Новости за 22.03.2017

California is no stranger to temblors, but a new twist on the big shake now adds the risk of drowning, as the Los Angeles shoreline could sink up to three feet in a significant seismic event.

Chelsea Clinton, at just 37 years old, is set to receive a lifetime achievement award from Variety Magazine at their annual “Women in Power” luncheon next month.

Former UK Chancellor George Osborne has defended his widely criticized decision to take on the editorship of one of Britain's most important newspapers, while also remaining a member of parliament, saying there is a "long tradition" of mixing journalism and politics.

The Iraqi government troops liberated more than 60 percent of western Mosul from the Daesh terror group, outlawed in numerous countries, local media reported on Wednesday, citing spokesman for the Iraqi Joint Special Operations Command Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasul.

The opposition in the small Serbian Municipality of Knic proposed to appoint a local dog as an assistant of the community’s chairman.

Russia is in constant contact with the UK authorities to clarify the circumstances of the shooting incident near the parliament building in London, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Monday.

India is expected to announce a large credit line to Bangladesh when its Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visits New Delhi next month.

In a landmark move against tax-resistant multinationals, Facebook and Google will now be obliged to pay taxes in Australia based on the revenues they reap in the country, and will be prohibited from surreptitiously shifting income abroad to low or no-tax jurisdictions, Canberra has announced.

A Sputnik correspondent said that Damascus government delegation was holding a meeting with Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Office in Geneva.

The Indian Air Force has ordered terrain warning awareness system for its six Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules aircraft due this year to avoid accidents in Himalayan terrain. The aircraft will be based with the mountain strike corps being raised on the Line of Actual Control with China.

US public support for the Republican Party’s initiative to replace the 2010 health care law known as Obamacare is decreasing, a poll conducted by the Politico media outlet and the Morning Consult company revealed.

London Metropolitan police said Wednesday it was presently treating an earlier incident in the borough of Westminster, where a shooting and a reported car attack took place, as a terrorist incident.

The participants in a fist fight at a Russian festival, whom journalists of Britain's The Mirror tabloid presented as aggressive football fans, said in an interview with RT that they have nothing to do with football and don't understand the reasons behind the newspaper's decision to publish false information.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is expected to discuss the “One Belt, One Road” initiative on his official visit to Australia this week. Sputnik spoke with Chinese expert Bian Yongzu in an interview about the upcoming visit and Australia’s and New Zealand’s reaction to the proposal.

Russia has introduced safeguards against the risk of being shut out of international transaction systems such as Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) after anti-Russian sanctions introduced by the West, Russian Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina said Wednesday.

Keeping with his election promise, the newly-elected chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state has set up a moral police squad to protect women from teasing and other crimes, in a first of its kind initiative in the country.

The FBI is breaking US privacy laws by failing to issue timely privacy impact assessments and better manage its photo data base as the agency upgrades facial recognition systems that are used to identify criminal suspects, the General Accountability Office (GAO) said in an audit report on Monday.

There is more information online against the Daesh terror group (outlawed in numerous countries) than content that supports it, the US Department of State said in a press release on the efforts the US-led coalition to defeat Daesh.

The volume of Russian exports in the sphere of military-technical cooperation in 2016 exceeded $15 billion, the country has retained the world's second place, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday.

The crucial clause in the Treaties of Europe which will be used to trigger Brexit, which was drawn up by a British diplomat who intended it to be used in the event of a coup in one of the EU member states, has hinted that trade-offs will be at the heart of talks, which may even end in "No Brexit."

The US Department of Defense has asked for the additional financing to address the worsening security situation around the world, the spokesman said on Wednesday.

The armed groups which do not observe the ceasefire regime in Syria shelled the civilian districts of the country’s capital Damascus, including al-Mazraa, where the Russian embassy is located, a witness told Sputnik Wednesday.

Julian Assange said that whistleblowing organization WikiLeaks is ready to provide tech companies with the details of the hacking exploits from the leak of the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) data.

The US-led coalition against the Daesh terror group banned by numrous countries has airdropped partner forces to the vicinity of Tabqah dam near the Syrian city of Raqqa, US Central Command spokesperson Maj. Josh Jacques told Sputnik on Wednesday.

The Kiev authorities' decision to ban Russian Eurovision participant Yulia Samoilova entry to Ukraine is unprecedented, Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the international affairs committee of the State Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament, said Wednesday on Rossiya 24 television channel.