Новости за 30.07.2017

The Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) of Qatar and the counry's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) denied reports that Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will allow Qatari airplanes to use their airspace in cases of emergency, local media reported Sunday.

The US Missile Defense Agency said a medium-range ballistic missile was successfully intercepted over the Pacific in the early hours of Sunday morning, in a test of the Pentagon’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) System battery in Kodiak, Alaska.

Khaled Alkhateb, a stringer working for the RT Arabic broadcaster, was killed in an anti-tank missile attack carried out by militants from Daesh (outlawed in Russia) terrorist group near a recently liberated settlement in Syria's western province of Homs, RT reported Sunday.

Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will allow Qatari airplanes to use their airspace in cases of emergency, local media reported on Sunday.

Mother of the deceased RT Arabic stringer Khaled Alkhateb told Sputnik what her son was like in his age of 25.

Russia is marking its Navy Day with a splendid firework show in Saint Petersburg, where a parade dedicated to the event has been held earlier in the day.

The US Congress is trying to exert more control over US President Donald Trump with its latest sanctions bill, but Trump still holds a great deal of room for maneuver in foreign policy, expert in US affairs Dr. Martin Thunert told Sputnik.

China demonstrated its most advanced military hardware, a stunning display of martial pride dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed laws on Sunday, which regulate the use of messengers in Russia and put a ban on using anonymizers, according to the government portal of legal information.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has predicted that the bilateral ties between the two countries will hardly change in the foreseeable future.

In the wake of the death of an RT stringer in Syria on Sunday, Sputnik has recalled the deaths of journalists in Syria over several past years.

These of Shar Pei puppies suddenly found themselves facing a new and unusual foe - a remotely-controlled spider toy!

Venezuela’s National Constituent Assembly will be able to make decisions defining the authority of the National Assembly, the country’s parliament, and to reform the Office of the Prosecutor General, the head of the government’s election campaign, Hector Rodriguez, told Sputnik.

Political and military observer Alexander Khrolenko presents a passionate case for why the ongoing civil war in eastern Ukraine is really just part of a form of hybrid US aggression against Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday ratified an intergovernmental agreement between Russia and Armenia on cooperation in exploration and use of outer space, the respective document was published on the government's official information portal on Sunday.

The Iranian leadership is preparing a response to the new US sanctions, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday.

Powerful warships of the Russia's Pacific, Northern, Black Sea and Baltic fleets, along with vessels of the Caspian flotilla, took part in naval parades held on July 30 to commemorate the Russian Navy Day.

Russia has repeatedly suggested the United States to establish cooperation, including in combating cybercrime, but heard only groundless accusations in reply, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

An explosion occurred in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas on Sunday, during an anti-government protest amid an election to the Constituent Assembly, local media reported.

US diplomatic presence in Russia will be cut by 755 people, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Sunday that Russia is ready to cooperate with the United States, but sees the lack of will in Washington.

More than half of Germans distrust domestic carmakers, according to a new poll of consumers in Germany.

The Japanese Interstellar Technologies Inc. company will make a new attempt to launch the nation's first privately developed rocket before the end of 2017, Takahiro Inagawa, the company's CEO, said Sunday.

Two people were shot dead close to a polling station in the Libertador municipality of Merida sate in Venezuela on the night into Sunday, the day of the assembly election in the country, local media reported.

The US-led coalition denied on Sunday hitting near the Syrian city of Al Mayadin, according to the coalition's spokesperson.