Carolyn Bryant Donham was never charged for her alleged role in connection with the abduction, torture and murder of Emmett Till, a Black teenage boy who in 1955 she accused of whistling at her o...
The military spacecraft certainly resembles the now-retired shuttle in appearance, although it is considerably smaller, reportedly measuring only 29 feet (8.8 meters) as opposed to 122 feet (37 m...
Following an agreement with Turkey at the NATO summit in Madrid on Tuesday, the alliance formally extended a membership invitation to Sweden and Finland, marking its ninth such expansion since fo...
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The FBI has launched an investigation into allegations of sex abuse against the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday.
The risk of a new war in eastern Africa continues to rise after an old border dispute between Sudan and Ethiopia was rekindled last week.
In September 2021, a New York District Court found R&B legend R. Kelly, real name Robert Kelly, guilty of a total of nine charges of racketeering and sex trafficking. His offenses include a viola...
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A French court has found all defendants in the 2015 Paris terrorist attack case guilty, the BFMTV broadcaster reported on Wednesday.
The United States operates dozens of military facilities across Europe, including nearly two dozen Air Force bases, seven large Army garrisons, and seven Navy bases and support facilities. Most o...
The researchers suggest that the area they identified “records a long history of flowing water” starting about 3.8 billion years ago and ending around 2.5 billion years ago.
GARDEZ, Afghanistan (Sputnik) - The recent earthquake in Afghanistan’s mountainous areas claimed the lives of up to 80% of the population in certain villages and the survivors are forced to liv...
US military forces are struggling to meet their fiscal year 2022 recruiting goals with the Army having achieved only 40 percent of its recruiting goals so far. What message does the emerging tren...
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Some two-thirds of Americans support tougher gun control laws, according to a Politico-Morning Consult poll out Wednesday.
The solar winds slipped past Earth’s magnetic “defenses”, sparking a spectacular display of auroras in the sky.
Four municipal “zones free of LGBT ideology” must be abolished, a top Polish court ruled on Tuesday.
The company behind this geothermal scheme now plans to start harvesting energy from pilot wells reaching into the “super-hot” depths of our planet, by 2026.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - President Joe Biden's approach to the conflict in Ukraine, concerns over his mental stability, and liberal intolerance could be among the reasons why over one million Democ...
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - UK Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday met with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who had proposed holding another referendum on Scotland's independence in October 2023.
With this, Azam overtook former Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli’s record of remaining at the top position for the greatest number of days in the 20-over format of cricket.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - States can prosecute non-Indian defendants for crimes committed against Indian victims on reservations, the US Supreme Court said on Wednesday in a ruling.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on Wednesday sent a letter to President Joe Biden in which he confirmed his intention to retire on Thursday, setting the stage for j...
TEL AVIV (Sputnik) - Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told members of his Yamina party that he has no plans to participate in the next parliamentary elections, his press office said on Wedn...
The Biden administration began tapping one million barrels of oil per day from the reserve in March to try to get a grip on gas prices, which have broken all-time records and soared to more than ...
British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said the armed forces needed to speed up their purchases of new equipment, adding that his department's budget, which had been established before the conflic...
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Negotiations between Iran and the US in Doha to restore the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) have been ineffective, Iranian media reported on Wednesday.
The G7, or the group of the world's seven richest countries, announced that it was devising another strategy to squeeze Russia's earnings from energy exports as a vast number of countries around ...
Gender-specific language has increasingly fallen out of favor over the past few decades, with terms such as 'policeman' and 'policewoman' replaced with 'officer'. But the recent trend of decoupli...
Gender stereotypes are hard to dislodge, as proved by a recent rambling episode offered up by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. However, time and again, life has proved such frivolous type-casting...
The quarrel centers around Taiping Island, the largest of the South China Sea’s Spratly Islands. The island, which the Philippines calls Ligaw, also has several other claimants, but has been un...
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the NATO summit on Wednesday compared the alliance's policy of accepting new members with the old turnstiles of the Kiev subway, seemi...
The G7 invited five countries from the ‘Global South’ - Argentina, India, Indonesia, Senegal and South Africa - to the recently concluded summit in the German resort of Schloss Elmau. The gro...
The meme tweeted by Lewinsky made fun of Trump over allegations that he tried to grab the steering wheel of the presidential vehicle on 6 January 2021 as he sought to reach the US Capitol - alleg...
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States and allies have blocked $300 billion worth of Russia's central bank assets, and over $30 billion worth of sanctioned individuals’ assets in the past 1...
Speculations over Ronaldo's future at Old Trafford continue to rise with Chelsea being the latest club reportedly interested in signing the superstar. The Portugal captain is apparently miffed wi...
Economists on both sides of the Atlantic have recently urged their respective publics to prepare for a recession, and possibly a stagflationary crisis, amid surging inflation and soaring energy c...
Previous sleep studies cited “legitimate concerns” over the “disruption” of sleep by ambient light as 36 percent of teens and 26 percent of adults typically wake up to check their mobile ...
