Новости за 05.04.2024

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar is trying to restart reunification talks for Cyprus but has not yet found common ground, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar told Sputnik on Friday.

Russia has promised to “form a position” on a US-sponsored Security Council resolution proposing a ban nuclear weapons in space in due course. Why is Washington suddenly so interested in the idea? What kinds of things could the resolution contain? Sputnik asked one of America’s top independent military and foreign affairs observers to comment.

NEW YORK (Sputnik) - Crude prices broke above $90 per barrel on Friday, giving the oil rally its biggest week since early February.

KISHINEV (Sputnik) - Romania will host NATO's multinational naval exercise Sea Shield in the Black Sea and the Danube Delta from April 8–21, the Romanian Defense Ministry said on Friday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - An earthquake on the eastern coast of the United States on Friday and a total solar eclipse on April 8 represent signals from God for the country to repent, US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said on Friday.

UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) - The United States’ representative to the UN Security Council attempted to manipulate the group by making misleading statements about resolutions regarding Israel’s conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Russian Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia said on Friday.

Israel targeted the Iranian Embassy compound in Damascus, Syria on Monday, killing 16 people, including a top IRGC Quds Force commander. The same day, IDF drones struck three World Central Kitchen vehicles in Gaza, killing seven aid workers. Scott Ritter tells Sputnik how these events are connected.

TIRASPOL (Sputnik) - A kamikaze drone attacked a military unit in Transnistria, a defacto independent republic, on Friday and caused minor damage to a radar station, the region’s State Security Ministry said.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Moscow's Basmanny District Court on Friday ruled to arrest Muhammad Zoeir Sharipzoda, another defendant in the Crocus City Hall concert venue terrorist attack case, the court told Sputnik.

According to seismologists, the earthquake occurred 46 kilometers northwest of the city of Edison in the American state of New Jersey, with a population of about 102,000 people, at 14:23 UTC.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Increasing NATO defense spending and gearing up the alliance in its strongest form will protect it from risks connected with former US President Donald Trump's potential reelection in November, UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron told the Daily Mail newspaper.

The escalation in tensions between Tehran and Tel Aviv following Israel’s missile strike on the Iranian Embassy compound in Damascus on Monday has revived fears of an all-out conflict between the Middle Eastern powers. But which nation’s military is better equipped for a large-scale conflagration?

Israeli officials have stated that Iran may actively retaliate for the recent targeting of the Iranian Embassy compound in Damascus by Tel Aviv. As geopolitical tensions continue to escalate, oil prices surged on Thursday, reaching the highest levels since October of last year.

US officials are investigating several factors that could have led to the engine failure of the cargo ship Dali that crashed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge. However, apprehension surrounds the National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB) conclusions.

The natural mechanism of silk fiber creation remained a mystery to science for over 100 years.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The attacks of Israel against humanitarian workers in the Gaza Strip are a war crime, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on Friday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia will study the US draft resolution on the non-deployment of nuclear weapons in space and then develop a position, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.

Iranian officials have warned Tel Aviv that Tehran has the right to take action in response to Israel's missile strike on the Iranian Consulate in Damascus that killed 16 people, among them IRGC Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior Revolutionary Guard Quds Force commander advising the Syrian military in its counterterrorism operations.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Sweden's plans to create a NATO base on the island of Gotland are provocative, the Russian Foreign Ministry told Sputnik.

Russian forces have entered the suburb of Chasov Yar, the enemy has built serious fortifications in the city over the year, its territory is mined, said an adviser to DPR head Denis Pushilin, Yan Gagin.

WARSAW (Sputnik) - Poland demands that an international investigation with Warsaw's participation be held into the death of a Polish national in an Israeli strike on World Central Kitchen's (WCK) aid workers, Polish Deputy Prime Minister and National Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - South Korea is planning to hold a trilateral summit with China and Japan in May to resume talks, which have not been held since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and strained relations between Tokyo and Seoul.

BUENOS AIRES (Sputnik) - Argentine police have detained a man armed with a machete and other sharp objects attempting to infiltrate the Casa Rosada presidential palace in Buenos Aires to kill President Javier Milei, Security Minister Patricia Bullrich said.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Former US President Donald Trump expressed doubt over President Biden's willingness to debate and suggested candidates should undergo drug testing during an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt Thursday.

MURMANSK, Russia (Sputnik) - The governor of Russia's Murmansk Region Andrei Chibis was hospitalized after a knife attack in the town of Apatity Thursday, his press office told Sputnik.