Новости за 06.03.2024

The decision comes in the wake of a series of frivolous rulings by US courts over the past decade ordering the confiscation of frozen Iranian assets to pay American plaintiffs, including an outrageous 2018 decision requiring the Islamic Republic to pay $6 billion in compensation to families of 9/11 victims.

Planes attract lightning bolts once or twice per year. While it may be frightening, passengers are usually unharmed thanks to the smart design of modern aircraft.

French ministers insisted that a raft of exceptional security measures are needed to ensure the smooth running of the next games that are expected to attract about 13 million spectators.

SIRIUS, Russia (Sputnik) - US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland is a typical case of a talented and well-educated person, who knows Russia well, using their skills and abilities for wrong purposes and destroying their countries' relations with Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Wednesday that she is suspending her 2024 presidential campaign after failing to make up ground on former President Donald Trump in the so-called Super Tuesday primary and caucus elections.

During his visit to Russia, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi holds a series of meetings with Russia's top officials, including President Putin.

Running low on cash for big, expensive arms purchases for their ongoing proxy war against Russia, NATO planners have turned to the delivery of large numbers of small, cheap, deadly UAVs to Kiev, with first person view (FPV) drones a top priority. Sputnik looks at a new Russian man-portable complex designed specifically to counter the FPV threat.

Numerous woes have been plaguing Israel’s economy in the wake of Hamas’ attack last October that triggered a new spiral of the Palestine-Israel conflict. The GDP shrank by over 19 percent in annualized terms in the final quarter of 2023, and Moody's Investors Service lowered Israel's credit rating from A1 to A2 in February.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi in Sochi, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.

A number of countries have been jostling to return humans to the Moon, with Moscow and Beijing teaming up in 2022 to sign a memorandum of understanding on joint exploration of the celestial body. The sides also pledged to work together to build a base there by the 2030s.

China has established a basic independent industry chain for superconducting quantum computers, and it's one of the very few countries that can independently produce quantum computers, which are believed to be critical for future development, a leading Chinese scientist told the Global Times.

Harris made her announcement following the Flour Massacre in Gaza. On Thursday, 118 civilians were reportedly killed when the Israeli army fired into a crowd of hungry and starving Palestinians. It was also reported that during the massacre, Israeli tanks ran over the bodies of dead and injured Palestinian people.

Independent journalist Steve Poikonen discusses how US military and intelligence interests help shape the discourse online.

The president hit out against the release of special counsel Robert Hur’s 388-page report in early February. The damning report did not seek charges, but painted an embarrassing image of the US president as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory”.

The fires that raged through Canada last year never stopped, they simply moved underground. The “zombie fires” as they are being called in the media, persist during the winter and are fed by porous peat and sphagnum moss ground cover.

North Korea is projecting confidence in its response to large-scale US-led military drills this week, according to one analyst.

NIS, Serbia (Sputnik) - The Supreme Court of Serbia is expected to issue the verdict on the first lawsuit filed by victims of NATO's use of depleted uranium during the bombing of Yugoslavia by the end of 2024, Serbian lawyer Srdan Aleksic told Sputnik.

The discovery of a device over 1000 years-old tells a story of mutual knowledge creation, development, and sharing by Christians, Jews, and Muslims in 11th-century Spain.

Relations between Seoul and Tokyo have been complicated in recent years as the issue of Imperial Japanese atrocities during World War II has arisen once again.