Новости за 10.08.2017

A Russian Aerospace Forces Tu-154M surveillance aircraft conducted an observation flight over US territory, passing over the US Capitol, the Pentagon, Joint Base Andrews and even over Bedminster, New Jersey, where President Trump is taking a working vacation while the White House is undergoing renovations.

Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake announced his resignation in parliament amid a scandal involving financial fraud while renting an apartment, according to local media.

US-led coalition said Thursday it had carried out 18 air strikes against Daesh in Iraq and Syria, destroying the terrorist group's fighting positions and equipment.

London-based TalkTalk Group telecommunications company fined over failure to protect personal data.

While her future career path remains an open question, going into politics is a real possibility, recently released whistleblower and transgender activist Chelsea Manning revealed in an interview for Vogue magazine.

On Wednesday, a Russian Aerospace Forces Tu-154M reconnaissance jet flew over the US Capitol, the Pentagon, CIA, Joint Base Andrews, the base of Air Force One and some other strategic objects. Russian political analysts explained to Sputnik why such a flight is nothing unusual and where the US jets prefer to go when they fly over Russian territory.

In an exceptional episode, little-known and never acknowledged in the Western mainstream media, Israel secretly negotiated a billion dollar buy-out of North Korea's missile export program to the Middle East. Negotiations ran between 1992 and 1994, when the US intervened to terminate the deal.

A new kid is on the block when it comes to candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister – Jacob Rees-Mogg. The super-posh backbencher, who prides himself on his 19th century manners and world view, has emerged as a serious contender.

Syrian government forces liberated 1,300 square kilometers (500 square miles) of the country's territory from terrorists in the country's southern As Suwayda province and a 30-kilometer (18.6 mile) stretch of the Jordanian border, according to local media.

A video of a Russian military Tu-154 jet carrying out an authorized observation flight over Washington, DC, was released by the RT broadcaster on Thursday.

In June, 2014, the terrorist group Daesh accomplished the unthinkable when they took Mosul, a city of over a million people, hostage. Their hold over Mosul was funded by an elaborate money laundering network, a local source told Sputnik.

UK Shadow Secretary of State for Health Jon Ashworth stated that NHS is crumbling with the country's Prime Minister Theresa May neglecting the needs of the national healthcare system and cutting funds necessary for its development.

At least 56% of Boko Haram suicide bombers during the period from April 11, 2011, to June 30, 2017, were women, and at least 81 bombers were specifically identified as children or teenagers, according to the research.

Juzcar is a town in the province of Malaga, part of the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain, and is famed for being the home of the Smurfs after Sony Pictures painted it blue to celebrate the premier of its Smurfs film.

According to IOM, around 50 migrants are missing and at least five died after smugglers pushed about 180 migrants overboard off the coast of Yemen.

India is concerned that the launching of the political outfit by Hafiz Saeed, co-founder of terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba, may increase cross border terrorism.

The SnowaveFest surfing festival was held for the first time in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a city in Kamchatka Krai, in Russia’s Far East.

North Korea's possible retaliatory strike is the only thing that deters the United States from carrying out a preemptive strike on Pyongyang's missile sites, First Deputy Chairman of Russia's Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Frants Klintsevich said on Thursday.

Tourists from the People’s Republic of China and other Asia Pacific countries visiting the Murmansk Region will now be able to make withdrawals and pay for their purchases using UnionPay cards.

Meet Cole and Marmalade, two cats adopted by blogger Chris Poole who live a happy life in the US. Their human “servant” (as Chris refers to himself in the kitties’ personal blog) built a labyrinth of small cardboard boxes for them on International Cat Day celebrated on August 8.

WikiLeaks whistleblowing website has shed a light on the "CouchPotato" project, a secret tool that the US Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) used to remotely hack into computers and steal images of users' video streams.

The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) killed at least 51 militants during the operations that were carried out in Kandahar, Farah, Nangarhar and Badghis provinces in the past 24 hours, according to local media.

According to Russian gas producer, several European banks will join the financing of Russia’s Yamal LNG liquefied natural gas project in coming months.

Brexit might make it harder for human traffickers to get victims into Britain, the National Crime Agency (NCA) claimed on Thursday, August 10. But Will Kerr, the NCA's Director of Vulnerabilities, said the downside of Brexit could be that it might be harder to co-operate with European law enforcement agencies.

South Korea on Thursday called on North to "immediately stop" its belligerent rhetoric amid a recent spike in tensions on the Korean Peninsula.