Новости за 03.02.2017

At least 15 civilians and 65 militants from the Taliban movement have been killed in clashes during the large-scale security operation in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province since Wednesday, local media reported Friday.

Iran has announced counter-sanctions against the United States, and asserted that President Donald Trump has violated the nuclear deal with his sanctions against them.

A high school student in Portland, Oregon, has found a much cheaper and easier method to turn salt water into drinkable fresh water, bypassing existing methods. His research has caught the attention of major technology companies and universities, such as Intel and MIT.

At least a half a dozen protest groups are coming together to plot disruptions during Super Bowl weekend in Houston against US President Donald Trump.

US proposals to establish safe zones in Syria may worsen the situation further, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, adviser to the speaker of the Iranian parliament told RT in an interview Friday.

The guided missile destroyer USS Cole is patrolling in the seas near the Bab al-Mandab Strait off the coast of southwest Yemen, Reuters news agency reported citing official sources.

US President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order at the White House to relax major financial services regulations imposed after the economic crisis in 2008.

US Senator John McCain praised the new sanctions against Iran introduced by the Trump administration on Friday.

US voters are split over President Donald Trump’s executive order on temporarily banning individuals from seven mostly Muslim countries from coming to the United States, a new poll revealed on Friday.

Japan is working on a new job and investment proposition to the United States ahead of a bilateral meeting between the leaders of two countries. The draft document is entitled “US-Japan Growth and Employment Initiative.” Radio Sputnik discussed this with Professor Narendra Bhandari.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Friday he was not aware if President Donald Trump intended to follow Senator John McCain’s recommendation to send lethal weapons to Ukrainian forces.

A knife-wielding man who tried to enter the Paris Louvre museum’s shopping center was an Egyptian national who arrived in France in at the end of January, French media reported Friday.

Donald Trump's protectionism may eventually backfire on the US: Trump's decision to impose pressure on Latin American states is likely to accelerate the region's rapprochement with China, Washington's major economic competitor, experts told Sputnik.

The new US sanctions imposed on Iran on Friday were necessary because of recent actions undertaken by Tehran, including a ballistic missile test, and reveal that the 2015 nuclear agreement is not in the best interest of the United States, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said in his press briefing.

As Libya and Italy sign a deal to combat people smuggling off the north African coast and stem migration flows, there are reports that more than 1,750 migrants have had to be rescued.

US Ambassador Nikki Haley’s remarks at the United Nations reflect President Donald Trump’s concerns over Crimea, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Friday.

Lately, the press has been actively discussing the new US administration’s will to possibly increase the military aid to Kurdish forces in order to accelerate the fight against Daesh in Syria. A spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which forms the backbone of the Kurdish self-defense units, Talal Sulo spoke with Sputnik about this.

NASA experts summed up the first results of their experiment involving astronaut twin brothers Mark and Scott Kelly. It turned out that life in space affects human health and stops the aging process.

US President Donald Trump is effectively generating a new order in the country, Chief Advisor to the Turkish president Erdogan, Ilnur Cevik, said commenting on the current policies of new US President Donald Trump and possible developments in Turkish-American relations in an interview with Sputnik Turkey.

This Palestinian barber uses an unusual technique: he sets his clients’ hair on fire in order to style it.

According to the White House spokesman, Donald Trump’s administration is reviewing policies on Cuba introduced by former President Barack Obama.

The seventh annual 70,000 TONS OF METAL event – the world's first and biggest heavy metal sea cruise – has kicked off, setting sail from Fort Lauderdale, Florida and sailing to Labadee, Haiti.

Friday: President Trump plans to scrap the Johnson Amendment; US Veterans vow to block the Dakota Access Pipeline and thousands take to the streets in Romania’s largest protests since 1989 over the potential decriminalizing of corruption.

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said that Iran’s recent testing of a ballistic missile is a violation of UN resolutions, adding that he understands the reaction of the United States.

The United Kingdom violates media freedom, one of the fundamental democratic values, by criticizing Sputnik news agency and RT for allegedly spreading misleading information, Sergey Kalashnikov, a member of the Russian Federal Assembly’s Committee on information policy, said Friday, commenting on UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon’s statement.