Новости за 30.06.2017

On Thursday, the USS Bonhomme Richard made its way toward Sydney as Australian and US forces commenced their Talisman Saber exercise, the seventh of the large biennial training drills.

Donald Trump has instructed US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to start renegotiating the current trade agreement between the United States and South Korea.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced that they plan to put the first Japanese astronaut on the moon by 2030 as part of the overarching mission from NASA and other space agencies to build a permanent space station in lunar orbit.

YPG Commander Sipan Hemo said that Syrian Kurdish militia does not recognize the Turkish "invasion" to the north of Syria and will "liberate" that part of the country.

Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing the US National Space Council.

About 120 flights were delayed in Moscow on Friday over heavy rainfall that hit the Russian capital.

Russian envoy to the OPCW Alexander Shulgin said that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons' (OPCW) recently released report on the results of the probe into the suspected chemical weapons attack in Khan Sheikhoun in Syria’s Idlib province does not provide answers to several important issues.

Austria’s highest court has ruled against a woman who claims that the Austrian government’s seizure of her house (which just so happens to have also been the childhood home of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler) in 2016 was unconstitutional. The government claimed the house to prevent neo-Nazis from using it as a meeting place.

Several people have been shot at the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center in New York, three of whom are physicians, according to local media. The shooter, a 45-year-old family physician by the name of Henry Bello, has been confirmed dead, police said.

China is expanding and enhancing its military presence in the South China Sea, seeding the Spratly Islands with air bases for fighter jets, radars and missile posts with retractable roofs able to fire long-range surface-to-air missiles.

A former cook with a Chinese-led project in Africa was sentenced to four years behind bars on Monday for smuggling ivory worth 36,000 yuan ($5,295) into China.

Germany’s national security council has approved a controversial $1.5 billion defense deal to sell Israel three submarines with nuclear capabilities, according to Der Spiegel magazine.

80 people managed to survive after the recent shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea, while other 60 migrants went missing, according to Flavio Di Giacomo, the spokesman of the International Organization of Migration (IOM).

US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert has said that the US will not provide evidence to back up its claim that the Syrian government was preparing to launch a chemical attack, since it was an "intelligence matter." Russian Middle East expert Yuri Zinin says that the US motivation has never been about preventing the use of chemical weapons.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who arrived in Moscow in order to take part in the Primakov Readings International Forum, according to official statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Tensions in the world remain high as Russian military aircraft were scrambled at least six times last week to intercept foreign planes probing the country’s borders.

The first ever Putin-Trump meeting could become the key to the future of Russian-American relations, Russian political analyst Anatoly Petrenko told Radio Sputnik. Although the meeting is unlikely to solve all the burning issues it could contribute to the formation of personal trust between the presidents, the analyst believes.

Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said that the new government of Serbia will continue to oppose Western sanctions against Russia.

The Trump administration is likely to follow in Barack Obama's footsteps pushing ahead with the idea to oust Syrian President Assad, Russian scholar Vladimir Sotnikov told RIA Novosti, adding that the Syrian Arab Army's successes don't fit into the plans of Donald Trump's major backers – the US military industrial complex.

The Pentagon's new 'Russia Military Power' report pays considerable attention to the national security threat supposedly posed by Russia's non-military capabilities, including media, bots, and trolls on social media. Russian commentators couldn't contain their amusement over the DoD's claims about the mighty power of Russia's troll armies.

Seeking to bring the latest exclusive stories and exciting news and talk shows to the American audience, Sputnik Radio proudly announces that it has launched in Washington DC on the FM bandwidth.

Russian envoy to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Alexander Shulgin stated that the western partners of Russia had been "sure that the Syrian authorities were engaged in the incident" in Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province since April.

Hans-Christian Strobele, a member of the Germany Green Party, stated that the United States did not respect German laws by using the Ramstein Air Base to launch its drone attacks despite Washington's claims.

A small plane made an emergency crash landing onto Interstate 405 in California.

Alexander Zhukov, the chief naval anti-aircraft system designer at KBP Instrument Design Bureau, stated that Russia's newest naval anti-aircraft missile system Pantsir-ME could be offered to foreign customers.