Новости за 09.09.2017

German weapons manufacturer Heckler & Koch has declared its intention to stop gun sales to entities in regions around the globe that have been deemed to be warzones or to countries that have repeatedly failed a litmus test of corruption and democracy standards.

According to a new Pew Research Center survey, approximately two-thirds of American adults get “at least some of their news on social media,” with about 20 percent frequently getting their information from social media.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that there is still a long way to go to establish sustainable peace in Ukraine's Donbass region despite all efforts made by Ukrainian diplomats to settle the issue by political and diplomatic means.

Following a request by the Kremlin, US military assets have stopped shadowing a Daesh convoy stuck behind lines of advancing Syrian army troops.

Russian Center for the reconciliation of warring parties in Syria delivered food, water, medicines and essential items to the Syrian city of Deir Ez-Zor, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

Sudan seeks to further develop economic relations with Russia and is open to the Russian investment, Awad Ahmed Al-Jaz, the Sudanese presidential aide, told Sputnik on Saturday.

Lines of cars are lengthening along highways after an unprecedented 7 million people were told to evacuate low-lying coastal areas of Florida as deadly Hurricane Irma, forecast to maintain Category 4 strength over the next 24 hours, has already begun to strike the Sunshine State as of Saturday.

Christelle Neant, a Frenchwoman who got sick of the 'pro-Kiev propaganda' she found in French media about the conflict in eastern Ukraine, decided to travel to the war-torn region to find out what was really going on. She spoke to Sputnik about what she discovered.

The Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada is a magnet for thousands and thousands of people seeking self-expression, and being there is like landing on another planet or a teleporting to a parallel Universe. Beauty queens took their opportunity to steal the show at the event this year. These folks really rocked the place.

Around 70 people have been arrested during week-long protests in London aimed at stopping Europe's biggest arms fair, Andrew Smith, a spokesman for the London-based Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), told Sputnik on Saturday.

One US dad’s “rules for dating” his daughters has gone viral after it has been seen to be delivering an important feminist message.

Russia could become a world leader in the adoption of the blockchain technology next year, Chairman of Russia’s Vnesheconombank (VEB) Sergey Gorkov told Sputnik on Saturday, stressing that the mass use of the technology will take place in 2019-2020.

Sudan is hoping to join BRICS in the near future, the Sudanese presidential aide and deputy chair of the High Committee for Overseeing Sudan’s Relations with BRICS, told Sputnik on Saturday.

With the help of osteology and DNA testing, archaeologists and historians have revealed that the remains of a “powerful military leader” buried with weapons and horses are that of a woman.

Thousands of opponents of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union have participated in anti-Brexit rally in London, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Saturday.

Twitter media users cracked jokes, offered prayers and shared useful information as Hurricane Irma looms over the US eastern seaboard.

Seoul plans to create a powerful new 'Frankenmissile' bunker-busting weapon capable of destroying North Korea's underground military facilities, South Korean media has reported. Speaking to Sputnik, military analyst Vladimir Kozin said such a missile would affect the balance of forces in the region, and inevitably prompt a North Korean response.

The Syrian armed forces supported by Russian aviation have inflicted the excruciating defeat on Daesh terrorists in Deir ez-Zor area, that may be considered the terrorist group's biggest loss in the past three years, the Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday.

Approximately 500 people have been evacuated from the Spanish southern Andalusia region due to a fierce wildfire, head of Andalusian Regional Government’s Justice Department Rosa Aguilar said Saturday.

Photographer Aram Pan enjoyed a unique opportunity to fly over the capital of North Korea and shoot some truly rare footage of the city. A really captivating picture unfolded before his eyes.

Russian fashion model and former basketball player Ekaterina Lisina, 29, was awarded the title of the woman with longest legs in the world by Guinness Book of World Records.

Amid Hillary Clinton's campaign to fight President Trump on illegal immigration, an old video has surfaced where she is shown calling on children of illegal immigrants to be deported along with their parents. Social media quickly picked up on the gap between 2017 Hillary Clinton and the one from the video from a few years ago.

Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations Office in Geneva Alexey Borodavkin on Saturday blasted the United Nations for fabricating the facts regarding Moscow's actions in Syria and Damascus's use of chemical weapons.

The damage of disastrous Hurricane Irma to the French overseas territories is preliminarily calculated at $1.4 Billion, according to CCR, the French public sector insurer.

Famous guidebook and reference publisher Rough Guides has compiled a list of the 20 most beautiful countries in the world, ranked according to their readers' submissions.