Новости за 20.01.2017

The European Commission has published reports praising the increased cooperation between the United States and the European Union on two key agreements on preventing and combating terrorism, the EU-US Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP) Agreement and the EU-US Passenger Name Records (PNR) Agreement.

Notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been delivered to the United States after being extradited from Mexico, US media reported.

The Sig Sauer Company has received a more than half a billion dollars contract to provide new handguns and ammunition for the US Army, the Department of Defense said in a press release on Thursday.

Dakota Access Pipeline demonstrators carried out protests for a third consecutive night near the construction site of the $3.7 billion development project where they set fires and assaulted officers, Mandan Police Chief Jason Ziegler said in a press release.

Human Rights Watch called on President-elect Donald Trump to close the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after President Barack Obama ordered transfers of four prisoners on his final day in office, leaving just 41 inmates in the facility.

Dozens of people participated in a candlelight demonstration in the US capitol of Washington, DC less than a day before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th President of the United States.

The US Navy is paying a high tech company in the state of South Carolina almost $100 million to develop ways of making its industrial and manufacturing processes quicker and more efficient, the Department of Defense said in a press release on Thursday.

US contractor BAE Systems Southeast Shipyard has received a $51.3 million US Navy contract for maintenance and repair work on the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Roosevelt, the Department of Defense said in a press release.

Mass demonstrations are critical to ensure the protection of human rights, activist with Trump Resistance coalition Helen Gale told Sputnik at the mass pre-inauguration rally in New York City.

The negotiation on the Transnistrian conflict in the 5+2 format might be held at the end of 2017, Special Representative of the Austrian OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the Transdniestrian Settlement Process Wolf Dietrich Heim said Thursday.

Alibaba founder Jack Ma blames the problems of the United States on the United States itself, as the country has spent trillions of dollars to wage war, instead of investing in infrastructure and its own people.

Kiev is slowing down the Minsk peace process which is evident from the results of the first Contact Group meeting conducted this year, Dmitry Balakin, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said.

China’s GDP growth rate is demonstrating worst performance in the past 26 years, data from the National Bureau of Statistics of China shows.

Melinda Taylor, who led the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange before the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention hopes that the Donald Trump administration will bring more protection for Assange and other whistleblowers, she told Radio Sputnik.

US defense contractor Dyncorp Company won a more than $30 million contract from the US Army under its foreign military sales program to provide maintenance engineering services for aircraft to Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait, the Department of Defense said in a press release on Thursday.

All decisions regarding EU sanctions against Russia are independent and will depend on the situation, and not on the decisions taken by the United States, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini said on Thursday.

The 2016 Vienna oil output cut deal between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-OPEC countries will stabilize the oil industry and the global economy, providing short-, mid- and long-term stability, OPEC Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo told Sputnik on Thursday.

Participants in a recent symposium on preventing suicide in the armed forces of the United States are preparing recommendations for soldiers to reach out to troubled former colleagues on social media, the US Army said in a press release on Thursday.

On the eve of the inauguration day, US President-elect Donald Trump vowed to unify the country, making it great for all people.

A 21-year-old New York City resident and citizen of Kazakhstan has pleaded guilty to charges that he planned to either join the Daesh terrorist group in Syria or shoot police officers in United States, the US Department of Justice said in a press release.

The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, expressed hope Thursday to tackle the technical details concerning the allocation of the fourth tranche to Kiev in the coming days.

The US city mayors across the country pledged to coordinate efforts in an ongoing fight to protect human rights, New York mayor Bill de Blasio stated at the pre-inauguration rally in front of Trump's International Hotel.

Private Chelsea Manning, a transgender soldier who was convicted for leaking classified information to WikiLeaks and who had her sentence subsequently commuted by President Barack Obama, will lose her military health care benefits, including hormone treatments for her transition, following her release.

The US military is sending a military satellite into space to monitor possible missile attacks, one of the nation’s highest priority initiatives for meeting sophisticated 21st century national security threats.

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