MOSCOW (Sputnik) People responsible for the May 2, 2014 tragedy in Odessa, when hundreds were deliberately trapped inside a burning Trade Unions House, should be punished as such crimes have no statute of limitations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.
Boeing admitted last year that that it was riddled with production issues and delays but assured that the in-service fleet can "continue operating safely."
TEHRAN (Sputnik) - Iran has added UK Defense Secretary Grant Shapps, other military officials, as well as three UK companies to its sanctions list due to their support for Israel's actions against Palestine, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The May 2, 2014 massacre, when hundreds of pro-Russian protesters were trapped inside a burning building, left at least 51 people dead, and not 48 as it has been widely reported, former member of the Odessa City Council Vasily Polishchuk told Sputnik.
Tuesday night, a massive group of NYPD officers broke up the Pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia university, arresting hundreds. It was the latest in a string of strict crackdowns by US authorities on campus protests.
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video address that the protests against his country on American universities that had then only recently sprung up were "antisemitic mobs" that had "taken over" college campuses. He called on US authorities to do more to stop them.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Israel has, for the first time since the beginning of the conflict in the Gaza Strip, opened the Erez border crossing, which is the only one in the north of the enclave, as part of the efforts to increase the deliveries of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US Marines' F-35B variant of the Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter is still failing to meet its minimum performance goals by 45%, and both other versions of the aircraft are also at least 13% below minimum performance requirements, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a new report.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Israeli Chief of the General Staff Herzi Halevi has assessed the security situation in the defense forces' northern command and announced preparation for an offensive on the northern front amid ongoing shelling by Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Wednesday.
