Emblems of 2022 Olympics, Paralympics in Beijing Unveiled
Emblems of the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing have been unveiled on Friday.
Emblems of the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing have been unveiled on Friday.
Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas praised on Friday the progress reached by the parties to the negotiations on the UK withdrawal from the European Union.
CSU head Horst Seehofer said on Friday that the CDU/CSU alliance remained the only political force in Germany with the ability to form a government.
A top North Korean military official described by South Korean sources as the “second most powerful man in North Korea” has vanished without a trace - leading to speculation that he has been imprisoned or executed on the orders of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un.
While morning commute drama usually comes only in the form of train delays and traffic jams, this was not the case for a group of Brooklyn commuters heading to work in the Big Apple Thursday.
US pilots and aircrews on board the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln were qualified on the F-35C's Autonomic Logistic Information System (ALIS) and the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) during flight operations.
Presidents Putin and Trump held talks by phone Thursday to discuss "urgent issues," including the Korean nuclear settlement, according to the Kremlin. Speaking to Radio Sputnik Dr. James Brown, an associate professor of political science at Temple University Japan, said that it was possible that Washington was shifting its position on the issue.
A new report commissioned following the US Navy’s four accidents in the Pacific Ocean finds that the maritime military service is experiencing its lowest levels of readiness and preparedness in three decades.
The strategic South China Sea is becoming so important to the Chinese government that Beijing plans to launch as many as 10 satellites into space over the next three years to maintain non-stop surveillance on the waterway.
On Tuesday, the US Air Force (USAF) successfully conducted a test of their newest projectile, the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM), built by defense contractor Lockheed Martin. The next-generation missiles are to be deployed by B-1B Lancers and F/A-18E/F Super Hornets.
Scientists announced Thursday that they have detected no alien "signals" on the recently discovered cigar-shaped interstellar space rock dubbed "Oumuamua," the Hawaiian word for "messenger."
Nurses, taxi drivers, hospitality staff and council workers were among some common professions that have been recently assisted after being made homeless; with individuals placed in often squalid and unsafe temporary accommodation.
A recently resigned White House aide and former participant in the first season of The Apprentice has apparently engaged in a ‘war of words’ with Good Morning America host over a diss.
The Balkan region has been listed by the influential Council on Foreign Relations as a potential hotbed in 2018. Speaking to Sputnik, Milomir Stepic, a research fellow at the Institute of Political Studies in Belgrade, opined that the US is seeking to preserve dominance and if needed beef up its presence in this important geopolitical zone.
The US will continue its pressure campaign and diplomatic efforts to bring North Korea to the negotiating table to suspend its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, US Secretary of State said during a press conference at the UN on Friday.
Odisha’s Shri Jagannath temple and its periphery are marked as a high-security zone where cameras are not allowed.
The British government department responsible for overseeing the UK's exit from Europe has been found to have the worst annual record for secrecy in Whitehall sparking fears it is deliberately trying to hide information from the public, according to one leading political commentator.
A group of Christmas carol singers have been arrested in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and accused of trying to convert local Hindus. India's nationalist government has been accused of encouraging Hindu bigots.
Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov has confirmed that work is underway on the design of a new vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. Military observer Vadim Saranov outlines what's driving the military's interest in this class of aircraft, and considers whether Russia's aviation industry has the resources and know-how to build it.
Varvara Gordeeva, a seven-year-old girl from Moscow Region was gifted by nature with incredible flexibility. This is obviously not enough to perform intricate stunts, but her perseverance and hard work paid off, and now she can easily be tied up in a knot.
NASA’s Kepler space observatory has discovered a previously unnoticed small planet in the Kepler-90 system with the help of AI. Professor Suzanne Aigrain, an astrophysicist at Oxford University, told Radio Sputnik it was the first time that an “unsupervised machine learning method” was used to locate planets.
Although Russia has upset the US strategy aimed at disintegrating Syria and remapping the Middle East, Washington will not stop trying to implement its plans, Turkish military analysts have told Sputnik, stressing that US President Donald Trump's Jerusalem move is a sign that the Americans will continue to provoke conflicts in the region.
The chief of the UK defense staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, has said NATO needs to protect its undersea cables from attack by Russia. Sputnik spoke to Steffan Watkins, a Canadian-based open-source intelligence analyst who monitors military naval movements, who said there was no evidence Russia planned any hostile action.
While US President Donald Trump’s recent statement recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has sent shockwaves throughout the world, questions remain about what exactly the implications of this statement are.