Новости за 04.08.2017

"Beleaguered" US Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday announced long-anticipated plans to initiate a new war on leaks, stating, "this culture of leaking must stop." But the crackdown means the US government will have greater authority to subpoena media organizations for exercising First Amendment rights.

The US State Department said that the United States has submitted its formal communication indicating it will withdraw from the Paris Climate agreement as soon as possible.

US special envoy to the coalition Brett McGurk said that the US-led global coalition against Daesh terror group will discuss with the Russian military further steps after the liberation of the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor.

The Navy said that members of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Department of Homeland Security and Naval Sea Systems in the United States have joined with Canada's National Research Council to design a new icebreaker for the US Coast Guard.

A family of curious asteroids that formed in the earliest days of the solar system have been discovered in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. French astronomers hope to use them to shed light on the early solar system, much of which remains unknown to this day.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Sergey Lavrov will visit the Philippines on August 6-8 to participate in a number of events organized by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

A poll by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center revealed that the number of Russian citizens who hold a negative opinion of US President Donald Trump has risen to 28 percent, a 6 point increase from the beginning of July.

Newly released footage from Chicago O'Hare Airport shows the moment an American Airlines plane caught fire, causing chaos as flight staff and passengers scrambled to get off the roasting airliner last October.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that some 600 units of advanced military equipment will be exhibited at the upcoming international military-technical forum Army-2017.

The government of Romania is taking concrete steps to reach its requirement to spend 2 percent of its GDP on defense, a measure that helps equally distribute the financial burden of maintaining the alliance across NATO members, by announcing plans to acquire three dozen F-16 aircraft and transportable artillery rockets.

The US Secret Service has been forced from their command post in Trump Tower in Manhattan after a dispute between the federal government and the Trump Organization over the terms of a lease for the space.

North Korea said Thursday that the US was “wasting its energy” by adopting unilateral sanctions against them, saying the move only increases Pyongyang’s “stamina” and further justifies their nuclear weapons development.

As North Korea, India, China and others expand their nuclear arsenals, the vice chair of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff is gunning for the US to build up its caches of small-yield nuclear deterrents.

That moment when you realize not all whales can just jump over barriers like Willy

New EU anti-Russian sanctions over deliveries of Siemens turbines to Crimea will not have any impact on Rostec subsidiaries, OAO and OOO VO Tekhnopromexport, the Russian state corporation told Sputnik on Friday.

Brussels' decision to expand sanctions against Russia over the row with Siemens gas turbines deliveries to Crimea works in favor of the United States, the chairman of the Russian upper chamber of parliament's foreign affairs committee, Konstantin Kosachev, said Friday.

The newly imposed US sanctions against Russia are meant to turn the United States into a world monopolist in energy trade, Vice-Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy Jaromir Kohlicek told Sputnik on Friday.

Deputy Commander of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Operational Command Eduard Basurin accused the US and NATO of illegally supplying the Ukrainian forces with arms.

Apparently, the US-Russian relationship has not reached its lowest point yet, Russian academic Alexander Domrin told Radio Sputnik. However, one shouldn't expect any improvements in Russo-American relations before the next congressional election, Domrin foresees.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had a successful fishing trip in South Siberia, which proved to be more exciting than his previous fishing experience.

A US appeals court overturned the murder conviction of Nicholas Slatten, a former Blackwater Worldwide security contractor jailed for life over the 2007 killings of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to a ruling issued on Friday.

Kazakhstani tourism portal Choсotravel has been accused of sexism and vulgarity after the release of its new commercial.

Warsaw and Washington may sign an agreement on the delivery of the first US Patriot missile systems to Poland by the end of 2017, Bartosz Kownacki, the Polish deputy defense minister, said Friday.

Accusations of Russia over alleged violation of the 1987 Intermediate Range Nuclear Missile Treaty (INF) and the US' quest to research and develop aircraft and ship borne mid-range missiles are immaterial to the fact that more nuclear weapons are perfected by each side, Global Security Institute President Jonathan Granoff told Sputnik.

The German mission of the aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF, or Doctors Without Borders) strongly rejects the accusations of alleged cooperation with human traffickers, Florian Westphal, the head of the German branch of the organization, said on Friday.