Новости за 06.05.2024

UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) - The West's claims about its alleged interest in cooperation on peaceful use of outer space sound like hypocrisy and double standards, Russian Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia said on Monday.

BEIJING (Sputnik) - Beijing hopes that institutions of the European Union will develop right perception of China, President Xi Jinping said on Monday at a trilateral meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia is facing an economic aggression as its adversaries wanted to increase unemployment and close enterprises in the country, but they have failed, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) has transferred declassified Soviet military intelligence files to Russia's to Victory Museum, the country's leading military history museum. The documents indicate that Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler wanted to defeat the Soviet Union in three weeks and take Joseph Stalin hostage.

The inauguration of Russian President Vladimir Putin will take place on May 7.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday turned down a proposal to equip the country's coast guard vessels with water cannons as a means of defense against China's alleged persecutions in the South China Sea.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The murder of US-Russian war correspondent Russell "Texas" Bentley, who worked for Sputnik, should be investigated and people responsible brought to justice, Dmitry Kiselev, the general director of Sputnik's parent media group Rossiya Segodnya, said.

The training exercises for Russian Southern Military District missile units will be held in response to "provocative threats by Western nations against Russia," Moscow underscored.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has started calling on Palestinians to leave the eastern part of the Gazan city of Rafah ahead of the planned military operation, The Times of Israel newspaper reported on Monday.

Queen Rania al Abdullah made the comments during a pre-recorded interview aired on US television on Sunday.

The study found that in the long term, using gas or propane stoves means that the typical American could breathe in three-quarters of the nitrogen dioxide levels deemed safe by the WHO within people’s homes.

The two parties have been negotiating since February, but on Saturday morning Boeing forced the workers out after the union turned down their final offer.

An article in The New York Times suggests China shares skepticism towards US hegemony with some European countries, but the Asian power maintains positive cultural, economic, and historical ties as well.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Wahington’s plans to deploy medium- and short-range missiles in the Asia-Pacific region will inevitably provoke a missile arms race, and Russia will be forced to respond to new security threats, including in the field of nuclear deterrence, Russian Ambassador-at-Large Grigory Mashkov told Sputnik.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Finland wants to urgently build a TNT production plant due to a shortage of explosives in Europe, Finnish broadcaster Yle reported, citing Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen.

The hard-right, nationalist and Jewish Orthodox parties within the cabinet have floated the idea of closing the channel since the beginning of the conflict between Israel and Hamas in October of 2023.

While US officials claim Beijing's plans to deploy floating nuclear power plants in the South China Sea could endanger US national security and regional stability, experts interviewed by Sputnik appeared skeptical about the threat allegedly posed by China’s initiative.