Новости за 24.07.2017

Qatar’s Defense Minister Khalid bin Mohammad Attiyah claims that the Arab states’ blockade of Qatar has benefits as Doha will now be able to rely on its own capabilities.

Japanese authorities announced on Monday their investigation into the deadly collision between the USS Fitzgerald and a Philippines commercial freighter is nearly complete, though they have received no cooperation from the US.

A 22-year old man from the US state of Kansas, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for plotting to detonate a car bomb at the Fort Riley military base.

Evo Morales accused Washington of supporting separatism in his country and preparing his assassination in 2008.

UK authorities will allocate several millions to the creation of an innovation center in London aimed at the development of cybersecurity technologies.

US Democratic lawmakers at a press conference on Monday unveiled an economic plan to boost wages and create jobs, presenting a unified party platform ahead of next year's midterm elections.

Gwinnett County police department reported that a small plane made an emergency landing on Georgia Highway 316 Monday afternoon after it encountered technical difficulties.

A spokesperson for the US Atlantic Resolve NATO military presence in Romania announced that 12 US paratroopers were injured in a night mission over the weekend.

The “unusual activities” of a North Korean submarine in the Sea of Japan last week has caused the US military to increase its surveillance to keep an eye on the 1,800-ton vessel.

Sometimes the idea of a flying elephant isn’t the worst idea ever - we’re looking at you, Dumbo.

Despite the fact that Senator McCain’s views aren’t very popular in the American society, a significant part of the US political elite still considers them quite relevant.

Founder and ex-leader of the Italian Lega Nord party, Umberto Bossi, was sentenced to 2.5 years in jail over fraud, while former Lega Nord treasurer Francesko Belsito was sentenced to four years and 10 months in prison, according to local media reports.

Delegation of Russian experts arrives in Cairo as part of ongoing work to monitor the measures taken at Egyptian airports to ensure flight safety, according to a source in the Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation.

A US State Department delegation led by new special envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker paid a visit to war-torn eastern Ukraine on Sunday. Unfortunately, political observers say Volker's description of the conflict as a case of 'Russian aggression' instead of a civil war leaves little room for negotiation, both with Donbass authorities and with Moscow.

Senior adviser and son-in-law of US President Donald Trump Jared Kushner said that Trump won presidential elections due to a smarter campaign.

Palestinian leaders refused to accept the new security measures installed by Israel at the Temple Mount, and blamed Netanyahu’s government for the ongoing escalation of violence in Jerusalem.

The Turkish authorities transferred a 6-year-old Russian girl, who was detained in Turkey along with her mother, stepfather and 18-month-old sister as they were attempting to enter Syria, to his father, according to the Russian Embassy in Turkey.

Catalonia’s President Carles Puigdemont said that Catalan authorities will hold independence referendum on October 1 even if the Constitutional Court ban it.

Watch this video compilation uploaded on iPanda YouTube channel showing clumsy pandas falling in the most adorable way.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Moscow and Washington have inherited from the past administration of Obama a huge number of problems, 'ticking time bombs' and simply subversive decisions.

Decades ago, the US military was keenly interested in psychic powers – so much so, it paid for intelligence officers to go on weeklong excursions to an institute specializing in out-of-body experiences and astral projection, and pumped millions into researching possible uses of supernatural capabilities in the battlefield.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia sees role of the Syrian Kurds as part of ethnoconfessional and political groups participating in Syria's settlement process.

Following the Arab Spring in 2011 a series of anti-government protests triggered mass civil unrest in Syria. A range of Islamist groups took the lead in the anti-government standoff.

Scientists in the US have estimated that a total of 8.3 billion tons of plastic has been produced over the course of history, and it's enough to cover a country the size of Argentina. It's also comparative to a ton of plastic for every person on the planet.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that Russia supports the mediation efforts in the resolution of the Qatar diplomatic row undertaken by Emir of Kuwait Sabah Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.