Новости за 19.12.2017

The military officer in charge of North Korea’s nuclear facility construction may have been summarily executed over the postponement of a weapons test and the crumbling of a tunnel in Punggye-ri, North Korea, where North Korea’s only known nuclear testing facility is located.

How does a pug even reach the cupboard?

A Fort Worth, Texas, police sergeant and 22-year veteran was recently fired for urging a rookie police officer to tase a woman while they were on duty together, the Fort Worth Police Department announced Monday.

Ahed Tamimi, the 16-year-old filmed slapping two Israeli soldiers Friday, was arrested Tuesday following the West Bank striking incident in the village of Nabi Saleh.

Led by Wisconsin Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan, the US House of Representatives passed the final version of a tax reform bill on Tuesday. The bill now goes to the Senate.

Despite dating back to as early as 1956, the officially pseudoscientific Free Earth Society is still inspiring quite a few weirdos to stage their own experiments, the latest one, an ambitious flat-Earth balloon flight, being announced by 61-year-old Mike Hughes.

A pair of hackers recently won $10,650 after uncovering a major vulnerability in US Air Force software that allowed them to access the US Department of Defense’s unclassified network.

Boeing has unveiled a prototype unmanned aerial vehicle intended to serve as a mid-air refueler for US Navy aircraft.

Saudi Arabia is well known for its extremely conservative views regarding women; however social reforms, initiated by Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, might have be paving the way for unprecedented changes for women in the society.

The regent's controversial speech sparked outrage among social media users and LGBT rights advocates who demanded his resignation.

It seems that Mulder and Scully from "The X-Files" have found sympathizers in the Pentagon.

The game called 'Hair Nah!' was developed by US art designer Momo Pixel and is meant as an attempt to address personal space violations.

CAIRO (Sputnik) - Militants shelled the airport in the Egyptian city of el-Arish in North Sinai killing at least one officer and injuring two others, a spokesperson for the Egyptian Armed Forces said Tuesday.

Russia has offered a new model for crisis resolution, Col. Gen. Branko Krga, former commander of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Yugoslavia, has told Sputnik. Krga praised Russia's approach to the Muslim nations of the region and expressed hope that the recognition of Jerusalem by the US won't translate into a new conflict.

Bloomberg has published its annual pessimist’s guide covering possible development scenarios of key world issues, ranging from the rise of left- and right-wing parties in Europe to the possibility of a nuclear war initiated by North Korea.

The Trump Administration’s National Security Strategy contains many references to defending against and waging information warfare, even if the latter point isn’t directly referred as such, though this important element of the policy document has thus far been overlooked by most analysts.

DUBAI (Sputnik) – Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has announced the adoption of the biggest budget in the country's history, providing for revenues of 783 billion Saudi riyals ($209 billion).

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States has blacklisted two Russian defense companies, Novator and Titan-Barrikady, by placing them onto the Entity List for alleged violations of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, the US Department of Commerce said in a document on Tuesday.

A former UK ambassador to the UN has warned that British territorial claims around the world could come under increasing challenge as the country loses the diplomatic support of the European Union.

India’s coastal state of Goa, which hosts more than half a million foreign tourists every year is grappling with drugs – a law and order situation worsened by foreign nationals who overstay and indulge in the peddling of smuggled contrabands.

The Hindu Jagran Manch (HJM) has warned the managing bodies of schools run by Christian NGO’s against collecting contributions from Hindu students and making it mandatory for them to partake in Christmas celebrations.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Saif Islam Gaddafi, the second son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, is likely to gain some support from loyalists, but it may not be enough to ensure his victory in the 2018 presidential elections, experts told Sputnik.

A fatal train crash — apparently caused by excessive speed — as well as a major power outage in the Atlanta air hub raise concerns about the state of US transportation infrastructure. President Trump addressed the situation, calling on Congress to quickly pass his soon-to-be proposed package.

It emerged the other day that the Pentagon, following directives of the US Congress, launched a decade ago an off-the-books investigation into “unidentified aerial phenomena,” commonly referred to as UFOs, according to media reports.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US states of California and Mexico have filed a lawsuit to force compliance with an Obama-era regulation intended to plug leaks of methane from oil wells, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas announced in a joint press release on Tuesday.