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It took Conor McGregor all of 40 seconds to smash his way to victory on his octagon return at UFC 246 and former foe Floyd Mayweather was almost as quick to use the opportunity to tease a rematch between the pair....

Facebook has said a "technical issue" caused Chinese President Xi Jinping's name to appear as "Mr Sh**thole" when translated from Burmese to English amid his visit to Myanmar....

Temperatures across Latvia for independence day celebrations on November 18 are expected to be close to record highs as a period of mild weather continues. However, later in the week temperatures will drop considerably, according to forecasts....

The life and death of disgraced and widely known billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who is believed to have committed suicide while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking and sexual abuse of underage girls this summer, is still attracting a lot of attenti...

In the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of a viral outbreak, 17 more cases of the new coronavirus have been reported by authorities three of which have been described as "severe."...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Fayez Sarraj, the head of the Tripoli-based internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), has called on the international community to send a peacekeeping mission under the auspices of the United Nations to ensure a ce...

MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) - Large-scale power outages have been registered in northern and western Venezuela, with the states of Tachira, Merida, and Carabobo among the most affected, monitoring agency Netblocks reported on Saturday....

Minister of Population Riina Solman said during an OECD meeting in Paris that Estonia must address births and return migration to stop population decrease....

Although the welterweight bout was a non-title fight, it has allegedly broken pay-per-view figures, with the Notorious claiming in one interview he would earn a record $104 million. Naturally, such a highly-anticipated fight should feature some of the mos...

Conor McGregor returned in all his glory at UFC 246 in Las Vegas, Nevada needing just 40 seconds to secure a TKO victory over Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone....

The Irish mixed martial arts champion has made his return to the octagon after a 15-month absence....

UFC 246 is the first UFC event of the year, headlined by one of the biggest superstar that the sport has ever known, and unsurprisingly it brought out several stars from other sports such as heavyweight boxing icon Tyson Fury....

In his address to high-profile GOP sponsors, ahead of the formal start of the 2020 presidential campaign, POTUS pointed out that the Iranian general's curses against America caused him to decide on his assassination, arguing the commander had been ...

Russia's Yandex, which runs a popular car-sharing service in the country, is planning to expand across Europe this year, the tech company has revealed....

Holly Holm fought in her first non-title fight bantamweight bout at UFC 246 since June 2017. In the bout, she rematched Raquel Pennington who welcomed her to the Octagon in 2015. Once again, she picked up the win against 'Rocky.'...

Alexey Oleynik did what he does best and scored yet another submission when he fought at UFC 246. Like 46 others have before him, Maurice Greene also fell victim to "The Boa Constrictor" in the grappling department....

German exchange student who was shown the door by the Indian immigration authorities after he went viral for joining a protest against the citizenship bill in December has claimed he was discouraged from coming back....

Several large-scale electricity shutdowns occurred in Venezuela last March, when the capital of the country Caracas and the majority of states were left without electric power...

Why Is Western Media Not Questioning The Mysterious Death Of Australian Youth Activist Wilson Gavin? Authored by Robert Bridge via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Following a protest against a 'drag queen story time' at a library in Australia, W...

Probably all of us have this one "special" friend who is always up for pulling some crazy stunts or doing something funny. This is also true when it comes to golden retrievers, it seems....

'Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes', a new book expected to appear in stores next month, tells readers about powerful mercenary entities "involved in war crimes around the world from Sri Lanka to Nicaragua"...

KABUL (Sputnik) - With the consultations on Afghan peace ongoing in the Qatari capital of Doha, the Afghan government and the rival Taliban radical group appear to disagree on roadmap to achieving comprehensive peace through ceasefire....

False Flag? Fmr CIA Officer Suggests US Hacked Ukrainian Plane Transponder To Provoke Iran Shootdown Philip Giraldi, a former counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer of the CIA, penned a piece in the American Herald Tribune speculat...

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) Several thousands of people gathered in Washington on Saturday to join rally for women's right and protest against US President Donald Trump's policy, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the scene....

For the first time in 18 English Premier League matches since the beginning of the season, Liverpool failed to win, losing two points during a match against Manchester United on 20 October that ended in a 1-1 draw....

