Новости за 12.04.2018

Geraldine Lovely, once a technical sergeant with the US Air Force, was demoted to the rank of staff sergeant after her racially-charged Facebook video went viral in January 2018, Stars and Stripes reported Thursday.

A California venture capitalist is trying to break up the Golden State into three, and he has a good deal of backing, too. Tim Draper authored an initiative, “CAL 3,” to turn California into three separate states and has nearly double the necessary signatures to get it on the ballot in November.

A Scottish judge has decided to postpone the decision regarding the extradition of the former education minister of Catalonia. Clara Ponsati appeared at Edinburgh Sheriffs Court today, where her lawyer Aamer Anwar defended her right to freedom and condemned Spain’s decision to hold political prisoners. Sputnik spoke with Aamer Anwer about the case.

Independent chemical weapons scientists have confirmed that "high purity" A-234 was used in the attempted murder Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia; yet there is no clear evidence to suggest that it was produced in Russia. Sputnik contacted Dr. Marcus Papadopoulos, UK political journalist and the founder of Politics First magazine for more.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The current situation in Syria is extremely dangerous, and therefore the top priority for all parties involved should be to avoid a wider war in the country, Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia told reporters on Thursday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Russia may deploy its own troops in Syria to deter and reduce the number of targeting options the US military would have to carry out any missile strike on the country, former Pentagon official Karen Kwiatkowski told Sputnik.

With US President Donald Trump meeting with officials to discuss the US response to the alleged Syrian government chemical attack in Douma, one source tells CNBC that there are eight possible targets that the US is eyeing.

Recent footage shows new activity is brewing atop Hawaii’s most active volcano.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Nord Stream gas project does not pose any risks to maritime operations in the Baltic sea, German Navy Vice Admiral Andreas Krause and Swedish Royal Navy Rear Admiral Jens Nykvist said on Thursday.

After it surfaced that a whole lot of weed was missing at a storage facility, suspicion immediately fell on a former Buenos Aires police officer, as he hadn’t signed the inventory of the impounded drugs after he left his post.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - President Donald Trump, in a meeting with Republican lawmakers, told National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow to explore options for re-entering the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement, US Senator Ben Sasse said on Thursday.

An Instagram babe who went through a controversial operation says that her vision now resembles that of a 90-year-old.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - President Donald Trump, in a meeting with Republican lawmakers, told National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow to explore options for re-entering the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement, US Senator Ben Sasse said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON(Sputnik) - US Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo said in testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday that he is determined to fully enforce both the Magnitsky Act and the Global Magnitsky Act.

According to a new statement from Downing Street, the United Kingdom's prime minister and top-level advisers "agreed on the need to take action to alleviate humanitarian distress and to deter the further use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime."

American Media, Inc (AMI), the parent company of the National Enquirer, reportedly paid a former doorman at one of US President Donald Trump's buildings $30,000 for a rumor that suggested 45 fathered a child out of wedlock, the New Yorker and AP revealed on Thursday.

The administration of US President Donald Trump is working out the terms of an agreement with North Korean officials that would improve political and economic relations between the two adversaries. Details of the US proposal have made rounds in South Korean media ahead of the historic summit expected in May or June 2018.

On April 12, Russia is celebrating Cosmonautics Day, which was established in 1962 to commemorate the first manned space flight, when in 1961, a booster rocket took into orbit the Vostok spacecraft with the first cosmonaut on board — Soviet citizen Yuri Gagarin.

Thousands of people marched all the way from Auschwitz to Birkenau in Poland on April 12, thus paying tribute to millions on Holocaust Victims' Remembrance Day.

Yesterday night (Moscow time) during the battle of resolutions in the UN Security Council over the investigation of allegations against Syria, the British representative was definitely the most outstanding figure.

Russian Armed Forces Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov has warned that Russia would respond to any US military strike flowing from a false flag chemical weapons attack blamed on the Syrian government and Russia. So what's the big deal? The general made the warning nearly a month ago…

The People’s Liberation Army Navy is planning to hold live-fire drills in the Taiwan Strait next week, a move that could step up tensions between Beijing and Taipei.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated that Russia would not engage in Twitter diplomacy with the United States. The spokesperson's remarks come in response to President Trump's recent tweets in which he warned Russia to prepare for new, smart missiles coming to Syria.

ANKARA (Sputnik) - An interim council consisting of Kurdish, Arab and Turkmen representatives has been established in Syria's Afrin by local citizens, Turkish Anadolu news agency reported Thursday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Moroccan Embassy in Russia will organize direct flights from Casablanca and set up a mobile consulate in the cities where the country's national football team will play during the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Moroccan Ambassador to Moscow Abdelkader Lecheheb told Sputnik on Thursday.