Catalonia's possible breakaway is a "catastrophe" since it could lead to a constitutional, financial and economic crisis that Europe has not seen for decades, British expert Dr. Russell Foster, commenting on EU lawmaker Philippe Lamberts' statement that the Catalan crisis poses a bigger threat to the EU than Britain's withdrawal from the bloc.
The Pentagon has again responded to a statement made by the Russian Defense Ministry earlier this week, accusing the US of supporting terrorists in Syria.
As several major companies based in Catalonia have announced plans to change their legal addresses after the independence referendum held in the region on Sunday, which is considered by Madrid to be illegal, the IMF warned Spain of the economic consequences of tensions over the vote.
Six London police officers have been cleared of breaching standards of professional behavior after a mentally ill man died in custody in September 2010. The hearing into the death of Olaseni Lewis, 23, was held in secret.
As Saudi Arabia was added to the annual UN report on children and armed conflict over its alleged role in the deaths of almost 700 children in Yemen during a military operation in the country, a Britain-based NGO has commented on the issue.
What might sound like a tech-horror movie plot is actually a real story. A woman purchased a small internet-connected camera, which after a month began stalking her and talking to her in different languages, scaring the wits out of her.
The Israeli police are set to interrogate the country’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over multiple abuses of power charges. He is accused of bribery and media manipulation. Israeli analyst Avraham Diskin told Sputnik what the consequences of such an investigation could be for the leader and his country.
A British trade union has called on the government to do more to train up more merchant seamen amid fears home-grown sailors will be replaced completely by foreigners. Sputnik spoke to a former docker and MP about what has become of the British merchant seamen.
The Kosovo president accused the European Commission of turning its back on the Balkan countries, the local RTK broadcaster said Friday.
By lambasting the Senate Intelligence Committee for ignoring "fake news" spread by US media, President Donald Trump may have unintentionally supported the Russian outlets, such as RT and Sputnik, which have recently come under scrutiny from US authorities.
Some 7 years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster caused by a tsunami, a strong earthquake has rocked Japan's east off the coast of the area.
Welsh YesCymru group has called on for a national rally to support the Catalan referendum.
Iran doesn't blame Iraqi Kurdistan for strategic mistakes, including the recent referendum, made by certain people, the Iranian Foreign Minister said as quoted by the Tasnim news agency.
The Syrian government forces are conducting a military operation to gain control of the largest Daesh stronghold in the province of Deir ez-Zor after the three-year terrorist siege of Deir ez-Zor city was lifted a month ago.
Authorities in Amsterdam have banned the opening of any more tourist-centric outlets in the city, to prevent further 'Disneyficiation' of the Dutch capital.
Catalonian officials have announced the final data on the independence referendum held on Sunday.
It seems like the US military is so desperate in Syria that its decided to use refugees as human shields against terrorists.
With the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics having been awarded to three US scientists for the detection of gravitational waves, one of them, Barry Barish, a professor emeritus at California’s Institute of Technology (Caltech), said that the discovery was bound to change mankind's traditional view of the universe.
The US special representative for Ukraine has commented on the extension of a law on the special status of Donbass, as well as the implementation of the Minsk agreements.
The German Defense Ministry is looking for a replacement for the obsolete G36 assault rifle for the Bundeswehr. The German government is likely to grant the bid to a domestic gunmaker, excluding US companies from the bidding. Such a policy risks sparking new tensions in the future between Berlin and Washington.
According to a Russian lawmaker, who has just returned from North Korea, Pyongyang is ready to test a missile capable of reaching the US western coast.
It is not America's gun laws that are the issue when it comes to thee mass shootings which occur with banal regularity in the land of the free, it is the gun culture that underpins those laws - a culture symptomatic of the moral sickness the country is suffering from, and for which in 2017 there still appears no cure.
Dutch senator and PACE member Tiny Kox has called Agramunt's recent resignation a decision that was made too late, adding that he should have done that when his [European People's Party] EPP Group no longer showed confidence in him.
The International Olympic Committee has suspended Brazil’s Olympic Committee after its head was arrested.
Due to further proposed cuts, the British Royal Navy could lose its amphibious assault ships, and around 1,000 Royal Marines, despite repeated calls from UK officials for increased defense spending.