Новости за 26.04.2018

PRAGUE (Sputnik) - Czech Justice Minister Robert Pelikan failed to comply with the country's law by ruling to extradite Russian citizen Yevgeniy Nikulin to the United States on cybercrime charges, Czech President Milos Zeman said on Thursday.

The administration of US President Donald Trump released photographs on Twitter, Thursday showing newly minted US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, while Pompeo was still director of the CIA.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC, a partnership between Energy Transfer Partners and Phillips 66, is constructing its pipeline through a treasured natural habitat in Louisiana despite warnings of serious harms to the environment, Atchafalaya Basinkeeper Executive Director Dean Wilson said in a press release on Thursday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Justice Department should be cautious about appointing another special prosecutor after Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into alleged Russian election meddling got so difficult to control, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Thursday.

A study published in Science Robotics on Wednesday details an innovative eel-like robot that was created by a team of researchers from UC San Diego and UC Berkeley to better examine marine life.

SEATTLE (Sputnik) - US authorities are combing through the premises of the seized Russian Consul General residence in Seattle, and regular police officers have been removed from the site, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Thursday.

A New York City judge may have thought he was making Manhattan great again when he threw out a case against a West Village bar that had refused service to Donald Trump supporter Greg Piatek.

Only problem: this seat is a little noisy…

The parents of Otto Warmbier, a college student detained in North Korea before being returned to the US last year and dying, have initiated legal actions against Pyongyang for holding their son captive.

The Russian company ExoAtlet has presented its own model of exoskeleton, created for people who have problems with their locomotor system at the international Skolkovo Robotics forum in Moscow. ExoAtlet's co-founder Ekaterina Bereziy told Sputnik about their new product and its prospects on the Japanese market.

The Swedish musician, whose real name was Tim Bergling and whom his relatives called a "fragile artist soul" and "sensitive guy," was found dead on April 20 in Muscat, Oman's capital, where he was on vacation with his friends.

Cryptocurrencies are spreading like wildfire in the financial world, but some authorities see it as a matter for concern as digital currency is deemed unstable and volatile. Radio Sputnik spoke with Chairman of the Central Bank of Uruguay, Mario Bergara about the issue.

The commander of US Special Operations complained during a recent speech in Florida that electronic weapons are “disabling” US aircraft flying in Syrian airspace.

A report by The Intercept revealed that Democratic organizations are shelling out more than $2 million for former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign resources and voter data collected during her 2016 run.

An interview with Fox & Friends, in which US President Donald Trump praised his achievements and gave himself high marks for his presidency, has been ridiculed by social media users.

April 26 is an international day of remembrance to mark the memory of victims of radiation accidents and disasters, declared by UN General Assembly following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

While the whole world is looking forward to the historic meeting between the US president and the North Korean leader due in May, South Korea’s head of state Moon and Kim are set to literally grow the seeds of intra-Korean friendship at the border.

More than 19,000 files on the November 22, 1963, assassination of US President John F. Kennedy were released Thursday, the final release in accordance with US President Donald Trump’s October 2017 directive to make public a bulk of the remaining Kennedy assassination files.

Although French President Emmanuel Macron took every effort to reach a compromise on the Iran nuclear agreement with Donald Trump, serious disagreements on the accord still remain, former French Ambassador to Iran Francois Nicoullaud said, shedding light on the potential consequences of Trump's withdrawal from the deal.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The majority of US voters find former FBI Director James Comey more credible than US President Donald Trump, a Quinnipiac University Poll revealed on Thursday.

LONDON (Sputnik) - The UK Stop the War Coalition (STWC) group is preparing for a "widespread opposition" to US President Donald Trump's visit to the United Kingdom this July, especially in light of his "warmongering" policy and the US-led strikes on Syria, Lindsey German, the convenor of the STWC, told Sputnik Thursday.

PARIS (Sputnik) - French President Emanuel Macron proposed on Thursday to create an international coalition of countries and organizations to fight against the financing of terrorism.

When an armed criminal tried to pluck a shop in Mexico, he never thought that a single tough customer could handle it. But even with a gun, you can still be defeated.

Syrian government troops are continuing to make surprising discoveries during their campaign to put an end to the war and reinstate order in the country.