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Emmanuel Macron The Belgian TV channel RTBF presented the first data of exit polls on the results of elections of the President of France. According to their data, in the second round out former economy Minister Emmanuel macron and the leader “National front” marine Le Pen. Macron, the candidate of the movement “Forward”, gaining 24 percent of the vote. Le Pen’s 22 per cent. Third place goes to the candidate of the center-right party “the Republicans” Francois Fillon. He had 20.5 percent of the vote. Followed by the representative of the movement “Natchinaetsja France” levoradikal Jean-Luc Mélenchon — 18 percent. In France the publication of any information about preliminary results of the ballots before the closing of the last polling station in the country. For violation of this rule a penalty in the amount of 75 thousand euros, reports “Interfax”. The polling stations will end at 19:00 (20:00 Moscow time),

Francois Hollande French President Francois Hollande admitted that he is sad due to the fact that he did not take part in the presidential elections, the first round of which takes place on Sunday, April 23. He said this to reporters after the vote, outside the polling station, reports “Interfax”. “There’s always a sadness when elections are held. Especially when you’re not on the ballot, it’s true,” said the French President. Hollande voted at a polling station in Tulle (corrèze Department), the mayor of which he was in 2001-2008. The Agency notes that Hollande was met with applause. At the same time, the President added, “don’t have to live with nostalgia, we must always live with hope and desire.” According to 12:00 (13:00 Moscow time), the voter turnout in the first round of presidential elections in France amounts to 28,54 percent. About it reports Reuters with reference to data of

“Syrian democratic forces” (SDF), consisting of detachments of ethnic Kurds and Arabs, has announced the surrounded Syrian city of raqqa — the unofficial capital of the terrorist group “Islamic state” (IG, is prohibited in Russia). It is reported the Kurdish News Agency ANF. SDF took control of all strategic highways in the town, said the press Secretary of the Alliance Sheehan this Ahmed. “We cut the relationship with Iraq, freeing the way to Deir ez-Zor, and took control of the Eastern part of raqqa province. With the attack on the town of Tabqa, all the supply routes were completely cut, we took control of the road of raqqa — Tabqa and raqqa — Damascus” she said. This is Ahmed noted that the liberation of the city from ISIS is the ultimate goal of “operation Wrath of the Euphrates”, conducted with the support of the United States. At the same time

Three divers, including two citizens of Russia, drowned near the island of Ache in French Polynesia. On Sunday, April 23, reports “Interfax” with reference to Agence France-Presse. The dead citizens of the Russian Federation Professor of mathematics at the University of French Polynesia Alexey Zykin and his wife Tatiana Makarova, both of them about 30 years. The name of the third diver instructor Gilles Dam (Gilles Demée). According to the Agency, which refers to the high Commission of France in French Polynesia, the incident occurred on Saturday, April 22, during a visit to the submarine cave at a depth of about 60 meters. “One of the divers could begin to panic, while others wanted to help him, in this case, very quickly lost air,” explained the instructor, who knew the victims. He did not call his name. The body was discovered on April 23. They are not yet able to

A US citizen was arrested at the international airport of Pyongyang. About it reports on Sunday, April 23, the South Korean Agency Yonhap, citing its own sources. As noted, the man — a former American-Korean Professor Albanische University of science and technology in the Chinese city of Yanji. It is known that he was more than 50 years, and his last name is Kim. According to the Agency, the man went to programs on rendering assistance to the DPRK and conducted in the country for about a month. He was arrested on April 21, when he was about to depart from North Korea. The cause of the incident is unknown. Yonhap notes that this is the third US citizen arrested in North Korea in recent years. In April 2016, the court of the people’s Republic has sentenced a US citizen of Korean descent Kim Dong-Chul to 10 years in prison

The Syrian army backed by allied forces liberated from the militants settlement Halfa and seven neighbouring settlements in the Northern province of Hama. About it reports on Sunday, April 23, Sana, citing a military source. According to him, government forces defeated the last major stronghold of the militants “Jabhat EN-Nusra” in the region. The result of the operation killed and injured hundreds of estremista, the rest fled, leaving weapons. The army managed to capture seven mortars and two machine guns. Was also disposed of 58 vehicles, three tanks, a car bomb and three of the ammunition depot. The engineers began clearing streets and houses. On 2 March it became known that the Syrian Armed forces with the support of the aerospace defence forces of Russia completed the operation to take Palmyra. The town was already liberated from the militants in March 2016, but in December they again managed to win

The capital of UAE, Abu Dhabi is recognized as the safest city in the world. Rating, which ranked 288 of cities, compiled by the portal Numbeo.com, says UAE newspaper the National. In addition to the UAE capital in the category of safe were also in Munich (Germany), Taipei (Taiwan, China), Basel (Switzerland), Doha (Qatar), Singapore, zürich (Switzerland). Numbeo, the representative explained that according to their method of calculation, the city is considered safe if the level of crime in him below 20 points. For Abu Dhabi this index is 14.4 points. According to police in the city, per 100 thousand inhabitants in 2011 had 119,8 crimes. In 2013, the figure dropped to 110,2, and in 2015 — up to 83,8. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of interior of the UAE Sheikh Saif bin Zayed told The National that the country recorded the lowest level of violent crime in the world.

Hurricane-force winds and avalanches have caused the breakage of the chains in the mountains of North Ossetia. Because of this, the electricity has ceased to flow in South Ossetia, told TASS in the Interregional distribution grid company (IDGC) of Northern Caucasus on Sunday, April 23. “In the mountains of North Ossetia came a lot of avalanches, plus there was a hurricane that damaged the line networks. Now the whole of South Ossetia is de-energized,” — said the Agency interlocutor. He added that all efforts are aimed at elimination of consequences of bad weather. In the official report of IDGC of the North Caucasus States that “on April 23 MSK 9.36 effect of protection disconnected three air-lines 110 kV that supplies consumers in South Ossetia. Automatic and manual reclosing was not successful.” “Currently in the heart strong, gusty winds observed avalanches that could cause a power supply shutdown. Experts conducted an

Lolita Russian pop singer lolita Milyavskaya the was not allowed to Ukraine. She announced Sunday, April 23, on their pages in social networks, including Twitter. “Where do you think I am? I’m in Konotop, me at 4 am was taken off the train, I can’t visit his child who was sick, because I denied entry to Ukraine”, — said the singer. According to Lolita, it was immediately transferred to another train. Palladium explained that the entrance it was closed for visiting Kerch in 2015. The singer has only one child from his marriage to third husband Alexander Tsekalo the daughter Eva born in 1999. She lives with her grandmother in Kiev. On 21 April, the Minister of culture of Ukraine Yevhen Nyshchuk has promised to revise the list of Russian performers banned from entering the country. According to Yevhen Nyshchuk, the black list was prepared “hastily”. On March 22, the

Archive photo At the gold mine in Plastovskoy district of Chelyabinsk region was the collapse of the breed. 163 miners evacuated, the fate of three people is not yet known, reported the press service of EMERCOM of Russia in the region. The collapse occurred at a depth of 700 meters. The specialists of the mountain rescue team, they were joined by fire rescue and ambulance crews. No other details were given. March 2 in Lviv region of Ukraine at the mine “Steppe” there was an explosion of methane, which led to the collapse of rock. The victims of the accident were 11 people. On December 18 in one of the Stopes zarechenskiy mine struck a rock, killing one miner. 25 Nov in the collapse at the mine in Yakutia the incident occurred, which resulted in the injury of several people, including Vice-President of company ALROSA. They received minor bruises and