Coming into UFC 246 as the biggest underdog on the card by a large margin, flyweight veteran Roxanne Modafferi handed hyped prospect Maycee Barber the first defeat of her young career....

How The US Wages War To Prop Up The Dollar Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, At Counterpunch , Michael Hudson has penned an important article that outlines the important connections between US foreign policy, oil, and the US dollar. In sho...

Total revenues of the company from sales of oil, gas and oil products equaled $22.5 bln, down 8.5% in annual terms...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump criticized the idea of building a wall to protect New York from storms, calling it "foolish" and "costly"....

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has said he is open to talks with US President Donald Trump in the hopes to repair ties with the US, while blaming Trump's hawkish advisors for feeding him a distorted narrative....

F-18 Fighters To Drop Live Bombs On Florida Swamp This Weekend According to a statement published by the Naval Air Station Jacksonville , the US Navy is preparing to conduct live bombing raids with fighter jets at a training facility in the middle of Flor...

Food rations delivered by Russian servicemen comprise rice, tea, sugar, honey and Tula spice cakes...

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Undefeated flyweight contender Askar Askarov came close to scoring a spectacular knockout of Tim Elliott before eventually defeating him after three punishing rounds at UFC 246 in Las Vegas....

Over-Hyped Russian Hypersonics? Authored by Michael Brenner via ConsortiumNews.com, Deployment of Russia's hyper-sonic missiles is causing heartburn in the West. Media headline the news as a dramatic breakthrough on a par with the first Sputnik. "...

The US Department of Defence (DoD) has released the first image of the uniforms for a newly-minted - at the behest of US President Donald Trump - sixth military branch, the United States Space Force. An official Space Force tweet includes a photo that has...

The Quiet Crisis: Deaths Caused By Alcoholism Have More Than Doubled Opioid overdoses may have leveled off last year after soaring over the last ten, but Americans are still dying in droves from another, far more popular substance: alcohol. According to a...

Eyewitnesses claimed Saturday seeing stampede at Lenox Square Mall in Atlanta, Georgia as alleged multiple gunshots were fired. Police have responded to the reported shooting....

It Was Rod: DOJ Court Filing Reveals Rosenstein Behind Strzok-Page Text Dumps Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein authorized the release to the media of text messages between 'FBI lovebirds' Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, many of which reve...

1.47 mln Russians visited Thailand in 2019...

A controversial photo that recently attracted media attention was positioned on a display as a part of an exhibit celebrating the centennial of women's suffrage in the United State's National Archives. The picture showed a 2017 rally on Pennsylvan...

"Hard" Of Hearing: PornHub Being Sued By Deaf Man For Lack Of Closed Captioning Visuals are sometimes difficult to enjoy without context. At least, that's the argument being made by Yaroslav Suris, who is suing the popular online porn site cla...

The government of Latvia is interested in organizing oil carriage to Belarus via Latvian ports, Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins says...

With his trial in the Senate is about to kick-start, US President Donald Trump has once again rejected "each and every allegation" in the impeachment articles, accusing Democrats of trying to undo the outcome of the 2016 vote....

According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, moose are usually not aggressive, but if one is irritated, or if an animal feels it is being threatened, it can pack a deadly wallop, so it is commended to "run and get behind something solid, like ...

The Forbidden City in Beijing is one of China's top historical and cultural landmarks. A World Heritage Site, it is one of the most visited places in the country. The site's significance is due, in part, to serving as the imperial palace of the na...

Why Laws Against Hate Speech Are Dangerous Authored by Fjordman via The Gatestone Institute, In November 2019, Germans celebrated the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany 30 years earlier. That same month, Chancellor Angela Merkel,...

The upgrade will make it possible to improve working conditions of the staff, optimize service formats and improve efficiency of internal business processes in offices, the Russian Post says...

Representatives of more than 10 countries, including Turkey, the United States, and Russia, are expected to gather in Berlin on January 19 in an attempt to end the conflict in Libya and prevent what some fear could be another Syria-like refugee flood....

The opposing sides in the impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump laid out their cases on January 18, with Democratic managers saying Trump "abandoned" his oath of office, while the defense team fired back with claims of a "dangerous ...