According to reports, a failed escape in North Carolina's Pasquotank Correctional Institution left several officers injured.
The IMF's 2017 Article IV consultation with China has drawn a lot of attention because of its forecast that the country's non-financial sector debt as a proportion of GDP will jump to 290 percent in 2022 from last year's 235 percent. This has added to fears that China's debt is growing at a worrying pace.
About 80 miles outside of New York City Tuesday morning, a fight broke out among some young people, but it wasn't just any ol' brawl, folks.
A man and woman were publicly raped, whipped and beheaded by anti-government rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), before a crowd of onlookers, for the “high treason” of serving rebels the “forbidden food” of fish.
Creation of employment opportunities in Japan for Indian youths will serve as a major face saver for Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has come under severe criticism for failing to fulfill his election promise of creating 20 million new job opportunities.
US maneuvers to, among other things, take down the Russian flag at Russian diplomatic facilities in the US are "perfectly legal," the US State Department announced Thursday afternoon.
The militants who ambushed and killed four Nigerien soldiers and four US soldiers on the Niger-Mali border earlier in October were Daesh-affiliated, reported the Pentagon on Wednesday. A new offshoot of the terrorist network has recently sprung up in Mali and Niger, where it has not operated in the past.
Despite mounting international sanctions aimed at crippling North Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs, the country shows no signs of denuclearizing under the leadership of Kim Jong-un.
At least 26 people have died since Sunday night when wildfires first began to spread across California, state officials said Thursday.
The officer pleaded guilty of having committed adultery with a fellow officer’s wife. He has been stripped of his seniority by ten years and will not get any promotions during his remaining service period.
Early on Friday, yet another earthquake was detected near the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in North Korea, where Chinese scientists have warned that more nuclear tests could cause the mountain to crumble in on itself and spread radiation.
The Los Angeles startup previously known as Hyperloop One has been rebranded as Virgin Hyperloop One after British tycoon Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, decided to invest in the project.
Four Russian girls reached the second stage of the selection process for Mars One – a proposed one-way colonization mission to the Red Planet.
The recently reached reconciliation deal between the rival Palestinian political parties Fatah and Hamas must correspond to international agreements and meet the conditions of the Middle East Quartet, including the recognition of Israel and disarmament of Hamas, an Israeli political source told Sputnik Thursday.
Commenting on Ian Easton's scenario of a military confrontation between China and Taiwan, Russian military expert Vasily Kashin noted that the US cannot currently afford to further aggravate tensions with China and declare a "cold war" with Beijing over Taiwan.
The Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) has confirmed that Moscow and Riyadh reached a deal on the supply of S-400 missile systems during last week's visit to Moscow by the Saudi King. Speaking to Sputnik, international affairs expert Fahad Nazer said the deal speaks to the two countries' "multidimensional relationship."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a phone conversation with his US counterpart Rex Tillerson that the removal of flags from the Russian diplomatic missions in the United States is unacceptable, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
Syrian troops have uncovered and destroyed a large clandestine mortar shells plant that Daesh terrorists used to attack residential neighborhoods in the city of Deir ez-Zor during the three-year blockade.
The deputy chairman of the Russian lower house's Culture Committee in an interview to Sputnik commented on the possible impact of the US' recent withdrawal from UNESCO in terms of world cultural heritage.
It is unlikely that the US-Turkish strategic partnership will continue to evolve given the unresolvable contradictions between Ankara and Washington, RIA Novosti contributor Gevorg Mirzayan writes, adding that the recent diplomatic scandal is just a link in a chain of events tracing back to the July 2016 attempted coup in Turkey.
Senator John McCain has accused Donald Trump of stalling on the new anti-Russian sanctions approved by Congress this summer, sending an urgent appeal together with Democratic Senator Ben Cardin expressing his concern. Speaking to Sputnik, Russian Senator Vladimir Jabarov admitted that Moscow isn't paying much attention to McCain these days.
The US-led anti-Daesh coalition has not decreased its presence or the intensity of its actions in Iraq and is continuing to combat terrorism in the region, the coalition's spokesman told Sputnik on Thursday.
A Qatar Airways pilot shocked internet users with a video from the cockpit of his passenger aircraft.