Новости за 27.04.2023

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Global commodity prices are likely to see the sharpest slump this year since the beginning of the pandemic, but food prices will still remain near record highs, the World Bank said on Thursday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia has overtaken the United States in the production of mineral fertilizers and has become the second in the world after China, Russian Fertilizers Producers Association (RFPA) President Andrey Guryev said on Thursday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, held phone talks before the nuclear fuel loading ceremony at the Akkuyu nuclear power plant (NPP) in Turkiye.

The US-led West's restrictions against Moscow were specifically designed, among other things, to target Russia's aviation industry, but all to no avail, since the nation’s aircraft makers seem to have found workarounds sidestepping these hurdles.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The management of the foreign assets transferred to Russia’s Federal Agency for State Property Management (Rosimushchestvo) will de-facto be carried out by a company that has suffered from the actions of unfriendly countries, Russian Deputy Finance Minister Alexey Moiseev said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Tucker Carlson in his first extensive public comments after leaving Fox News said the people in charge are resorting to 'force' to stifle conversations in the media that do not benefit the interests of both political parties.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Protection of the US space-based surveillance, intelligence and reconnaissance (ISR) satellite forces deployed in geosynchronous orbit 22,000 miles above the Earth and the rapidly expanding constellations in low earth orbit (LEO) are necessary for the US' way of fighting wars to succeed, a US official said.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - French PM Elisabeth Borne announced Wednesday that the government would press ahead with its ambitious reforms agenda in the coming months after shrugging off mass protests against the retirement age hike as "populist rhetoric."

One of the most well-known effects of marijuana use is its strong increase in one's appetite, a side effect that has been popularly known as "getting the munchies." The drug has on occasion been tapped to help with thyroid conditions.

DOHA (Sputnik) - Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah Burhan has agreed to speak with the rebel paramilitary commander, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, the acting foreign minister of South Sudan said Wednesday.

In December 2020, weeks after his father was elected president of the United States and months after the contents of his infamous laptop were exposed to the public, Hunter Biden announced that the US Attorney’s Office in Delaware was investigating his “tax affairs.”

The company behind the Japanese lander announced in late March that the Hakuto-R craft had officially entered the moon's orbit, after having been launched into the cosmos in early December 2022.

The feud between the mega-corporation and the Republican governor began after Disney publicly objected to the Parental Rights in Education Act, also known as the "Don't Say Gay bill."

The White House earlier indicated it would not sign the GOP-led debt ceiling legislation, with US President Joe Biden warning he would tap his veto power should the occasion call for it. Republicans are presently viewing the bill's clearance as a starting proposal in upcoming talks on US debt and federal funding.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – A bipartisan group of US lawmakers introduced new bicameral legislation calling to prevent an autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) from launching a nuclear weapon, the office of Congressman Ted Lieu said in a release.

MERSIN/ANKARA (Sputnik) - The center against disinformation at the administration of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday denied reports that the president suffered a heart attack.