Sputnik

What a grace! Ona Carbonell demonstrates the beauty of her sport using a ‪#‎GoPro‬ camera. ‪#‎SynchronizedSwimming‬

A total of 150 ‪#‎German‬ World War II-era SMi-35 bouncing mines have been found so far on ‪#‎Russia‬’s Bolshoi Tyuters island in the Finnish Gulf, Ilya Sherbakov, the commander of the Russian military demining squad taking part in a Russian Geographical Society (RGS) expedition to the island, told Sputnik on Sunday.

‪#‎Kurdish‬ Peshmerga forces are carrying out a large-scale offensive against the positions of ‪#‎Daesh‬ terrorist group near the city of ‪#‎Mosul‬ in the northern Iraq, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan’s (‪#‎PUK‬) media center said in a statement Sunday.

‪#‎Saudi‬ Foreign Minister Adel Jubeir said on Sunday that sending Iranian ‪#‎Shiite‬ armed units to Iraq to participate in military operations or undergo training is unacceptable.

After the departure of AhmetDavutoglu following his row with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, ‪#‎Turkey‬’s ruling party picked the new head of the cabinet to be former Transport Minister Binali Yıldırım, the man who echoes everything that the country’s strongman says.

The ‪#‎Latvian‬ National Armed Forces (NBS) said on Sunday that they had registered four aircraft of ‪#‎Russia‬'s Aerospace Forces in the airspace near the borders of the ‪#‎Baltic‬ nation.

Russian Foreign Minister ‪#‎SergeiLavrov‬ and his ‪#‎US‬ counterpart ‪#‎JohnKerry‬ discussed ‪#‎Russia‬'s proposals on joint operations against groups violating ceasefire regime in ‪#‎Syria‬.

At least five ‪#‎UN‬ peacekeepers were killed on Sunday in a deadly attack against the convoy of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (‪#‎MINUSMA‬), the UN mission said in a statement.

‪#‎Economy‬, ‪#‎pressfreedom‬ and ‪#‎MichelTemer‬’s new government – let’s take a closer look at the problems in ‪#‎Brazil‬.

The United States plans to use possible liberation of ‪#‎Syria‬'s ‪#‎Raqqa‬, the so-called capital of the ‪#‎Daesh‬ terrorist group, to reach its own political goals at ‪#‎Geneva‬ talks, member of the Syrian parliament Omar Ose told Sputnik on Sunday.

Syrian lawmaker called on ‪#‎Kurdish‬ self-defense forces in ‪#‎Syria‬ to ally with the governmental forces and ‪#‎Russia‬ instead of relying on the ‪#‎US‬.

Up to 900 ‪#‎migrants‬ may have died in three shipwrecks in the ‪#‎Mediterranean‬ Sea this week, the Doctors Without Borders (Medicines Sans Frontiers, or ‪#‎MSF‬) international humanitarian group said Sunday.

Too late to apologize? Barack Obama paid his farewell trip to Asia, which sparked a new debate on the legacy of his regional policy after lifting the decades-long arms embargo to ‪#‎Vietnam‬ and offering no apology for the ‪#‎Hiroshima‬ nuclear attack while in ‪#‎Japan‬.

Around a million residents and guests of the largest Turkish city of ‪#‎Istanbul‬ participated on Sunday in the ceremony dedicated to the 563rd anniversary of ‪#‎Turkey‬'s conquest of the city, then called ‪#‎Constantinople‬, local media reported.

‪#‎Google‬’s attempts to overthrow ‪#‎Assad‬, Libyan ‪#‎oil‬, US-Turkey intel cooperation against ‪#‎PKK‬ and other controversial facts we've learned from emails addressed to and sent by Hillary Clinton. ‪#‎ClintonEmail‬

‪#‎China‬'s Ministries of Foreign Affairs and National Defense announced four bottom lines on issues related to the ‪#‎SouthChinaSea‬.

Credit-default swaps on US 10-year Treasuries hit their multi-month highest, suggesting an increased risk of the US piercing its ‪#‎debt‬ ceiling, or a sovereign ‪#‎default‬, or a ‪#‎dollar‬ devaluation in the coming months. ‪#‎USeconomy‬

“As the US gov't continues to say that the current Syrian gov't must be overthrown… there is no reason to expect that the ‘kill 'em all’ mission statement of this US Special Forces soldier will end once ‪#‎Raqqa‬ is liberated from ‪#‎Daesh‬ control,” – Daniel McAdams. ‪#‎SyriaCrisis‬

Move over, Jeremy Meeks! Here comes the new ‪#‎PrisonBae‬. Sarah Seawright

It's never too late to play ‪#‎football‬: ‪#‎Lavrov‬ joins a match of the over-45s Russian National Football League. http://sptnkne.ws/bvxe