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The Syrian armed opposition hopes that the deescalation zone in southern Syria, recently brokered by Russia, the United States and Jordan, would be extended to rest of the country, Free Syrian Army's (FSA) Chief of Staff Ahmed Berri told Sputnik Monday.

The Syrian Armed Forces and Kurdish self-defense units liberate the areas occupied by Daesh terrorists.

MacGyver is a five-year-old Argentine Red Tegu from California. This charming giant lizard is the latest social media sensation!

Documents detailing US President Donald Trump business stake in the nation’s largest government-subsidized housing complex are being requested from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in a letter from US Congressmen Elijah Cummings and Hakim Jeffries that was disclosed on Monday.

Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) has initiated the expansion of the sanctions list of Russian legal entities and individuals, NSDC Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov, said at a briefing on Monday.

The Ukrainian government has no evidence of the alleged presence of the Russian troops in the east of Ukraine, the authorities should be less emotional in their attitude toward the issue, George Tuka, the Deputy Minister for Temporary Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons, managing Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea regions, said Monday.

The British government's involvement in arms sales to Saudi Arabia is perfectly legal, the High Court in London has ruled. The Campaign Against the Arms Trade, which had challenged the sales because of Saudi Arabia's involvement in the bloody suppression of an uprising in neighboring Yemen, said it would appeal.

Ukraine will introduce a system of preliminary electronic registration for Russian citizens entering the country, Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov said Monday.

In a specialized laboratory in Beijing, an experiment was launched to simulate life on the moon.

The Russian Helicopters company, part of the Rostec state corporation, presented a new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) at the International Industrial Trade Fair INNOPROM-2017, the company’s press service said Monday.

An alliance of 2,000 US and Canada-based news media outlets have called on US lawmakers to allow them to negotiate as a collective with Google and Facebook for news content, the North American trade association News Media Alliance said in a press release on Monday.

As terrorist groups increasingly rely on small groups, or individuals, to do their evil bidding, traditional detection algorithms used by banks to identify their financial transactions have become significantly less effective. Consequently, banks are turning to machine learning to track down dodgy dealings.

Germany achieved significant progress in discussing the practical aspects of the digital economy during its chairmanship in the latest G20 summit.

A White House aide dismissed media reports of alleged collusion between Donald Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., and a Russian lawyer last year.

The results of the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump may help "bring the impasse" in the Geneva talks on Syria, and, thus, reach a political settlement in the war-torn country, Russian Federation Council's Foreign Affairs Committee member Igor Morozov said Monday.

On July 10, 1991, Boris Yeltsin took office as President of Russia. While frequently hailed by Western leaders during his presidency and after his death as a liberal, reformist democrat, for a majority of Russians, his eight and half year presidency was an age of adversity and despair.

Kiev authorities will allocate an additional sum for weaponry purchases, Ukrainian President Poroshenko said Monday.

UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura said Monday that the establishment of deescalation zones in Syria is temporary and is not aimed at undermining country’s territorial integrity.

The Indian government has cleared the proposal of Reliance Aerostructure Ltd for the development of India’s largest greenfield aerospace project that will also be home to Dassault Reliance Aerospace Limited joint venture at Mihan near Nagpur in the center of the country.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has been accused of offering EU workers in Britain second-class citizenship. European Parliament's Brexit coordinator Guy Verhofstadt and eight other leading MEPs have said the UK's opening offer on citizens' rights falls short of both the EU proposal, as well as the campaign by the UK Vote Leave team.

The possible future NATO membership of Ukraine will become a guarantor of the country's security, but Kiev won't apply for the membership yet because the country still has to introduce a number of reforms in order to meet the membership requirements, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Monday.

UN considers ceasefire in Syria's southwest to have all chances for the implementation, UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura said Monday..

Syrian conflict has damaged social and economic systems more than the devastated infrastructure, the World Bank said in a report on Monday.

At official meetings, Russian President Vladimir Putin communicates with leaders of other countries with the help of interpreters. But if the conversation is of a more informal nature, the Russian leader often speaks English without anyone's help, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Using off-gases in the refining sector, India would be able to produce 40-50 KMTA of ethanol per refinery while saving about 1 million tons of carbon dioxide per annum. This is the equivalent emissions savings of taking as many as 850,000 cars off the road in India each year.