Новости за 15.01.2019

The launch was previously criticised by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, while Tehran has stressed it does not violate UN Security Council Resolution 2231 pertaining to the country's nuclear programme.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Troops from Russia’s Southern Military District in Crimea have engaged over a hundred decoy targets using Pantsir-S air defence missile-gun systems, the Russian military said.

The development of space industry has become France's priority, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall told Sputnik, commenting on the government's effort to increase investment in the sector. However, the agency has not received any specific orders regarding the formation of full-fledged "space forces" so far, he said.

This naughty golden retriever is in trouble! There was no need for the owner to watch the dog while it was doing its mischief – a surveillance camera was able to tell everybody who was good, just sitting and looking out through a window, and who was chewing on the blanket.

The EU has shot itself in the foot by imposing restrictions against the Islamic Republic of Iran, as it risks losing an important partner in its struggle against international terrorism, former Iranian deputy defence minister and military analyst Ali Reza Akbari told Sputnik.

The vote will decide whether the Parliament is willing to back the controversial deal Prime Minister May had such a hard time negotiating with Brussels. The deal includes a withdrawal agreement and a declaration on future relations with the EU, according to the Evening Standard.

Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Sunday in protest against the Macedonia name deal. Following the development, the prime minister announced that he would call a confidence vote for his government.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - UK Prime Minister Theresa May will try to force Parliament to hold another vote on her Brexit deal despite facing defeat this Tuesday, local media said.

TOKYO (Sputnik) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after meeting with his Japanese counterpart, Taro Kono, in Moscow that the two nations still had a long way to go before the agreement could be signed.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has lashed out at the US envoy in Berlin for trying to scare off German firms working on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Monday's update for Canada's travel advisory on China comes after Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was given the death penalty on drug-smuggling charges after appealing his initial 15-year jail term. He will now have 10 days to challenge the ruling.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has accepted an invitation by Russian space agency Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin to come to Russia or its spaceport in a Kazakhstan steppe.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - A 29-year-old US Customs and Border Protection (CPB) agent cannot believe there are lawmakers who deny that there is a crisis at the southern border and fail to see how laws need to be changed to meet the ongoing security threats.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US government’s partial shutdown violates certain peace treaties with Native American tribes by disrupting services from federal agencies like the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe spokesperson Remi Bald Eagle told Sputnik.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The US Department of Defense has extended until the end of September its support mission along the border with Mexico.

US President Donald Trump has dismissed claims by The Washington Post that he allegedly withheld details of his private conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

On this episode of The Critical Hour, Dr. Wilmer Leon is joined by Eugene Craig, Republican strategist, former vice-chair of the Maryland Republican Party and grassroots activist.

LA Teacher's on strike; Pushback on Tulsi Gabbard after Presidential announcement; the health crisis within migrant caravans

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The communications satellites will be spread out evenly to provide seamless global coverage. They are equipped with modern Ka and Q-band transponders and support high-speed Internet, telephony and other broadcasting services.

NEW YORK (Sputnik) - A faulty heating system possibly caused a carbon monoxide leak that led dozens of students and personnel to be poisoned at Des Decouvreurs elementary school in LaSalle borough of the city of Montreal, CBC News reported on Monday citing Head of Montreal Fire Department Francis Leduc.

The former US senator doubled down on his earlier statement in which he said he hopes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not “the future of the Democratic party.”

On Monday, 32,000 Los Angeles educators walked off the job in the nation’s second-largest school district, after the teachers union rejected a “woefully inadequate” offer from the LA Unified School District last week.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Antarctic ice sheet is shrinking at a rate of 252 billion tons per year, a six-fold increase since the 1980s, which has raised global ocean levels by 14 millimeters since 1979, according to a report by the National Academy of Sciences.

Purported “fake news” detecting browser extension NewsGuard has a biased system for rating news sources, unfairly giving WikiLeaks a purely negative review and a red X while verifying Fox News with a green check mark and little to no criticism.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump has threatened earlier to "devastate Turkey economically," if Ankara does not ensure the safety of Kurdish forces in Syria.