Новости за 04.04.2018

A photo session in Ankara featuring Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin took an unexpected twist when the Turkish leader decided to adjust the lineup a little.

On April 4, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu highlighted the key issues of international security at the seventh annual Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS).

With another mirror move, reported by Xinhua on April 4, Beijing has made another step in retaliating to the tariff war initiated by US President Donald Trump.

With another mirror move, reported by Xinhua on April 4, Beijing has made another step in retaliating to the tariff war initiated by US President Donald Trump.

With another mirror move, reported by Xinhua on April 4, Beijing has made another step in retaliating to the tariff war initiated by US President Donald Trump.

The reported incident in the city of Saratov takes place a week after a deadly fire in the city of Kemerovo which has left over 60 people dead, most of them children.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump confirmed his decision about the US troops' early withdrawal from Syria, saying that he wants "to get out" of this Arab country.

Despite the successful counter-terrorism mission in Syria and Iraq, the Daesh* terrorist group is still capable of conducting raids in different regions throughout the world, and in order to confront it, we need to think about new forms of international cooperation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

Earlier, Russian reconciliation center for Syria said that a total of 153,140 people have been evacuated from the area of Eastern Ghouta since the introduction of humanitarian pauses on February 28.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - All four crew members of a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter of the US Armed Forces that recently crashed in Southern California are feared dead, according to NBC News, citing the Marine Corps.

ANKARA (Sputnik) - Shipments of Russian S-400 air defense systems to Turkey are scheduled for July 2019, Turkish Defense Ministry’s Undersecratariat for Defence Industries (SSM) said Wednesday.

EASTERN GHOUTA (Syria) (Sputnik) - The representatives of the Syrian Armed Forces have found arms depots and facilities for manufacture of weapons in the recently liberated settlements located in the Eastern Ghouta area near Damascus, the chief of the Russian Center for Syrian reconciliation said on Wednesday.

Honduran presidential spokesman Ebal Diaz on Tuesday demanded respect for Honduras from US President Donald Trump following his threat to cut off aid to the Central American country.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) nonprofit organization will pay more than $2 million for using US funding to support Iran, Hamas, and two Palestinian groups, the Justice Department said in a press release.

LONDON (Sputnik) - The UK authorities refuse to allow Russia to contact experts that may shed an unfavourable light on London’s probe into the case of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal's poisoning in England, the Russian Embassy in the United Kingdom said on Tuesday.

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) - Venezuela will use its own cryptocurrency dubbed Petro, while paying to Russia for the delivered automotive parts and components, Jose Vielma Mora, the Venezuelan minister of foreign trade, said.

In the wake of the privacy scandal, Facebook is asking its users whether they think the social media platform is "good for the world" and how it can “do better”.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - President Donald Trump is planning to deploy the US National Guard to the Mexican border to stem the flow of illegal immigrants and violent gangs, the White House said in a statement.

MOSCOW (Sputnik), Tommy Yang - A top US pork producer, wholly owned by a company based in central China’s Henan province, could become the latest victim of collateral damage amid escalating trade tensions between the two countries, experts told Sputnik.

BEIJING (Sputnik) - China calls on all the member states of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to take steps in cooperation with Beijing to resist the protectionist policy implemented by the United States, the permanent envoy of China to WTO said Wednesday.

Sputnik spoke with John Keiger; Professor Of International History at the University Of Cambridge and Gino Raymond; Professor Of French Studies at the University Of Bristol to find out more about the French state railway SNCF strikes.

NASA has announced their intent to fund research which will send a swarm of Robot bees up to Mars to explore the red planet. Sputnik spoke to Sethu Vijayakumar, Professor of Robotics at the University of Edinburgh, and former judge of the BBC’s robot wars, about the ‘swarm’ technology format.

The head of district state administration of the Iraqi city of Sinjar, Mehma Xelil, told Sputnik that members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) officially left the territory of Sinjar, near Iraq’s northern border, April 1.

Sputnik discussed autism with Gianluca Esposito, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Trento (Italy) and Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore as the world marked Autism Awareness Day on April 2.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has admitted for the first time that in Washington, DC, the business of surveillance is out of their hands - at least partially. Foreign spies are believed to be using advanced technology to intercept phone records and communications.