Новости за 07.04.2024

Israel's strike on the Iranian consulate in Syria threatened to escalate tensions towards regional conflict. Observers expect Tehran to retaliate in the coming days.

Russia has declared a federal emergency after a dam burst caused flooding in the Orenburg oblast.

Sunday marked the six-month anniversary of the Israel-Hamas war, with Tel Aviv finding itself increasingly isolated abroad, and the Israeli military humbled after getting bogged down in the ruins of Gaza's cities by militants armed mostly with automatic rifles and RPGs. What, if anything has 'Operation Swords of Iron' achieved in six months?

In 2023, a scientific research program saw Russian scientists breaking new ground by constructing small-scale atomic reactors and achieving plasma confinement in tokamak nuclear fusion chambers

Israel has faced a series of unrelenting missile and drone attacks from militias operating across the Middle East through the course of the war in Gaza. While most of the projectiles have been shot down by the country's powerful air defenses, some have managed to make it through. The city of Eilat has become one of the top targets.

With TSMC's Kumamoto chip plant buzzing, its CEO CC Wei and Japan's premier stress the semiconductor giant's role in Tokyo's revival of its crumbling chip industry amid huge investments and expansion plans.

The Russian Iskander-M is a highly mobile, short-range ballistic missile system, designed to provide precision fire support and target engagement capabilities.

In a historic first, the US, Japan, the Philippines and Australia have conducted joint naval drills in the disputed South China Sea, citing China's growing assertiveness in the region and further escalating tensions with Beijing.

Recent startling revelations about organized crime in the European Union (EU) spotlight the extensive use of real estate for money laundering purposes by more than a third of criminal groups.

Earlier reports had indicated that the administration of US President Joe Biden was pushing hard to gain momentum on the AUKUS Pillar 2 stage before the US elections in November. It was also noted that Japan and Canada were in line to join the second - non-nuclear - pillar of the trilateral security partnership.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Pantsir-M naval air defense system has been used for the first time in the special military operation zone and destroyed the Storm Shadow missiles, the CEO of High Precision Systems (part of Russia's state-owned defense corporation Rostec), Oleg Ryazantsev, said on Sunday.

Russia's TOS-1A Solntsepyok (Scorching Sunlight) is a unique and devastatingly powerful multiple rocket launcher system designed to engage and destroy heavily fortified positions, armored vehicles and area targets with high explosive incendiary (HEI) rockets.

US President Biden warned PM Netanyahu in a phone call on Thursday that Israel must take "a series of specific, concrete and measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering and the safety of aid workers" if it doesn't want to see a change in US policy on Gaza.

The protest group Extinction Rebellion said they have blocked a highway in the Netherlands more than 35 times in protest of fossil-fuel subsidies.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will consider Palestine's request for full membership at the UN and its transfer to the UNSC Committee on the Admission of New Members on April 8, a schedule of meetings for next week revealed.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Moscow views a drone attack on a military unit in Moldova's breakaway region of Transnistria as a provocation aimed at aggravating the situation in the region, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Saturday.

On Monday, a total solar eclipse will stretch across North America. With the phenomenon not occurring again until summer 2044, those wishing to see the spectacle are willing to spend a large chunk of change to do so, even if the viewing time only last a little over four minutes.

Ecuador's highly provocative move has elicited condemnation across Latin America, with an Organization of American States (OAS) meeting scheduled to discuss the issue.

The call marks the latest purported attempt by the Biden Administration to pressure Israel to reduce civilian casualties in Gaza. Nearly 33,000 Palestinians have been killed since hostilities began in October according to local health authorities.

Every country needs a coherent foreign policy. And it’s impossible to overstate the importance of the United States’ military and diplomatic posture.