Новости за 10.08.2017

A cyberattack on the Venezuelan state-owned Movilnet mobile operator left 7 million people without mobile communication, country's Science and Technology Minister Hugbel Roa said on Thursday.

Turkish security forces have killed six members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in two separate counter-terrorism operations in eastern Sirnak and Tunceli provinces, local media reported Thursday, citing the local authorities.

During his Thursday press conference in Bedminster, New Jersey, US President Donald Trump expressed his desire to "de-nuke" the world, calling nuclear weapons the greatest threat to humanity. However, until other nations disarm, the United States will remain the world's top nuclear power according to Trump.

The US Department of State on Thursday issued an updated travel warning for North Korea to include information about the impending tourist ban.

Excessive migration to the United Kingdom was one of the main reasons for Brexit vote, and the UK government is going to find a balance in regulating its migration policy rather than enforcing migration caps, First Secretary of State Damian Green said Thursday.

The Swedish Kurdish diaspora expressed its support for Iraqi Kurdistan's independence referendum, Kurdish media reported Thursday.

Belarus expressed its desire to develop a joint project with Syria on manufacturing and assembling machinery and trucks, Syrian media reported Thursday.

In his second meeting with reporters at his golf complex in New Jersey, US President Donald Trump said "I want to thank" Russian President Vladimir Putin for ousting hundreds of US embassy employees "because we're trying to cut down our payroll," the press pool reported.

The State Department will not disclose the health status of US government personnel who sustained physical symptoms while on official duty in Havana, Cuba, department spokesperson Heather Nauert said in a press briefing on Thursday.

Discovered back in 2012, astronomers are once again at the edge of their seats as an asteroid dubbed "TC4" is scheduled to scoot past Earth at a distance of 27,300 miles on October 2, European Space Agency officials said Thursday.

Lockheed Martin said in a press release on Thursday it has integrated updated components for the Hellas-Sat-4/SaudiGeoSat-1 satellite and will begin final assembly and testing of the spacecraft for two customers in Saudi Arabia.

The German Union of Journalists (DJU) supported the claim filed by reporters who had been deprived of accreditation for the G20 summit in early July, the union's executive director Cornelia Hass told Sputnik on Thursday.

The southwest Syria cease-fire brokered by the United States, Russia and Jordan is holding and displaced residents are starting to return to the area, US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said in a briefing on Thursday.

The Canadian authorities had to redeploy immigration staff to tend to needs of asylum seekers from the United States, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada spokesperson Beatrice Fenelon told Sputnik on Thursday.

Sixty-four Democratic lawmakers in the US Congress are seeking help from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to tone down President Donald Trump’s threats of military action against North Korea, according to a copy of a letter released on Thursday.

The Palestinian Hamas movement governing the Gaza Strip is considering the possibility of creating a so-called political vacuum in the area which may replace its civilian rule with military rule in the enclave, the Israeli military reported Thursday.

The construction of new military facilities at the Bulboaca base in Moldova, financed by a grant from a program funded by the US government, will improve training conditions of Moldovan troops who take part in UN peacekeeping missions, Deputy Chief of the Moldovan General Staff Col. Eduard Ohladciuc said on Thursday.

The Chinese government urges the United States to immediately stop provocative activities in the South China Sea, which impede bilateral relations and mutual trust between the armed forces of the two countries, the Chinese Defense Ministry said in a statement Thursday.

South Korea and Japan reaffirmed their support for the US on Thursday following North Korea’s announcement that they are considering a ballistic missile attack against Andersen Air Force Base on the US island territory of Guam in Micronesia.

North Korea is reportedly considering a missile strike on the US military base located on the island of Guam.

A vacationing US President Donald Trump scolded Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Thursday, telling him to “get back to work” on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act.

The US Defense Department is hoping for a diplomatic solution that would halt North Korea’s quest for a nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of reaching the United States, but has military solutions ready if ordered to act, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said in a press briefing on Thursday.

Finland's Locomotive Drivers Union (VML) announced industrial action against government plans to open the rail network to competitive tendering on Monday, local media reported Thursday.

Chinese businessmen are commissioning videos featuring African children for personal and business purposes, and the video service providers can be easily found on Chinese online platforms including Taobao.

Libya established a "zone of search and rescue" in its coastal area which is prohibited for all foreign vessels except authorized ones, media reported Thursday.