Новости за 26.01.2017

US President Donald Trump on Thursday condemned whistleblower Chelsea Manning as a traitor who should not be released from prison over her alleged criticism of former President Barack Obama.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May must provide assurance to the public that any trade deal with the United States will not lead to the privatization of the UK National Health Service (NHS) by US businesses, Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Thursday.

Edinburgh's idea of a repeat independence vote, linked to the United Kingdom’s loss of access to the European Single Market, is likely to fail since it is only backed by the devolved government and is not getting necessary support from the Scots, the UK Christian Peoples Alliance party told Sputnik on Thursday.

The United States under the new administration may discard the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) just like it did with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), to pave the way for new trade policy, focused on local economies and sustainable jobs, experts told Sputnik.

Businessperson Gina Miller was catapulted into the public firing line for trying to ensure parliament would decide the government’s response to the June 23 referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU. Now, the UK Supreme Court has ruled in favor of her arguments. Speaking exclusively to Sputnik, Ms. Miller details how this victory was achieved.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May should protect the values of the United Kingdom and to oppose such US President Donald Trump's ideas as banning Muslims from entering the United States and building a wall on the US-Mexican border, during their forthcoming meeting, the leader of UK Labour Party said Thursday.

Russia has become the world's leader in wheat exports in 2016 with exports surpassing 25 million tonnes, the country's Export Center told Sputnik Thursday.

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that if Mexico is not willing to pay for the border wall, then Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto should cancel his scheduled trip to Washington, DC next week.

With porn stars as popular role models, more Nordic women are becoming dissatisfied with their private parts and seek plastic surgery to set things straight. Despite being touted as completely harmless, aesthetic surgery may lead to serious complications if performed wrong and is additionally suspected to have a more shady side.

Tourist flows from China to Russia are set to increase thanks to simplified visa procedures and an expected five million Chinese tourists in 2017. According to the Russian government, trips to Russia will be more popularity among Chinese tourists in 2017 thanks to the coming 100 year anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution.

Looks like this rodent is trying to figure out where his life went wrong…

On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin called for strengthening of the Russian Armed Forces' combat capability, including shortening the time of military units' deployment.

Russia aims to develop a technical project for a unique hybrid fusion-fission thermonuclear facility based on a tokamak device – large toroidal chambers with magnetic coils – in 2017, according to an order placed on the government procurement website by Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom.

Russian constitutional proposals for Syria that were presented to the opposition at the Astana talks envisage that the president is elected for seven years and for no more than two consecutive terms, the document obtained by Sputnik, reads.

Thousands of people took to the streets in Australia's Sydney on Thursday to protest Australia Day as a national holiday as it is marks the invasion that led to elimination of Aboriginal culture, local media reported.

The citizens of Syria's Damascus held peaceful protests Thursday against the terrorists blocking the city's access to drinking water supplies, a participant of the demonstration told Sputnik.

Greece's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday against the extradition of eight Turkish servicemen who fled to Greece following failed coup attempt in July, sources in the court room told Sputnik.

Moscow's aerial operation in Deir ez-Zor will help to prevent militants from overrunning the Syrian Arab Army base and the key city in eastern Syria in the short term, but the operation will have an impact on other parts of the country, particularly the north, analysts told Sputnik.

The First Japanese-Russian Computer Programming Contest was held on January 21, in the headquarters of Japanese electronic commerce and Internet company Rakuten in Tokyo at the initiative of the Japanese-Russian Youth Exchange Center.

Moscow wants to see a stable and prosperous Europe as the EU remains Russia's most important trading partner, Russian First Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Titov told Sputnik on Thursday.

Serial purchases of Russia's advanced MiG-35 (Fulcrum-F) multirole fighter under the state arms procurement program will begin in 2019, President of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Boris Slyusar said Thursday.

Syrian President Bashar Assad and Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, adviser to the speaker of the Iranian parliament, said Thursday they appreciate ceasefire in Syria as well as anti-terror fight, Syrian media reported Thursday.

Montenegro expects to become a full-fledged member of NATO before the next summit of the military alliance, which will take place in Brussels, Prime Minister Dusko Markovic said on Thursday.

The representatives of the Syrian armed opposition should participate in the talks on Syria's crisis settlement only if they prove their commitment to the fight against Daesh and al-Nusra Front terrorist groups, spokesman of the Damascus Platform opposition group Tarek Ahmad told Sputnik.

Nine months after the Panama Papers exposed the sheer scale of tax evasion via offshore companies, a new report has revealed the role played by middlemen across the globe involving some of the biggest banks, law firms and accountancy firms in a "systematic" process, Sputnik has been told.