Новости за 07.02.2017

Russian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin, who had been detained by Belarusian authorities since late 2016, was deported to Azerbaijan on Tuesday, a Sputnik correspondent reported.

US President Donald Trump expressed hope the legal battle over the executive order on immigration would be resolved before it reaches the US Supreme Court, but it may reach the nation’s highest court.

US House of Representatives Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer stated that benefits for US economy from the United States’ withdrawal from the TPP "remains to be seen."

At just 20, Julia Vins has already become an Internet sensation both at home in Russia and abroad. Foreign fans call her a "Muscle Barbie" for a combination of a doll face with muscles of iron, almost like Arnie’s. Julia told Sputnik about her powerlifting routine and shared the secrets of her success.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the international community to enforce the UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Hungary is to presents proposals to automatically detain all asylum seekers at specially constructed centers during their asylum applications to the European Union – and a spokesperson for Amnesty International has told Sputnik the Hungarian government is keeping refugees out of the country using violent and unlawful means.

Russia's Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against the military personnel of the Armed Forces and the National Guard of Ukraine after Kiev forces shelled and damaged dozens of houses and administrative buildings of Donetsk region on February 4-6.

Saudi Arabia has stepped up arrests and prosecutions of dissidents and human rights advocates this year, and unlike other states in the region Riyadh doesn't even try to hide the political nature of the charges, Ahmed Benchemsi of Human Rights Watch told Radio Sputnik.

Belgian politician Filip Dewinter, who was the head of the Belgian parliamentarian delegation which visited Syrian Aleppo on Monday, told Sputnik that the mainstream media is distorting the truth about Syria. After visiting a hospital, he learned that it is actually due to Western sanctions that the hospitals are short of medicine and equipment.

A Chinese man in Shaanxi Province saved his wife from falling to her death by pulling on her hair.

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn will use the "three-line whip" during Wednesday's vote even if Labor fails to make any amendments to the Brexit bill, according to local media reports.

"Putin's a killer." This was the claim made by Fox News "journalist" Bill O'Reilly during his recent interview with Donald Trump. Trump's reply came in the form of a simple question. "What, you think our country's so innocent?"

UK Minister of State for Exiting the European Union David Jones stated that in case if the British government fails in securing a post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union, London will have to fall back on other international trade arrangements.

The launch of the Crosscheck project by Facebook and Google in collaboration with over a dozen French news outlets is an attempt to "fight the National Front" and prevent Marine Le Pen from winning the presidential election, Front National politicians told Sputnik.

Recently declassified CIA files reveal that at some point the agency actually attempted to employ extrasensory perception (ESP) to scout out Mars.

The Russian part of the joint Russian-Turkish commission on issues related to violations of the Joint Agreement has registered 11 violations over the past 24 hours, while Turkish side has registered 13 violations, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

The Seoul Administrative Court ordered the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC) to cancel its resolution to extend the operation of a nuclear reactor located about 400 kilometers (250 miles) southeast of Seoul due to the commission’s failure to follow legal regulations.

In this private academy for stunt performers, students learn how to endure lying on beds of nails and barbed wire, to bend metal rods while holding them with their teeth and even how to survive being stretched by motorcycles.

Marine Le Pen, the leader of French far-right National Front (FN) party, said she would not remain president of France, if after her possible election French voters decided to stay within the European Union in a referendum, which is proposed in her program.

Tensions between the United States and Iran escalated to their highest level in years last week, with the two countries exchanging sanctions and countersanctions and accusing each other of sponsoring terrorism. Speaking to Radio Sputnik, Iran expert Dr. Rasool Nafisi said that it may now be up to Moscow to reduce tensions between the two countries.

Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit condemned on Tuesday Israel for adopting a law legalizing dozens of Israeli outposts built on private Palestinian land, the organization said in a statement.

On today’s episode of Double Down, hosts Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert are joined by Ancilla van de Leest of the Pirate Party to discuss the economic backdrop to the rise of the far right in Holland.

Lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said that Russia has not received any request from the United States for extradition of Edward Snowden.

The explosion killed the governor of Khaki Safed district in western Farah province of Afghanistan, Abdul Khaliq Norzai, according to local media reports.

Moscow and Washington have maintained constant contacts on Syria, the Russian foreign minister said.