Sunday marked the 25th anniversary of the start of NATO’s 78-day campaign of aerial aggression against Yugoslavia. Just three days in, the Yugoslav Army shot down a F-117 Nighthawk using a vintage Soviet missile. Sputnik asked former US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski how such a thing could happen.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Dublin will join South Africa's case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over alleged genocide in the Gaza Strip, the Irish Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
The British government unveiled a new program of funding for the nuclear industry's immediate needs on Monday, shortly after a recent Trident II ballistic missile test- launch by the Royal Navy ended in failure.
China has emerged victorious in a nearly three-year dispute with Australia at the World Trade Organization over tariffs on steel products, with Australia's trade minister announcing that his government accepts the ruling.
Yet another one of France’s ex-colonies appears poised to shed the remaining rusted vestiges of neo-colonial enslavement. Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Senegal’s main opposition candidate who ran under the motto that “Africa belongs to Africans,” won Sunday’s presidential election.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A Dutch frigate has arrived in the Red Sea to join maritime missions to protect shipping from Houthi attacks, Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren said on Wednesday.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) in being dragged into the West's political game, the goal of which is to disconnect Russia from the organization's information resources, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.
The State Duma, the nation's lower house of parliament, has urged Western countries to investigate the funding of terrorist attacks targeting Russia.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Five German economic research institutes have lowered the country's GDP growth forecast for 2024 from 1.3% to 0.1% due to cyclical and structural weaknesses in the economy, according to a joint statement released on Wednesday.
Approximately 80 percent of the world's population lives in areas with intense luminosity by artificial nighttime light sources. This phenomenon has raised concerns about potential adverse effects on human brain health and vigor.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A delegation from North Korea headed by Foreign Trade Minister Yun Jong Ho has arrived in Moscow, Alexander Kozlov, the chairman of the intergovernmental commission on cooperation between Russia and North Korea, said on Wednesday.
Last week, a YouGov survey found that 61 percent of Americans think a new world war is either “very likely” or “somewhat likely” to break out over the next 5-10 years. The worrying survey results come amid continued efforts by Washington and its allies to set Eastern Europe, the Middle East, as well as East and Southeast Asia on fire.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia will adjust its Arctic development strategy through 2035 in the wake of the changed international context and its relations with the near-Arctic and Arctic nations, the Russian Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic said on Wednesday.
The incident in the Tatra Mountains marked the fifth instance of soldiers losing their lives during military exercises held in Poland in March.
SOCHI, Russia (Sputnik) - Electricity exports from Russia to Kazakhstan grew by 20% in the first quarter of 2024 year-on-year, but fell by 75% to China, while the highest volumes were supplied to Mongolia, Russian energy holding company Inter RAO said on Wednesday.
The Onyx anti-ship missile, commissioned in 2002, boasts an impressive over-the-horizon firing range. Utilizing the "fire-and--forget" principle, it is effective in electronic warfare conditions and features a reduced radar signature. The upgraded Onyx-M version has the capability to hit targets as far as 800 kilometers away.
In 1999, an armed confrontation between the ethnic Albanian separatists of the Kosovo Liberation Army and the Serbian military led to the bombing of the then Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, consisting of Serbia and Montenegro, by NATO forces.
In a headline-grabbing shift from its three previous vetoes, the US abstained from a UN Security Council vote on a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza on March 25. The move was seen as feeding into a growing chasm between US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Japanese Finance Ministry is ready to take appropriate actions and respond "resolutely" to the weakening yen exchange rate after the currency hit a 34-year low, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Wednesday.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said during a meeting with US officials in Washington that once the military actions cease in the Gaza Strip, the enclave will be governed neither by Israel nor by Palestinian movement Hamas, and that a local alternative must be built, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Wednesday.
Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of Palestine to the UN, noted that it has taken six months with more than 100,000 Palestinians killed and injured, to come to a decision to demand a ceasefire.
Having been proven incompetent on any number of issues, the White House seeks to delay a decision on the Wikileaks founder’s fate.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The formal military integration of Sweden into NATO will be completed by the end of April, NATO's Allied Command Transformation has said.
Journalist Elijah Magnier slammed the US for its disavowal of the Security Council’s ceasefire resolution as well as criticizing Israeli conduct in Gaza. "They know they are doing [war crimes]," said the analyst.
The expert is not the first to warn that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians. Scholars and states, including a case brought by South Africa in December, have warned that offensive acts carried out by Israel in their war against Hamas have amounted to acts of genocide against civilians in the Gaza Strip.
