Новости за 24.06.2017

A shooting in National City, San Diego, the US state of California left one person dead and another injured, local media reported Saturday.

In a push to liberate the part of Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor held by radical Islamists from Daesh group, the government forces conducted an airstrike that killed 20 terrorists.

US President Donald Trump said Saturday he was looking forward to meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi, adding that a number of strategic issues were on the agenda.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Lisbon agreed with Portuguese authorities on creation of alliance to advance space research, the Indian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

The shooting between rival criminal gangs in southwestern Mexico that lasted over 24 hours left seven people dead, local police reported Saturday.

The International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning launched tests to stop leakage of highly contaminated water at the Japanese Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), local media reported Saturday.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are again pushing for a cutting-edge space-based satellite missile-tracking network to allow for the real-time observation of any ballistic-missile launch on the planet.

The deputy head of Russia's Rossotrudnichestvo, the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation, on Saturday called on the Moscow-Washington cooperation in multiple spheres.

Lawmakers in Washington are seeking to create a brand-new military branch – the first since the establishment of the US Air Force in 1947 – to make sure the country can wage war in space.

The White House is reportedly working with Congress to change the Senate-proposed bill on new anti-Russian sanctions. Russian political Alexander Kubyshkin discussed the issue with Radio Sputnik.

UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura expressed hope on Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump would meet at the G20 summit in Germany and foster the settlement of Syrian crisis.

The US government has issued international arrest warrants for five former managers and technological developers of Germany's largest automotive manufacturer Volkswagen, German media reported.

The US Department of Defense spent $94 million in 2007 on purchasing camouflage uniforms for the Afghan police intended for action in forested areas, although the territory of the country covered in vegetation is only about 2 percent.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkey will never allow the establishment of a state in northern Syria, state-run Anadolu Agency reported Saturday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visits to the Crimean peninsula promotes the development of the region, Republic of Crimea Head Sergey Aksenov said Saturday.

On Friday, The Washington Post reported that the Barack Obama administration had discussed ways of punishing Russia for alleged interference in last year's presidential election, which included cyber warfare.

Ukraine's Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksandr Turchynov accused Donbass militias of undermining the "harvest truce" that entered into force earlier in the day.

China has announced it will become the world’s largest cruise liner center in the future. China’s State Shipbuilding Corporation has recently partnered up with an iconic Italian ship building company and together they plan to construct super luxurious cruise liners.

The UK Parliament was hit by a cyberattack, a House of Commons spokesperson said Saturday, adding that the parliamentary authorities alongside the National Cyber Security Centre launched an investigation into the issue.

On Friday, the Saudi Interior Ministry said it had foiled an attack on the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Terrorists were allegedly going to attack worshipers who gathered at Islam's holiest site to celebrate the end of Ramadan.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday asked Republic of Crimea Head Sergey Aksenov to expedite the reconstruction of the Great Mithridates Stairs in the eastern Crimean city of Kerch.

According to secret documents obtained by a Russian intelligence service, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO planned to split Russia into several smaller parts, a former secret agent told Russia's Rossiya 1 broadcaster.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry lodged Saturday a note of protest to the respective Russian ministry with regard to the trip of a Russian delegation headed by President Vladimir Putin, to the Crimean peninsula.

An American family rafting along a river in the Northwestern US caught on camera a bear which got caught in a strong current. “He was stuck in an eddy, or reverse current of water, too tired to get himself to shore,” the author of the video wrote on YouTube.

A source on the ground told RIA Novosti that the Syrian government forces have been repelling a massive Nusra-Front terrorists' attack in the Golan Heights when they were struck by the Israeli Air Force in the area.