Новости за 16.04.2018

The cat's out of the bag, people! Fox News' Sean Hannity is the mystery third client that Michael Cohen, US President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, did not want to disclose.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian military police and officers from the Russian Center for Syrian reconciliation have seized 250 mines, 25 kilograms of TNT and 1.5 tons of other explosives from caches that belonged to the militants from the Jaish al-Islam illegal armed group, the Russian Center for Syrian reconciliation said Monday.

Severe tornadoes in the US South and blizzards in the Plains and Midwest through the weekend continue to bring snow, rain and wind to large parts of the country, shutting down airports and knocking out powers for tens to thousands of people.

This pup is all about working smarter, not harder!

Samsung announced on Friday that it was releasing its Galaxy J2 Pro smartphone in South Korea; but buyers beware, you won't be surfing the web on it.

The ground-launched version of Pakistan’s family of Babur cruise missiles has carried out a successful test, according to a recent announcement by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia expects an answer from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on whether the BZ toxin has been found in the samples taken at the place of poisoning of former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with the BBC.

PODGORICA (Sputnik) - The Montenegrin opposition has urged its presidential candidate Mladen Bojanic, the main opponent of ex-Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic in the Sunday presidential election, not to recognize the results of the vote over alleged ballot rigging, the leader of the Democratic Front alliance, Andrija Mandic, told Sputnik.

A 72-year-old woman was arrested after she was captured on camera assaulting two female black soldiers, one of whom was pregnant.

As US President Donald Trump decides whether to reauthorize the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which he has long wanted to exit or renegotiate, Iranian authorities have announced they will be getting help with their nuclear program from China.

With just a few hours’ notice, a relatively large asteroid whipped through the Earth-moon orbit over the weekend. You may have missed it though; humanity only learned of the asteroid hours before the flyby.

Days after two black men were arrested for sitting at a Philadelphia Starbucks on Saturday, dozens of protesters descended on the coffee shop to protest the incident.

PARIS (Sputnik) - French right-wing National Front (FN) party leader Marine Le Pen has presented an immigration bill, which is alternative to the one introduced by the French government, proposing tough measures to counter immigration.

A video captured by NASA’s International Space Station (ISS) live camera on Friday reveals what appears to be a 900-foot triangular UFO in the background.

PARIS (Sputnik) - French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said that France affirmed its position as a military power by attacking Syria.

Aktham Suliman, an Arab journalist who was working for Al Jazeera for about ten years, has warned of the drastic consequences of Western airstrikes in Syria in an interview with Sputnik Germany.

Yemeni human rights activists have charged Mohammad bin Salman, accusing him of aiding in “acts of torture” during the campaign in Yemen. Paris is being put under pressure, due to the fact that French weaponry is used in the conflict by the coalition. Tony Fortin, member of the board of the Observatory for Arms told Sputnik how this happened.

Germany's position on the alleged chemical attack in Syria's Douma and its decision to join new anti-Russian sanctions shows that Berlin is refraining from taking an independent stance and is acting according to the NATO agenda, former Secretary of State of the German Ministry of Defense Willy Wimmer wrote in a comment to Sputnik.

On Monday, White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Washington is considering new anti-Russia sanctions in response to the alleged chemical weapons attack in the Syrian town of Douma, but no decision has been made yet.

After the conclusion of the fifth India-China Strategic Economic Dialogue, Rajiv Kumar, vice-chairman of NITI Aayog – India’s policy think tank, opined that the US is expecting China to cut the trade deficit under pressure like what Washington successfully did with Japan in 1980 and that it would best suit India not to take sides on the issue.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The BZ toxin, traces of which were found by a Swiss laboratory in Skripal case samples sent to them by the OPCW, could be present there as a so-called positive control marker, but definitely could not play the role of a lethal agent intending to kill the former double agent and his daughter, experts told Sputnik.

The Times earlier released an article accusing top-notch UK academics of promoting pro-Assad and Russian conspiracy theories and disinformation regarding Syria. Sputnik discussed the issue with Dr. Tara McCormack, a lecturer in international relations at Leicester University.

As the new week started, the Russian Embassy in the UK has received fresh letters of support sent by British nationals, amid the smear campaign against Moscow.

Instead of lauding Washington's foreign policy approach toward Damascus, Ankara needs to protect its national interests, Turkish analysts told Sputnik, stressing that the US seeking nothing short of establishing a Kurdish corridor in northern Syria thus threatening Turkey's security.

An unemployed banker accused of murdering a French au pair in London and burning her body on a bonfire in his back garden has been giving evidence at his trial. Ouissem Medouni and Sabrina Kouider deny murdering Sophie Lionnet in September 2017.