside its airspace.
On September 24, Sputnik Deutschland correspondents showed the world exactly how Russia may influence the parliamentary election, employing a secret Russian weapon that few could resist.
The US Supreme Court has removed arguments in the case of the Trump administration's travel ban from its schedule due to new travel restrictions issued by the White House over the weekend, a court order said on Monday.
Representatives of Russian Germans living in Berlin told Sputnik they voted at Sunday's parliamentary election for conservative right and center-right parties, namely the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
The Palestine-Israel conflict should be resolved through "direct Palestine-Israel dialogue on the basis of UN resolutions," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday, adding that Russia was ready to facilitate the peace process.
A couple from the Russian region of Krasnodar has been taken into custody on suspicion of murdering and eating up to 30 people over a period of nearly twenty years, local media report, citing police.
Presently, eight of India’s 22 operational nuclear reactors, with an aggregate capacity of 2,400 MW, are fueled with locally mined uranium, while 14 reactors with an aggregate capacity of 4,380 MW are under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards and use imported uranium.
Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Jorge Arreaza on Monday equated US President Donald Trump's speech at the UN General Assembly to a declaration of war, promising to take counter measures.
Angela Merkel's CDU has emerged as the biggest party in the Bundeswahl, tainted however by a collapsing vote share and the rise of Alternative for Germany (AfD). Experts have told Sputnik she may not have many days as Chancellor left as a result, while the AfD may prove of service to German political culture.