Новости за 01.04.2018

This year’s annual military exercise will be different from previous ones as they are expected to last half their usual duration and will not include US supercarriers and submarines. Although North Korea previously warned against conducting the drills, no official condemnation has been announced so far.

According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, the Israeli forces have opened fire at protesters in different cities in the Gaza Strip, including Jabalia, Rafah, Khan Yunis and Beit Hanoun.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has commented on the criticism of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the actions of Israeli soldiers, who have killed 16 Palestinians during the recent clashes.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has commented on the criticism of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the actions of Israeli soldiers, who have killed 16 Palestinians during the recent clashes.

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has hit western Iran, but there are no immediate reports of victims or damage, state television reported.

ANKARA (Sputnik) - Ankara strongly condemns Athens for adopting a law which includes Imia (Kardak) and some other islets in the Aegean Sea in the European Union’s “Natura 2000” environmental program amid the ongoing territorial disputes between the two countries, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said.

Russia has offered to host a summit of Israeli and Palestinian leaders following the recent wave of violence in Gaza. Radio Sputnik discussed the protests in Gaza and the clashes between the Palestinians and the Israeli forces with Dr. Waleed Al-Modallal, professor of political science at the Islamic University of Gaza.

Commenting on the Skripal case amid heightened tensions between Russia and the West, Aydın Sezer, political scientist and head of the Turkey and Russia Center of Studies (TURAM) in Istanbul, has told Sputnik that the United States and the UK are trying to influence western countries’ decisions and actions towards Russia.

Russia has completed the development of small-caliber ammunition for its fifth generation fighter Su-57 (PAK FA).

On Saturday night, two Russian Ilyushin Il-96-600 passenger aircraft carrying the Russian diplomats expelled from the United States, departed from Dulles International Airport in Washington.

On Saturday night, two Russian Ilyushin Il-96-600 passenger aircraft carrying the Russian diplomats expelled from the United States, departed from Dulles International Airport in Washington.

Earlier, two Russian Ilyushin Il-96-600 passenger aircraft carrying the Russian diplomats expelled from the United States, departed from Dulles International Airport in Washington.

The humanitarian operation on the evacuation of the Failaq al-Rahman militant group from Eastern Ghouta has successfully finished, the Russian center for Syrian reconciliation said Sunday.

A young man, taking part in the “Great Return March,” died while running away from the Israeli border fence as a result of an indiscriminate shooting, Palestinian activists reported, having shared disturbing video.

A Chinese man claims to have created a new kind of calligraphy, using knives to write characters, instead of regular brushes.

According to the statement of the Kemerovo administration, Aman Tuleyev has submitted his resignation as governor of the Russian Kemerovo region on a voluntary basis.

According to the statement of the Kemerovo administration, Aman Tuleyev submits resignation as governor of the Russian Kemerovo region on a voluntary basis.

According to the statement of the Kemerovo administration, Aman Tuleyev submits resignation as governor of the Russian Kemerovo region on a voluntary basis.

South Korea and the US began on Sunday the annual joint military exercise Foal Eagle that has been earlier postponed due to the Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, media reported.

An aide to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed that Turkish the military operations Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch would have been impossible without Russian cooperation.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The second plane carrying the Russian diplomats expelled from the United States, that took off from Washington earlier on Sunday, is now heading toward Moscow after a stopover in New York, according to a real-time flight tracker "Flightradar 24".

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) - A total of five police officers have been detained in Venezuela on charges of being responsible for a deadly fire in a police station in the town of Valencia in Carabobo State that killed 68 people, the country's prosecutor general Tarek William Saab said.

The funeral for professor Stephen Hawking, an icon of theoretical physics, took place at Cambridge, in Great St Mary's, a church at the university where he first found fame as a student working on his groundbreaking studies of space and time.

According to the online flight tracking site "Flightradar 24" two aircraft carrying expelled Russian diplomats and their families have taken off from Dulles Airport and are now heading toward Moscow. In total 171 people have left the US, a number that includes the diplomat's family members.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran has strongly condemned an Israeli attack on protesters calling for the return of land seized by Tel Aviv in 1976, and stated that it will “spare no effort” to help Palestinians restore what it claims is rightfully theirs.