Новости за 24.02.2017

HNC delegation member Monzer Makhous claims that HNC held a "positive" meeting on Friday with the Cairo opposition platform.

Department of Defense spokesman Jeff Davis claims that US military forces stationed in South Korea are fully prepared if North Korea uses chemical weapons in a potential attack like the VX nerve agent.

The German Social Democratic Party (SPD) has become more popular than the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CDU/CSU) for the first time since October 2006, a poll revealed Friday.

Seoul expressed criticism over a VX nerve agent, a highly toxic liquid, used to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half-brother Kim Jong Nam, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said Friday,

South Korea approved a package worth $530 million to step up defense fortifications against North Korea, the country's Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) said on Friday.

Italy hopes to take part in the implementation of China's 'One Belt, One Road' initiative, Italian President Sergio Mattarella said Friday.

Locals identified the victim as a seven year old boy who had gone missing from the locality a couple of days before the incident. The accused had allegedly chopped off the victim’s head and limbs, ripped his stomach open and gutted out the internal organs.

Fall in clean energy tariffs hold key for Indian political parties as providing electricity to 1.3 billion populations at cheaper rates has remained main poll plank for them in recent past.

Estonia hopes to make NATO forces "feel at home" while being deployed to the country in the near future, Estonian army Commander-in-Chief Riho Terras said Friday.

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) on Friday named a former governor of the Kurdish-majority Diyarbakir province as its new spokesman, Anadolu news agency reported.

Cybersecurity experts in Britain have conducted research which shows that the amount of ransomware associated with the Android phones increased by 50 percent in 2016.

The issue of a pan-European army reflects the Europeans’ desire to break free from US patronage and take their security into their own hands, Russian and German politicians and political experts said during a Moscow-Berlin video conference on Monday.

The Clinton email scandal hasn't faded away after Hillary Clinton's resounding defeat in the 2016 presidential election. The case still raises a lot of questions, while tens of thousands of documents have yet to surface. Speaking to Sputnik Jan R. Weinberg, founder of Show Up! America, stressed that there is more to the case than meets the eye.

Brandon describes how he became a predator operator, and why he did his best to fulfil his obligations; how dehumanizing it is to hunt people down who have no means to defend themselves, and the sort of stress that this work can create. The former drone pilot also depicts the sort of people who enjoy this kind of work, and why he had to get out.

An overwhelming majority of German entrepreneurs in Russia hope the EU sanctions on Russia would be eased this year, although many are pessimistic about this outcome, a fresh poll has found.

The Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters, backed by the Turkish forces, celebrated the liberation of the Syrian town of al-Bab from the Daesh terrorist group that seized the city in 2013, media reported.

Governments of Belarus and Russia need to make a decision on gas prices, Belarusian Energy Minister Vladimir Potupchik said a week after the latest round of year-long talks.

The bilateral dialogue between Turkey and Russia is very important for Ankara and it is not an alternative to relations between Turkey and with NATO members, a senior adviser to Turkish President Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the RT broadcaster in an interview.

The Arctic region development issueas and preservation of Lake Baikal will be the cornerstone of Russian exposition at the EXPO 2017 exhibition.

Daesh terrorists perpetrated an attack in western suburbs of Syrian al-Bab on Friday, killing at least 15 people, a source in Syrian people's militia told Sputnik.

Anakra is not going to cooperate with Damascus, neither it seeks to forcibly remove Syrian President Bashar Assad from power, Ilnur Cevik, a senior adviser to Turkish President Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, told the RT broadcaster in an interview.

The Munich Security Conference was quite an event this year. What with Donald Trump’s election and Brexit, the usual security narratives are under threat. Our two guests: Mary Dejevsky, a prominent writer and journalist based in London, and Professor Vladimir Golstein, Professor of Slavic Studies at Brown University share their expert analysis.

Turkish troops will not remain in Syria after the Daesh terrorist group (outlawed in Russia) is defeated there, a senior adviser to Turkish President Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the RT broadcaster in an interview.

Donald Trump is pleased with the outcomes of the meetings of Rex Tillerson and Gen. Joseph Dunford with their respective Russian counterparts, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said.

A Russian Defense Ministry plane has delivered the torch flame of the III Winter Military World Games to the Russian Olympic city of Sochi.