Новости за 24.05.2017

Following reports saying that US President Donald Trump leaked sensitive intelligence to Russian officials, the Israeli defense minister announced a change in the intelligence cooperation rules with Washington.

Following a meeting with US President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Washington has pledged to give the country’s missile defense program $75 million, as a sign of Washington’s continued commitment to the Jewish state.

A resolution to force President Donald Trump to release his tax returns to Congress was blocked on Wednesday by House Republicans.

As the hyper-expensive – and now empty – sports venues built by Brazil for the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics rapidly deteriorate, many of the medals won by the athletes who participated are now revealed to be decaying as well.

US President Donald Trump's former campaign foreign policy advisor Carter Page said Wednesday he will appear before the House Intelligence Committee to testify on the issue of collusion with Russia.

The JMMC, the joint committee of ministers from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-OPEC producers agreed on Wednesday to hold the next meeting in Russia in July, according to the statement published by the cartel.

John Sullivan, the deputy secretary for the Department of Commerce under George W. Bush administration, was confirmed on Wednesday by the Senate as the new Deputy Secretary of State.

British law enforcement have detained another suspect after raiding a block of flats in the Blackley, Greater Manchester Police said.

The US government’s shoddy tracking and record-keeping processes allowed $1 billion worth of military equipment to go missing from its assistance packages in Iraq, according to a new report.

A cataclysmic landslide in California has dropped more than 1 million tons of earth into the Pacific Ocean, burying a portion of Highway 1 under 40 feet of rock and dirt. The mudslide has been called the largest in California state history.

On today's BradCast, big wins for Democrats in very Republican districts, more trouble for the GOP as the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) finally scores the House healthcare bill, and trouble likely ahead for still-divided Democrats.

The latest White House defense budget would increase the number of issue-plagued F-35s in the US Air Force’s fleet despite the jet’s extraordinary cost.

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin claimed on Wednesday that Washington will use "everything within its power" to put more sanctions on Iran, Syria, and North Korea in a stated pursuit of safety for Americans.

The US president is spilling secrets all over the globe, it seems.

US Senator Jeanne Shaheen introduces new sanctions against Russia at a Senate Committee meeting on Thursday, Shaheen's spokesman Ryan Nickel said on Wednesday.

Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart told a Tuesday Senate hearing that if North Korea’s weapons development isn’t reigned in it will continue down an “inevitable” path toward finalizing a nuclear-armed missile capable of reaching the US mainland.

US President Donald Trump’s proposed budget will cut $64 million of funding for international broadcasters including nearly $2 million for Russian and Ukrainian-language programing, the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) 2018 budget request submitted to Congress revealed.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday called for more active work in the Normandy Four format aimed at the settlement of the situation in Donbass, Poroshenko's press service said following phone talks between the two leaders.

Syrian women are working tirelessly through the war. Some have gone to fight shoulder to shoulder with men; however, those who stayed behind keep working tirelessly to maintain the country's economy and for their children.

The US Federal Reserve has indicated that it may be appropriate to move with raising US interest rates soon, according to the minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) released on Wednesday.

Hillary Clinton denounced Donald Trump's 2018 budget as a plan showing "an unimaginable level of cruelty." However, according to Russian expert Alexander Domrin, what she is really bemoaning is her defeat in the 2016 elections, not the US president's cuts to social programs.

A majority of US voters think President Donald Trump is abusing his executive powers, a Quinnipiac University poll published on Wednesday said.

Russia and the Philippines on Wednesday signed a total of eight cooperation agreements at a ceremony held in Moscow, a Sputnik correspondent reported.

Tajik leader Emomali Rahmon defeated US President Donald Trump in a "handshake competition," Mashable wrote.

To the apparent disappointment of NATO hawks, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that the Russian Armed Forces have reached strategic parity with the alliance. Speaking to Radio Sputnik, military expert Viktor Baranets shed light on the Russian defense program.