As Rishi Sunak's premiership woes mount after a series of blunders that have diminished Tory faith in his administration, senior cabinet ministers are engaging in secret discussions about having a caretaker leader. But is now the time?
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that he plans to visit Donbass and meet with the employees of the ministry’s representative offices in Lugagsk and Donetsk.
Trade and diplomatic ties between Russia and Tunisia are steadily developing, with Moscow becoming one of the key pillars of the Global South and the emerging multipolar world. Tunisia is an influential member of the Arab League, while the West seems to prefer seeing Tunisia distancing itself from Russia, and is ready to apply economic pressure.
Millions of Russian citizens will head to the polls March 15-17 as the country holds its 2024 presidential election.
A military source close to Yemen’s Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement has informed Sputnik that the militia has carried out a successful test flight of a hypersonic missile and is preparing to add it into its arsenal. Sputnik asked a leading Russian military observer about the development’s strategic implications.
Canadians got their first rude awakening about the limits to their constitutional freedoms during the Freedom Convoy protests in February of 2022, when, in a crackdown on truckers objecting to draconian Covid restrictions, the Trudeau government invoked the Emergencies Act, allowing authorities to jail organizers and seize their bank accounts.
North Korea has demonstrated its latest main battle tank at a crew competition, with the country's leader Kim Jong Un, Defense Minister Kang Sun Nam, and Chief of the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army Ri Yong Gil taking part in the demonstration.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The US-imposed restrictions on exports of semiconductors to China violate market rules, disrupt the trade order and deal a blow to the stability of international production and supply chains, which is a "clear case of economic bullying," a spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines said on Thursday.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian Pacific Fleet's detachment of ships have completed the active phase of the Sea Security Belt drills with Iranian and Chinese naval forces in the Gulf of Oman, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday morning.
President Vladimir Putin in his recent interview voiced the opinion that Emmanuel Macron's increased anti-Russian rhetoric could be explained by the French president's "resentment" over the loss of French influence in Africa, which is increasingly looking to Russia for help and cooperation.
MINSK (Sputnik) - India is interested in building relations with the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and is eyeing the start of negotiations on a free trade agreement with it, Belarusian Foreign Minister Sergei Aleinik said following a visit to New Delhi.
Since 2022, the EU has imposed comprehensive sanctions on Russian energy imports. Restrictions on coal were also followed by oil later that year, which are in place to this day. This, however, did not stop Russian industry from rerouting its supplies and yielding billions in profit.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - More than 50% of Finland's citizens support holding strike actions against the government's labor reforms, a poll held by the Central Organization of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK) has shown.
Monday, US President Joe Biden unveiled a $7.3 trillion budget, including $895 billion of military funding. That number that balloons to over $1.5 trillion when including the “emergency supplemental” military spending that Biden requested from Congress and other military expenses like the Veteran Affairs and interest on security-related debt.
KISHINEV (Sputnik) - Moldova currently has no plans to consider joining NATO as the idea is widely unpopular among the public, Foreign Minister Mihai Popsoi said, calling for a broad debate on the matter.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has personally test-driven a new-type battle tank of North Korea during a training match between the country's tank units, North Korean state-run news agency KCNA reported on Thursday.
CAIRO (Sputnik) - Yemen's Ansar Allah movement, also known as the Houthis, has carried out a test flight of a hypersonic missile with high destructive capability and is preparing to add these missiles to its military arsenal, a military source close to the movement has told Sputnik.
PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY (Sputnik) - Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia has its own view of the future and the implementation of further plans, and it is important not to stray from this path and to achieve the set goals.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Personal data of about 43 million people in France could have been compromised as a result of a cyberattack on online recruitment services in the country, the France Travail service said.
On Monday, the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence released its Annual Global Threat Assessment which warned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s grasp on power is “in jeopardy.”
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Geert Wilders, leader of Dutch right-wing Party for Freedom (PVV), which won the most seats in the 2023 parliamentary elections, said on Wednesday that he had failed to muster support from his prospective coalition partners to become the prime minister.
