Новости за 21.04.2017

Elon Musk is at it again. The South African-born billionaire futurist has announced his next endeavor: a neural interface that can augment the human brain and eventually allow humans to transcend the limitations of their biological brains. Oh, and he wants it on the market in the next four years.

Seven pro-marijuana activists were arrested in Washington, DC on Thursday, during their “Joint Session” rally where they handed out free weed to anyone over 21 working on Capitol Hill.

Polish Civic Platform introduced in the parliament a motion of no-confidence against Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz.

Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Trevor McFadden said that Russian programmer Petr Levashov, accused by US authorities of Internet fraud, is facing an indictment on new charges.

The Pentagon has refused to release the number of fighters killed by their April 13 dropping of a GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) on a Daesh tunnel complex in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.

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Japanese naval destroyers Ashigara and Samidare have reportedly been sent to rendezvous with the US Navy’s carrier strike group one, as the fleet of warships sailed toward the Korean Peninsula, days before North Korea will showcase its military might once again.

Just a little more than two months after the Pentagon requested a shovel-ready, non-developmental 500-pound bomb for the F-35, all variants of the joint strike fighter have tested the GBU-12 that will soon be certified as part of the jet’s weapons package – and the pilot hardly even needs to think about releasing it.

The US government has fielded a request from Bucharest to buy Patriot air-and-missile defense systems.

A US government shutdown may be in the works for next week, as Democratic lawmakers plan to put up a fight against President Donald Trump’s demand that funds for his Mexican border wall be included in the spending bill.

All 100 US Senators have been invited to the White House next week for a briefing with Trump administration officials on North Korea's recent behavior, Politico reported on Friday.

The Berlin prosecutor's office is carrying out an investigation into the leaking of confidential government documents on German-US spy agencies cooperation published by the WikiLeaks whistleblowing organization in December 2016, spokesman Martin Steltner told Sputnik Friday.

In Syrian Aleppo, recently liberated from the militants, a large stud farm is being revived. Before the war there were almost 200 Arabian horses costing from 300,000 to $2 million living on the farm.

Last week, a federal judge in San Francisco unsealed documents that suggest that Monsanto, the leading producer of genetically modified seeds, knew about the genotoxic effects of glyphosate that might, in particular, cause cancer.

Russian citizen Roman Seleznev, sentenced to 27 years in prison for cyber theft, called himself a political prisoner and requested help from the Russian government in a statement on Friday.

While US Defense Secretary James Mattis is pushing ahead with the claim that the Assad government still has chemical weapons, former CIA officer Robert David Steele told Radio Sputnik that the claim bears no relation to reality and added that evidence mounts that the Idlib incident was a false flag operation.

Israeli aviation launched a missile attack on Syrian army's positions in the province of Quneitra bordering Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, a Syrian military source told Sputnik.

A man was killed in Venezuela's capital city of Caracas overnight amid nationwide anti-government protests, Mayor of Sucre municipality Carlos Ocariz said Friday.

The Chinese Defense Ministry denied on Friday media reports alleging escalated activity of state military aircraft.

The Russian energy minister said that he was discussing further oil production cuts with Russian companies and executive bodies.

The United States is deeply troubled by Russia's Supreme Court ruling to ban the religious group Jehovah’s Witnesses and calls on Moscow to revoke the decision, the Department of State spokesman Mark Toner said in a statement via Twitter on Friday.

The pseudonym of the leader of the 2017 Russian Revolution Vladimir Lenin inspired several generations of parents to give their children his name. Lenin was the first Soviet leader and the founder of communist Bolshevik political party.

The US Department of Justice is looking to prosecute WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange for multiple cases of data dumping. Speaking during a news conference, Attorney General Jeff Sessions called Assange’s arrest a priority of the legal agency.

The US Treasury secretary said the US would not exempt oil company ExxonMobil from Russian sanctions.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a phone conversation that Moscow regrets that Washington opposes a proposal to send inspectors to Syria to probe the alleged chemical attack in Idlib.