Новости за 15.01.2019

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia has proposed Venezuela an informal plan to revive the country's economy and is waiting for a response from Caracas, Russian Deputy Finance Minister Sergey Storchak told Sputnik on Tuesday.

Theresa May's time as prime minister could be in measured in hours for she is almost certain to go if she cannot get her Brexit deal past Parliament. But what could happen between now and March 29?

NEW DELHI (Sputnik) - The Pakistani soldiers shelled on Tuesday morning India's positions in the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir, Lt. Col. Devender Anand, the spokesman for the Indian Defence Ministry, said, adding that the country's forces had retaliated.

Singapore is well-known for its picturesque views: skyscrapers and hi-tech building share the landscape with tropical trees and exotic birds. But, it appears that suddenly, one of these creatures decided to travel in a more comfortable way.

BEIJING (Sputnik) – All countries should fully respect the right of their companies to decide on cooperation with firms from other countries, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Tuesday, commenting on letters from US Envoy to Germany Richard Grenell that were sent to German companies participating in the Nord Stream 2 project.

Despite being based on an aromatic unit that occurs naturally in human faeces and accounts for its unpleasant smell, the new sustainable plastic developed in Sweden is claimed to be completely odourless.

The Israeli Air Force has been conducting strikes on targets in Syria, claiming them to be Iranian military bases. Tehran has denounced Tel Aviv's claims stating that only Iranian military advisers are in the Arab Republic at the request of Damascus.

The charges come as Chelsea has launched a massive campaign to educate its fans and staff about anti-Semitism in football and in a broader context, by setting up special one-on-one courses and offering educational trips to a Nazi concentration camp.

So, the Trump administration is warning European companies they face punitive sanctions if they continue doing business with Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas project.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), linked to the ruling Conservative Party by a supply and confidence agreement, will vote against the withdrawal deal over its "toxic backstop" on Northern Ireland later on Tuesday, the party's leader Arlene Foster said.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Hundreds of Honduran asylum-seekers set off from the northern city of San Pedro Sula on Monday in the direction of the United States, forming yet another migrant caravan, determined to reach the US-Mexican border, Hondudiario.com reported.

The body of a teenager, who was allegedly strangled, was found in a park in the Lower Austrian city of Wiener Neustadt over the weekend. The suspect is reportedly her ex-boyfriend, born in Syria in 1999. He had been on the police radar on suspicion of assaulting and sexually harassing the girl, but was able to keep his asylum status.

The shaving brand has played on its famous 30-year tagline “The Best A Man Can Get”, asking “Is this the best a man can get?” in a new commercial against “toxic masculinity”.

US-Turkish relations have been strained amid Ankara's plans to launch an offensive against Syrian Kurds following Washington's announcement that it would withdraw its troops from the Arab Republic.

MOSCOW (Sputnik), Sofya Grebenkina – Zimbabwe plans to continue its defence and security cooperation with Russia, but it needs to build up funds to buy "state-of-the-art" Russian weapons, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa told Sputnik on Tuesday.

Amid a record-low fertility rate of 1.62 births per woman recorded last year, which makes the Scandinavian country increasingly rely on immigration to maintain its population, Norwegian right-wing MP Per Willy Amundsen has proposed measures to bolster ethnic Norwegians' demographics.

Over the weekend, Kylie Jenner lost the honour of having Instagram’s most-liked photo after an egg-stremely cheeky egg stepped into the game.

The upcoming European Parliamentary elections can re-invigorate the positions of EU populist parties, Jiri Vyvadil, a Czech lawyer and politician, has told Sputnik. According to Vyvadil, Washington’s positions have been shattered by Russia and the rise of China, while the EU's significance has diminished to that of the African Union.

Relations between Ottawa and Beijing have become even more strained since Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, a Canadian citizen, arrested in China in 2014, was sentenced to death over drug smuggling accusations.

According to my new 2019 diary, it is only the 15th of January today yet according to the mood music from Westminster and the new resignation letters from the Tory Whips we are already in the last few days of May…

With most of the White House furloughed because of the partial government shutdown, Donald Trump, known as a fast food fan, has thrown a reception for the college football national champions Clemson Tigers with hundreds of Big Macs, whoppers, pizzas, and fries by candlelight.

In the context of urban India, as the atmospheric temperature dips, the spirit of the elderly class of citizens also shows a marked mental and social slowdown.

What can be more repulsive than myriads of flies swarming in the sky? Even just thinking about it can fill a person with disgust. So how can we prevent such a biblical catastrophe? By putting thousands of their natural enemies everywhere, of course!

Although a citizens' initiative advocating that foreigners convicted of sex crimes lose their residence permits and face deportation has gained ample signatures amid a series of attacks on teenage and even pre-teen girls, it is still unlikely to reach the Finnish parliament due to time constraints.

Since taking office in 2017, Donald Trump has on a multitude of occasions slammed NATO member states for failing to meet their annual defence spending obligations and insisted on fair burden-sharing.