Новости за 31.08.2016

In just a few hours, GOP U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump will be visiting Mexico City to meet with Mexican President Neito. Neito invited Trump and Trump accepted quickly without any planning or set agenda.

Can Ann Coulter be trusted on important matters? No. Is she morally and intellectually sick? No doubt about it. Is there any redemption for her? Yes.

According to newly released data that the Pew Research Center collected in 11 countries with significant Muslim populations, people from Nigeria to Jordan to Indonesia overwhelmingly expressed negative views of ISIL.

Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, ISIS spokesman and its leader in Syria, has been killed in the province of Aleppo, the ISIS-linked news agency Amaq reported.

For years many of those Iranian citizens who were not familiar to politics, believed the Republicans are more dangerous than democrats but as recently Dr. Foad Izadi, the professor of American Studies of Tehran university pointed out in a TV interview that because of the verbal aggressively of neo-cons within the US as well as in the eyes of the so-called international community, that is more practical for democrats to convince both Americans and US allies in order to have an international consensus against Iran.

A new opinion poll shows that US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has absolutely no popularity among African-American people in the run-up to the 2016 US presidential race.

Jim W. Dean - What you are about to read in Gordon's new NEO piece is not pretty. In fact, its damn ugly. But it is what it is, and readers looking for sugarcoating sure as hell don't come to VT.

The country is being torn apart by a bloody war and plundered by Islamic extremists, but the Syrian government wants tourists to see past this and galavant on its golden beaches. The Syrian Ministry of Tourism is not about to let an armed conflict and the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians get in the […]

Veterans of the World War II and diplomatic officials from nine different countries arrived in the Russian northern port city of Arkhangelsk to mark the 75th anniversary of the first Arctic Convoy, which delivered essential supplies to the USSR during the war. Arctic Convoys was one of the toughest and most courageous WWII missions, involving […]

As Islamic State retreats the true scale of its atrocities is becoming apparent. Associated Press collated existing documents and testimonies to produce the fullest picture yet – but activists say that thousands more victims buried in shallow mass graves are yet to be discovered. The agency says it has pinpointed the exact location of 72 […]

It’s no surprise that government workers like to party ‒ just look at the myriad Secret Service and Drug Enforcement Agency scandals. Even the Pentagon has gotten in on the action, with employees using government travel cards at strip clubs and casinos. Not only did Defense Department employees improperly use their work credit cards, but […]

Since Trump appointed a new campaign team, the frequency of his stupid, offensive outbursts has fallen greatly. However, there appears to have been one oversight - they didn't appoint someone to oversee Trump's twitter activity. Hence we get this latest piece of insanity that really is foot in mouth for the Don.

Turkish and Kurdish forces in northern Syria have reached a “loose agreement” to stop fighting each other, a US defense official told AFP on Tuesday. “It’s a loose agreement for at least the next couple of days and we are hoping that will solidify.”

Scientists are skeptical, but there is a chance, however remote, that the signal could be from an intelligent civilization. No one is claiming that this is the work of an extraterrestrial civilization, but it is certainly worth further study," Paul Gilster wrote.

Most analysts believe that the new craft will be a lighter version of the Type 039 and Type 041 Yuan-class conventional attack submarine used by the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). The Type 041 Yuan-class sub is "a diesel electric attack submarine (SSK), potentially with Stirling air-independent propulsion, that is armed with YJ-2 (YJ-82) anti-ship missiles and a combination of Yu-4 (SAET-50) passive homing and Yu-3 (SET-65E) active/passive homing torpedoes," according to IHS Jane’s Fighting Ships.