Новости за 13.05.2019

Some people enjoy rainy weather, but very few like to get wet. This is certainly true when we talk about people, but certain other animal species seem to share this sentiment. Obviously, having a lot of water in their fur isn’t good at all, considering that they don’t have hair dryers!

The deportations come as part of the island nation’s endeavour to restructure its security apparatus as promised by President Maithripala Sirisena following serial terror attacks that rocked Sri Lanka on 21 April, leaving 253 killed and over 500 injured.

Researchers have been proposing to set a special “tripwire” that would issue a warning once humanity is close to mining one eighth of the solar system, which has been preliminarily estimated to occur in just a few hundred years. At that point, there would only be 60 years left to try to offset the detrimental effects.

A man and two women were found dead with arrows in their bodies and two crossbows in a room of a picturesque hotel in Bavaria popular among hikers. Investigators will now seek to reconstruct how the events in the peaceful resort unfolded and find out whether this was a collective suicide or murder.

To commemorate the Muslim holy month, Coca-Cola Norway has added Islamic symbolism to their flagship beverage. While the contents of the soda bottles remained unaltered, many have voiced their displeasure with what has been perceived as political correctness gone too far.

Drake announced that he became the sole owner of the luxurious jumbo jet due to his partnership with Canadian firm Cargojet, stressing there are "no rental, no timeshare, no co-owners".

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The defence team for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will appeal against a decision by Quito to give Assange's documents currently at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to Washington, Assange's Ecuadorian lawyer Carlos Poveda told Sputnik.

Sweden's state prosecutor Eva-Marie Persson held a press conference in Stockholm to announce a decision on re-opening the probe into rape accusations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

While Sweden has contributed some 300 jihadists to the terrorists' cause in the Middle East, the number of children born to Swedish jihadists and Daesh brides has been estimated at 60 to 80.

Make-up artist and YouTuber James Charles found himself in hot water last week after his friend and mentor, a fellow internet personality, posted a video, in which she explained that she was ending their years-long friendship.

IAF pilot Abhinandan, who rocketed to fame after he allegedly shot down a Pakistani F-16 from atop his MiG-21 Bison, has received a new posting. During the dogfight, Abhinandan’s MiG-21 was shot down and crashed in Pakistan. He was captured but released after a brief detention. Pakistan has denied the allegations that an F-16 was shot down.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The US Defence Department's funding for the construction of the wall on the border with Mexico will partially come from programs related to the modernisation of a ballistic missile and an airborne warning and control system, The Washington Post newspaper reported, citing a document prepared by the department.

The development comes shortly after the foreign ministry of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said on Sunday that four commercial vessels had been targeted in “acts of sabotage” in Gulf waters off its coast.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remains in prison in Britain since his arrest last month after seven years spent inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier personally gave the green light to carry out airstrikes on a suspected terrorist camp in Pakistan's Balakot in late February despite bad weather conditions because he believed "the clouds could actually help our planes escape the radars" and "provide us much needed cover".

NEW DELHI (Sputnik) - The death toll from the powerful tropical cyclone Fani, which hit the eastern Indian state of Odisha last week, has risen to 64, the broadcaster NDTV reported on Monday.

One of the members of the group was laying on the stairs, completely covered in the blood-like liquid made of food colouring and starch, while others chanted slogans about the extinction of the species.

Finland joined the European Union in 1995 and was one of the first countries to adopt the euro on 1 January 1999. So far, it remains the only Nordic country to have discarded its national currency for the sake of the euro.

A year after Washington’s pull-out of the 2015 Iran deal, the Trump administration has announced that it will increase the American military presence in the Middle East.

"If Pope Francis has time to read anything else apart from prayers and theological texts, I would suggest two books: Jean Raspail's 'The Camp of Saints' ('Il campo dei santi') and 'The Strange Death of Europe' ('La strana morte dell'Europa') by Douglas Murray".

Our canine friends are often active – especially, golden retrievers! But before they are active young dogs, many of them are just little sleepy puppies that need a bit of rest before they start their games.

The Saudi energy minister has reportedly said that two country's vessels were targeted in a "sabotage attack" on Sunday morning near UAE, noting that no casualties or leaks occurred, according to Reuters citing Saudi state TV.

A US Department of State official said Sunday that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has canceled his trip to Moscow but will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Sochi, according to Reuters.

Hector Olivares, a lawmaker from the Argentine province of La Rioja, was wounded in a parked car by three shots near the Congress in the centre of Buenos Aires on Thursday morning, while his colleague, Miguel Marcelo Yadon, was killed near the congressional building, local media reported.

Relations between the US and DPRK have been going through ups-and-downs since the historic Trump-Kim 2018 Summit in Singapore. Their second Summit in Vietnam ended abruptly without any joint statement and was followed by an escalation of tensions with DPRK conducting new missiles tests and the US most recently seizing a North Korean cargo vessel.