Новости за 20.01.2017

Demonstrators will wear red hats and clothing items in show of support for Donald Trump.

In a recent tweet, Donald Trump quite modestly reminisced that before he won the presidency, "the world was gloomy" and "there was no hope." On Friday, as America opens a new page in its history, Rossiya Segodnya contributor Galust Sahakyan asks what changes can be expected in US policy, and whether Trump really can shake the planet from its gloom.

Over 80 percent of Germans are pessimistic about the upcoming US presidency of Donald Trump, according to a poll.

Alexander Lapshin, a citizen of both Russia and Israel, who has been detained the Belarusian capital in 2016 has written a letter of apology to Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev over the blogger's visit to Nagorno-Karabakh without consent of Baku, Consul of Israeli embassy to Minsk Yulia Rachinski-Spivakov said Friday.

Europe's leading human rights organization, the Council of Europe, has been urged to investigate serious allegations of corruption over bribes given to one of its assembly members relating to voting over human rights issues in Azerbaijan, Sputnik has been told.

Over 300 foreign mass media journalists have applied for accreditation for the upcoming meeting on Syrian settlement in Astana, according to head of the press service of Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry Anuar Zhaynakov.

Buenos Aires choreographer Matias Happ has set a dance challenge that is being taken up with enthusiasm across Argentina and beyond.

UK sales of consumer goods declined sharply in December 2016 as higher inflation and Brexit anxieties weighed on consumer sentiment, resulting in a downgrade in macroeconomic projections for this year.

Perceived existential threats posed to humanity by artificial intelligence (AI) are "uninformed," a US Department of Defense report has concluded – although some still harbor grave reservations about the technology's potential.

Hillary Clinton, a Democratic Party presidential candidate in the 2016 US election, said that she was visiting President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration in order to honor US democracy.

A Russian naval repairs and maintenance facility in the Syrian port of Tartus could be overhauled to a full-scale naval base capable of hosting large warships, including aircraft carriers, within two years, a senior Russian lawmaker said Friday.

Washington, DC police have used pepper spray on Friday to disperse protesters against the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump, according to a video posted by protest organizers.

Japanese fast food restaurants prefer to tune their cooking equipment by playing lively melodic chimes instead of annoying bells and buzzers. A musician even managed to turn one such chime into a real electro symphony.

Support for Dutch right wing Party for Freedom (PVV) was slightly falling after seeing rise for two months in a row, while Mark Rutte's ruling center-right People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) is on the second place with projections it would get 23-27 seats in the parliament.

Daesh militants managed to capture the historic Syrian city of Palmyra due to the lack of constant monitoring and control of the situation in the country, the former chief of the Russian General Staff, Gen. Yury Baluevsky said Friday.

The Turkish prime minister expressed hope Ankara and Washington will leave "coldness" behind.

Humans, not climate changes as it was previously assumed, caused the extinction of the giant beasts that once roamed Australia, a new study proves.

The UK Government has wasted US$123 million on a competition to develop technology that will capture carbon emissions. The project was cancelled according to a report, after the Energy Department failed to agree the long-term costs of the competition with the Treasury.

With the help of volunteers, a couple has created a "cat settlement" for homeless felines in the village of Doyran in the Turkish province of Antalya.

Mainland China's GDP posted an uptick in Q4 2016, suggesting a greater degree of economic stability. However, long-term risks still linger, demanding more decisive action on the part of Beijing and PBOC policymakers.

Head of Russia's Nuclear Risk Reduction Center Sergei Ryzhkov stated that Russia has completely fulfilled its international obligations, according to the assessment of the Finnish and Serbian military experts following the results of an inspection of Russia's Western Military District.

President-elect Donald Trump has been sworn in during an official ceremony on the Capitol's West Front in Washington, D.C.

Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman Loera faces life imprisonment for drug-related crimes.

The unknown man stabbed three persons at the Paris metropolitan system in the northern-eastern part of the city during one night, according to local media reports.

While many people have followed the trend of creating separate Instagram accounts for their pets, Kristi Loyall from Oklahoma, US, dedicated one to her amputated foot. The 25-year-old cancer survivor told Sputnik it helped her to keep her chin up and allows her to share positive vibes with those having tough times.