Новости за 26.01.2017

A skier unexpectedly slid off the steep cliff and got the whole thing on tape thanks to his helmet cam.

On Thursday morning the US public woke up to a strange Twitter message from the Press Secretary of the White House Sean Spicer, again.

Iranian firemen rescued a flamingo that fell into an open reservoir of oil in Hormozgan province, south of Iran.

Specialist police units in London, UK, are to be issued with body cameras to increase convictions, and protect officers faced with armed criminals.

Iran's Foreign Ministry has rebuked Israel's continued building of new settlements on the West Bank, urging to halt the construction works, local media reported Thursday.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has canceled a scheduled visit next week with US President Donald Trump but spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters onboard Air Force One on Thursday that the White House is trying to reschedule the meeting for sometime in the future.

Russian proposals on the new Syrian constitution are not an attempt to apply pressure on Syrian opposition, but rather an invitation to a dialogue on Syrian future, Russian Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday.

The representative of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) Halit Isa spoke to Sputnik Turkey in an interview saying that Russia has invited three representatives of the party for a meeting with the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov.

At least three separate demonstrations against US President Donald Trump are planned in Philadelphia on Thursday ahead of his visit to the Republican party retreat, Black Lives Matter rights group spokesman Peter Reed told Sputnik.

The House of Representatives will examine the security of the US power grid to determine whether additional protection measures are needed, according to a press release issued by House Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton on Thursday.

Eurozone finance ministers meeting in Brussels, January 26, are confident the Greek bailout program will remain on track, despite disagreements between the EU single currency states and the IMF, the fall in popularity of Greek PM Alexis Tsipras and further talks of a "Grexit."

The entire senior level management team at the US Department of State resigned after the visit of the State Secretary-designate Rex Tillerson.

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Russia hopes for pragmatic approach to important issues by the US administration.

The Russian Armed Forces will receive 50,000 sets of the second generation Ratnik uniform kit in 2017, Col. Gen. Oleg Salyukov, commander-in-chief of Russia's Land Force said Thursday.

Entrepreneur Gina Miller became Brexiteers’ arch enemy for trying to ensure UK Parliament would decide the government’s response to the June 23 referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU. Abuse was spewed at her by politicians, the mainstream media and the public. Speaking exclusively to Sputnik, Ms. Miller opens up about the onslaught.

The investigation into former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server during her tenure as the US secretary of state is still under way, House of Representatives Oversight Committee chairman Jason Chaffetz said in an interview on Thursday.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said Thursday his government had informed the White House that he would not be attending a meeting with US President Donald Trump, after the latter threatened to cancel the talks.

As the Joint OPEC-Non-OPEC Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) said the doors were open for other oil producers, particularly the United States, to participate in its oil production curtailment agreement, Washington is unlikely to make the move due to a number of reasons, experts told Sputnik.

US President Donald Trump fulfilled his election campaign promise and signed an order withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. In an interview with Sputnik, Vietnamese and Russian economic experts explained what consequences the TPP could have had for the countries of the Asian-Pacific Region.

Thursday: Businesswoman behind Brexit Supreme Court challenge, Gina Miller, talks to World in Focus about abuse and threats she has received; why are Sunni Arab nations optimistic about Trump’s Middle East foreign policy and newly released CIA documents detail nuclear submarine crash off coast of Scotland.

A little schoolgirl encountered a strange male passer-by on her way back home from school in Western Tokyo. The man was dressed all in black and called to the girl: "Hey! I'm an alien!" The terrified child complained her parents, who called the police. Soon, rumors of an alien pedophile flooded the Japanese Internet.

Russia and Turkey conducted a joint aerial operation in Syria's Al-Bab after exchanging intelligence data on Daesh targets, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.

A majority of Americans have lost data to hackers, prompting widespread fears that governmental agencies and corporations are unable to protect consumer data that they collect, the PEW Research Center revealed in a report on Thursday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he received a personal letter from US President Donald Trump, which was delivered by Trump's adviser on cybersecurity and former Mayor of New York Rudi Giuliani.

Domestic cats are small, typically furry, carnivorous mammals. But judging by this photo evidence, it seems some felines have started to mutatant caterpillars in Fukushima-hit Japan.