Новости за 22.03.2017

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reaffirmed that Tel Aviv will continue to carry out operations aimed at disrupting weapons transfers from Iran to Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based Shia movement which Israel considers to be one of the top threats to its security.

The proposed enlargement of BRICS (BRICS Plus) with the inclusion of powerful emerging economies would help fill the void created by US trade protectionism, international analyst Adrian Zelaia told Sputnik.

A survey has found that around one in four Japanese people have considered committing suicide despite a number of government projects that have sought to curb the amount of people who take their own lives.

Most of the deputies of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of Daesh, have been killed by the US-led coalition against the terror group, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said at the coalition ministerial in Washington on Wednesday.

On March 23, the GMHC, an AIDS service organization, is due to honor former President Bill Clinton, the founder of the Clinton Foundation, for his 15-year effort to battle HIV/AIDS. Speaking to Sputnik, Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel disclosed what really lay behind the charity's HIV/AIDS initiative. Do the Clintons deserve so much praise?

Failure to pick up eight Democrats in the US Senate to approve Judge Neil Gorsuch’ nomination to the US Supreme Court would force Republicans to change Senate rules, allowing a simple majority in the 100-member chamber to confirm Gorsuch, Senator Lindsey Graham said in an interview on Wednesday.

Polygon, a Russian cartoon, celebrates the 40th anniversary of its release in March. Despite its age, the film is more relevant today than ever, not only predicting many of the ethical debates currently raging in military, political and scientific circles about technology, but foreseeing the development of artificial intelligence weapons.

Take a fictitious flight above real Mars! This fantastic video is based on images taken by the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and 3D-processed by Finnish filmmaker Jan Frojdman.

US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would speak to the graduates of Liberty University in his first commemoration address as the country’s leader in May.

The families of the 850 people killed and 1,500 injured are suing Saudi Arabia over its alleged involvement in the September 11 terrorist attacks which claimed nearly 3,000 lives. The lawsuit, however, is unlikely to affect Washington's increasingly warm relations with Riyadh, political analyst Konstantin Truyevtsev asserted.

Russia will judge the implementation of the Russian-Israeli cooperation agreement on Syria by Israel’s actions, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday.

Russia's financial system has adapted to new conditions, Russian Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina said Wednesday.

On Monday, Russia and Japan held talks in the 2+2 format, including the defense and foreign ministers of the two countries. This was the first meeting under this format of consultations since Crimea’s reunification with Russia in March 2014.

Russia will boycott not only Eurovision 2017 in Kiev, but all subsequent contests, if the leadership of the song contest does not stand up for Russian participant Yulia Samoilova, who was banned from entering Ukraine, a senior Russian lawmaker from the upper house of parliament said Wednesday.

Many cats can't get enough of catnip - nepeta cataria, a fragrant plant native to Asia - although why it has such an effect on felines has hitherto remained a mystery. However, fresh research might have shed light on the narcotic riddle, as well as identified several new alternative substances for cats who fancy something a little stronger.

The Swedish city of Uppsala has landed in hot water with its unconventional handling of a juvenile rapist. The convicted 16-year-old violator was allowed back into the same school - only to rape again.

A majority of registered Republican voters believe US President Donald Trump's claims that former President Barack Obama ordered the wiretapping of his New York skyscraper during the 2016 election campaign, a new Harvard-Harris Poll national survey revealed on Wednesday.

The Russian president hopes for restoring full-fledged cooperation with Germany.

An international team of researchers, including fellows from several Russian research institutions, synthesized 2D copper oxide, which could be used in microelectronics to improve “magnetic memory.” The results of their research were published by the scientific journal NanoScale.

North Korea has claimed it is "ready for war" with the United States despite its most recent ballistic missile test failing moments after it was launched on Wednesday, March 22.

As World Water Day is celebrated all over the globe on Wednesday, take a look at mesmerizing images of well-known and not so famous waterfalls, gifted to us by Mother Nature.

On Tuesday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that large-scale air-defense drills have kicked off in southern Russia. They involve over 2,000 troops and a wide range of air-defense systems, including portable anti-aircraft missile launchers to long-range systems like the S-300V4.

Russian 2017 Eurovision Song Contest contender Yulia Samoilova has been denied entry to Ukraine.

Norway granted asylum to four Turkish officers and a military attache, who previously served in NATO headquarters in Brussels, after the applicants requested protection in fear of being persecuted and jailed by Ankara following a failed coup attempt in Turkey in 2016, local media reported Wednesday, citing a group’s lawyer.