Asia and Pacific

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The start of the ratification of Finland's accession to NATO by the Turkish parliament is an important step for the country,...

PARIS (Sputnik) - The leader of France's Eurosceptic party The Patriots, Florian Philippot, has told RIA Novosti that the French authorities may "slow down"...

TOKYO (Sputnik) - The Japanese government has sanctioned three North Korean officials involved in the development of nuclear and missile programs of North Korea...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Singapore will soon be able to import 1 gigawatt of low-carbon electricity from Cambodia in what will become the country's largest...

BERLIN (Sputnik) - The parliamentary faction of the German opposition right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has requested the creation of a parliamentary commission...

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US government charged a cannabis distribution company, its CEO and five other entities and persons for participation in a large...

Russia may retrieve the US MQ-9 Reaper drone from the Black Sea, despite reports from Washington that the Pentagon has already erased all sensitive...

Syrian President Bashar Assad was interviewed by Sputnik after his summit with Putin. Assad stressed that modern conflicts between rival powers are waged as...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Syrian leadership has evidence that the United States is training terrorists on the territory of the Al-Tanf military base,...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Israel has approved the export licenses for the possible sale of anti-drone jamming systems to Ukraine, US media reported on Wednesday,...

UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) - Germany, Denmark and Sweden refuse to cooperate with the Russian prosecutor general's office and the Federal Security Service in the...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Indonesia is holding confidential talks with various parties in Myanmar in hopes of helping resolve the crisis in the fellow ASEAN...