Новости за 20.11.2017

One of Lena Dunham’s writers blasted her in a Twitter post on Sunday announcing her resignation from Dunham’s newsletter, dubbing her a “hipster racist” and calling on women of color to “divest from Lena Dunham.”

The United States will need to spend more than $1.2 trillion over the next 30 years to follow through with plans to modernize and manage its nuclear deterrent, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said in an estimate released on Monday.

Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google's parent company, Alphabet, announced Saturday that the company will "engineer" algorithms that will make it harder for articles from Sputnik News and RT to appear on the Google News service.

The Earth’s slowing rotation may cause a significant increase in frequency of large earthquakes in 2018.

The Merkel-led Government is facing a snap election, the Zimbabwe military is holding longtime President Robert Mugabe in custody, and the Saudi Arabian Crown Prince is consolidating power.

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post, has completed construction of a secret region on Amazon’s cloud computing software to host data from all 17 US intelligence agencies, according to a new report.

The US journalist was shot dead outside his office building in Moscow shortly after being appointed as the first editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine in 2014.

Glenn Thrush, a reporter for the New York Times, is in professional limbo after a Vox article accused the journalist of sexual harassment. Thrush was suspended from the Times Monday pending an investigation just hours after the article was published.

The US government released a new study on its next-generation long-range bomber program in response to concerns raised about transparency - but the new report is heavily redacted and provides little useful information.

A trip down memory lane gone wrong.

When one of the crew at the International Space Station (ISS) captured footage of a mysterious object entering the Earth’s atmosphere, conspiracy theorists quickly concluded that it was footage of a UFO, despite claims by the European Space Agency’s that the object is just a meteor.

The US Forces in Japan have prohibited drinking for their troops after a deadly accident in which a US serviceman, who might have been under the influence of alcohol, drove a truck and crashed into a local citizen's vehicle. The 61-year-old Hidemasa Taira died in hospital.

On Sunday, a military truck driven by a US serviceman under the influence of alcohol collided with a civilian light truck in Naha, Okinawa, killing its driver. The deadly crash is hardly the first incident on the island involving US soldiers. In the last year alone, Sputnik has counted at least five other scandalous episodes involving US personnel.

Apparently, the mega-merger of non-wingnut media corporations is bad for consumers and competition, according to Trump's US Department of Justice.

A rescue operation is underway in India after a factory collapsed. Emergency workers are trying to fing survivors under the wreckage.

A rescue operation is underway in India after a factory collapsed. Emergency workers are trying to fing survivors under the wreckage.

NAFTA negotiations appear to have stalled once again, despite the US giving it a second try by pushing the deadline to March.

Deepika Padukone has been in the eye of the storm ever since she started shooting Padmavati – an epic period drama that portrays a legendary 13th-century Hindu queen as an object of desire of Allaudin Khilji – a Mughal Emperor who invaded and ruled Delhi during the same period.

Deepika Padukone has been in the eye of the storm ever since she started shooting Padmavati – an epic period drama that portrays a legendary 13th-century Hindu queen as an object of desire of Allaudin Khilji – a Mughal Emperor who invaded and ruled Delhi during the same period.

On Monday Zanu-PF, the ruling party of Zimbabwe, decided to continue the process of impeachment of President Robert Mugabe who previously refused to resign. Anthoni van Nieuwkerk, associate professor at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, told Radio Sputnik that the situation may spin out of control if Mugabe tries to stay in power.

The pressure on Russian media outlets operating in the US grows amid allegations of interfering in the internal affairs of the country, resulting in RT America being registered as a foreign agent last week. Now Russian officials are considering possible reciprocal measures.

Former Daesh sex slave Nadia Murad shocked the world this month with her book 'The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State', which described her suffering at the hands of the terrorists. Speaking to Sputnik, Yazidi activist Hussein al-Hansuri said that unfortunately, the Daesh trade in women has yet to be wiped out.

Series of explosions erupted at the cosmetic factory Verla International in the state of New York, a local portal MidHudsonNews reported on Monday.

Amid series of explosions at the cosmetic factory Verla International in the state of New York, 75 people were injured, a local portal MidHudsonNews reported on Monday.

The recent high-level summit between the Russian and Turkish leaders in Sochi shows that old "wounds" have healed while the two countries are about to reach new heights in bilateral relations, Turkish commentators told Sputnik, referring to the Akkuyu atomic project and the purchase of Russia's S-400 Triumf system to Ankara.