Новости за 23.04.2018

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US Defense Secretary James Mattis said Monday he is optimistic that upcoming talks with North Korea could be productive after Pyongyang announced its decision to halt nuclear and ballistic missile tests.

Alabama's Saraland Police Department announced Sunday that it was investigating the arrest of a 25-year-old black woman whose chest was exposed when three white police officers flung her to the tiled floor of a local Waffle House.

UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) — The foreign ministers of Greece and Macedonia are slated to meet later this week under the auspices of the United Nations in a fresh attempt to resolve the so-called name dispute, which has been an obstacle to Macedonia’s efforts to join NATO and the European Union, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters on Monday.

The founder of Brazil's renowned Miss BumBum contests has called on women to stop copying American reality and Instagram star Kim Kardashian, and instead to be more patriotic in their looks.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States needs to engage in dialogue with Russia on a number of issues in order to address mutual concerns, Acting Secretary of State John Sullivan said during a press conference at the G7 summit in Toronto on Monday.

“What kind of apps do you have on here?”

PARIS (Sputnik) - The immigration bill recently adopted by the French lower house of parliament does not address the real problems caused by the increased migration to France and was endorsed only because lawmakers lacked the courage to stand up to the pressure of the Interior Ministry, the Auberge des Migrants charity group told Sputnik on Monday.

On Monday, Johns Hopkins Hospital doctors announced that their plastic and reconstructive surgeons had successfully carried out the world’s first transplant of a penis, scrotum and abdominal wall on a soldier who sustained injuries in Afghanistan and lost his genitals.

The US military is building a new overseas military base in Niger, adding to its existing inventory of more than 800 bases in more than 70 countries, according to a recent dispatch from central Niger.

Israel’s air force cancelled the participation of its F-15 fighters in the Red Flag - Alaska multinational aerial combat exercises as the country faces rising tensions with Iran and Syria and mass protests by residents in Gaza. Instead, the fighter jets will remain at home, on high alert.

China’s first indigenously constructed aircraft carrier is poised to begin sea trials this week, about a year after the massive ship was commissioned, according to a new report.

After a report on a conversation between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu was made public, a White House official underscored how incredibly friendly and frank the relationship between the American president and the Israeli premier is.

After the report was made public, a White House official underscored how incredibly friendly and frank the relationship between the American president and the Israeli premier is.

A passenger onboard an American Airlines flight was shocked with a taser stun gun by officers from the Miami-Dade Police Department on Sunday after resisting arrest. Officers were called to the plane at Miami International Airport after the man allegedly fondled a woman and yelled out racial slurs at another couple on the flight.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Berlin seeks a way to "safeguard" the Iran nuclear deal, formerly known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as its suspension may lead to an alarming situation in the Middle Eastern region, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Monday.

A man in Cambridgeshire, England, videotaped what appears to be a UFO hovering in the night sky Sunday evening.

Iranian authorities have banned all currency exchanges and financial institutions from using bitcoin and other digital currencies, according to the central bank’s circular issued on Sunday. Matthew J. Martin, founder and CEO of Blossom Finance, has given his take on the reasons for the regulation and more in his written comments to Sputnik.

The US-China tariff war is affecting the economic prognoses of international observers. Speaking to Sputnik, Joaquin Arriola, a professor of political economy at the University of the Basque Country, suggested that recent International Monetary Fund's (IMF) forecasts regarding China's growth do not look trustworthy.

If the audio is authenticated, the phone call will put another dent in London's claim that the A234 chemical agent known in Western countries as Novichok, was Russian-made.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Police in Nashville, Tennessee said in a statement on Monday that they arrested 29-year-old Travis Reinking, who is suspected of killing four people at a Waffle House restaurant.

The US-led coalition has made every effort to undermine the achievements of Damascus and Moscow, Syrian parliamentarian Fares Shehabi told Sputnik, suggesting that the Skripal poisoning case, the alleged Douma attack and the US-led coalition's missile strike on Syria are interconnected.

Commenting on an alleged April 7 chemical weapons attack in Douma during an interview with Sputnik, local medic Mirwan Jaber specifically underscored that he and his colleagues had never treated patients exposed to chemical agents.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Eight football fans were detained over suspicions of involvement in clashes during a Turkish Cup semi-final match between two teams from Istanbul, Fenerbahce and Besiktas, local media reported on Monday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that he had ordered the Israeli police to fight against a wave of crimes among members of the Bedouin community in the southern part of the country.

Canadian police said they had been called to Yonge Street and Finch Avenue East in one of Canada's major cities, for a collision amid the G7 meeting in the city.