What seems to be a deliberate endeavor to erase essential data containing specific recorded testimonies and interviews by the January 6 panel under the Democrats has caused a stir among the House panel leadership, which made startling findings about the party's cover-up of the Capitol breach.
ANKARA (Sputnik) - Turkiye’s Grand National Assembly ratified the protocol on Sweden’s accession to NATO on Tuesday, Turkish TRT Haber’s broadcast showed.
Illegal immigration in the US will be one of the major issues of the 2024 Presidential election, if the election is actually held.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has arrived in New York to take part in the meeting of the UN Security Council being held from January 22nd to 24th.
The EU has approved a new mission proposed by Italy, France and Germany to protect Red Sea shipping from attacks by Yemen's Houthis. What do we know so far and what are the upcoming operation's risk?
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Biden administration and the Department of Defense have failed to give US business and industry the clear direction and leadership it needs to develop Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) systems, the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) and the Emerging Technologies Institute (ETI) said in a new report on Tuesday.
The GOP frontrunner vowed to create a “state of the art” Iron Dome-style missile defense shield at a rally in New Hampshire on Monday, harking back to Ronald Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ Strategic Defense Initiative program. Sputnik asked former DoD analyst Karen Kwiatkowski what the candidate’s calls for a new Iron Dome will mean in practice if realized.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has raised the prospect of national rearmament, evoking the spectre of a "Russia threat" as justification. Could Berlin really do the job?
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi have led a ceremony by video link to pour the first batch of concrete for the fourth unit of the El-Dabaa nuclear power plant. The country's first NPP is being built with the participation of Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Russian Foreign Minster Sergey Lavrov, in an interview with CBS, said that the US must stop its hostilities and stop vetoing UN ceasefire resolutions in order resolve the crisis in the Middle East, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
PARIS (Sputnik) - One person died and two others were injured after a car collided with farmers' barricades blocking highways in France's south during a protest against government agricultural policies, the president of the National Federation of Agricultural holders' Unions (FNSEA) said on Tuesday.
The active sunspots discovered on the sun's surface release billions of tons of plasma and generate magnetic fields. Though the geomagnetic storm is moderate, it can interfere with satellite, space and aviation communications.
The US' thinly-veiled policy of playing the so-called Taiwan card to support its geopolitical strategy of containing China is continuing after the regional election of Taiwan island with US lawmakers reportedly scheduling to go to the island.
TEL AVIV (Sputnik) - Israel does not want a war with the Lebanese movement Hezbollah, but is ready for any development of events in the north part of the border in light of the ongoing provocations, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Tuesday.
At a hearing held in the US Congress on Wednesday local time, American space experts, government officials, and members of Congress reached or reinforced a unified understanding: "For the US and its partners not to be on the moon when others are on the moon, is unacceptable."
The T-72B3M tank, a modernized version of the T-72B, boasts advanced technologies and features. These include a new fire control system, enhanced armor protection, and a modernized engine. The vehicle's primary weapon is a 125mm smoothbore gun capable of firing various ammunition types.
An Iraqi militia coalition headed by Shia militia group Kata'ib Hezbollah ramped up attacks on US forces across Iraq and Syria in mid-October, and has sought to target Israel, in solidarity with Gazans among Israel's ongoing military campaign in the besieged enclave. US forces in the region have been targeted over 140 times since October 17.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The volume of orders by Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom from Egyptian companies for the construction of El Dabaa nuclear power plant (NPP) has exceeded $1.2 billion, Rosatom head Alexey Likhachev said on Tuesday.
MOSCOW(Sputnik) - Russia expects that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi will attend the BRICS summit in Russia's Kazan scheduled for later in the year, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.
Statements by European defense minister about a potential war with Russia have raised concerns over escalating military rhetoric, say Russian diplomats.
Egypt's El-Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant, which is currently under construction, is poised to become the North African country's inaugural nuclear power facility. This project is a collaborative effort between Russia's Rosatom state nuclear energy corporation and Egypt's Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA).
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The constructors are going to send 10 manned Orel spacecraft to the Russian Orbital Service (ROS) station in 2028-2033, general designer for manned complexes and systems of Russia Vladimir Solovyov said on Tuesday.
MEXCICO CITY (Sputnik) - Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez has alleged that US oil giant Exxon Mobil sponsored preparations for the 2023 foiled assassination attempts on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro with the aim of exploiting rich resources of the Essequibo region.
TOKYO (Sputnik) - Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) faction that was headed by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida until December 2023 has officially announced its dissolution amid an ongoing financial scandal, the Kyodo news agency reported on Tuesday.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A Japanese business delegation on Tuesday started its first visit to China in four years with plans to hold economic talks with the neighboring country's senior officials, the NHK newspaper reported on Tuesday.
