Eastern Europe

The US, UK and Australian pact to arm Canberra with nuclear submarines is about delivering for all British people and underscoring the country's role as a "fierce champion" of freedom, new UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss insisted....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has recently lost a string of leaders to the opposition All India Trinamool Congress (TMC), with Babul Supriyo, the Asansol Member of Parliament, being the latest to join the Mamata Ba...

Last week, journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa revealed that Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley promised to warn his Chinese counterpart, Li Zuocheng of the People's Liberation Army, that he would personally warn him if Donald Trump ordered a pre...

The number of deaths due to coronavirus in Russia increased by 793 over the day...

The question of who is cheating whom is not always as straightforward as it is in the case of the coronavirus, Mrt Vljataga writes in a comment originally published in Sirp magazine....

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - France will discuss the new NATO strategic concept bearing in mind the crisis in its relations with the United States, which formed a new strategic partnership with London and Canberra behind its ally's back, French Foreign Minister...

British former world champion boxer Amir Khan has claimed he was treated "disgustingly4; after being booted off an American Airlines flight in an apparent row over a facemask....

CEC Chairperson Ella Pamfilova noted that the maximum turnout in the elections was seen in Chechnya, Kabardino-Balkaria and Tuva...

From Ladakh in the north to Assam state in the far east, India has been repairing roads, bridges and tunnels along its border with China to facilitate the movement of troops, in addition to building extreme weather habitats for soldiers in the region. But...

SOFIA (BULGARIA), September 19 (SeeNews) - BULGARIA'S DAILY ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION FIGURES Reporting on the daily volume and changes i...

The world's top cryptocurrency, bitcoin, is set to consume some 95.68 TW/h (terawatt-hours, or one trillion watts per hour) by the end of the year, according to the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index....

On Sunday, September 19, Latvia recorded 404 new cases of Covid-19 infection, according to the Disease Prevention and Control Center (SPKC)....

Estonian woods being ripe with wild berries and mushrooms has contributed to people getting lost this year. Authorities have already had to help 137 foragers who have lost their way. The police urge people to consider whether they have done everything the...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The agriculture ministries of France and Russia have reached an agreement on how to work out the imports of sparkling wine in line with the new Russian law on liquor labeling, French Minister of Agriculture and Food, Julien Denormandie,...

Gen. Frank McKenzie, the commander of US Central Command, admitted Friday that no Daesh-Khorasan* fighters were killed in the August 29th airstrike in Kabul that left ten civilians dead, taking full responsibility for the "tragic outcome" of the a...

Chinese real estate developer Evergrande has reportedly begun repaying investors in its wealth management products with property, as the giant appeared to be on the brink of collapse....

The last two Palestinian inmates who escaped from a top-security Israeli prison, causing major embarrassment for their guards, have been captured following a massive night operation by various Israeli security agencies....

In scenes not for the faint-hearted, UFC light heavyweight Devin Clark fought on despite taking some serious damage to his teeth during his defeat to Ion Cutelaba in their co-main event at UFC Fight Night 192 in Las Vegas....

Pakistan, the fifth most populous country in the world with more than 200 million people, has never been a major trade partner for Ukraine. But over the past two years, Ukrainian grain exports to the Asian country have skyrocketed from $468,000 in 2018 to...

As Russians go to the polls to elect their new parliament this weekend, one Instagram influencer in the southern city of Krasnodar has decided to steam up the process, announcing an online photo contest dubbed 'Miss Elections.'...

Actress and former MMA fighter Gina Carano, who was axed from a Disney TV series over conservative social media posts, has stirred controversy again by drawing a parallel between vaccine passports and the HIV epidemic....

Kanye West's estranged wife made her rise to stardom back in 2007 after a tape featuring her making love to then-boyfriend Ray J some years beforehand started circulating online - just in time for the launch of 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians'...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A man shot and lightly injured two security guards after being refused entry to a park in the town of Chambry, in southeastern France, in the absence of a health pass, local media reported....

According to data published by the Central Statistical Bureau September 16, in July 2021 the number of foreign and resident visitors in Latvia comprised 256.8 thousand, which is 14.1 % less than in Ju......

