Новости за 26.01.2017

The peso tumbled against the US dollar by noon on Thursday following the announcement that Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto had cancelled his planned visit to Washington, DC next week to meet with US President Donald Trump.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said that Donald Trump has decided to impose a 20 percent tax on all imports from Mexico in order to pay for the border wall.

The US Department of Justice said that a federal grand jury has indicted Esteban Santiago Ruiz on 21 charges connected to the deadly shooting at the Fort Lauderdale, Florida airport on January 6.

Women took the first step, and now scientists will join them: a movement to organize a ‘Scientists’ March on Washington’ has ballooned to 300,000 Facebook members and 170,000 Twitter followers just a few days after the page was created.

Shadow minister Tulip Siddiq said Thursday she resigned from the Labour frontbench as the party’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, imposed a three-line whip, forcing his parliamentarians to vote in favor of the bill triggering Article 50.

An expensive program to upgrade the Lockheed Martin F-22, the Air Force’s “aerial quarterback,” has been set back by software issues.

Jordan's King Abdullah II will start a visit to the United States on January 30.

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is suspected of tampering with witnesses within the framework of the so-called Ruby III sex parties case, local media reported Thursday.

A North Korean defector and former diplomat has claimed that DPRK leader Kim Jong Un could launch a nuclear missile aimed at Los Angeles, knowing that Washington would retaliate. During a BBC interview, Thae Yong-ho claimed Kim was liable to press "the button on these dangerous weapons when he thinks that his rule and his dynasty is threatened."

A mysterious object appeared on the NASA live video feed from the International Space Station (ISS), prompting some alien hunters to declare it a UFO.

There wasn't much "brotherly love" for new US President Donald Trump as protesters took to the streets of Philadelphia as he addressed the Congressional Republican Retreat on Thursday.

US President Donald Trump said in a speech on Thursday at the Republican Congressional Retreat in Philadelphia he will help revive the ability of the United States to compete in the global marketplace by conducting tax reform that includes lower taxes for middle class Americans and businesses.

Armed opposition groups reaffirming their commitment to the Syrian truce was the most prominent accomplishment of the peace talks in Astana, Syria’s Ambassador to China and former Ambassador to the United States Imad Moustapha told Sputnik, adding that no "miracles" should be expected from a single round of talks.

The United States will negotiate bilateral trade deals after having left the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement, President Donald Trump told a gathering of Republican lawmakers on Thursday.

The United Nations is aware of proposals to cut US funding for some of the world body’s major programs and is ready to start discussions regarding the cuts with new US envoy Nikki Haley, UN Secretary-General spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a statement on Thursday.

The European Union should be able to protect its industries and its borders if the United States chooses to focus on domestic issues and introduce protectionist policies, French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Thursday.

Child care is one of the most serious obstacles for working mothers in Turkey. However, Turkish authorities seem to have found a way out: from now on, they will pay grandmothers additional money if they take care of their children on working days.

Health departments in the US state of Pennsylvania will lose nearly $112 million if the US Congress repeals the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, which funds the state’s Prevention and Public Health Fund (PPHF), Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Karen Murphy said in a press release on Thursday.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Thursday lodged an objection against the ruling of the Greek Supreme Court against the extradition of eight Turkish soldiers that fled their home country after the failed military coup in July 2016.

The UN's latest Helsinki Conference on Supporting Syrians and the Region was not actually aimed at solving the crisis on the ground, Finnish political commentator Petri Krohn told Radio Sputnik. According to Krohn, the US and EU should stop arming so-called Syrian rebel groups in the first place to bring the conflict to an end.

National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces said Thursday it will not attend consultations between representatives of Syrian opposition and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on January 27.

The US intelligence community must declassify and release to the public its entire assessment of Russia’s alleged interfere in the 2016 presidential election, a civil rights group said in a lawsuit filed against the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on Thursday.

The US-led coalition will position forces in locations best fitted to support its partners, Operation Inherent Resolve spokesperson told Sputnik on Thursday amid reports of a new US base in Syria.

While he has lived in effective exile in Russia since 2013, Edward Snowden has kept a keen eye trained on political events round the world, frequently commenting on current affairs via the media and Twitter. Now, he appears to be interested in the French presidential election.

The chief of the US Border Patrol, Mark Morgan, has left the agency that will be in charge of building a wall on US-Mexico border after President Donald Trump’s order, US media reported on Thursday.