Новости за 29.09.2017

Former US Congressman and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price left the Trump administration Friday afternoon.

Six days after the US Air Force flew the furthest it ever has past the Demilitarized Zone that divides the Korean Peninsula, North Korea issued its first response - and it's not exactly a friendly suggestion for the US to not repeat its behavior.

Earlier the United States has already voiced its disappointment over a unilateral referendum on the independence of the Iraqi Kurdistan region. Although the State Department said that the vote would not change the historic relationship between the US and the Kurds, this move is likely to stir up unrest in the whole region.

The US Department of Defense has published data demonstrating that America’s “endless wars” abroad, from Yemen and Somalia to Afghanistan and Pakistan, have cost each US taxpayer just $7,500 since the fateful day the World Trade Centers were leveled in New York 16 years ago.

Indian foreign office says independent media-persons could visit Rakhine state but the participation of diplomats has not been discussed yet.

The Indian government has denied reports that it is interested in mediating between Myanmar and Bangladesh to resolve the Rohingya crisis.

The European Commission president supports the decision of the Spanish Constitutional Court to outlaw the Catalonia's upcoming independence referendum.

US and South Korean troops have held the first joint training event to practice defending against drones, cruise missiles and other enemy aircraft.

Two days before the Catalan independence vote on Sunday, Catalonia's High Court ordered Google on Friday to shut down an app that it says is promoting an "illegitimate" referendum.

The Department of Homeland Security made completely misleading statements about “Russian targeting” of US electronic voting systems in yet another chapter of the ongoing RussiaGate saga, The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald writes, and once more their misleading or completely false statements were eagerly amplified by the nation’s mainstream media.

The parliamentary house of Uganda turned into a scene of ultraviolence that Vince McMahon would have been proud to promote, as supporters and opponents of President Yoweri Museveni threw chairs and swung microphone stands at one another in a mad brawl.

Traces of life were found in Greenland and were believed to date back 3.8 billion years, but now this has changed, Yuji Sano, a professor of Geochemistry at the University of Tokyo and one of the authors of a new research paper, said in an interview with Radio Sputnik.

Too much of everything is clearly bad. An enormous number of bicycles in China’s capital are making the authorities take up some tough measures. They have spoken against new rental companies setting up shop in the city.

While the last preparations for an independence referendum in Spain's Catalonia are heating up, vivid debates are being unveiled in academic circles. The opinions held by experts over Catalonia's future prospects as an independent state are divided.

A video has appeared online showing a Daesh suicide bomber attack an Iraqi Army convoy near a village.

The Russian air campaign in Syria, which started two years ago, has dramatically changed the course of war in the country, Turkish military expert Dr. Celalettin Yavuz said, emphasizing the role of the Astana talks launched by Moscow, Ankara and Tehran and the creation of four de-escalation zones in the country.

Russia-based Kaspersky Lab offered its code to the US government, trying to get all doubts cleared about the company's alleged ties with the Russian government and cyber espionage in favor of Russia. But the White House still unsure whether it can be trusted.

Josep Lluis Trapero Alvarez, the head of Catalan police, ordered the local law enforcement to refrain from the use of force during the planned Sunday’s independence referendum in the Spanish autonomous community.

The Russian Orthodox Church sent a letter to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with its arguments against the recent report on alleged discrimination of religious minorities in Russia.

Those protesting against the labor and employment ministers' meeting of the G7 states, ongoing in the Italian city of Turin, reportedly engaged in clashes with the police and took over the local university building.

Iraqi Defense Ministry stated that it plans to take control of Iraqi Kurdistan's border posts 'in coordination' with Iran and Turkey, as quoted by the Reuters news agency.

Attempts to rewrite WWII history started at the very beginning of the war, Canadian academic Michael Jabara Carley told Sputnik. The US and EU are manipulating facts to silence the role of the USSR in defeating Nazi Germany. Despite these actions, Moscow continues its efforts to build bridges with the West, as it did in the 1930s.

A renewed cooperation deal with Myanmar Red Cross will help the Turkish Red Crescent will help to access hard-to-reach places in Myanmar's state of Rakhine and to help the refugees from the region.

September 30, 2017, marks exactly two years since Russia began battling international terrorism in Syria the request of Damascus.

If the Iraqi paper that pinpricked Kurdistan amid its independence referendum by depicting it as a porn star had wanted a storm of infuriation, it has achieved its aim, and even more.