Новости за 20.07.2017

Extensive diplomatic and private sector experience of candidate for the post of the US ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman will help him succeed in Russia on the post, according to former US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul.

Holding a paint brush, Xu Mingsheng, 25, nimbly climbed onto a high stool in the hall of the Treasured Mirror Temple, a Taoist temple in a village in Huzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province, and started to paint statues of Taoist deities - the final step of a year-long project.

The Trump administration's economic plan, dubbed MAGAnomics, has been drafted for the single purpose of achieving a sustained growth of 3 percent for the US economy, according to Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney.

Russia, with its share in total gas deliveries to the European Union amounting to 41 percent in the first quarter of 2017, maintained its lead as the primary gas supplier to the bloc during that time period, according to the European Commission report.

The US is looking buy more than 100 more Black Hawk helicopters over a three-year period starting in 2019.

The US share of liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply to the European Union increased ten times in the first quarter of 2017, reaching 6 percent, according to the European Commission report.

Thousands of behavior detection officers employed at US airports are looking for signs of stress, fear or deception without valid evidence those targeted symptoms are effective predictors of security threats, according to the Government Accountability Office.

Many perilous obstacles lie in the path to this city, with roads leading up to it scattered with improvised explosive devices and snipers ready to take out anyone appearing within their sight.

Oil and gas giant Exxon Mobil said in a statement on Thursday that it will legally challenge a $2 million fine imposed on the company by the US Treasury Department for violating sanctions against Russia.

Relations between Washington and Tehran "are only going to deteriorate" after the US decided to target more than a dozen individuals and groups with new sanctions, Max Abrahms of the Council on Foreign Relations told Sputnik – exactly what the think tank community in US capitol wants.

US President Donald Trump remains confident in Attorney General Jeff Sessions but feels upset about the official's recusal from the investigation into Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 US election, according to White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Head of Poland’s opposition Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) Wlodzimierz Czarzasty spoke Thursday in favor of shortening the mandate in the Polish parliament's lower house, the Sejm, amid controversial judiciary reform in the country.

It has been half a year since President Trump took office, in a presidency thus far defined by a few successes, a fair amount of promises kept, a healthy dollop of failures and defeats - and scandals, scandals, scandals. Oh, and a few more scandals.

It has been six months since the Orange Goblin, the Cheeto-In-Chief, the Papaya Piper, the Man with the Tiny Hands, the one, the only Donald Trump took office as president of the United States of America.

The UN treaty on the complete prohibition of the nuclear weapons may have a negative impact on the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's department for arms control, Mikhail Ulyanov, told RIA Novosti on Thursday.

US defense officials say that North Korea’s next missile test could happen under water, as Pyongyang appears to be gearing up for submarine-based launches in the near future.

Innovator Elon Musk has announced that his project, The Boring Company, has received “verbal” government approval to build an underground system that will let travelers go from the Big Apple to the US capital - a roughly 250-mile trip - in just under half an hour.

The United States is calling on the Ukrainian government to hold the individuals responsible for last year's killing of journalist Pavel Sheremet accountable, according to US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert.

The fate of Zhang Yingying, a 26-year-old visiting scholar in the US who is believed to have been kidnapped and is supposed dead, has sparked heated discussion on the efficiency of US legal system and the general safety of the country on Chinese social media.

The contacts between Washington and Havana on the matters like migration and drug trafficking will likely be postponed under the administration of US President Donald Trump, while the cultural and scientific exchanges may continue, according to Jorge Duany, Director of Cuban Research Institute at Florida International Institute.

Speaker of the People's Council of Syria Hadiya Abbas has resigned, the parliament's press service announced on Thursday.

The government of Changsha, Central China's Hunan Province, has announced it will give a one-off signing bonus of 20,000 yuan ($2,952) to each college graduate who serves a stint in the military in either Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region or Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.

Russian companies are welcome in the Iraq and can participate in the restoration of Iraqi destroyed infrastructure.

The Indian government is said to be considering having two separate time zones in the country. Experts say while there is a need for two time zones, the change can’t be made hastily, without thinking through the economic consequences.

Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told India’s Parliament that the Chinese action in the trijunction region of India, Bhutan and China was a threat to India when opposition lawmakers asked her about the ongoing standoff. She claimed that many countries are supporting India’s stance.