Новости за 15.06.2017

A Long Island, New York, town is ending its longstanding practice of allowing Russian diplomats to access its beaches on South Oyster Bay for free. Official delegates from Moscow and their families will now pay up like everyone else.

Defense contractor Engility announced it has been awarded $42 million by the US Air Force to perform quality control assessments on spacecraft and launch vehicles.

The UK Home Office said that the number of terrorism-related arrests in the United Kingdom in the period of time from March 2016 to March 2017 has increased by 18 percent compared to previous 12 months.

Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned US ambassador to Ankara to protest the issue of US arrest warrants for members of Turkish President's security detail.

China is likely to have a temporary honeymoon period with the US at a time when US President Donald Trump is facing political turmoil at home.

The State Department said Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will welcome senior Chinese officials to Washington next week for the first US-China Diplomatic and Security Dialogue.

Police in the Pakistani port city of Karachi took action after a viral mobile phone video surfaced showing a lioness being carted down a busy street in the back of a pickup truck, shocking other motorists and bystanders.

The site of the US Open golf tournament in Wisconsin came in for some undue excitement Thursday as a blimp deflated, caught on fire and crashed into an open field on the edge of a golf course. The pilot suffered minor injuries, but nobody else has been reported as hurt.

Just a few hours away from the American alien capital of Roswell, a New Mexico teen captured what appears to be a UFO with his cell phone late at night.

US Department of State spokesperson Heather Nauert said that the United States has no plans to introduce any new deals to settle the Ukrainian conflict.

The US is considering a possible legal prohibition on Americans traveling to North Korea, US Department of State spokesperson Heather Nauert said in a briefing on Thursday. "Something like that is under consideration. I’m not going to get into what that might look like," Nauert told reporters.

Christine Lagarde said that she will propose to the Fund’s board to approve in principle a new loan package for Greece.

The US Navy’s first Ford-class carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, just entered service and is already having trouble catching the F/A-18 Super Hornets landing on the carrier’s deck, Bloomberg reported Thursday.

After late-night top-secret deliveries helped install the US’ controversial Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system (THAAD) on a South Korean golf course, residents of Seongju County have been stopping vehicles heading for the deployment site and checking to see if people are bringing more parts. The tactic has heightened tensions with police.

Iranian ships directed a laser at a US Super Stallion helicopter flying over the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday. Such behavior is "unsafe and unprofessional," a US Navy spokesman said.

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As Saudi Arabia and its allies sought to accuse Qatar of sponsoring terrorism and to isolate the country, a number of powerful Middle Eastern states moved to challenge this initiative.

The United States Senate has approved a bill to expand anti-Russian sanctions. Vladimir Putin called the measures evidence of an internal political struggle in Washington. Speaking to Radio Sputnik, political analyst Alexei Zudin said the bill was an obvious attempt to tie President Trump's hands ahead of his possible meeting with Putin.

On today's show among other things we talk about Donald Trump being investigated for obstruction of justice. Investigastors will try to figure out whether the US president tried to end an inquiry into his national security adviser - Michael Flynn.

Bloggers wanted! The Russian Federal Agency for Tourism (Rosturism) has announced it is recruiting a team of bloggers who will receive the unique opportunity to explore the wonders of Siberia for free.

Ten people injured and one of them was taken to Bellevue Hospital after the car lost control and ran onto the sidewalk in Manhattan, according to statement of New York Police Department spokesman.

At least six people were killed and 10 injured in an apparent terrorist bombing near a mosque in Afghan capital, Kabul, on Thursday, the TOLO News television channel reported.

House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce said that the State Department should reject the proposed sale of $1.2 million of semi-automatic handguns and ammunition to Turkey due to the violent attacks by Turkish security forces on peaceful protestors in Washington.

According to US Department of Defense, US National Guard Soldiers joined Lithuania troops for a day of urban warfare training.

Russia is an important partner of the European Union and the constructive relations are necessary despite the existing tensions in the US-Russia relations, according to a member of the right-wing Belgian Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) party, Bart Claes.