Новости за 31.07.2017

Pending legislation that is intended to lower drug costs by expanding imports of prescription medicine would reduce the US government budget deficit by $6.8 billion over the next decade, according to a preliminary estimate by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Monday.

US officials responsible for admitting refugees from terror-prone countries need improved mechanisms to spot fraud by applicants, according to a report by General Accountability Office (GAO) on Monday.

Six men and two women were arrested in the aftermath of a brutal fight in New York City that was caught on video and went viral on social media.

Russia will seek the ratification of the additional protocol to the convention of the Council of Europe on preventing terrorism, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

An airport employee working in France’s Nice Côte d'Azur International Airport was photographed punching an EasyJet passenger carrying a baby just moments after he inquired about the flight’s hours-long delay.

Georgia may request extradition of its former President Mikheil Saakashvili from the United States, the country’s Justice Minister Tea Tsulukiani said on Monday.

Moscow does not expect Washington to shift from the agreements on Syria after Russia's decision to cut the US diplomatic personnel, since combating terrorism remained a priority for both states, Viktor Ozerov, the chairman of the Defense and Security Committee of Russia's upper house of parliament, told Sputnik on Monday.

The International Olympics Committee announced on Monday that the US city of Los Angeles has officially declared candidature for hosting 2028 summer Olympics.

President Donald Trump awarded his first Medal of Honor as commander-in-chief on Monday to James McCloughan, a 71-year-old Vietnam War medic who was wounded while saving the lives of his comrades.

Three Colorado communities have been saddled with the cost of cleaning up the USAF’s toxic destruction of local water supplies.

Almost 600 people were detained in Turkey in the past week over their alleged ties to the movement of Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, suspected by Turkish authorities of orchestrating last year's failed coup, local media reported on Monday.

The anti-Russian sentiment in the NATO member states is losing its momentum, Russia's Permanent Representative to NATO Alexander Grushko said Monday.

India is concerned with the unfolding political crisis in the neighbouring island nation of Maldives, where the military has taken control of Parliament. New Delhi is said to be closely monitoring developments in Maldives, due to its strategic interests.

The World Bank is hosting a meeting of representatives from India and Pakistan in Washington to break a deadlock between the two countries over issues related to hydroelectricity projects in India, under the Indus Waters Treaty.

An American airstrike in Somalia on Saturday killed a militant with the al-Qaeda aligned al-Shabaab Mogadishu Attack Network. This is the third US airstrike in Somalia as part of the renewed bombing campaign that began in June.

Russia's Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) will demonstrate the Yakut diamonds, glaciers which do not melt and sand dunes at the upcoming third Eastern Economic Forum (EEF), the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East said.

The decision to cut the number of US diplomats in Russia was made not only in the light of Washington’s upcoming sanctions against Moscow but also as a response to the United States’ actions in December, when the Russian diplomats were abruptly expelled, a Russian lawmaker said.

The anti-Brexit faction in the UK government is intentionally provoking uncertainty to undermine the Brexit process, United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) interim leader Steve Crowther said Monday, commenting on the recent interview of UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Phillip Hammond.

A group of Turkish soldiers has been detained on suspicions of assaulting and berating a quartet of young Syrians who attempted to illegally cross the border to Turkey.

The United States has introduced sanctions against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, according to US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Japan’s Mitsubishi F-2 aircraft are slated to be equipped with supersonic missiles to keep pace with what Tokyo says is a growing threat posed by the Chinese navy, according to local media reports.

Moscow regards accusations by the US Embassy that American diplomats have been barred from using a summer house in the Russian capital ahead of earlier announced time as a "deliberate provocation," a source in the Russian foreign ministry said Monday.

Kyrgyz and Uzbek authorities continue active negotiations on boundary delimitation and demarcation, as the border line between the countries remains unsettled since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kyrgyz government's press service said on Monday.

Nusra Front militants have started to withdraw From Lebanon to Syria, a source in the Hezbollah movement told Sputnik on Monday.

South Korea’s Defense Ministry said Monday that North Korea will likely conduct its sixth nuclear test and and another intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test launch, in the wake of two controversial launches in July.