Frenkie de Jong has been Man United's top target for months. The Dutch player is rated quite highly by the Red Devils' new manager Erik ten Hag. He was seen as a natural fit for the club's midfie...
People were evacuated from the nearby buildings while fire brigades were battling the blaze.
The man asked social media users to help him to identify the mysterious beast.
The UK government reportedly owns a 1.5 percent share in the company, which was recently valued at about £15 million.
The invitation was made possible after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dropped his objection to the Nordic nations' membership in the bloc. Ankara held up Finland and Sweden's NATO bids fo...
The group has been held responsible for around 1,800 terrorist attacks in Pakistan over the past decade. A UN Security Council report last month claimed that at present it makes up the “largest...
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Dutch farmers protesting against measures to limit nitrogen emissions have tried to break through to the house of Nature and Nitrogen Minister Christianne van der Wal and attac...
Germans take their politicians’ showing of emotion seriously. Last year, Christian Democratic Union leader Armin Laschet was asked to resign after getting caught on camera laughing and joking i...
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday summoned Norwegian Charge d'Affaires Solveig Rossebo over Oslo's refusal to let Russian cargo into the archipelago of Svalbard.
China's Tianwan-1 probe was launched in July 2020. The crewless spacecraft entered Mars orbit in February 2021 and started operations in May 2021. A robotic rover has since been deployed to the s...
Unlike the US and its allies, China's strategic ties with Myanmar have not been affected by the change in government after the military overthrew the Aung San Suu Kyi-led government in February 2...
Local authorities have also discovered a human body not far from the scene, to which the severed head found near the courthouse likely belongs.
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Secretary of the NGO Citizens of Justice and Peace Teesta Setalvad, along with Zaika Jafri, widow of Congress parliamentarian Ehsan Jafri, had filed a petition against the then-Gujarat State Chie...
Israel and regional adversary Iran have engaged in a years-long cyberwarfare campaign, targeting both physical and virtual infrastructure. Last year, the Israel Defense Force Joint Cyber Defense ...
Five US states - Illinois, Colorado, Oklahoma, New York and Utah - held primaries for the 2022 Midterm Elections on Tuesday, with voters heading to the polls to pick nominees for governors, senat...
The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is reportedly set to start retiring its current fleet of Collins-class diesel-electric attack submarines before the end of this decade. Meanwhile, the first nuclea...
On Tuesday, a Hindu shopkeeper was beheaded allegedly by two Muslims in the Udaipur District of Rajasthan. The killers purportedly posted a video of the decapitation, and threatened to take the l...
According to some estimates, prices for basic food in the Palestinian territories have gone up 30 percent in recent months. This has triggered protests across the West Bank, with demonstrators de...
At least 51 Latino migrants died in a tractor-trailer abandoned in the suffocating heat in San Antonio, Texas, on June 27. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has blamed the tragedy on President Joe Biden...
Neymar's future at Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) is up in the air, with the French outfit reportedly planning to offload him this summer. While the Brazil superstar is reluctant to leave the club, he...
The launch of the Indian rocket 'PSLV-C53/DS-EO' on Thursday will be the 55th Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) mission and the 15th mission using the PSLV-Core Alone variant. If the launch i...
NATO’s ‘Strategic Concept’ identifies the “main threats and challenges” for the trans-Atlantic military alliance and outlines its policy for the upcoming decade. At the ongoing Leaders...
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Ecuadorian parliament voted on Wednesday not to impeach President Guillermo Lasso as called for by the opposition amid ongoing indigenous protests.
Prince Andrew, ‘blocked’ from public life as a royal amid fallout from his ties with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, had reportedly been seen driving his Range Rover around at Windsor on...
According to the Danish police, the abnormally high purity of street cocaine might be a sales gimmick for pushers. The typical symptoms of cocaine poisoning are motor restlessness, hallucinations...
The Swedish family of tracked combat vehicles known as Stridsfordon 90 or CV90 are known for their high mobility in snow and wetlands while carrying up to eight fully equipped soldiers.
Cassidy Hutchinson, former aid to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, gave live testimony at the House January 6 Committee's public hearing on Tuesday, saying Donald Trump had lunged ...
Alec Baldwin did a sit-down interview with controversial film director Woody Allen on Instagram Live. Allen, known for films such as “Manhattan” and “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” was accuse...
Officials for the United States military report that they are struggling to meet their recruiting goals set for fiscal year 2022. The news of the shrinking numbers comes as no surprise considerin...
A recent U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimated that if climate change is not addressed soon, the Earth will heat up more than the estimated 1.5 degree Celsius increase that wil...
51 people are dead after a tractor-trailer truck was abandoned in San Antonio, Texas, with around 100 migrants inside. 46 of those were declared dead at the scene while five more died after being...
NEW YORK (Sputnik) - Oil prices rose 2% on Tuesday, settling up a third straight day on talk that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were closing to maxing out their oil production, defying the belie...
