Новости за 21.08.2017

They're reportedly going broke over the first family's frequent travels, but that's not where the US Secret Service's woes end. They're also feeling emotionally taxed by this president, according to Christina Wilkie, an investigative reporter at the Center for Public Integrity.

A military source said that Lebanese military intelligence units have detained a Daesh senior member.

An Oregon neo-Nazi has apparently taken responsibility for hanging anti-Semitic banners on overpasses in the state, some of the signs referencing Monday’s eclipse, to push his hateful message.

The press service of Iraq's Shia militia reported that several foreign militants of Daesh terrorist group were killed as the Iraqi army and supporting militias continues their offensive to retake Daesh-held Tal Afar.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said that former Venezuelan Prosecutor General Luisa Ortega Diaz, who fled to Colombia with her husband German Ferre, is under the protection of Colombian authorities.

A class-action lawsuit filed in a federal Connecticut Court is accusing Nestle’s Poland Spring Water of “colossal fraud” by deceiving American consumers into thinking they are drinking “100 percent natural spring water” instead of “common groundwater,” Today reported.

A source told Sputnik that clashes between different Palestinian factions in the Ain el-Hilweh refugee camp in Lebanon left two people killed and eight more injured.

An American court has ruled that Christopher Steele, the retired MI6 agent who compiled the infamous Trump-Russia “Golden Showers” dossier that was published by Buzzfeed in January, could be questioned by the lawyers of Russian billionaire Aleksej Gubarev, who is suing Steele for defamation.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is adapting its future combat strategy to prepare for changing demographic trends that show most population growth over the next 15 years will occur in urban areas and developing countries.

You know you’ve got it made when lunch is brought to your bath time.

Somewhere in a powder-filled room, Tony Montana is kicking himself - unless he's preoccupied with something else - for not thinking of this drug smuggling tactic.

It was revealed Monday that Turkey and Iran are considering joining forces against Kurdish groups the governments of both countries oppose. They’ve also agreed that Syrian government authority must be restored in areas of that country with mostly Kurdish populations.

Governments should start drafting new international laws without delay in order to prevent artificial intelligence from being used for autonomous weapons systems, Mary Wareham, advocacy director of the Arms Division at Human Rights Watch, told Sputnik on Monday.

Danish inventor Peter Madsen, who has been charged with manslaughter in the death of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, told police that Wall died on board his homemade 17-meter submarine, changing his original story that he dropped Wall off alive at a restaurant in Refshaleøen, an island in Denmark.

Israel's Mossad chief Yossi Cohen and newly appointed national security adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat will accompany Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his upcoming visit to Russia, Haaretz newspaper reported Monday.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in believes that even a minor conflict between Washington and Pyongyang may threaten the lives of South Koreans and foreigners, including the US forces stationed on the Korean peninsula, a presidential spokesman said on Monday.

Less than a year remains before the FIFA World Cup takes place in Russia, and Brazilian travel agencies are actively selling packages for the tournament; fans are hopeful for their teams under the leadership of Tita, and Russian language teachers are seeing an unprecedented interest in their services.

The liberation of the Iraqi city of Tal Afar from Daesh will clear the way to the Syrian border and will be the group's final and decisive military defeat, the commander of the northern front of the Iraqi Shiite People's Mobilization Forces (PMF or Hashd Shaabi) told Sputnik.

Washington's suspension of nonimmigrant visa processing for the Russians is obviously a "childish" move, Earl Rasmussen of the Eurasia Center told Radio Sputnik. According to the scholar, the US State Department has chosen the wrong way in dealing with Russia.

Nowadays, robotics is one of the most rapidly developing fields of science. Each year, experts create advanced machines, which among other things, can communicate with each other by various means.

The Lebanese Army has launched the ‘Fajr al-Joroud’ (Dawn of the Outskirts) offensive to drive Daesh militants out of the Lebanese-Syrian border region.

In an interview with Sputnik, political expert Mazhar al-Saadi, explained why the operation to liberate the last major Daesh stronghold in Nineveh province, Tal Afar, is so important and what results it may bring. The Iraqi Army and militia, backed by the US-led coalition, began the operation on August 20.

The fours suspects detained following the deadly terror attacks in Catalonia will testify in the Spanish National High Court on Tuesday, El Mundo newspaper reported on Monday.

US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday that China is the only country that can resolve the tense situation on the Korean Peninsula.

A retired US Army Major General is facing a grand jury hearing charges over alleged raping of an underage female during the 1980s.