Новости за 07.04.2018

The Holy Fire has been delivered to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, where the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia leads the festive Easter service.

Unlike most girls, many boys have been told that - due primarily to gender - they are ‘naturally inclined’ to be good at science, math and engineering. A new poll reveals that men do indeed believe that to be the case.

LONDON (Sputnik) - The murder of former top manager of Aeroflot carrier Nikolai Glushkov has not only a criminal but also a political dimension for Moscow, the Russian Embassy in London said Saturday.

On Friday, a South Carolina state congressman pulled out a loaded 38-caliber handgun during a meeting with constituents, apparently to make a point about freewheeling gun ownership laws in the US.

If you are aged 16 to 25 and a current resident of the United Kingdom, you are probably not all that happy, according to the results of a new study by the country’s monarchy.

Sustainable methods of transportation are there for us not merely on Earth, but perhaps also in outer space, with researchers now striving to find more or less "green" options even for cargo deliveries in outer space.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The United Kingdom's Metropolitan police have said they had arrested a man suspected of supporting terrorism upon his arrival from Morocco.

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) - Venezuelan bolivar exchange rate collapsed on the black market, exceeding for the first time 300,000 bolivars per US dollar after the authorities decided to impose financial and economic sanctions against Panama, local media reported.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A recent cyberattack that exploited the vulnerability in Cisco switches targeted mainly the Russian-language segment of the Internet, cybersecurity and anti-virus provider Kaspersky Lab said Saturday.

This year's parade dedicated to the 72nd anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War will feature over 10,000 troops, more than 120 vehicles and 70+ aircraft, including over half a dozen pieces of equipment never seen before on Red Square before.

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) - Brazilian Supreme Court judge Edson Fachin has dismissed an appeal to overturn the ruling to imprison Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva over a corruption conviction, the Globo broadcaster reported.

Unrest at the border of the Gaza Strip has peaked since thousands of Palestinians started a six-week-long protest on March 30 for their right to return to their former territories in Israel, while the Israeli military opens fire and uses tear gas.

Catherine Jane Fisher, an Australian woman who was raped by a US sailor almost two decades ago has renewed her request to Japanese government to amend the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). She has also wrote a book "I am Catherine Jane", which details her fight with the US military and Japanese authorities. Sputnik has reached her for a comment.

On Saturday, April 7, a car hit a group of seated people in Germany’s western town of Muenster, leaving 4 people dead and 20 others injured, according to the interior ministry as cited by DPA news agency.

On Friday, the UK authorities refused to issue a visa for Viktoria Skripal on "the grounds that her application did not comply with the Immigration Rules;" the decision has caused harsh criticism from Russian authorities with the latter urging London to provide explanation.

On Friday, the UK authorities refused to issue a visa for Victoria Skripal on "the grounds that her application did not comply with the Immigration Rules;" the decision has caused harsh criticism from Russian authorities with the latter urging London to provide explanation.

The British office of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals organization (PETA UK) has declared that the Skripal's pets, which have been confirmed dead, should have been rescued.

NEW DELHI (Sputnik) - The Pakistani Foreign Ministry has expressed its protest to India over deadly cross-border firing in Nakyal sector located near the line of control in disputed Jammu and Kashmir region, Indian Deputy High Commissioner in Islamabad J. P. Singh, who was summoned by the Pakistani side, told Sputnik.

ROME (Sputnik) - Italian law enforcement authorities blocked on Saturday a Telegram channel dubbed "Khalifah News Italy" run by an Italian teenager of Algerian origin over the spread of Daesh* terrorist group’s propaganda and calls for terrorist attacks.

The octogenarian former US secretary of state, who presided over the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia, and infamously insisted that the US sanctions against Iraq which led to the deaths of half a million Iraqi children were "worth it," has come back into the limelight with a new warning to the world.

France flagged nearly 80,000 people as national security threats in a 2017 European police database, significantly more than any other country. Radio Sputnik discussed this with Dr. Niovi Vavoula, a legal scholar at Queen Mary University of London who studies how the database has been used.

Powerboats and coast guard vessels have been sent to the area after the crash, while the "Vitaspirit" tanker with a Maltese flag, was drawn back from the site and brought ashore, according to the Daily Sabbah.

While the US and China appear to be on the brink of an all-out trade war, analysts claim that both sides can still resolve their grievances in a constructive way before things get out of hand.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Two US soldiers were killed as a result of a helicopter crash at the Fort Campbell training facility in the US state of Kentucky that occurred during a routine training, the US Army Fort Campbell wrote in post on its Facebook page on Saturday.

As US armed forces bolster their presence in Syria’s north, their Kurdish allies reveal the real reason for this deployment and for the construction of US military installations in the region.