Новости за 26.01.2017

French far-right National Front party leader Marine Le Pen winning the presidential run-off could turn into disaster for entire Europe, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Thursday in an interview with the local Onda Cero radio station.

The International Monetary Fund would like to see closer trade integration amid Washington’s decision to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade treaty, the fund’s deputy spokesman William Murray said in a briefing on Thursday.

Russia needs to develop its own advanced technologies in the sphere of robotics to strengthen combat readiness of the country's general purpose forces, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday.

Members of Russia's United Russia ruling party will submit a law draft to the Chechen Parliament that would allow children wear religious symbols in schools, Magomed Daudov, the speaker of the legislature, said Thursday.

British astronaut Tim Peake has only been back on Earth for seven months and he's already planning on returning to Space for a second mission.

US President Donald Trump has selected Cheryl LaFleur to serve as the acting Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the agency said in a press release on Thursday.

Norwegian Gunn Narten became an Internet sensation after Instagram users, followed by major news outlets, crowned her the world’s fittest and hottest female firefighter. However, only skills and experience count for such a responsible service, she told Sputnik.

Russia plays an important role in settling numerous conflicts in the word, Spanish King Felipe IV said at a Royal reception held in honor of the diplomatic corps.

The Syrian army is so determined to liberate its towns and cities from the clutches of the terrorists, that it is pursuing them at night and even during poor weather conditions.

US President Donald Trump continues the blizzard of activity with which he has begun his Presidency with pronouncements that the practice known as 'waterboarding' works, and that he wants to see 'safe zones' established for refugees within Syria.

The humanity is 30 seconds closer to its complete annihilation due to dangerous nuclear situation, failure to act on climate change, potential threats from new technologies, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said Thursday, announcing the new status of the so-called Doomsday Clock.

US President Donald Trump continues to push ahead with his plan to build "safe zones" in Syria. According to Moscow, one ought to calculate all the possible consequences before implementing the plan. For his part, Daniel Larison of the American Conservative warns of "a dramatic and unwarranted escalation of US involvement" in the Syrian war.

France has been rocked by yet another political scandal. Plus ça change. The investigation into whether or not the wife of presidential candidate Francois Fillon earned money for nothing is just the latest in a series of scandals that have hit French politics. But where is it on the Richter scale?

During his first days in office, US President Donald Trump has been busy undoing some of Barack Obama's key initiatives.

The fake news "hysteria" has recently resulted in a number of initiatives to fight against the so called misleading information and false statements. The campaign has been launched by such Internet giants, as Facebook and Google.

During his first days in office, US President Donald Trump has been busy dismantling some of Barack Obama's signature initiatives, including the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, something he had pledged to do if elected.

Salah Abdeslam, a suspect in the 2015 massive terrorist attacks in Paris, had planned to conduct one more explosion at the Stade de France stadium, but because of the malfunction his suicide belt did not explode, RTL broadcaster reported Thursday.

A Minsk city court upheld Thursday the decision of the Prosecutor General's Office of Belarus on the extradition of Russian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin to Azerbaijan, a Sputnik correspondent reported.

Russian representatives in the Russian-Turkish commission on the Syrian truce have registered five violations of the ceasefire regime over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday.

Contrary to common belief, fuelled by the US and EU mainstream media, the Syrian armed opposition has little support among ordinary Syrians who regard them as "traitors," Olga Nakkas, a Syrian-born film director told Sputnik. Syria has long been a secular state committed to religious pluralism and must remain secular, she underscored.

More women smoke during pregnancy in the UK than in any other European country. Smoking while pregnant increases the likelihood of death, disability and disease in the unborn child, according to a new report which reveals women with the worst health, are the poorest.

The US Congress is moving forward on a $12-$15 billion supplemental that will pay for the construction of the border wall between the United States and Mexico, US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said at a press conference on Thursday.

China is reportedly testing a beyond-visual-range, air-to-air missile in combat drills capable to engage targets up to 400 kilometers away, China Daily wrote.

US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said torture was not legal under US law during a press conference on Thursday.

The MiG-35 multirole jetfighter fully meets the demands of modern-day aerial combat and will be a welcome addition to Russia’s fleet of light frontline fighters, the Russian Airspace Forces’ former deputy commander, Col. Gen. Nikolai Antoshkin told RIA.