Новости за 14.04.2018

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a phone conversation on Saturday, during which they discussed missile strikes of the United States and its allies on Syria and agreed to intensify bilateral cooperation aimed at political settlement of the Syrian crisis.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron discussed on Saturday the recent joint missile strikes against Syria and agreed to continue the international fight against Daesh terrorist group, outlawed in Russia, the White House press service said.

BERLIN (Sputnik) - Germany will use all means, all diplomatic ways to resolve the issue of controlled destruction of the chemical weapons allegedly remaining in Syria, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Saturday.

GENEVA (Sputnik) - Russia is convening an urgent session of the International Syria Support Group's (ISSG) Ceasefire Task Force on April 16 over the recent strike of the Western countries on Syria, the spokeswoman of the Russian Permanent Mission to the UN Office in Geneva told Sputnik on Saturday.

Talk about a trade war, as intra-solar-system transport of silk - one of the world’s most popular commodities - could be made on the moon, and imported to earth.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The humanitarian operation in the Syrian region of Eastern Ghouta has not stopped despite recent missile strikes of Western states against targets in the area near Damascus, the head of Russia's center for Syrian reconciliation said on Saturday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The White House believes no Syrian opposition group had capabilities to fabricate massive amount of information about use of chemical weapons in the country by its government, a senior administration official told reporters on Saturday.

The president said that the US, French and British attack on Syria on April 14 was a reminder that a policy of military neutrality was the only correct course for Belgrade to take.

British Premier Theresa May has drawn parallels between a chemical attack that the western Western countries alleged to have taken place in Damascus’s outskirts with the poisoning of former the Russian ex spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in UK’s Salisbury on March 4. This is what she told a press conference in London on Saturday.

Alexa, the virtual home assistant developed by Amazon, seems to fall for conspiracy theories, or alternatively, she might have inadvertently blown the whistle on state authorities.

US Air Force Centcom has confirmed that in addition to Tomahawks, the US fired off 19 JASSM standoff air-launched cruise missiles into Syria on Saturday. The deployment marked the first use of the $1.75 million apiece weapon, previously known for its development and reliability problems.

DAMASCUS (Sputnik) - The experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are planning to start their activities in the Syrian area of Eastern Ghouta, where a chemical attack allegedly took place, a source in the Syrian government said Saturday.

Dr. Taleb Ibrahim, deputy director of the Damascus Center for Strategic Studies, has shared his insights into the situation in Syria after this morning's attack on the country by US, French and British missiles.

Russia has introduced the draft resolution condemning the missile strikes against Syria and calling on the US and its allies to immediately stop aggression, according to the Russian mission to the UN.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - NATO is supportive of the UN-led efforts aimed at settlement of the ongoing Syrian crisis and calls on supporters of Syria to ensure participation of Damascus in the Geneva process, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Saturday.

Following a massive missile attack launched by the US and its allies against Syria, it appears that Beijing is moving to make its opinion on the matter known via a show of strength in the Pacific.

French euro-sceptic and left-wing politicians are falling on the country’s government for following the US’s lead, as it took part in airstrikes and betrayed its interests. According to a recent report, the French security services have secretly been fighting Daesh* in Syria to counter the terror threat at home.

As the US and its allies launched a missile strike against Syria over an alleged chemical attack, Syrian analysts took stock of the situation and voiced their opinions about the state of affairs in the country and abroad.

According to one of the organizers of the march, about 58 thousand people are partaking in the demonstration across the country.

A woman filmed a black bear, who climbed onto a trampoline in her backyard, UPI reports.

After Viktor Orban secured a new term in office in the parliamentary elections, a pro-government magazine published a list of “mercenaries” working for the pro-immigration billionaire. Further disclosures are to come.

Upon examining a coin which he found on a construction site, Diego Aviles said that he had been flabbergasted; and he certainly had every reason to be.

BERLIN (Sputnik) - Germany and France will introduce the new format of talks on Syria, which would include influential states to ensure the political settlement of the conflict in the Middle Eastern country, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Saturday.

Italy has made it clear to its Western allies that it will not lend them its military bases to launch attacks against Syria.