Новости за 10.07.2017

Russia has remained the world's second-largest arms exporter over the past five years with a 17-percent share of the global market, Rosoboronexport state arms exporter Director General Alexander Mikheev said Monday.

A new de-escalation zone in southwestern Syria is an important step towards a sustainable ceasefire in the war-torn Arab country, according to Russian expert Boris Dolgov.

The attack of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants at a police checkpoint in Turkey's southern Hatay province claimed lives of two police officers, local media reported Monday, citing a security source.

An advanced ground effect vehicle (GEV) with a displacement of 54 metric tons and a 15-tonne payload will appear in Russia in 2019-2020, its manufacturer told Sputnik.

Royal Jordanian Airlines' and Kuwait Airways' passengers will be allowed to use their electronic devices on the companies' US-bound flights.

South Korea may resume its humanitarian assistance to Pyongyang via international organizations as Seoul seeks to encourage civilian inter-Korean exchanges, a spokesman for the Ministry of Unification said Monday.

A video camera set up by a tree at the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise in Italy recorded many woodland creatures passing through the area over the course of a year.

The international Sea Breeze military exercises co-hosted by the United States and Ukraine start on Monday in the Black Sea.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed the settlement of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani leader's press service reported Monday.

US Senator John McCain, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, believes that Washington is currently losing war in Afghanistan, where the US has been conducting military operation for 16 years, local media reported Sunday.

Gazprom's European partners investing in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline have demanded the United States to stop threatening Russian project with sanctions, media reported Monday.

South Korean Navy receives new advanced 1,800-tonne submarine to increase its underwater warfare capability against the North Korea amid escalating tensions in the region, local media reported Monday.

Turkey's government is about to sign an order granting citizenship to a total of 7,000 highly qualified Syrians who "will not create a security problem", local media reported on Sunday.

US President Donald Trump said on Monday he was not sure, whether a joint US-Russian cybersecurity group he discussed with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday might really be established.

WikiLeaks whistleblowing online portal offered US president Donald Trump to appoint its founder Julian Assange head of US-Russian working group on cybersecurity, which was agreed on the meeting of the Russian and the US leaders.

The arguments of the New York Times newspaper about the details of the meeting between the presidents of Russia and the US, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, are nonsense, it indicates that the tale-tellers are sitting there, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday.

Radiohead singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Thom Yorke reportedly gave BDS protestors the middle finger during the band’s Friday night concert in Glasgow, Scotland.

A priest, a rabbi and a Buddhist monk eat a bunch of psychedelic mushrooms. Sounds like the beginning of an absurdist joke, right? But this one’s for real, as religious scholars have volunteered to get high on ‘shrooms and grok their faiths anew, all for the sake of science.

Moldovan President Igor Dodon said Chisinau would never pursue anti-Russian policy and should never join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), media reported on Sunday.

Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni called on Sunday the liberation of Iraqi city of Mosul from the militants of Daesh terrorist group (IS, banned in Russia) "the final defeat of the Daesh."

Moscow is considering the possibility of lowering the level of diplomatic representation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to the status of charge d'affaires ad interim after current Russian permanent representative to the NATO Alexander Grushko leaves his post, the Izvestia newspaper reported on Monday.

In a suburb of Beijing, the Chinese government is testing a self-sustaining orbital space station, in which nothing goes in and nothing will come out, to see how a self-contained space environment would function.

China's first commercial quantum communication network, which experts said may provide a secure communication channel for the government in future, has been successfully tested and will go into service by the end of August.

Russian President Vladimir Putin communicates with leaders of other countries through interpreters at official meetings, but he most frequently speaks English during "on-the-feet" conversations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Sunday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Saturday that Japan shall honor its words on issues related to history and Taiwan, and remove the distractions in bilateral relations with strategies and concrete actions.