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Alabama Senator Doug Jones (D) has called for the resignation of an Alabama newspaper editor for publishing an editorial encouraging the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), an American white supremacist hate group.

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Lt. Gen. Kunio Orita, a retired general with Japan's Air Self-Defense Force, recently raised eyebrows when he claimed China would invade Taiwan and Okinawa by 2025 and 2045, respectively.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - A Pentagon spokesperson did not confirm an Iraqi official's statement that the United States will withdraw its forces from Syria through Iraqi territory by April 1.

Venezuelan maritime border with Dutch Caribbean has been closed, regional Venezuelan military chef said.

The Pentagon’s secretive weaponry development office has recruited teams to develop neural interfaces for humans to control war-making machines.

India's right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government is providing cover for Hindu vigilantes who avenge the killing or trading of cows, often thinly-veiled excuses for lynch mobs directed at Muslims and low-caste Hindus, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. The police routinely delay or ignore investigations in these murders.

Video footage of a JetBlue passenger going on a profanity-laced tantrum over being seated next to a toddler has gone viral.

Some 14 French political parties, including president Emmanuel Macron's La République En Marche!, as well as the Republicans, called on the French electorate to hold political demonstrations all over the country under the slogan "No to anti-Semitism".

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US Air Force has begun preparations for establishing a new military branch for space within the department, Air Force Chief of Staff General David Goldfein said on Tuesday.

The video, which sparked controversy both online and among internet law enforcement groups, shows her walking with confidence in a sexy two-piece, and posing in a way typical of bodybuilders, as Ms Zhang put it.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Democrats on the US House Oversight Committee are launching an investigation into a plan by the Trump administration to transfer sensitive nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia despite warnings from national security officials, committee Chairman Elijah Cummings said on Tuesday.

TEL AVIV (Sputnik) - Hungary plans to set up a trade mission with diplomatic status in Jerusalem, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Tuesday following talks with his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Germany won't let the US nor the European Commission derail the promising Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, Munich-based Italian journalist Daniele Pozzati told Sputnik, explaining why Washington and Brussels don't have the appetite to hurt relations with Berlin.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Historical context must be accounted for when talking about the "heroism" of the Spanish soldiers from the Blue Division, a special unit of Spanish volunteers that served in the German Army during World War II, the Russian Embassy in Spain said.

The press conference convened by the septet to announce their departure was well-received by the media, despite the BBC broadcasting an attendant, unidentified journalist muttering "between this and Brexit we are actually f***ed", and the MP collective refusing to rule out admitting MPs accused of sexual harassment to their upstart grouping.

The attack reportedly took place on La Canebière street in the French city of Marseille. The attacker has been neutralised by the police, the La Provence newspaper reports.

ANKARA (Sputnik) - The state investment plan was rolled out earlier in the week. It shows that the government intends to spend a total of $41 million on the project, expected to be brought into life by the end of the year.

DAMASCUS (Sputnik) - Members of the Jordanian lower house of parliament demanded the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador from the country and the withdrawal of the Jordanian ambassador from Tel Aviv in response to Israeli actions in Jerusalem, Ammonnews reported on Tuesday.

LONDON (Sputnik) - The United Kingdom will impose tariffs on food imports in case of the no-deal Brexit scenario in order to secure "robust" protection for local farmers, UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Michael Gove said on Tuesday.