Lana Nusseibeh, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the UAE to the UN, completed a visit to Tokyo, Japan in her capacity as Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiations on Security Council Reform for the 74th Session of the UN General Assembly

The launch of a Soyuz-2 launch carrier rocket with a Meridian-M military communications satellite from the Plesetsk space center has been postponed indefinitely due to technical problems, a Russian space industry source told Sputnik on Friday

The recent resignation of Luigi Di Maio from the leadership of the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) spells the approaching demise of the current Leftist coalition government formed by the M5S and the Democratic Party (PD), Isabella Tovaglieri, a member of the European parliament from the Italian right-wing Lega party, told Sputnik on Friday

Venezuela's opposition seem to have started to lose its ground ahead of the possible parliamentary elections in 2020, after a year of the power struggle between their US-backed leader, Juan Guaido, and President Nicolas Maduro, months of political unrest, as well as an economic decline from US sanctions, experts told Sputnik

The chairman of the lower chamber of the Russian Parliament, Viacheslav Volodin, will visit Iran on Monday to chair an inter-parliamentarian commission of the two countries, the State Duma's press service said Friday