Новости за 30.04.2018

Tesla is burning cash rather than fuel, Bloomberg reported. The Manhattan-based business media outlet stated that if Elon Musk’s brainchild Tesla continues to spend at the same pace as it is doing now, the company may run the risk of ending up short of cash before the end of the year.

As Russia’s state-of-the-art mobile nuclear plant embarks on its first voyage across the Arctic, Greenpeace activists claim that the vessel may pose an environmental threat to the region.

Owners of video rental stores and exotic ear cleaners from Bangladesh have one thing in common: their services may soon be rendered obsolete.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US-led coalition forces have closed the Baghdad headquarters of the Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command Headquarters, signaling the end of major combat operations against Daesh terrorist group, Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) said in a press release on Monday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US-led coalition forces have closed the Baghdad headquarters of the Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command Headquarters, signaling the end of major combat operations against Daesh terrorist group, Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) said in a press release on Monday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The number of South Koreans trusting the pledges by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to denuclearize the North has increased dramatically to nearly two-thirds following the summit between Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in held last week, The Korea Times newspaper reported on Monday.

Amid the claims by the US president about Washington's possible withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, Iran's nuclear chief Salehi said on Monday that Tehran is technically ready to enrich uranium to a higher level than before 2015 agreement, the state TV reported.

Tim Faulkner, an employee of the Australian reptile park in the city of Somerset, Queensland, has published a video from a GoPro camera, which was swallowed by a large crocodile.

The charges brought by Saudi authorities against the two men also include a planned terrorist attack during the annual hajj pilgrimage four years ago, according to media reports.

Earlier this year, a delegation from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party visited Syria to gain a better understanding of the situation in government-held areas of the war-torn country. The delegation’s leader Christian Blex, a member of the Bundestag, spoke to Sputnik reporter and columnist Suliman Mulhem about his findings.

Talks between US President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel wrapped up late last week; a contributor to Sputnik takes a closer look into the negotiations, which he believes could hardly be described as a diplomatic feast, from Trump's perspective.

Russian academic, journalist and political commentator Gevorg Mirzayan has written a pointed article explaining why the 'Trump-Russia collusion' conspiracy theorists may have to add another name to their list, but not for the reason one might first think.

PARIS (Sputnik) - A so-called migrants' "March of solidarity" departed from Italy's coastal city of Ventimiglia on Monday and is expected to reach the French northern port of Calais by early July, local media reported.

The day before, French President Emmanuel Macron and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani held phone talks and agreed to work together on maintaining Iran's nuclear deal.

It’s widely accepted that using somebody else’s computing power to mine cryptocurrencies is dubious, but UNICEF Australia appears to be doing so with good intentions.

After the resignation of Amber Rudd, the Prime Minister has chosen Sajid Javid to replace her as Home Secretary. Sputnik looks at Javid, one of only a tiny handful of ethnic minorities in the upper echelons of the Conservative Party.

NIZHNY NOVGOROD (Sputnik), - Just like Moscow, the old city of Niznhy Novgorod, 250 miles east of the Russian capital, has long been proud of its Kremlin, a red-brick fortress built in the early 1500s to protect the borders of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

A suicide bomber that carried out attack on Monday after a series of blasts in the Afghan capital of Kabul targeted a NATO convoy in the southern Kandahar province, according to officials cited by media.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Tehran rejects statements by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about the alleged destabilizing role of Iran in the Middle East, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said Monday.

Another social media tycoon has been reported to profit from obtaining users’ data with a Cambridge Analytica-affiliated man. For one day, the researcher, who got the personal info of millions of Facebook users, was granted massive public data from Twitter. It’s said to be standard practice.

The Chinese special envoy for Syria has underscored that at least 260 billion dollars in aid money is needed to restore the war-torn Arab country, a task that he said can only be fulfilled through the combined efforts of the entire international community.

A 93-year old woman has reportedly passed away in a nursing home after suffering from a flesh-eating parasitic infestation, which the facility’s staff failed to treat for some reason.

Sajid Javid was regarded to be the main nomenee for the UK Home Secretary's post after Amber Rudd had dramatically resigned amid migrant scandal.

Just before the day X, when the US is scheduled to decide on taxing EU metal imports and the EU will consider retaliatory tariffs on US aluminum, steel, whiskey, orange juice and motorcycles, the German Minister of Economics warns about the risks of the trade war.

PARIS (Sputnik) - Ten days after a similar operation in the Tolbiac university in Paris, police have dispersed some 50 protesters manifesting against the reform of university access.