Новости за 05.12.2017

A group of Canadian spelunkers discovered a huge cave system with a mind-blowing interior right in the middle of a major Quebecois city using an unlikely combination of high-tech radio equipment and a dowsing rod.

Both the principal and assistant principal at Tennessee's Haywood High School were suspended without pay Tuesday as the school district investigates racially charged threats made by student athletes at the school, the Jackson Sun reported.

The US military found no issues with the F-22 Raptor it was forced to pull from a runway on Monday in South Korea, the Seventh US Air Force said Tuesday.

“Why does it keep lunging at me?!”

A pair of trains crashed into one another near Dusseldorf, Germany on Tuesday, local media reported. At least 50 are feared wounded, German police said.

The US Consulate General in Jerusalem has forbidden government employees and their families from traveling to Jerusalem's Old City and the West Bank. They have also advised US citizens to be careful while traveling through those areas. Protests and demonstrations regarding the prospective move of the US embassy in Israel have broken out.

It’s been a tough year for the US and according to Detox.net, an online resource for alcohol abuse treatment programs, Washington, DC, might be taking it the hardest: the capital city ranks number one in the entire country for its percentage of heavy drinkers.

The US Navy’s potentially game changing electromagnetic rail gun may wind up permanently shelved despite years of investment and research, according to a new report.

A US federal judge on Monday granted a preliminary injunction allowing bikini-clad baristas at Washington State's Hillbilly Hotties to continue operating while the company's lawsuit makes its way through court.

Millions of residents of Tokyo will participate in mass evacuation drills sometime in the first quarter of 2018 to prepare for a potential North Korean nuclear attack on Japan’s capital city.

Donald Trump won the US presidential election in November last year in spite of a damaging scandal the previous month over comments he made on an "Access Hollywood tape." While the US public appeared not to hold the revelation against him, Mike Pence's wife is not so forgiving; according to a new report, she thinks Trump is "totally vile."

Singapore Airlines has changed the route of its Seoul-Los Angeles flights because of North Korean missile tests over the Sea of Japan, the airline revealed Tuesday.

The 7,200 km long INSTC comprises rail, road and sea routes that connect the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea via Iran from where it connects St Petersburg and Northern Europe.

Unconfirmed reports that the Trump administration is mulling the creation of a privately-run global spy network to counter the president's 'deep state' adversaries within the US intelligence community has set the internet ablaze with discussion over the move's implications for America's future.

The recent deal between Bangladesh and Myanmar to start the repatriation of Rohingya refugees stuck in Bangladesh was struck after Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi made multiple visits to the capitals of both the countries to convince them to arrive upon a consensus.

The International Olympic Committee has ruled on Tuesday to suspend the Russian Olympic Committee immediately. The IOC's decision follows a probe into the country's alleged "systematic doping manipulation."

Following a bid to turn "a new page" in relations with the Saudi-led coalition, Yemen's former president Saleh was killed yesterday by the Houthis - his allies during the 2015-2016 struggle against the coalition. Speaking to Sputnik, politicians and observers from Yemen and Saudi Arabia shared their views on what will happen next in the country.

Despite Donald Trump's promise to Ankara to stop weapon deliveries to Kurdish forces in Syria, the Pentagon has not ruled to halt them; the Turkish leader slammed the situation as posing a threat to the whole region.

Despite Donald Trump's promise to Ankara to stop weapon deliveries to Kurdish forces in Syria, the Pentagon has not ruled to halt them; the Turkish leader slammed the situation as posing a threat to the whole region.

The indigenous radio frequency seeker has been developed at a cost of approximately $7 million and it will make the Akash more accurate and increase its range.

The UK and EU are planning new measures to subject cryptocurrencies to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing regulations. Amid a record high in the price of Bitcoin, Dr. Garrick Hileman, a Research Fellow at the Cambridge Judge Business School, told Radio Sputnik that so far regulation seems to have had a positive effect on prices.

The US' decision to exit the Global Compact on Migration will have repercussions for US policies, Vassilis Fouskas, professor of International Relations at the University of East London, the Editor of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies and the Director of the Centre for the Study of States, Markets and People told Radio Sputnik.

As claims of outside interference in Australian politics have reached fever pitch, Canberra has outlined plans to broaden the definitions of offenses against national security and create new categories of political crimes.

Yemen's ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed by the Houthis, his former allies, after he called for turning a new page in the Yemeni civil war.

Children and young people should be educated in using smartphones to stop them being exploited by the rising tide of sex offenders attempting to groom and sexually abuse them via digital technology, a new UK report has suggested.