A US regulatory agency is pushing for the United Nations to implement a ban on laptops in checked bags during international flights, one day after Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke said “the intelligence is clear” that terrorists groups “want to have a big explosion like they did on 9/11.”
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff have announced that the military is working on a new missile interceptor that could, in theory, deflect a massive North Korean artillery barrage. Such a technology would be a game-changer on the Korean peninsula.
Malaysia's Civil Aviation Department announced Friday that it has chosen Ocean Infinity, a Texas-based seabed exploration firm, to search for the down flight MH370 on a "No Cure, No Fee" basis: the company would foot the bill and recoup its expenses only if the missing plane is found.
France has always been actively involved in the Middle Eastern affairs and now after the US-led coalition declared that the Daesh stronghold, Raqqa, was freed from terrorists, the country decides to allocate funds of 15 Mln. euros for the restoration efforts.
When the US Navy’s Block 2 F/A-18E/F Super Hornets start returning to maintenance facilities in 2018 for planned service-life-extension modifications to allow the heavily used aircraft to log more flight hours, it may be an ideal opportunity to add new capabilities to the jet as well, Boeing officials said this week.
The FBI has joined the investigation into the bizarre deaths of four American soldiers, including three Green Berets, in Niger earlier in October. The American soldiers were killed alongside five Nigerien troops in an ambush that the Pentagon has blamed on a new branch of Daesh based out of neighboring Mali.
One of America’s top intelligence agency directors has warned that North Korea will have a nuclear weapon capable of hitting US soil – including the US East Coast – sooner rather than later.
Members of Hungary's National Investigation Bureau raided a Church of Scientology center in Budapest Wednesday.
According to SWIFT, the Chinese yuan has experienced a slight fall in international payments, despite Beijing's stated intention to internationalize the currency; Alexander Larin, senior analyst at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Far East Studies, told Sputnik that this is a just a short-term trend.
World War II Red Army graves in Poland will be expunged of references to the hammer and sickle, the symbol which served as the Soviet Union's official state symbol, and was used by the Soviet military, Polish Institute of National Remembrance representative Daniel Markowski has said.
Brigadier General Ali Maqsud, a prominent Syrian military analyst, has provided Sputnik with his assessment of the Syrian Army's recent advances against Daesh in the Deir ez-Zor area, and on the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces' operation to liberate Raqqa.
Spanish King Felipe VI claimed that the country was confronted with an "unacceptable" attempt of secession as Catalonia constituted an integral part of Spain.
The Canadian company Aquila Resources Inc. is planning to construction of a mine in the areas where burials of the Menominee Indian Tribe are located, threatening to destroy sites that are considered to be valuable by the local tribes.
French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to "take the most severe measures" against migrant criminals, saying that foreigners who commit crimes should not only be sentenced but deported. Political observers Michel Taube and Jean-Paul Gourevitch tell Sputnik what the president's apparent rightward swing means for French politics.
The US Congress is trying to increase "transparency" of political advertising on the internet, but the drive for greater oversight on the web faces opposition from multinational tech companies who don't want more regulation, political analyst Jack Rice told Radio Sputnik.
Ankara's previous foreign strategy backed by the US has proven ineffective, Turkish commentators have told Sputnik, explaining how Russia's involvement in the Syrian war prompted Turkey to reconsider its policy and join the Russo-Iranian axis. While Ankara is not going to cut off its ties with the West and NATO, their mutual distrust is growing.
October 20 marks the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the House Un-American Activities Committee's (HUAC) investigation of alleged communism influence in Hollywood. By the end of the inquiry, hundreds of film heavyweights would be blacklisted from the industry forevermore.
While hell hasn't frozen over, the US did finally admit that the al-Nusra terrorist group has used chemical weapons against civilians in Syria's Idlib.
Will internal divisions doom Democrats as former VP Biden announces anti-populist platform and DNC purges Berniecrats?
The representative of North Korea's foreign ministry has said that Pyongyang's actions do not violate the non-proliferation regime.
An Irishman has finally been freed after spending more than four years in prison in Egypt, having originally visited the country on a family summer holiday.
A recent report revealed that 'in just a few decades, China has gone from aid recipient to net aid donor and one of the most important foreign policy players in the world', which is set to soon outmatch the US. Mei Xinyu, Chinese researcher in international trade has told Sputnik that the findings reveal foreign aid is a political tool.
The aid will be allocated to help people in the Syrian city of Raqqa that was cleared from Daesh militants on Friday.