Новости за 23.01.2017

Three men in Uppsala, Sweden, have been arrested for gang rape after their assault was broadcast live on Facebook.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has claimed that the Trump administration will ‘work with Russia or anyone else’ to quickly defeat Daesh, but, when asked if that included Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Spicer refused to give a clear answer.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said that Trump will meet with the leaders of Canada and Mexico within one month to discuss renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Foreign interests should expect Chinese military exercises in the South China Sea to become the new normal, according to a recent article in The People’s Daily, a Chinese state-run media outlet.

Francois Fillon said that Russia should be a partner for Europe in order to jointly tackle a terrorist threat and other international challenges.

A panel of experts set up by the Japanese government to discuss the potential abdication of Emperor Akihito declared on Monday that this one case could be applying only to him but not to future rulers, media reported.

Hoping to ride the coattails of the massive Women’s March on Washington, a liberal organization is riding the momentum for a wave of demonstrations against the cabinet appointees of President Donald Trump on Tuesday.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said that a call between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin has not been arranged yet.

President of Bolivia Evo Morales formed a new Cabinet, replacing half of the ministers, which was aimed at providing opportunities for the new generations of Bolivian political leaders, media reported Monday.

US President Donald Trump has resigned from his post in the Trump Organization.

Protests in India’s Tamil Nadu state turned violent after a week of demonstrations against a court ordinance banning ‘Jallikattu,’ a form of bullfighting that is a traditional sport in the region. The state government lifted the ban on Monday and beseeched protesters to disband.

Monday: An order postponing the construction of new homes in occupied East Jerusalem, has been lifted following the inauguration of President Donald Trump; and what next for Guantanamo Bay, as Obama leaves office having failed in his pledge to close the controversial detention camp?

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said that Donald Trump and Theresa May will discuss trade relations between their countries in a meeting in Washington, DC on Friday.

On Monday North Korea threatened to “pour further misery” on Washington. The announcement came on the 49th anniversary of Pyongyang’s 1968 capture of the USS Pueblo intelligence ship.

According to the White House press secretary, the US president and his Egyptian counterpart discussed ways to boost Cairo’s counterterrorism fight.

The cost of eliminating Daesh almost doubled in 2016 as terrorist forces scrambled to hold onto remaining military and oil assets.

A former university classmate of Barack Obama is leading a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, filed first thing on Monday, ironically over “conflicts of interest.”

President Donald Trump's executive order to freeze federal hiring except for the military demonstrates his intent to keep the Washington establishment under control, US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said in a press release.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement will not enter into force without the United States, Global Affairs Canada spokesperson Natasha Nystrom told Sputnik on Monday.

Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto vowed on Monday to seek bilateral deals with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) member states immediately after the United States withdraws from it.

The United States has not coordinated airstrikes in Syria with Russia, US Department of Defense spokesperson Adrian Rankine-Galloway told Sputnik on Monday.

A nationwide survey conducted immediately after US President Donald Trump’s Friday inauguration revealed that Americans’ reactions were more positive than negative, with 39 percent more hopeful, 30 percent less hopeful and 30 percent neutral when looking ahead to the next four years, a Gallup organization poll revealed on Monday.

The businesses owned by President Donald Trump, now managed by his two sons, are at greater risk of terrorist attacks around the world since he was inaugurated as the forty-fifth president of the United States, RAND Corporation political scientist Colin Clarke said in an interview on Monday.

The first piece of health reform legislation introduced in the US Congress since Friday’s inauguration of President Donald Trump would give individual US states a choice – keep Obamacare or provide alternate coverage while receiving the same subsidies from the federal government, Senators Bill Cassidy and Susan Collins told reporters on Monday.

The new US administration under President Donald Trump will attempt to create a divide between Russia and China according to the head of the Russian-Chinese economic and financial research center, Nikolai Kotlyarov.