Новости за 17.04.2018

The controversial invention was designed by Dutch activists advocating for the legalization of euthanasia and has stirred vivid debate among social media users.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Four Iranian security forces troops were killed Tuesday in an attack on a border post in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, the Mehr agency reported.

The Wall Street Journal reported, citing American officials, that the Trump Administration has mulled assembling an Arab force that would replace US troops in Syria.

The girl, whose name is not disclosed as per India’s legal norms for sexual victims, reportedly told the police that she was raped by two men in 2017 who were arrested by the police but later got in touch with her parents and lured them with money to convince the girl to withdraw her complaint.

TOKYO (Sputnik) - The concept of the Medical Center of Russian-Japanese Friendship in Moscow can be "cloned" in other cities both across Russia and the Commonwealth of the Independent States (CIS), Alexei Izotov, the head of GlavUpDK, the state-owned company servicing foreign diplomatic and corporate offices in Moscow, told Sputnik.

With millions of immigrants entering the European Union (EU) in recent years, concerns have been raised over the limited vetting they received for terrorist or criminal activity before they entered the bloc.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump said in a statement that California Governor Jerry Brown is opposed to safety and security along his state's border with Mexico because he will not allow the National Guard to patrol that border.

LUXEMBOURG (Sputnik) - The Court of Justice of the European Union (CURIA) ruled Tuesday that Warsaw's forest management operations had violated EU laws, resulting in the loss of part of Europe’s Puszcza Bialowieska Natura 2000 pristine forest site, which is located on the Polish-Belarusian border.

Together with an international team of researchers, scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University created an efficient laser, which can tune the length of its waves continuously across the entire visible optical range. The findings of this research were published in the Photonics Research scientific journal.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Hundreds of people gathered Monday evening outside the UK parliament building in London as debates were in progress inside to protest the United Kingdom's role in the strikes on Syria.

The Russian Defense Ministry earlier reported that Pantsir-S1 systems have shown near 100% efficiency during the US, UK and French strike against Syria, when 71 out of 103 missiles were intercepted. Sputnik reveals why the Pantsir system is so effective.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has called on all parties to the Syrian conflict to return to the norms of the international law and resolve the issues through dialogue. Sputnik spoke with Chinese political analysts who said that these attacks can have even more dangerous consequences.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Hungarian right-wing opposition party Jobbik, which came in a distant second in the country's parliamentary election, is disappointed with the outcome of the vote, the party’s vice president, Tamas Sneider, told Sputnik.

Moscow expects that OPCW inspectors will take samples from the city of Douma and will transport them to certified laboratories, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.

PARIS (Sputnik) - Russia and Syria continue to deny officials of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) access to the site of the alleged chemical attack in Syria, the French Foreign Ministry said at a briefing Tuesday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The flow of information from the Western countries have swamped the world’s mediascape over the last 10 years, reducing the independence of national news outlets, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - German authorities on Tuesday carried out searches in several cities in connection with suspected preparations to commit right-wing terrorist crimes, the Office of the German Public Prosecutor General said in statement.

You have the right to be and feel safe. Stalking is illegal behavior that may appear innocent or insignificant but can cause severe harm and fear. One in 5 women and 1 in 10 men will be stalked at some point in their lives, which means having to face obsessive and unwanted behavior.

There is no proof that the Syrian authorities were responsible for an alleged chemical attack in Douma, member of Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and Bundestag MP Hansjörg Müller told the Russian web portal Politika Segodnya.

Members of the European Union don't have a unilateral opinion on the bloc's expansion into the Balkans as well as on a number of other issues rocking the region, like the Kosovo problem.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Oxfam is concerned about further military action against Syria following the recent Western strikes, noting that it will have a detrimental effect on the plight of civilians in Syria and may lead to an increase in the number of displaced persons, the charity's senior policy adviser on Syria, Matthew Hemsley, told Sputnik.

Major cities across the UK have witnessed a sharp rise in the number of violent crimes, such as stabbings, being committed. So far this year, 60 people have been murdered in London, with close to 200 murders forecast to occur in 2018 if this trend continues.

Boris Kollár, a Slovak politician, and businessman, Chairman of the party We Are Family, has spoken to Sputnik about the country's take on the EU migrant crisis.

Last month, UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson drew parallels between the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia and the 1936 Olympic Games in Nazi Germany.