Новости за 05.05.2017

On Friday the death sentences of four men convicted of raping, torturing and killing a young woman in New Dehli in 2012 was upheld by India’s highest court. The men brutally attacked the 23-year-old physiotherapy student who died two weeks after the assault, succumbing to internal injuries.

In nine out of 15 Eastern European states, at least half of the population spoke against accepting any number of Syrian refugees, a survey released by Gallup on Friday said.

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini claims that the United States is losing its position as leader in the context of handling international problems, whereas the European Union is becoming a reliable partner.

Chief of the Russian General Staff's Main Operational Directorate Col. Gen. Sergei Rudskoy said that Russian troops in Syria under the leadership of the General Staff are estimating the number of necessary observation points, which will be established in the Syrian safe zones.

A pair of Tennessee rehab facilities run by members of the Church of Scientology have been shut down after police discovered that patients there were being held against their will.

Thailand and China have signed a contract on the delivery of the first of three submarines that Thailand's naval forces plan to purchase from Beijing over the course of the next 11 years, media reported Friday.

Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of the US Army, announced in a statement that he is withdrawing his nomination.

A total of 1,189 people, including 172 militants, on Friday left the Al-Waer neighborhood of the Syrian city of Homs as part of the deal with the Syrian authorities, local media reported.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister confirmed his meeting with US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon.

Donald Trump said that he will ignore provisions prohibiting him from transferring prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

Turkey dismissed a total of 107 judges and prosecutors over their suspected links to US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen.

Tensions have yet to cool down on the Korean Peninsula: On Friday, the North Korean Ministry of State Security threatened to attack South Korea and the US in the wake of reports that agencies of the countries had conspired to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un with biochemical weapons.

Any third-grader can tell you about Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS), a titanic cyclone that has raged for centuries in Jupiter’s atmosphere. It sticks out like a blemish on photos of the gas giant, and by most estimates is two or three times as large as the Earth itself.

As US vessels launch airstrikes against Daesh in Syria and Iraq from the USS George H. W. Bush and its strike group, Iranian surveillance drones have become a regular nuisance.

The impressive adherence to the six-month agreement of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and 11 other oil producers to cut oil production has not succeeded so far in achieving a sustainable lift of oil prices, experts told Sputnik.

Russia’s Trade Envoy Boris Abramov stated that there is a noticeable increase in trade between the United Kingdom and Russia over the course of this year.

The Admiral Essen, an Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate armed with Kalilbr missiles, has entered the Mediterranean Sea to join the Russian Navy's Mediterranean task force mission, Navy spokesman Vyacheslav Trukhachyov confirmed Friday.

The memorandum to guarantee safe zones in Syria, adopted by Russia, Iran and Turkey, is a big step towards peace in the war-torn country, but the country's territorial integrity must be respected, military analyst Alexander Perendzhiev told RIA Novosti.

The potential right-wing alliance between France Arise party leader Nicolas Dupont-Aignan and presidential candidate Marine Le Pen will end the monopoly that The Republicans and the Socialist Party have had in French political life for decades, Jean-Luc Schaffhauser, a member of the EU Parliament's Europe of Nations and Freedom Group, told Sputnik.

FRIDAY: UK Local Elections show surge for Conservatives ahead of General Elections; officials warn that it could take years and billions of dollars to rebuild Mosul; and, an iceberg in the Gulf of Oman?

Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is reportedly busy creating a new group specifically aimed at funding organizations which will throw sand in the gears of Donald Trump and his Republican fellowmen.

Five people were killed and six others were wounded in a suicide attack in Nigeria’s northeast Borno State, according to local local police spokesman Malam Murtala Ibrahim.

Russia and North Korea increased their bilateral trade during January and February of this year by 73 percent when compared to the same period in 2016, the Russian Ministry of Economic Development told Sputnik on Friday.

Former soldier, known to be radicalized, was arrested near the French Evreux military air base on suspicion of plotting an attack, according to local media.

President Donald Trump has signed a bill funding the US government through the end of the 2017 fiscal year.