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Although raised and set afloat after four months underwater, the frigate Helge Ingstad, which sank following NATO drills in late 2018, is far from operational and still demands enormous investments.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has found himself on the receiving end of relentless mockery after he said that the clouds provided the Indian Air Force with “much needed cover” and helped warplanes evade Pakistani radars during airstrikes on a suspected terrorist camp in Balakot in late February.

The head of the German government had earlier been in the car and even talked to the driver. The newspaper Bild reported citing a source in the German military that the driver "was allegedly so fascinated" by the encounter with the Chancellor that she could have forgotten to put on the handbrake.

The measures stipulated by a reported bill target vessels laying the Nord Stream 2 pipeline as well as denying US travel visas to individuals engaged in the prominent Russia-led energy infrastructure venture.

BEIJING (Sputnik) – The People's Bank of China said on Tuesday it had decided to devalue the yuan's exchange rate to the US dollar by 0.6 percent amid the ongoing trade war with the United States.

BRUSSELS (Sputnik) - EC has responded to a request from Nord Stream 2 AG, the operator of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, stating that EC experts are ready to meet and listen to arguments in favour of excluding the project from amendments to the EU Gas Directive, Press Officer for Climate Action and Energy Lynn Rietdorf told Sputnik on Monday.

Although raised and set afloat after four months underwater, the frigate Helge Ingstad, which sank following NATO drills in late 2018, is far from operational and still demands enormous investments.

UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) - By deploying nuclear weapons in Europe, the United States is preparing to use them with permission of non-nuclear European states, Vladimir Ermakov, the director of the Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told Sputnik.

US President Donald Trump has consistently criticised NATO, urging member states to boost their defence spending and accusing them of taking advantage of the United States. He, however, has been "very insulted" by European President Emmanuel Macron's idea of creating a pan-European army to protect itself from China, Russia, and even the US.

Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) and Pavlodar State Pedagogical University have determined the types of water inside the bodies of humans, animals, insects and other life forms, according to the TPU press service.

Last month, Tesla announced that it had launched an investigation after footage showing one of its cars self-igniting, appeared on Chinese social media.

Norwegian Princess Märtha Louise's new boyfriend has boasted he has the power to "access the atom" and "literally reduce aging" and has even claimed to have cured cancer.

Football was plagued by hooliganism in the 1970s and 1980s and was a "world away" from today's game, defence barrister Ben Myers QC said in his closing speech at the Hillsborough trial. Sputnik spoke to football fan Jerry Case about how the game has changed.

Commenting on the slamming and fighting techniques that made Andrade UFC women's strawweight champion, the Brazilian said that she was "very certain" about what she had to do in the second round.

Ex-WCW wrestler Silver King, 51, who starred in Jack Black's Nacho Libre comedy more than a decade ago, has died during a performance at the Roundhouse Theatre in Camden, North London.