Новости за 23.03.2017

The two primary causes for record low levels in both the Arctic and Antarctica reported by NASA were a low September minimum sea ice extent followed by a very warm winter.

*Laughs in Italian*

Following US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s tour through East Asia and his comments about the weakness of Obama’s policy in the region, a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman denounced current US President Donald Trump for having policies similar to his predecessor, Barack Obama.

The US Air Force’s “next generation air dominance” (NGAD) project casually revised its 2017 budget needs – from $20 million to $167.8 million, Defense News reported.

A 19-year-old American-Israeli student was arrested Thursday on charges that he was behind the majority of threats called into Jewish centers, synagogues and schools in the US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand over the past six months.

The US Senate has confirmed on Thursday President Donald Trump’s nominee David Friedman to be the next US ambassador to Israel.

Russia wants to increase the share of naval equipment’s exports in the supplies of military production abroad as the necessary conditions for it have been created, Russian Presidential Aide for Military-Technical Cooperation Vladimir Kozhin said Thursday in an interview with Rossiya 24 television channel.

Russia began Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets supplies to China in 2016, the two countries are discussing further cooperation, Russian Presidential Aide for Military-Technical Cooperation Vladimir Kozhin said Thursday.

US left-leaning mainstream media sources continue to insist that the Trump campaign could have coordinated its activities with Moscow. However, the problem is that they present Russia as a bogeyman, political scientist Gregory Dobromelov told Radio Sputnik, stressing that the paradigm must be changed to ease tensions between US and Russia.

The breach of cooperation between Russia and Ukraine has led to the destruction of the Ukrainian defense industry enterprises and left thousands of engineers without work, Russian Presidential Aide for Military-Technical Cooperation Vladimir Kozhin said Thursday.

The Polish prosecution initiated on Thursday a criminal case after the terror attack in London when it turned out that as a result a Polish citizen was injured, local media reported, citing spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office Ewa Bialik.

The commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces, Nasir Hec Mansur, in an interview with Sputnik Turkey, said that the US is carrying out preparations for the Raqqa operation.

The sounds of what were believed to be a porn movie were heard in the middle of the night in one of the most populated areas of Kastamonu, northern Turkey.

The Russian army will soon receive military equipment based on new physical principles, hypersonic weapons and next-generation S-500 missile defense systems, Russian Presidential Aide for Military-Technical Cooperation Vladimir Kozhin said Thursday.

International cooperation and global intelligence sharing is of paramount importance in tackling the threat of the Daesh terror group (outlawed in numerous countries), UK Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Boris Johnson said at a UN media stakeout Thursday.

Today’s headlines include: We dedicate a large portion of today’s show to the attack in London yesterday which has seen 4 dead and over 20 taken to hospital with injuries, many critical.

The US House of Representatives Freedom Caucus has not reached a deal with congressional Republicans to support the American Health Care Act, Congressman Paul Gosar said in an interview on Thursday.

This adorable cuddly puss might be the best non-human cup-and-ball game player!

The proposal of the European Broadcasting Union to Russia's Channel One to arrange a satellite broadcast of the performance of Russian 2017 Eurovision participant, who was banned from entering Ukraine, politicizes the song contest, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Vyacheslav Kyrylenko said Thursday.

Donald Trump and his transition team may have been wiretapped following the presidential election according to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes. He believes the surveillance was conducted legally but nevertheless added he is “alarmed” by the discovery.

A man who reportedly planned to drive his car into pedestrians in the Belgian city of Antwerp is a 39-year-old French national, Belgium’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement on Thursday.

Aydin Maruf, a representative of the Iraqi Turkmen Front confirmed to Sputnik Turkey the death of 200 civilians due to the bombings carried out by the US-led coalition forces on Daesh positions in Mosul.

Russia hopes India will join the Russian initiative on non-deployment of weapons in outer space, Russian Foreign Ministry’s Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Department Director Mikhail Ulyanov said on Thursday.

The goal of US President Donald Trump's executive orders on immigration is to enhance national security and public safety, former United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage said in an interview on Thursday.

A number of countries are waging an information war against Russian armaments in order to undermine Russia's positions on the international arms market, in particular, discrediting the new MiG-35 fighter in the media, Russian Presidential Aide for Military-Technical Cooperation Vladimir Kozhin told Rossiya 24 television channel.