Новости за 05.04.2018

Anadarko Petroleum revealed on Thursday that one of its gas pipelines was the culprit behind a mysterious crater that turned up on a Colorado rancher's farm.

Joseph Beti Assomo, the Minister Delegate at the Presidency of the Republic of Cameroon in Charge of Defense in an exclusive interview with Sputnik spoke about the two security crises facing Cameroon – terrorism from Boko Haram, and the secessionist crisis in two Anglophone regions of the country.

The United States Geological Survey stated Thursday that an earthquake estimated at 5.3 magnitude struck 35 miles off the coast of California's Ventura County.

The United States Geological Survey stated Thursday that an earthquake estimated at 5.3 magnitude struck 35 miles off the coast of California's Ventura County.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Former US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spent $12 million in federal spending hiring private consultants to redesign the Department of State, media reported on Thursday.

This guy doesn’t have any microchip sewn into his brain, but suffers, or perhaps, profits from a condition commonly referred to as mirror-touch synaesthesia.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami said on Thursday that he dismissed claims made by US President Donald Trump on swiftly withdrawing US troops from Syria as a hoax on the part of Washington.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US city of San Francisco has filed a federal lawsuit against Attorney General Jeff Sessions for a decision that took away civil rights protections for minorities, disabled and other groups of people, City Attorney Dennis Herrera's office said in a press release on Thursday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The recent spate of US military aircraft crashes and fatalities does not constitute a crisis, US Joint Staff Director Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie told reporters on Thursday.

Russia requested that the key UN body meet to discuss UK Prime Minister Theresa May's letter, in which she reiterated that it was "highly likely" that Russia was behind the nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

The People’s Liberation Army-Air Force has modified the J-10 aircraft to have thrust vector control (TVC) capability, part of the service’s drive to make the aircraft more lethal.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Blind and visually-impaired people will be able to get audio descriptions of the matches at all the 12 arenas that will host this summer's FIFA World Cup in Russia, the Local Organizing Committee's (LOC) press service said Thursday.

Juli Briskman, the Virginia woman who was fired from her job after being photographed flipping off the US president's motorcade during a bike ride, is now suing her former employer, Akima LLC, for violating an employment law.

BELGRADE (Sputnik) - Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic expressed protest to Matthew Palmer, the director of the Office for South-East Europe in the US State Department, over the arrest of Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric in Kosovo, the Serbian government said Thursday.

The legendary car, built to transport Soviet officials, has gone on sale on a local online classified ads site.

A team of researchers at the Center for Robotics and Neural Systems at Plymouth University in England has developed an artificially intelligent neural network trained to classify planets into five different categories based on their potential for habitability. The tool could be used in the future for interstellar space exploration.

With the trauma from the February 14 Florida high school tragedy still utterly painful, American football player Julian Edelman couldn’t have ignored an alarming message that popped up among hundreds of comments on his Instagram account.

Twitter users' feud with New York television host Errol Louis began a day after President Donald Trump signed an order to deploy the National Guard to the US-Mexican border.

BRUSSELS (Sputnik) - Tuberculosis is not a problem of the past and needs to be further studied, amid growing concern about drug-resistant strains of the disease, but an epidemic, like centuries earlier, is unlikely in Europe, experts told Sputnik.

Mahmud Hayo, the head of Deir ez-Zor Governorate's agribusiness, told Sputnik that "this year the wheat-growing area is 25,000 hectares and the plan is to plant 14.3 hectares of cotton." In the east of the province they're still reconstructing the irrigation system of the fields and so crops have yet to be planted.

US President Donald Trump has denied that the US and China are engaged in a trade war. His comment comes as Beijing has announced that it would levy 25% import tariffs worth $50 billion on 106 American products. Sputnik discussed this with Stuart Orr, Professor at the Faculty of Business and Law, Deakin University.

Central American migrants crossing Mexico towards the US border called "caravans" have become an annual event aimed at grabbing the attention of the world community to the problems in their native countries. This year the caravan turned out to be at the heart of the US debate on immigration.

MADRID (Sputnik) - The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AGPD) said in a tweet on Thursday that it had launched an investigation into the misuse of Facebook users' personal information by the Cambridge Analytica consultancy firm.

Germany’s new Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, wants to restrict the criteria for the reunification of refugee families, allowing only close relatives into Germany.

Ahead of the anniversary of the first manned space flight, celebrated on April 12, Sputnik has picked the crème de la crème of our Milky Way and other galaxies for March's news update.