Новости за 16.04.2018

MOSCOW, (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump was furious after France and Germany announced the number of Russian diplomats, who were to be expelled over the poisoning of former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in UK city of Salisbury, media reported citing senior administration officials.

Trend intensifies as Trump continues to insult Mexico.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United Kingdom and its partners in the UN Security Council - the United States and France - hope that China and possibly Russia will support their new draft resolution on mechanisms for investigating chemical attacks in Syria, UK Ambassador to the United Nations Karen Pierce told Fox News on Sunday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia has never supplied Syria with dual-use technologies, and US accusations are fake, first deputy chairman of the Russian parliament's upper house Defense Committee Yevgeny Serebrennikov told Sputnik on Sunday.

The new People’s Vote campaign has been launched in the UK, pushing for a separate referendum to ratify or reject the final Brexit deal.

Companies call on government to open ‘green channel’ so they can freely promote on Twitter, Facebook.

DHAHRAN (Sputnik) - The international community takes decisions on Syrian crisis without taking into account the positions of the Arab world, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita said.

Radio Sputnik discussed Israel's stance on the Syrian conflict with Professor Gabriel Ben-Dor, head of the National Security Studies Programs at the University of Haifa.

BLAGOVESHCHENSK (Sputnik) - It is currently enough for the United States to impose new sanctions against Russia only for Moscow's presence on the international arena, according to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.

President Donald Trump still wants US forces stationed in Syria to return home as soon as possible, according to the White House. The comment comes after French President Emmanuel Macron said he had convinced Trump to keep US forces in Syria for "the long term."

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Syrian nation was not scared by the recent attack conducted by the United States, France and the United Kingdom, but celebrate the capabilities of the country's army, which managed to shot down some of the missiles, and thank Russia for the support, a resident of the Syrian city of Homs told Sputnik.

US President Donald Trump informed the US Congress about the missile strike on Syria, stating that he acted in line with the US Constitution, according to Trump's letter to the Congress.

The core module of China's space station and its young development team are in the limelight, prompting speculations that China's space station will possibly be the only one orbiting after 2024.

DHAHRAN (Saudi Arabia) (Sputnik) - The final statement of the Arab League Summit did not accuse the Syrian authorities of reported use of chemical weapons in Duma, as was declared earlier by Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Jubeir.

BLAGOVESHCHENSK (Sputnik) - Syria has eliminated its chemical weapons stockpiles and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has confirmed that, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

Pointing to urban noise pollution, mosques in Ghana are being asked by city officials to stop using increasingly powerful public address systems to call their faithful to prayer.

Claiming that there is no alternative to US-led strikes on Syria at a time as specialists from the UN Organization on Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) arrive in Damascus, and especially as a constitutional committee to end the war is in the process of being formed, is hypocrisy, the Russian Embassy in the UK said in a statement.

COLORADO SPRINGS (Sputnik) - Space leaders from across the world will gather this week in the US town of Colorado Springs to discuss the current space industry matters, as well as plans for the future at the 34th Space Symposium.

The European Commission in Brussels will soon give some pointedly negative updates to Turkey’s progress in joining the European Union in its country report.

An 11-year-old boy who successfully snuck on a high-speed train and traveled 300 kilometers was found Thursday while trying to get into Shanghai Disneyland.