Новости за 05.05.2017

Russian troops arriving in the Syrian mountain village of Brabishbo were showered with flowers, citrus fruit and songs by local children as they delivered humanitarian aid to the settlement. The emotional scene inevitably brought to mind images of Soviet forces receiving flowers from locals as they fought to liberate Europe from the Nazis in WWII.

The attacker possessed 10 kilograms (approximately 22 pounds) of explosives and grenades.

Daesh still controls the Tabqa dam but is "hanging on by a thread", the Pentagon spokesman said.

A trilateral declaration by China, Japan and South Korea to reject protectionism is a sign of greater regional co-operation, analyst Valeriy Kistanov told Sputnik.

US Federal Reserve Board of Governors.’s Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer said that adherence to a simple policy rule is "not the most appropriate means" of achieving the Federal Reserve’s primary goal of maximum employment with low inflation.

The establishment of four safe zones in Syria by Russia, Iran, and Turkey shouldn't be seen as some sort of "concession" to Washington, Vzglyad's political analyst Evgeny Krutikov noted, adding that the US influence on rebel groups on the ground in Syria is seemingly fading away.

The claims by Pyongyang the United States and South Korea tried to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un are baseless, US Department of Defense spokesperson Capt. Jeff Davis said in a briefing on Friday.

Sputnik news agency and RT broadcaster editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said Friday that the media would go to court over accusations made against the outlets by the headquarters of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron about the spreading of "fake news" regarding his alleged offshore bank accounts.

Pentagon dismissed claims that the US-led coalition conduct strikes in the area of west Mosul in Iraq on civilians, according to US Department of Defense spokesperson Capt. Jeff Davis.

The encouragement provided to Ukraine for its uncertain EU prospects by both the EU and Germany under Chancellor Angela Merkel is preventing the full implementation of the Minsk agreements on Ukrainian reconciliation, Beatrix von Storch, a member of the European Parliament for Germany's right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, told Sputnik.

A new poll by European Commission polling agency Eurobarometer shows Latvians' support of membership in the European Union is down to 45%, declining three percentage points since last year. Speaking to Russian media, Baltic politics expert Yuri Dolinsky explained why the country's euro-skepticism is at an all-time high.

78 militant members of organizations considered terrorists in Turkey were eleminated by Turkish security forces during the operations in the provinces of Sirnak, Hakkari, Siirt, Diyarbakir and Erzurum, according to a statement of the Turkish General Staff.

These students of a primary school in northern China perform a rather unique training routine which combines dribbling basketballs with yoga.

Moscow said the EU had better pay attention to the actions of Ukrainian nationalists blocking water and energy supplies to Crimea rather than criticize the alleged "worsening of human rights situation" in the peninsula.

Russia will have upgraded its Strategic Missile Forces with 5th-generation devices by 2027.

US service members came under attack in the early stage of an operation against al-Shabaab near the Somali capital of Mogadishu, US Department of Defense spokesperson Capt. Jeff Davis said in a briefing on Friday.

The European Union strengthened its stance on Brexit in order to demonstrate to French voters the negative consequences of withdrawing from the bloc amid the upcoming presidential elections and the possible Frexit that could follow in its wake, a member of the European Parliament from the UK Conservative Party Daniel Dalton told Sputnik Friday.

An attempt to prosecute former MI6 counterterrorism chief Sir Mark Allen for his role in the rendition and torture of Libyan dissidents may be heard partially in secret – the latest example of the UK government trying to prevent the full picture of its involvement in "extraordinary rendition" from becoming public knowledge.

Experts are sure that French centrist presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron will win the second round of the elections.

The US Department of Defense knows about Syria's de-escalation zones plans, but says they are proposed in the areas where the Daesh group is not active, according to Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis.

Nearly 20,000 people will sing famous WWII songs in Berlin on May 7.

Every month hundreds of suspicious ships pass through European waters with their satellite devices switched off or defective registration numbers but does it mean they were carrying terrorists or drug smugglers?

Europol and other law enforcement agencies are doing a good job of reacting to terrorist activity on the internet, but the nature of the resource means the bad guys will always be one step ahead, cyber terrorism expert Lars Hilse told Radio Sputnik.

Moscow is outraged over the actions of Polish authorities against Russian bikers, who were banned from entering the country for World War II commemorations, and awaits explanations from Warsaw, as well as reserves the right for retaliatory measures, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday.

The Russian General Staff does not rule out the possibility that fire could be opened at violators of the memorandum on the creation of de-escalation zones in Syria, Deputy Chief of the General Staff's Main Operational Directorate Lt. Gen. Stanislav Gadzhimagomedov said Friday.