Новости за 18.01.2017

The US interest rate will likely increase several times a year reaching 3 percent by the end of 2019, US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Wednesday.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) needs to end its adversarial approach and work in partnership with individual states on air and water quality, EPA Administrator-nominee Scott Pruitt told the US Senate in a contentious confirmation hearing on Wednesday.

If NASA intends to continue sending astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) or the moon, the space agency has little choice but to rely on Roscosmos’ Soyuz spacecraft, at least until 2019.

Watch Orthodox Christians bathing in freezing waters during Epiphany in Moscow. Thousands of people all across Russia braved the freezing winter temperatures to bathe in ice-cold rivers, ponds and lakes, celebrating the Orthodox Christian holiday of Epiphany — the baptism of Jesus Christ.

An Indian court has sentenced 39 people accused of sex trafficking to ten years in prison. The convictions, including traffickers, pimps, and brothel owners, is a rare occurrence in a country where about 60 percent of trafficking cases end in sentencing.

Outgoing US President Barack Obama has claimed that Washington sees no alternative to the two-state solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Talking on Russia during his last press conference, outgoing US President Barack Obama claimed that a constructive relationship with Moscow is in interests of Washington.

It is necessarily for Venezuela to elect a new parliament as the current convocation of the legislature is attempting to stage a coup, President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday.

After commuting Chelsea Manning's sentence, outgoing President Barack Obama said that the whistleblower's punishment "was very disproportionate relative to what other leakers had received."

At his final press conference, answering the question about Julian Assange's fate, President Obama refused to confirm or deny whether the US will be seeking his extradition.

Two surface-to-air missile launchers have been deployed by the North Dakota Army National Guard to surveil protesters near a disputed Dakota Access Pipeline construction site. Activists at the site have posted video and photos of Avenger missile systems spotted on January 16.

Founder of the WikiLeaks website Julian Assange is ready to be extradited to the United States for testimony if Washington guarantees all his rights, the whistleblowing organization said Wednesday.

The summit of heads of OPEC member states and non-OPEC countries will be held in the near future, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced Wednesday.

Welterweight boxing champion Amir Khan is the latest victim in a sex tape leak that has plagued several British celebrities in recent months.

The head of Russia's Republic of Crimea, Sergey Aksenov, welcomed on Wednesday the intention of Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French far-right National Front party, to resume relations with Russia if she wins the presidential election in France.

Outgoing US President Barack Obama is holding his last press conference.

The United States has guaranteed $1 billion sovereign bond issued by the government of Iraq, the US Department of the Treasury said in a release on Wednesday.

The pause in TTIP implementation process between the EU and the US will remain until the new US administration makes new steps, European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmstrom told Sputnik Wednesday.

The US Army is preparing to conduct a study of the potential environmental ramifications related to the Dakota Access pipeline, the department said in a public notice published in the US federal register on Wednesday.

Former US President George H. W. Bush has been moved to intensive care at the Houston Methodist Hospital in the state of Texas and he is now in stable condition, his press office said in a statement.

Darwin's theory of evolution will be removed from Turkish biology textbooks in high schools starting next year, Turkish Haberturk news website wrote, referring to a statement made by Turkish Minister Ismet Yilmaz.

States that will not be present at the talks on Syria in Astana, Kazakhstan may be presented at UN talks in Geneva, Switzerland next month.

US intelligence services undertook another attempt at recruiting a Russian diplomat on January 14, just a week before President Barack Obama's departure from the White House, the Russian Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said Wednesday.

More than 3,000 women staged a demonstration today in Sanaa to protest against Saudi Arabia's involvement in the conflict in Yemen.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro intends to continue dialogue with parliamentary opposition and hopes for a positive outcome of the talks.