Новости за 09.06.2017

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, overjoyed by the better-than-expected results in the UK election, had an awkward mishap after going in for a celebratory high-five with Shadow Defense Secretary Emily Thornberry’s breast.

The UK Labour Party has wrestled the Kensington seat in London from the Conservatives, with the final UK election result standing at 318 Conservative seats and 262 Labour seats, local media said Friday.

Recently released whistleblower Chelsea Manning said Friday that if given a chance she would thank former US President Barack Obama for commuting her 35-year sentence before he left office.

International students in China's higher education institutions will be required to attend Chinese language and Survey of China as compulsory courses, and selected international students are required to attend political theory courses, starting from the beginning of July.

The US-led coalition explained on Friday why it used white phosphorus rounds in Syria's Raqqa.

The US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee has requested from the FBI notes and memos belonging to the agency's former chief James Comey.

US President Donald Trump in a joint press conference with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis on Friday made a series of remarks about former FBI Director James Comey's testimony to the Congress, saying that it showed showed "no collusion" between his presidential campaign and Russia and that he is ready to testify on the issue under oath.

Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Friday he was not aware of Kazakhstan’s government desire to revise conditions of the oil output cut deal reached in Vienna.

Recently, a Chinese demographer living in the US claimed that India has already overtaken China to become the world's most populous country. But this claim has been controversial in both countries, with many arguing that this change is actually a few years off.

A US Senator claimed in a letter on Friday that the firm behind the unsubstantiated dossier on Donald Trump's inappropriate behavior during his trip to Russia prior to his presidency should testify before the US Senate Judiciary Committee investigating president's alleged collusion with Moscow.

All Russian assets in Belgium including those of RIA Novosti and TASS news agencies, seized as part of the case involving former shareholders of Yukos energy company, will be released within 14 days after a formal notification of the court's decision, a lawyer representing Russia said Friday.

South Korea’s national security adviser has said that Seoul will abide by its agreement with the US on deploying the controversial Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system (THAAD), as North Korea continues to pose “very serious and urgent threat.”

An increasing number of social media platforms are requiring real-name registration, after the implementation of China's Cyber Security Law since June.

On Thursday, the United Kingdom held a snap general election, which was called by May in order to unify the parliament ahead of the Brexit negotiations with Brussels.

Any effort by President Donald Trump's lawyers to file a legal complaint against former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey would constitute an obstruction of justice, US Congressman Ted Lieu stated via Twitter on Friday.

"Stop funding, stop teaching hate, and stop the killing," US President Donald Trump said Friday during a news conference with the Romanian president after alleging that Doha has propped up Islamist extremists.

North Korea claims it has developed an anti-ship missile ready to be used for armed engagement at any time and "at will."

US President Donald Trump emphasized the need for Arab unity during a phone call with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah Sisi, the White House said in a statement on Friday.

As UK Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party fails to get an absolute majority in the parliament, a question arises of whether she has enough credibility to handle the Brexit talks and the level of support she will have in the newly elected parliament, experts told Sputnik on Friday.

The US draft legislation changing the requirements for registration of foreign agents amounts to an uncovered act of halting any external unbiased criticism of policies carried out by Washington, Melinda Taylor, who led the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange before the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, told Sputnik on Friday.

Turkish political expert Aydin Sahinalp explained Trump's pressure on NATO countries to increase their defense spending by his attempts to find support within the United States.

Former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey’s testimony to a US Senate hearing did further political damage to President Donald Trump, but also cleared him of having been a subject of inquiry, former FBI Special Agent Colleen Rowley told Sputnik.

A 34-year-old convicted of “insulting” Thailand’s monarchy on Facebook will be 69 by the time his sentence is completed.

Experts told Sputnik they believe China's space ambitions are driven not only by the goal of space exploration itself but also by politics.

US President Donald Trump said in the Oval Office before a meeting with the President of Romania that the results of Thursday's election in the United Kingdom in which Theresa May lost her majority in parliament were unexpected.