Новости за 29.11.2017

Lockheed Martin has moved closer to being able to convert virtually any military tactical wheeled vehicle into a self-driving robot.

Students at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, have launched emergency hijab kits to help Muslim students who've had their hijabs forcibly removed or spat on.

A California cybersecurity company told the government in late September it had stumbled upon unprotected National Security Agency and US Army Intelligence and Security Command data relating to communications systems out in the open online, according to a new report.

A New York-based comedian and civil rights activist who has been a frequent associate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has accused Washington of attempting to engineer a new “Cold War” with Russia after receiving a request of summons by the US House Intelligence Committee.

Two US tourists were detained at an airport in Thailand on November 28 for having taken a photo exposing their buttocks in front of one of Bangkok’s most famous Buddhist temples.

The agreement indicates India’s consistent efforts in strengthening the capability of its navy in the eastern part of the Strait of Malacca that connects the South China Sea with the Indian Ocean, as 80 percent of China’s energy supply passes through this shipping route.

Although China has denied having any immediate plans to divert the flow of Yarlung Tsangpo, the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh has alleged that the trans-border river (Known by the name Siang in India) has turned black due to boring of a diversion tunnel by China.

A one-way ticket to home – here is a solution to a problem of Islamic extremism in the West by Milo Yiannopoulos, British media person with right-wing conservative views, which he has proposed to a Muslim host.

Lucian Wintrich, a White House correspondent for conservative site The Gateway Pundit, was arrested Tuesday night after an altercation broke out during his address at a University of Connecticut speaking event.

Israel and Egypt lobbied the US to bomb Iran before the 2015 nuclear accord was reached, but Washington saw the proposition as a “trap,” former US Secretary of State John Kerry revealed Tuesday night.

First deputy chairman of Russia’s Central Bank – Sergey Shvetsov has recently announced that BRICS countries are mulling the creation of a unified gold trading system. And as David Gibson, Managing Director at GoldVu Investment Company, told Radio Sputnik, this new system may allow BRICS to become more independent of the US trade influence.

Rising sea levels caused by climate change are now causing water to seep into a massive US nuclear test waste dump in the Pacific, potentially leaking radioactive material with a half-life of more than 24,000 years into the ocean.

“Uh, I was just trying to go for a walk …?”

Controversial political activist James O’Keefe secretly recorded a conversation with Washington Post staff writer on the Russiagate investigation Adam Entous. Speaking candidly, Entous admitted there was no evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia and expressed skepticism that there was collusion at all.

Shock from the suicide-by-poisoning death of Bosnian Croat commander Slobodan Praljak at The Hague on Wednesday continues to reverberate as observers try to figure out how the military leader brought a bottle of poison into the courtroom. Speaking to Sputnik, one of his lawyers said she was shocked by what happened.

After months of fruitless negotiations, it seems that the UK has finally edged closer towards progressing a Brexit deal with the European Union.

Irish Deputy Prime Minister Frances Fitzgerald has decided to resign "for the sake of the country" in a bid to avert a snap general election.

The continuous arming of the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) by the US poses a serious challenge to the Middle Eastern region, political scientist Ozdemir Akbal told Sputnik, suggesting that Russia could play a balancing role by exerting pressure on the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD).

Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have discovered a small exoplanet located approximately 11 light years away from the Solar system, which may sustain life.

The price of Bitcoin surged by US$1000 on November 29 hitting a high-point of US$11,150. The US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England, seeking to calm fears that the digital currency might destabilize the global financial system said it is too small to have such an effect but warned investors to "do their homework" if they plan to invest.

On this episode of Fault Lines, hosts Garland Nixon and Lee Stranahan continue their examination of Bill Browder with film director Andrei Nekrasov, get a report on the working conditions at Amazon, and are joined in-studio by a pair of special guests.

The words 'President Puigdemont' have been banned from Catalan public media, on the grounds that they defy the principle of informational neutrality. Sputnik spoke to Josep Costa, professor of Political Theory at the University of Pompeu Fabra, about what’s happening in Catalonia as the election draws closer.

The civil war in Yemen has been raging for almost three years. After 986 days, over 20 million require humanitarian support, and an estimated 17 million — 60 percent of the total population — are food insecure, while seven million are at risk of famine.

David Davies, a Conservative MP, spoke to Sputnik about the opportunities Brexit offers to Britain and why the UK government should be trying to increase trade with Russia.

The West Midlands Police Department released a surveillance video on Monday, showing two tech-savvy criminals in the English town of Solihull stealing a Mercedes with the help of special equipment, which allows hacking keyless entry. The entire heist, called a “relay crime,” took them less than a minute.