Новости за 22.05.2019

BRUSSELS (Sputnik), Luc Rivet - EU voters will go to polls from Thursday to Sunday to choose members of the European Parliament, but the importance of the election may not seem immediately obvious.

Former commander of the International Space Station Terry Virts unambiguously closed the debate on perks that flatulence might offer in orbit. Those hoping that this peculiarity of the human body could be destigmatised in the era of space travel should brace themselves.

The Melbourne-founded marketplace for print-on-demand products was earlier called out for selling clothing items with images of the Auschwitz death camp - and this new choice of “art” featured on consumer products has certainly also not been to everyone’s liking.

Taking cognisance of the case following a complaint from the victim’s father, police registered a First Information Report (FIR) on 20 May implicating a girl and her parents.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has prolonged the nationwide state of emergency, imposed immediately following a series of deadly attacks on Easter Sunday, for another month, the Ada Derana news portal reported.

French President Emmanuel Macron's Republic on the Move is projected to lose to Marine Le Pen's National Rally in the upcoming European Parliament elections. Karel Vereycken, vice-president of the Solidarity and Progress Party, has shared his views on the French president's political future and the outcome of the vote.

Earlier, following a wave of media reports that Indian air defences had shot down a friendly helicopter, New Delhi launched an investigation into the incident to determine whether it was due to an error by military personnel.

The reports come just a few weeks after the United States deployed an aircraft carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Persian Gulf in what White House National Security Adviser John Bolton described as a "clear and unmistakable message" to Iran.

TOKYO (Sputnik) - Two Japanese mobile operators have postponed the upcoming launch of Huawei smartphone sales in light of Google banning software updates for devices made by the Chinese telecom giant, the Kyodo news agency reported on Wednesday.

The European Parliamentary elections are about to kick off, and all the signs are pointing to a strong performance by Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party. But just how much impact would their success have on British politics?

According to Ronald Weinland - whose works include books with titles that speak for themselves, such as God’s Final Witness - we should have less than three weeks before the Saviour returns amid a final World War. However, his calculations have failed in the past, as he has previously predicted that the apocalypse would occur in 2012 and in 2013.

The Malaysia Airlines’ Boeing 777 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur 5 years ago. The plane has never been retrieved and an investigation into its disappearance has been unable to clarify what happened to the aircraft, prompting enthusiasts to guess and suggest their versions of those events, including the most unconventional theories.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia stands for investigating all reported cases of the use of chemical weapons in Syria, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday, adding that this investigation should aim to find the truth rather than bring new accusations against Damascus.

As part of Operation Protective Edge against the Hamas movement in 2014, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) demolished 32 underground "terror tunnels" along the Gaza border, 14 of which crossed into Israel.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Two Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers performed a scheduled 11-hour flight over the Bering, Chukchi, Okhotsk seas and along the coast of Alaska, accompanied by US air force aircraft, the Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement.

Mega.NZ is the latest incarnation of file sharing site Megaupload, founded by German-Finnish internet mogul Kim Dotcom, who now faces extradition to the US to face multiple copyright infringement charges.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has agreed to give the House Intelligence Committee documents related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, Chairman Adam Schiff said on Wednesday.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed last month that he has no doubt that “there’s a connection” between Iran and al-Qaeda, the terrorist group behind the 9/11 attacks.

Javier Couso began his political career on the streets, joining social movements. He condemned the murder of his brother, José Couso, a cameraman covering the Iraq War, and has spearheaded a campaign for justice and establishing the truth about the US invasion.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Dutch State Secretary for Justice and Security Mark Harbers, whose duties covered refugees and asylum in the Netherlands, resigned after his ministry distorted the number of crimes committed by asylum seekers in a report, The NL Times reported Wednesday.

Exit polls aired by several media groups have predicted an outright majority for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's National Democratic Alliance in the 7-phase polling for national elections that ended on 19 May. The opposition parties have dismissed the surveys calling them fake.

The posters, posted on Twitter by the Terror Research and Analysis Consortium watchdog, were reportedly created by the pro-Daesh Ash Shaff Media Foundation. They promise attacks in major cities, including London and New York, "coming soon".

The gas-shrouded Red Planet has long been associated with undercover state programmes, with multiple experiments reportedly being carried out outside Earth’s atmosphere for security reasons, but the latest one of a kind sighting has nothing to do with any technological or military drills, observers claim.

The 2.5-ton air-launched version of the BrahMos (BrahMos-A) missile, named after India's Brahmaputra River and Russia's Moskva River, has an operational range of around 300 km. It can be dropped from 500 to 14,000 metres.

LONDON (Sputnik) - UK Prime Minister Theresa May should resign in short order, UKIP's European Parliament candidate Graham Eardley told Sputnik, claiming her swift exit and replacement with a Brexiteer would be in the national interest.