Новости за 22.10.2017

To date, at least 15,000 people have illegally crossed the US-Canadian border in 2017 asking for refugee status in Canada while claiming that they are living in fear of being deported back to their home country by the administration of US President Donald Trump.

A recent global study by the powerful World Bank has revealed statistics showing that more than 1.1 billion people on earth have no proof of identity, an indication that some 15 percent of the global population is being denied health and education services.

The earthquake occurred at the depth of some 198 kilometers at 10:21 p.m. local time. No one was hurt, according to preliminary reports.

While some political issues in the Middle East are getting solved and other require more efforts to invest, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has commented on the relations between Iraq and Saudia Arabia as well as the ongoing Qatari crisis.

US President Donald Trump has recently demanded to re-negotiate the NAFTA agreement with Canada and Mexico. The revision of the trade deal is related to profound changes in the US economy, economist Oscar Ugarteche told Sputnik Mundo.

The Syrian Army continues its operation to wipe Daesh terrorists out after the historic lifting of the three-year siege of Deir ez-Zor.

The actions by police during the Catalan referendum that was deemed illegal by the Spanish authorities have been strongly criticized.

The German Army has appointed a transgender person as a battalion commander for the first time ever. The news lit social media on fire, causing vivid debates among internet users.

It is expected to reach Japan's main island, possibly near Tokyo, on early Monday.

A London-based lawyer proposed to his girlfriend on a plummeting plane while oxygen masks were dropping and passengers were screaming in horror.

The head of the Flemish government, Geert Bourgeois, has shared his opinion on a possible independence referendum in Belgium's Flanders region in wake of the recent Catalan referendum, as well as other separatist tendencies throughout Europe.

An amazing video showing a bear catching fish in Russia’s Kamchatka was published on YouTube.

The USS Ronald Reagan nuclear-powered aircraft carrier entered the port of Busan in southern South Korea on Saturday October 21 after a weeklong military exercise, fueling the standoff between the US and North Korea even further.

Social media users are mocking British Prime Minister Theresa May over a photograph of her sitting alone in a meeting room calling it an analogy for her isolated political position. Twitter users launched an avalanche of hilarious tweets about the photo.

The largest-ever Indian Army contingent reached Russia for its first-ever tri-service exercise. India has termed exercise INDRA 2017 as a landmark event of India-Russia defense cooperation. But political analysts Andrei Frolov and Alexander Khramchikhin suggest that bilateral military cooperation goes a long way back for India and Russia.

US President Donald Trump has said he is not going to block the release of thousands of previously unseen documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

A former Russian ambassador to the US, Sergei Kislyak, has commented on a possible thaw in US-Russia ties, while the relations between the two nations have hit the bottom.

The UK Labour Party objects to the draft bill on Brexit, claiming that it will "silence the Parliament."

Police are responding to the reported hostage situation in the UK.

Sunday, October 22, marks the 95th anniversary of the Tupolev design bureau, one of the world’s best-known aircraft manufacturers. Dozens of types of military and civil aircraft have been developed by its engineers. Many of its designs have gone down in the history of aviation.

A closer alliance with the US could bring India more harm than good, a professor of politics at the University of Westminster, Dibyesh Anand, told Radio Sputnik, commenting on US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's recent call for "dramatically deeper cooperation" with New Delhi amid the "less responsible" rise of China in the Asian region.

A hacktivist group dubbed Anonymous has targeted Spanish institutions for the second time this week.

Friendship definitely knows no limits.

A Yazidi girl, recently rescued from Sinjar by the Iraqi Army, was resold by Daesh 12 times as a sex slave. She was kidnapped, beaten and raped by the militants for over three years. Sputnik correspondent spoke to her about her terrible ordeal.

The UK secretary of state for international trade speculates about the ongoing Brexit negotiations with the EU and country's national interests.