Новости за 24.06.2017

The European Union would be better off focusing on European interests rather than those of the United States, Branislav Fabry, a law and social sciences expert at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, said in an interview with Sputnik.

The death toll of twin blasts occurred in the Pakistani city of Parachinar has risen to 45, while the death toll of a separate blast, which also occurred on Friday in the city of Quetta, remains at 13, bringing the total amount of casualties to 58, media reported Saturday.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported on Friday that two Russian Navy warships and a submarine fired six Kalibr cruise missiles on Daesh targets in Syria.

Mobs outside the Jamia mosque of Srinagar have lynched a senior police officer of Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday night. This is being considered a result of growing anti-India sentiment induced by separatist leaders in the Kashmir Valley.

India's food regulator has extended the ban on import of milk and related products from China for another year. The ban is in place since 2008 due to concerns over food safety, particularly melamine, a toxic chemical used for making plastics and fertilizers.

Our final topic, picked by you, dear listeners, earlier in a poll on our Facebook page, is “Afghanistan: Can A Troop Surge Stop Daesh?”, focusing on the US’ possible war plans.

Observers of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine said in a press release that small arms fire and explosions occurred close to the patrol on Friday.

The tragic deaths of an ever-rising number of people after a sudden fire in London’s Grenfell Tower high-rise have galvanized political activists and become a political firestorm for Prime Minister May.

The famous Cold War-era saying, "Rusi-Hindi Bhai Bhai", or “Russians and Indians are brothers”, might be eclipsed by an American version following Indian Prime Minister Modi's upcoming trip to the US.

A total of three Turkish soldiers have been wounded as a result of an explosion of an improvised explosive device (IED) set by the militants of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) in country's eastern Bingol province, local media reported Saturday citing a source in the Turkish General Staff.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU/CSU) remains in the lead of 14 percent over the Social Democratic Party (SDP), a new poll showed.

These two troublemakers were caught red-handed when they tried to break into the fridge. The kid could barely reach refrigerator handles, but his canine accomplice has his back!

Chinese President Xi Jinping urged rescuers on Saturday to make every effort to save people feared buried in a landslide that hit a mountain village in the country’s southwest, local media said.

Kazakh Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov expressed hope Saturday that observers participating in the intra-Syrian talks in Astana, including the United States, would pay due attention to the establishment of the de-escalation zones in the country.

Eastern Ukraine’s nascent ceasefire was breached once by government troops in the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic, the region’s militia told Sputnik on Saturday.

Turkey's military training base, which is expected to be opened in Somalia in the coming months, is of a vital importance for Mogadishu as it will enhance the capabilities of the country’s national army, Somali Foreign Minister Yusuf Garaad Omar said Friday.

Jordan will not row back on the promise it made years ago not to put boots on the ground in neighboring Syria, a local newspaper cited a Jordanian official as saying Saturday.

The Pentagon announced on Friday it had awarded over half a billion dollars contract to build a new littoral combat ship for the US military.

A strong magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck the southeastern African nation of Mozambique, the United States Geological Survey said on Saturday.

Two Dutch journalists captured by the National Liberation Army (ELN) in Colombia have not been released, the rebel Ranpal radio station said Friday.

The United Kingdom will observe a minute of silence on Monday, June 26, in tribute to the memory of the deceased in the ramming attack near mosque in northern London, the Prime Minister's Office said Friday.

The Russian military has signed a ceasefire deal with the government of Syria's Latakia province that became the first agreement of a kind made since the breakout of the bloody conflict, Russia's reconciliation center reported.

The Russian Finance Ministry announced on Friday closure of state Eurobonds placement on the international markets.

Four workers of Venezuela’s opposition-controlled parliament were hurt Friday in clashes with government supporters outside the National Assembly, its leader said.

India’s Atomic Energy Regulatory Board announced Friday that it had granted its permit for the "First Pour of Concrete" at units 3 and 4 of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), allowing the Russian-supported construction works to begin full-scale.