Новости за 11.04.2017

UK Ambassador to the United Nations Matthew Rycroft said that US, UK, and France circulated a new draft of Security Council resolution on the recent chemical attack in Syria.

Today’s headlines include: EU leaders meet to discuss the terms for Britain’s exit from the bloc; and protests ramp up in Venezuela.

On Sunday, United Airlines' staff and police manhandled a passenger off an overbooked flight after he refused to leave the plane voluntarily. Besides the mass outbreak of anger directed at United on the Internet since then, the incident has met with a hurricane of jokes.

Raytheon stock surged Friday (April 7), after 59 of the company's Tomahawk missiles (US$1.4 million apiece) were used in the US airstrike on Syria. While the attack may have slain innocent civilians and soured improving US-Russia relations, its shareholders - including President Trump - can look forward to increased dividends and capital growth.

With the ink barely dry on UK Prime Minister Theresa May's letter formally triggering Brexit, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are embroiled in a battle over the allocation of the 73 seats Britain currently holds, with some demanding they be shared out among the remaining 27 member states.

India and Russia will soon have a dry run of container movement on the International North-South Transportation Corridor as the two countries prepare to mark the 70th anniversary of diplomatic ties on April 13. The corridor can give India access to Eurasian markets and vice versa.

Watch a “T-Rex” conducting the theme from the Jurassic Park movie at Denver's Comic Con.

According to Senator Elizabeth Warren’s office, US Government Accountability Office has started an investigation of possible conflicts of interests related to President Donald Trump’s transition team.

Immediately after its attack on Syria, Washington decided to send a carrier strike group led by the USS Carl Vinson to the Korean peninsula. Russian observers, whose country shares a common border with North Korea, are rightfully concerned about what the move will mean for security in the region.

French Ambassador to the United Nations Francois Delattre stated that a full investigation into the recent chemical attack in the Syrian province of Idlib is extremely important so that "the entire world knows how these horrible chemical attacks occurred and where they come from".

India’s investigative agencies have exposed a land scam operation running into millions of rupees, involving Indian Army officers and locals in the Indian State Jammu & Kashmir. The Army is said to have paid the money as rent to fictitious owners for land that is situated in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

Oxfam, a UK-based confederation of charity organizations for alleviating poverty, on Tuesday urged G7 members to enhance efforts in order to reach a peaceful settlement to the Syrian conflict.

While analysts place the chances of a global recession in the near future at around 10 percent, investment firm Saxo ranks the risk closer to 60 percent, as borrowing reaches unsustainable levels across the Western world, and US President Donald Trump loses his market luster.

House of Representatives lawmaker Tulsi Gabbard said that United States will repeat the mistake of detrimental military interventions in Iraq and Libya if President Donald Trump single-handedly authorizes missile strikes against Syria without consulting Congress.

Google needs to publish transparent criteria for choosing its third-party fact-checkers, German Pirate Party chairman Patrick Schiffer told Sputnik Deutschland.

Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency in Florida following the recent wildfires across the state and the high potential for increased wildfires to continue this year, according to official statement.

Boris Johnson, Britain's foreign secretary, likes to clown around, even by his own admission. So much so, it seems, that when news emerged last week of an alleged massacre of children choking from chemical weapons in Syria, Johnson was still up for jolly-good fun.

UK Labour party leader said that Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump should engage with each other for the sake of the Syrian peace process.

Commenting on the recent report in The Guardian that senior White House foreign policy official Sebastian Gorka has pushed for a plan to partition Libya into three areas, Libyan expert on regional issues Abu Bakr al Ansari suggested that the West "has no idea what to do with the country after the murder of Muammar Gaddafi."

A military airfield in the Syrian town of Tabqa may greatly increase the effectiveness of the Raqqa operation and serve as an alternative to Turkey's Incirlik base, a senior representative of the Syrian Democratic Forces told Sputnik Turkey.

US President Donald Trump has ratified the protocol for Montenegro’s accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said in a release on Tuesday.

Sanctions will be in force until April 13, 2018.

US State Secretary said that G7 countries’ direct involvement is necessary to settle the ongoing conflict in Syria, and their support is vital for defeating the Daesh.

The Russian military will provide security for experts during their investigation into the chemical incident in Syria's Idlib province.

Following Donald Trump's show of force in Syria, observers expect new US strikes, Russian commentator Alexander Khrolenko noted in his op-ed for RIA Novosti. What country could become the next target for American Tomahawks?