Новости за 17.05.2024

The Yemeni militia has turned the destruction of General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper drones into an art form, using homegrown variants of the Soviet Kub surface-to-air missile system to shoot the $32 million apiece attack UAVs out of the skies. The Pentagon has used Reapers extensively over Yemen amid the Houthi’ partial blockade of the Red Sea.

After arriving in China's capital Beijing on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the city of Harbin that holds particular cultural significance in the history of bilateral relations.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - A majority of likely voters in the United States believe that a randomly selected group of people would govern the country better than the current US Congress, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll published Friday.

The incident took place at the Budyonny Military Academy of the Signal Corps.

The Arctic region is increasingly becoming a new frontier for geostrategic competition between the powers. Moscow and Beijing see eye-to-eye on the need to preserve the Arctic as "a territory of peace, low military-political tension, and stability," as President Vladimir Putin's state visit to China underlined.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has concluded his trip to China, his first foreign tour since his re-election. What are the key takeaways?

Moscow has announced readiness to offer Chinese investors incentives to localize the production of Chinese goods in Russia, and to give them access to the country’s unique technological expertise and trained cadres. Sputnik asked veteran China watchers how Moscow’s move contrasts with Washington’s approach, and why this is the case.

Afghanistan plans to launch talks with Russia on a logistics center in the Afghan province of Herat, which, among other things, will facilitate exports of Russian oil to South Asia, acting Afghan Minister of Industry and Trade Haji Nooruddin Azizi told Sputnik.

Previously, US President Joe Biden said he would be “happy” to debate former President Donald Trump before the November election, in response to a question from Howard Stern during an hour-long interview.

The incident at Duke University is the latest in a series of student protests that are occurring across the country. The protests have resulted in nearly 2,900 arrests at 57 colleges and universities, AP News reported.

BEIJING (Sputnik) - Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in China's Harbin on the second day of his visit to China.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US House of Representatives passed a bill to compel the provision of certain arms to Israel withheld by the Biden administration over a prospective large-scale military operation in the Gaza Strip city of Rafah.

BRATISLAVA (Sputnik) - Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico remembers the circumstances of the assassination attempt on him and is shocked by how quickly it unfolded, Slovak President-elect Peter Pellegrini said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Canadian government imposed sanctions on four Israeli individuals over their involvement in “extremist settler violence” in the West Bank, Global Affairs Canada (GAC) said on Thursday.