By allowing Russian nationals to travel to the island without a visa, Taiwan is trying to improve its appeal to Russian tourists, who frequently visit neighboring Southeast Asian destinations, Taiwan's chief representative in Moscow told Sputnik on Thursday.

Migrants are responsible for the string of car arsons across Sweden, and deportations are needed to curb this activity, the candidate from Alternative for Sweden (AfS) in the upcoming parliamentary election, Markus Jonsson, told Sputnik in an interview.

The recent truck ramming attack on the building of the Fox 4 KDFW broadcaster in the southern US city of Dallas demonstrates the significance of creating a safe environment in which journalists can do their job, Harlem Desir, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) representative on freedom of the media, said on Thursday.

Bollywood celebrities are celebrating the liberalisation in India.

Taiwan has decided to allow Russian citizens to visit the island without a visa for a period of up to 14 days, Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Thursday

Just as the verdict was announced, there is a wave of joy in India.

The White House is working on new strategies to counter terrorism and organized crime, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said at The George Washington University's Center for Cyber Homeland Security.

A new interactive online tool aims to help activists and policymakers reduce the US jail and prison population by 50 percent and combat racial disparities in the criminal justice system, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in a press release on Wednesday.

The UK police arrested on Wednesday five people across the country on suspicion of being members of the so-called National Action group, a far-right neo-Nazi organization that has been banned in the country since December 2016, West Midlands Police said.

The Western states understand that the stabilization of the situation in Syria is impossible without resolving the problem around the northwestern Idlib province, which is mainly controlled by militants and terrorists, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Wednesday.