The Council of the European Union announced on Monday that it had decided to extend the mandate of its Advisory Mission in Iraq until 2020 and to allocate over 64 million euros ($74 million) to the mission's budget.

The United Arab Emirates will host the Sixth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in 2020 for the first time in the Middle East Region, it was announced in UK yesterday.

Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos is planning to test the interaction between an emergency escape system and the new launch vehicle Soyuz-2, which is set to replace Soyuz-FG booster starting from 2020, during the launch of the unmanned flight Soyuz MS-14, a source in the rocket and space industry told Sputnik on Saturday.

Russia is focused on upholding the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and considers the accord to be a key component of international security, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said on Friday.

Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom is planning to teach 2,000 Egyptian specialists how to operate Egypt's first nuclear power plant (NPP) in Dabaa, Vice President of ASE Engineering Company (subsidiary of Rosatom) Grigory Sosnin told Sputnik.

Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom is planning to teach 2,000 Egyptian specialists how to operate Egypt's first nuclear power plant (NPP) in Dabaa, Vice President of ASE Engineering Company (subsidiary of Rosatom) Grigory Sosnin told Sputnik

The United Arab Emirates and the United States may demand compensation from Russia for its failure to meet the deadlines to deliver astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), a source in the rocket and space industry told Sputnik.

External factors will not help the Russian market, growth is possible due to internal sources, Russian Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin said Friday.