Новости за 09.02.2024

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - American billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said on Friday that his SpaceX Starship should get to the Moon in less than five years.

Tucker Carlson asked President Putin who he thought blew up the Nord Stream pipeline network and why, with the Russian leader offering a response which included an assessment of the competence of the current German government. Sputnik reached out to a lawmaker from Germany’s fastest growing opposition party for his take on Putin’s comments.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Tucker Carlson's interview exposed a stark contrast between Russian President Vladimir Putin's deep factual analysis and US President Joe Biden's limitations, retired veteran CIA analyst Raymond McGovern, who briefed four US presidents personally on the Soviet Union and Russia, told Sputnik.

Lifestyle changes can slow aging and prevent related diseases, but it seems that drinking tea can also help.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Israeli authorities will drown Washington in a "war morass" in the Middle East as Israel has so far failed to achieve the goals of its military operation in the Gaza Strip despite four months of hostilities against Hamas, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Friday.

EL PASO (Sputnik) - Former acting US Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf told Sputnik that the Biden administration's failed strategy on the US-Mexico border is deliberate.

TEL AVIV (Sputnik) - Moscow is ready to serve as a platform for multilateral consultations on the Palestinian issue as soon as the acute phase of the Middle Eastern conflict is over, Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov told Sputnik.

The quest to find extra-terrestrial life in our solar system gains momentum as a distant space body shows potential habitability, with a 12 to 18-mile-deep body of water.

TEL AVIV (Sputnik) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday requested the military to present a plan on the evacuation of civilians form the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, where four Hamas battalions remain, his office said.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Japan ended 2023 with a record high debt of 1,286.45 trillion yen ($8.6 billion), the Kyodo news agency reported on Friday, citing government data.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US President Joe Biden has published a national security memorandum that introduces new restrictions on the use of US military aid, requiring that its recipients comply with international humanitarian law as his administration faces criticism for its support of Israel’s military operations in Gaza.

A survey of 2,000 people has yielded insights about the best method of winning over the woman of your dreams. The study suggests organizing the proposal over a 68-day period.

The UK is the only US ally to have committed anything besides a handful of shipless seamen to take part in the American-led operation to try to contain the Houthis in the Red Sea amid the Yemeni militia’s attempts to close the waterway to Israeli-linked shipping.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with US journalist Tucker Carlson that weaponizing the dollar was one of the biggest mistakes the US political class has ever made.

Scholars working at a major Russian research center in Siberia have made a breakthrough in genetics, giving insight into the connection between the human genetic code and cognitive development.

Federal Reserve officials are eager to prove they have brought inflation under control before they lower interest rates. The possibility of a revision this week has made policymakers and investors nervous.

Germany's economic woes keep mounting, as early surveys show gloom for 2024 and a bumpy road ahead.

DOHA (Sputnik) - Qatar understands that the escalation of the conflict in the Gaza Strip will increase the cost of the deliveries of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and imported goods to the local market, and therefore is making efforts to prevent it, Russian Ambassador to Doha Dmitry Dogadkin said in an interview with Sputnik.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Eighty percent of Russians trust President Vladimir Putin, and only 11% of the respondents said they do not, a poll by Russia's Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) showed on Friday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A Soyuz-2.1v carrier rocket carrying a military satellite has been launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Australia will allocate a further 399 million Australian dollars ($260 million) to build the next generations of the Boeing MQ-28A Ghost Bat drones, Australian Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy said on Friday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said that it had located and tracked two Russian military aircraft in the international airspace designated by the United States as the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ).

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian President Vladimir Putin's interview with US journalist Tucker Carlson posted on X has garnered 56 million views in just six hours.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US journalist Tucker Carlson, after his interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, shared his impression of the Russian leader and the discussion as a whole, mentioning that he got the impression that the politician is "very wounded by the rejection of the West" and angry about it.

Diplomatic Workers' Day was established through a presidential decree in 2002, commemorating the significance of February 10, 1549. This particular date marks the first official mention of the Posolsky Prikaz, which served as Russia's initial foreign policy institution according to historical chronicles.