German observers insist that Berlin is not doing enough in terms of criticising Washington's interference in its economic affairs, after the US Congress has introduced a bipartisan bill imposing targeted sanctions on those involved in the Gazprom-led Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson led the Conservative Party to a thumping victory. Johnson said that his party had got a "powerful mandate" to get Brexit done and unite the nation while vowing to focus on NHS. Dr Ben Williams, tutor in Politics and Political Theory, School of Arts and Media, expressed his opinion about it.

Israel is headed to its third parliamentary election in less than a year after neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor Benny Gantz’s parties were able to form a government. While the election is set for March 2, one expert tells Sputnik that nothing is likely to change - especially with the suppression of 5 million Palestinian voices.

The House Democrats’ impeachment proceedings against US President Donald Trump are simply “pro forma” actions that will ultimately result in Trump’s triumph and further increase his publicity, Ted Rall, an award-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist, told Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear Friday.

The Afghanistan Papers have revealed the US never learned the lessons of its loss in Vietnam, with US leaders seeking only how to turn around public opinion, a historian told Sputnik Friday. Indeed, the foundations of the 18-year-long Afghan War were laid just four years after Hanoi’s 1975 victory and based on nearly identical motives.

Assault charges leveled against journalist Max Blumenthal have been dropped, weeks after his arrest and multi-day imprisonment, but even though litigation is no longer a concern for him, the issue of the American government overstepping its bounds both at home and in Latin America has persisted.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party won a landslide victory in Thursday’s snap parliamentary elections, with Labour suffering its worst defeat since 1935, prompting party leader Jeremy Corbyn to announce that he would be resigning from the job.

Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Tories gained an election victory amid the ongoing extradition case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Sputnik spoke to Craig Murray, former diplomat and whistleblower, to discuss how the outcomes of the vote would affect the fate of the famous whistleblower.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has gained an election victory allowing him to take Britain out of the European Union in a matter of weeks. For Johnson, whose 20-week tenure in power has been marked by chaotic scenes in parliament and stark division on the streets over Britain’s departure from the EU, victory in Thursday’s contest was vindication.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has gained an election victory allowing him to take Britain out of the European Union in a matter of weeks. For Johnson, whose 20-week tenure in power has been marked by chaotic scenes in parliament and stark division on the streets over Britain’s departure from the EU, victory in Thursday’s contest was vindication.

US President Donald Trump blacklisted the Chinese tech giant back in May amid allegations that Huawei is spying for the Chinese government - something the company has vehemently denied.

After the Tories have secured a landslide victory in the general election, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would repay the trust of voters and repeatedly promised to deliver Brexit.

There is much speculation surrounding the Mossad, the Israeli secret service, responsible for intelligence collection, covert operations, and counterterrorism. Yossi Melman, a prominent Israeli journalist and author specialising in intelligence affairs, has busted most common myths surrounding the agency.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas slammed US plans to sanction Nord Stream-2. The statement came amid looming US sanctions against the project. Joachim Paul, Member of Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate and Deputy Leader of the AfD in the Country of Rhineland-Palatinate, expressed his opinion on the matter.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The release of secret US papers revealing widespread disillusion about the Afghanistan War will make it easier for President Donald Trump to end US military involvement there, said former State Department Political Officer Matthew Hoh.

Documents released Wednesday reveal that the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) knew that Boeing’s 737 Max 8 would be prone to crashes without design changes, highlighting the FAA system’s extreme negligence, Dennis Tajer, a spokesperson for the Allied Pilots Association and a pilot trained on Boeing 737 planes, told Sputnik.

Congress has passed the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, a $738 billion Pentagon budget that includes provisions for the Space Force and US-Mexico border wall, but few restrictions on the money’s use. The bloated budget doesn’t make us safer, peace activist Medea Benjamin told Sputnik, and the money could be put to much better use at home.

After losing the presidential vote to Republican candidate Donald Trump in 2016, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton announced that she would not be a candidate in future elections. However, rumours regularly surface in the media suggesting that the former Secretary of State may even at this late stage be mulling a fresh 2020 run.

WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is due to appear in court on Friday, as the United States seeks extradition for the publisher who faces up to 179 years in jail on charges of espionage. But not everyone agrees with the way that the Wikileaks co-founder is being treated - as John Steppling, journalist and philosopher, explains.

US President Donald Trump has labelled the articles of impeachment “flimsy, pathetic, ridiculous” just hours after the House Democratic leaders announced two articles of impeachment against him.