Новости за 21.12.2017

Yonhap news agency has reported for the second time in as many months, a North Korean soldier has defected to the South across the heavily guarded border that divides the two Koreas, the demilitarized zone (DMZ).

Republicans claimed they wanted to simplify taxes with a new president and a GOP-controlled Congress, but the new tax bill passed by Congress shows this is “bogus,” investigative reporter Dave Lindorff told Sputnik Radio’s Loud & Clear Wednesday.

Yonhap has reported for the second time in as many months, a North Korean soldier has defected to the South across the heavily guarded border that divides the two Koreas, the demilitarized zone (DMZ).

The Associated Press has released an updated casualty report from the battle of Mosul: between 9,000 and 11,000 dead, many times higher than the figure of 1,260 cited by the Iraqi government after the climactic fight against Daesh ended in June 2017.

Rather than continuing to look outside for explanations for its failure, the Democratic Party should do some soul searching, Green Party 2016 vice presidential candidate Ajamu Baraka told Radio Sputnik’s By Any Means Necessary.

The US House Intelligence Committee has decided to issue fresh subpoenas after Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe's contradictory testimony about a dossier on the US President Donald Trump, Fox News reported on Wednesday.

A US State Department official has confirmed to Sputnik that the United States approved licenses for the commercial export of lethal weapons to Ukraine.

A new poll published Wednesday shows a whopping 41 percent of US citizens support Congress holding impeachment hearings to kick the 45th president out of office.

Astronomers have announced that TB145, an interesting-looking asteroid that remotely resembles a human skull, is going to return next year.

By now, it’s common knowledge that anything that goes wrong in the US is actually the work of a vast Russian conspiracy. Step on a Lego? The FSB put it there. Can’t connect to the internet? You’ve been hacked by Russian trolls. Get a parking ticket? Putin was the meter maid.

The majority of American voters are critical of Congress for failing to respond to US mass shootings with stricter measures limiting public access to firearms, according to a new survey released by Quinnipiac University on Wednesday.

Several French public figures on Wednesday called on the county’s broadcasting watchdog to recall RT France’s license for operating on the country's territory.

Nope, that’s not a rubber chicken you hear.

The Iranian military has displayed its Zolfaghar missile, a new variant that marks a major development in the country’s missile technology.

US gymnast McKayla Maroney, who won a gold medal during the 2012 London Olympics, has filed a lawsuit saying officials in USA Gymnastics’ national governing body paid her a hefty sum of money to stay silent about the sex abuse she suffered as a child in the organization.

Two women who worked at a Chicago daycare have been charged for wounding the toddlers in their care with a hot glue gun.

After leaving a negative hotel review on Brown County's Abbey Inn & Suites' website, a couple vacationing in Indiana was charged $350 and threatened with legal action.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is under investigation for a vacation he took at the Aga Khan's island last year, Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson said in a news release on Wednesday.

As the UN General Assembly prepares to vote on the United States’ decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Dr. Emran El-Badawi, program director and associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Houston, shared a perhaps-uncommon point of view: that the US move might eventually bring peace to the region.

As the UN General Assembly prepares to vote on the United States’ decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Dr. Emran El-Badawi, program director and associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Houston, shared a perhaps-uncommon point of view: that the US move might eventually bring peace to the region.

The US House of Representatives has cobbled together a backward and secretive piece of legislation known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017 that is a blow to privacy rights, US Senator Ron Wyden said on Wednesday.

Damian Green, one of Prime Minister Theresa May's closest allies, resigned Wednesday from his role as the UK's first secretary of state after a cabinet investigation discovered the politician misled the public and fellow politicians over pornography found on his office computer.