NASA has sent five rovers to Mars: Sojourner, 1997; Spirit and Opportunity, 2004; Curiosity, 2012; and Perseverance, 2021. Unfortunately, none of them can dig more than a few inches under the sur...
Xavier Becerra, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), unveiled a plan on Tuesday in which he hinted at taking legal action against states that attempt to ban abortion pills, including...
German officials said on Monday that several artifacts taken from Africa during the country’s colonial era would be returned to the peoples from whom they were taken. Last year, Berlin also sig...
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - A dual citizen of the United States and Iran pleaded guilty to conspiring to send electronic equipment and technology to the government of Iran in violation of the sanction...
After weeks of political maneuvering, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan got everything he wanted from Sweden and Finland and announced on Tuesday he was dropping his opposition to their adm...
Considered by many to be the inventor of “shock jock” radio, Howard Stern and Donald Trump were once friends, with the real estate mogul being a frequent guest on Stern’s show in the 1990s ...
BERLIN (Sputnik) - Germany will annually invest an average of 70-80 billion euros ($73-84 billion) in the armed forces (Bundeswehr) in the coming years, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - A new database detailing 9,700 death sentences reveals that capital punishment remains as racist and arbitrary as the US Supreme Court ruled a half century ago, the Death P...
Across the United States, a vast array of legal battles are being fought as advocates race to protect abortion access in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s Friday ruling overturning the case pr...
China-US tensions over Taiwan have gone up dramatically over the past year-and-a-half amid repeated pledges by US President Joe Biden that Washington would come to Taipei’s assistance in the ev...
A shift in tone has been observed among Western leaders in recent weeks regarding the Ukraine crisis, with initial demands that Ukraine defeat Russia on the battlefield replaced by a more concili...
The discovery of the mammoth’s cadaver was branded by the researcher who examined it as the most important find “in paleontology in North America".
Health Secretary Sajid Javid weighed in to a similar row earlier in June when the site scrubbed gender-specific terms from its page on ovarian cancer - a disease that kills around 4,100 British w...
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Former President Donald Trump knew about the presence of armed individuals in crowds gathered in Washington on January 6, 2021, but urged them to march on the US Capitol an...
Earlier this month, Maxwell was placed on suicide watch in jail after she reported that staff at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center threatened her safety.
MOSCOW (Sputnik), Kirill Krasilnikov - The US Supreme Court's overturning of the 1973 Roe v. Wade landmark decision that protected the constitutional right to an abortion may help to energize the...
Governing for Impact has reportedly received millions of dollars from George Soros and counts the executive director of the Open Society Foundations as a member of its board.
China’s National Health Commission announced on Tuesday that the COVID-19 safety rules for new arrivals in the country would change for the first time since the start of the pandemic in early 2...
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The theft of gasoline at stores across the United States is up compared to 2021, National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) spokesperson Jeff Lanard said on Tuesday.
Britain's National Health Service (NHS) staff are likely to follow in the footsteps of UK barristers and railway workers who opted for industrial action over the cost of living crisis and soaring...
The lead author of the new research even suggested that, in certain conditions, radiation from a star similar to our Sun “is not even necessary for conditions to prevail at the surface that all...
Last week, Israel’s defense minister announced that Tel Aviv was working on a ‘Middle East Air Defense Alliance’ with Arab governments, but provided no details. On Sunday, US media reported...
Lovers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell once moved in the highest social circles — until he was jailed for procuring underage girls for sex, while she was tried for sex-trafficking to feed...
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - President Joe Biden on Tuesday urged combating criminal human smuggling rings after the bodies of dozens of dead migrants were found in a tractor-trailer in Texas.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States is not planning to hold military exercises in Western Sahara or set up a military base there, Commander at the US Army Southern European Task Force, US Ar...
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Nearly 50 people died and 30 were injured in a fire outbreak during a prison riot in western Colombia, media reported on Tuesday, citing the prison authorities.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Bulgaria will expel 70 Russian diplomats who were engaged in "espionage," Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said on Tuesday.
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European governments are scrambling to fill underground gas storage facilities in time for the heating season after imposing a partial ban on Russian oil, gas and coal supplies. Russia has expres...
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he disagreed to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism because it was not "France's method."
Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are getting ready to meet in Madrid, Spain for the bloc’s 32nd summit. The meeting is expected to include the unveiling of a new, tough strateg...
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US government has banned the importation of gold of Russian origin in the United States as part of its latest round of anti-Russia sanctions, the Treasury Department Of...
Massive violence erupted during June protests over "insulting" remarks made by Nupur Sharma - a former spokeswoman for the country's leading party, the BJP - against the Prophet Mohammed. Sharma ...
Since March, India and Pakistan have been experiencing an unusual series of heat waves, in many places, temperatures have exceeded upto 45-degree Celsius, causing disruptions in the lives of mill...