Новости за 26.09.2017

Trump picks losing battle with professional athletes; Merkel wins German Elections; What Kurdish Independence could mean.

North Korea is reportedly sending military jets to the east of the country in the wake of US strategic bombers flying over the area last week.

Vanuatu locals were evacuated due to the high possibility of the upcoming volcano eruption.

On Thursday, the closest aide to French National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen and the party's vice-president, Florian Philippot, announced that he was leaving the party. He was followed by his allies, including another Le Pen adviser, economist Philippe Murer, who explained the reasons behind the split to Sputnik France.

South Korea is interested in developing of its national Naro Space Center in cooperation with Russia, Russia's Roscosmos CEO said.

The owner of the Dallas Cowboys, an American football team, has joined his players in a protest against racial inequality that has drawn the ire of US President Donald Trump, who insists that kneeling instead of standing for the national anthem is disrespectful.

Indonesia's Bali volcano has reached a critical stage with almost 500 tremors recorded per day, local media reported Tuesday, citing Indonesian disaster agency.

Dan Patterson was snapped by friend and underwater photographer Adam Hanlon, diving with this playful grey seal pup at Farne Islands, in north-eastern England.

The Russian MoD released a footage of strikes conducted by the Russian Aerospace Forces in Syria's Idlib province.

Russia's Defense Ministry has released a video of airstrikes against positions of terrorists in the Syrian province of Idlib.

On Tuesday a suspected Palestinian militant attacked one of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank, leaving three Israelis dead.

Amid the political crisis in Spain triggered by the decision of the Catalan authorities to hold an independence referendum, Spain's prosecutor general says that the detention of Catalan President Carles Puigdemont, who insists on the vote, is feasible.

In March Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova characterized Poroshenko's forced Ukrainization as "linguistic genocide at the state level" and now with the decision to implement a new education reform, Ukraine is likely to prove again it matches this characteristic well.

By criticizing the nuclear accord with Iran Trump is trying to get new concessions from Tehran, however, experts believe that it could result in mounting tensions in the Middle East since renegotiation of the deal is likely to disturb the political balance in Iran.

Brexit negotiations turned out to be harder than expected as no progress yet has been made on major issues. The recent poll proves that British citizens could occasionally change their minds on the issue of UK withdrawal from the European Union.

Russian Ministry of Defense refutes the allegations that Moscow has conducted strikes on settlements in the Syrian province of Idlib claiming that objects destroyed by Russian jets not only were all located far from settlements but also were used by terrorists during the attack against Russian military police in Hama.

The Russian New Generation Warfare Handbook which explains how the US Army should "defeat Russia's hybrid-warfare strategy" has caused concern in Moscow since it hints at the possibility of military clashes between the US and Russia.

The Politico reported that Trump’s husband Jared Kushner, a White House adviser, used private email to conduct government business and now Democrats in the US Congress have called for an investigation of Kushner’s email usage, with US Congressman Elijah Cummings warning Kushner not to destroy any messages from his personal account.

Massive protests have broken out in the streets of Guatemala City against President Jimmy Morales, who has been accused of corruption after expelling a UN commissioner investigating his administration for that very offense.

Hours after it was revealed South Korean President Moon Jae-in sanctioned supersonic US B-1B Lancers to fly north of the demilitarized zone off the North Korean coast, a former US general said the Pentagon estimates 20,000 people would be killed per day in South Korea should war break out on the peninsula, CNBC reports.

A new study finds that American people are alarmingly poorly educated about their government, Constitution and freedoms.

The majority of Britons support racial profiling against Arabs and Muslims for security purposes, according to a YouGov poll commissioned by the Council for Arab-British Understanding and the Arab News newspaper.

Experts have warned for years that the proverbial "big one" is just around the corner for the Golden State, but after Mexico City's powerful 7.1 quake, the San Andreas Fault could be closer than ever to a large earthquake.

The US Department of Defense is considering a change in direction with their fleet of F-35s, in which more than 100 fighters would be retired from combat rather than upgraded with a new software configuration.

A former US police officer with nine guns stashed in his car, including a Colt AR-15 and a loaded Kalashnikov assault rifle, was arrested outside the White House Sunday after telling the Secret Service he was en route to see the NSA director and secretary of defense for advice about removing a chip that he alleged was planted in his head.