Новости за 11.04.2017

Speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday, US Secretary of Defense James Mattis expressed confidence that the US-Russia relations will not spiral out of control as bilateral tensions grow in the wake of Washington's attack against the Sha'irat airbase last week.

“Young children all over the world know more than the White House press secretary about the Holocaust,” one Twitter user pointed out.

A 5.1 magnitude earthquake rocked El Salvador on Monday, with at least one death and three injuries confirmed.

A military judge has dismissed a cadet from the US West Point Military Academy, after the youth was convicted of dealing highly addictive synthetic opioid painkillers and an anti-anxiety drug, without a prescription.

Despite his loss to Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party nomination in the 2016 US presidential election, Vermont’s favorite democratic socialist Bernie Sanders is the most popular US senator, with a 75 percent approval rating among his constituents.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer confirmed on Tuesday that US President Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka, influenced a decision to launch cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase.

US Defense Secretary James Mattis said on Tuesday Washington took appropriate actions to ensure that no Russians were injured during the missile attack on a Syrian airbase last week.

Dragging Montenegro into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) without holding a national referendum on the issue is counterproductive, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday following the talks between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksey Meshkov and his Italian counterpart Vincenzo Amendola.

NASA has confirmed the presence of iron, magnesium, and sodium ions in Mars’ atmosphere, making it the first non-Earth planet ever to be confirmed to have metal in its air.

Amid mounting pressures to rein in the F-35, the Pentagon hopes to lower the cost of the joint strike fighter by five to seven percent for its next order of jets.

A vibrant bright green meteor lit up the sky over Southern California, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona on Monday evening, and was captured on video by social media users -- one of whom was completely stunned by the sighting.

Citing an “unreasonable delay” in investigating reported environmental hazards at the US Navy’s notorious Guantanamo Bay detention facility, military lawyers have filed a suit against the Department of Defense, claiming that they have for years been exposed to cancer-causing agents that have put their health at risk.

A high-ranking US Air Force official said she would spend any extra congressional funds to ensure the early detection of a missile threat from North Korea by upgrading radar.

"Take a deer like a champ."

Serbian historian and political scientist Sasa Adamovic says Senator John McCain is more than just a US senator: He's the 'secretary of state of the US deep state'. The question now on many people's minds is: has he finally gotten to Trump?

In a laboratory experiment, the nanoparticles induced the death of cancer cells.

IOM reports that 31,993 migrants and refugees entered Europe by the Mediterranean Sea in 2017 through 9 April, with over 80 percent arriving in Italy and the rest in Spain and Greece.

Iraqi Kurdistan Region will hold referendum on independence in 2017 and will form two boards to prepare for the procedure, according to the secretary of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) politburo.

According to police reports, one person has been injured in an explosion near the bus of German soccer team Borussia Dortmund.

French independent presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron and far-right National Front (FN) party leader Marine Le Pen both have public support of 23 percent of the projected votes, according to opinion poll.

The Russian aviation authorities have made no official statements on the possible suspension of charter flights between Russia and Turkey, according to a spokesman for the Turkish Directorate General of Civil Aviation.

The Longhorn hackers, which use the same tools as those revealed to be used by the CIA, are a "very dangerous group" of cyber-attackers, Pierluigi Paganini of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Cyber G7 Workgroup told Radio Sputnik.

According to a new Morning Consult poll, US Senator Bernie Sanders has the highest approval rating among his constituents than any other member of the Senate.

Washington has information that the preparation for the recent chemical attack against civilians in Syria started back in March, according a senior US National Security official.

The Syrian Armed Forces liberated the strategic height of al-Abtar south of the ancient city of Palmyra from the Daesh terrorists, according to local media reports.