As of the morning of Sunday, September 19, 139 people are in need of hospital treatment for symptomatic COVID-19. Hospitals have a total of 161 patients with the coronavirus of whom 113 or 70.2 percent are unvaccinated and 48 (29.8 percent) have completed...

The government is working on a plan to require road builders to include communications infrastructure in the planning phase of new state roads to aid future high-speed broadband solutions....

Rga's Soviet housing estates are the last place you'd expect to find links to the aristocratic past. But one determined woman is fighting to preserve just such a time capsule....

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, articles and interviews: Apple fixes "zero-click" iMessage zero-day exploited to deliver spyware (CVE-2021-30860) Apple has released security updates for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, ...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Australia pulled out from a defense contract with France because it had "deep and grave" concerns about the capability of the French-designed Attack-class submarine, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Sunday....

BEIJING (Sputnik) - A passenger ship capsized on a river in China's southwestern province of Guizhou, killing eight people while seven more are reported missing, the government of the city of Liupanshui said on Saturday....

The Joint Committee on National Security Strategy analysed the UK government's decision-making amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the abrupt move to withdraw US and NATO forces from Afghanistan to uncover "serious weaknesses" in the existing syste...

Ukraine has registered 3,983 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on Sept. 19. The total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic is over 2.3 million. In the past 24 hours, 546 COVID-19 patients have recovered and 46 have died. More th...

This is not the first time boxer Amir Khan has been involved in a controversy. In 2006, the 34-year-old star was charged with dangerous driving and was handed a six-month driving ban. Khan suffered another setback in 2017, when an alleged sex tape of him ...

The U.S. tech giant faces mounting criticism from the Russian opposition and abroad for backing down to demands from Russian authorities....

The official Twitter account of US Southern Command is facing mockery after it posted a picture featuring silhouettes of Russian Sukhoi fighter jets to mark the US Air Force's birthday....

Some 301 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in the Czech Republic on Saturday, 50 more than the same day a week earlier. The reproduction number fell slightly to 1.11.The number in Czech hospitals with the virus fell to 146. Of that number 29 patients ...

Washington has a proven track record failing its allies, says a former Kurdish official, whereas such countries as Iran and Russia are known for standing by their partners and fighting for them until the end....

On 20 August 2020, two 21-year-old women confronted supporters of then-President Donald Trump at the 2020 Democratic National Convention in Wilmington, Delaware....

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio introduced a policy this summer that would require the city's businesses to request a proof of COVID-19 vaccination for visitors wishing to enter restaurants, bars, gyms and theatres....

Russians vote on September 19 in the final day of three-day parliamentary elections marred by allegations of widespread irregularities and a fresh crackdown on jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's movement....

Journalists Mirko Ojakivi, Krister Paris and Urmas Jaagant discussed the link between the green turn and the recent hike in the price of electricity on the Vikerraadio "Rahva teenrid" talk show, finding that several coinciding factors are at play....

It should be largely overcast in the Czech Republic on Monday, with an average high temperature of 13 degrees Celsius. Very similar weather is expected on the following days....

Average turnout at elections held in 13 municipalities in the Czech Republic on Saturday was over 60 percent. The highest participation, more than 85 percent, was seen in the village of Slunen in the esk Lpa area, north Bohemia; the lowest, 27 percent, wa...

The number of young adults in the Czech Republic still living with their parents has increased. Whereas 15 percent of the under 26s were living in the family home a year ago, the figure has now risen to 23 percent, the Czech News Agency said. The share of...

Thousands of people in the Czech Republic will be in a position to receive a third round of vaccination against Covid-19 from next week as it is now at least eight months since their initial inoculation was completed. On Monday 7,800 people will receive m...

Two Czech climbers who were rescued in Pakistan will be detained there until they cover the cost of the operation to save them, the news site iRozhlas.cz reported. The minister of tourism in Gilgit-Balistan in the Kashmir region informed a local newspaper...

The Estonian Council of Churches (EKN) finds draft legislation to amend the Business Register Act unconstitutional and in breach of religious freedom as it would make it possible to compose public registers of members of congregations....

Australia announced its new security alliance with the US and the UK, called AUKUS, on Wednesday, which would allow the country to acquire a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines. France, which found itself pushed out of a $66 billion defence contract with ...

Russia heads to the polls in the country's parliamentary elections in which most vocal Kremlin critics have been barred from running....