Category: World

A suicide bomber blew up near a police post in front of the entrance to the international airport of the capital of Bangladesh — Dhaka. On Friday, March 24, reports bdnews24.com. The victim in the attack was himself a young man. Currently, the police establish his identity. The attack occurred at 19:00 local time (16:00 GMT). A week ago, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device at a police base near the airport of Dhaka. The assailant tried to enter the territory, but the bomb exploded prematurely. In the attack, two officers were injured. The police eliminated the attacker. The responsibility for the incident was assumed by the terrorist group “Islamic state” (IG, is prohibited in Russia).

James Harris Jackson James Harris Jackson, confessed to the murder of a black resident of new York, revealed the motives of the crime. New details of the case were known to The Washington Post. The suspect claimed that the reason for his attack on 66-year-old black man Timothy Kofman was the skin color of the victim. According to the killer, he “was enraged relations of black men and white women”. Jackson admitted to police that tracked down a few potential victims during his stay in new York. The attack on Kofman a man was considered as a kind of “training”, after which was going to go to times square to continue to kill blacks there. New York was chosen by Jackson as crime scenes, since the city is a “media capital of the world” — occurred in the incidents receive wide publicity. After the new circumstances have been disclosed, human

UK police arrested two more people in the investigation of the terrorist attacks in London. It is reported Associated Press with reference to the statement of the head of the counter-terrorism unit of Scotland Yard Mark Rowley. Thus, the total number in custody in the case of the attack reached nine. Seven possible accomplices of the perpetrator of the attack was in the hands of the guards on March 23. Rowley also reported details about the identity of the perpetrator of the terrorist attack on Westminster bridge: his birth name is Adrian Russell Agao, he later changed it to Khalid Masood. He was born in the South-East of England and until recently lived in Birmingham. “We remain interested in the testimony of those who knew Khalid Masud, his circle of friends and the places he has recently visited,” said Rowley. Previously on 24 March it was reported that the number

Hosni Mubarak The former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak was released after six years imprisonment. About it reports Reuters. “He left the military hospital of Maadi in Cairo and went home”, — said the lawyer of the former President, Farid El Deeb. Mubarak was arrested in April 2011, two months after retiring because of the mass protests, which has killed about 800 people. In 2012 the former President was convicted of complicity in the murder of protesters and sentenced to life imprisonment. According to BBC News, three years later, during another trial, the politician was acquitted and had the opportunity to be released. However, the Egyptian authorities decided not to let him out for fear of new mass protests that this step could provoke. March 13 this year, the General Prosecutor of Egypt has approved the petition of the lawyer about the release of Mubarak from custody in connection with

Marine Le Pen The candidate in presidents of France from the party “national front” marine Le Pen, who arrived in Moscow at the invitation of the state Duma Committee on international Affairs, called for the abolition of anti-Russian black lists of the European Union. On Friday, March 24, RIA Novosti reported. “I have always advocated the lifting of sanctions that are counterproductive. I think the violation of democratic rights, the prohibition of parliamentarians to talk to each other. I hope I will be able to defend the position that we would cancel the black list, at least on the territory of France,” she said at the meeting with the speaker of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin. The politician added that the sanctions lists still exist is largely due to the influence of Brussels, reports “Interfax”. “We don’t believe in a diplomacy of threats in diplomacy nor sanctions nor diplomacy of

Leonid Reshetnikov On the eve of last elections of the President of Bulgaria’s opposition socialist party has received from Moscow a 30-page road map with recommendations on the conduct of the campaign. On Friday, March 24, according to The Wall Street Journal, citing officials from the Bulgarian, the article leads portal MBnews.one. According to the magazine, the document, in particular, contained suggestions to use as tools to manipulate public opinion, inflated in favor of the candidate survey data, and unreliable data of a different kind. The recommendations were submitted to the headquarters of the Socialist party a retired General of the Russian foreign intelligence service (SVR) Leonid Reshetnikov, says the publication. He confirmed the fact of visit to Sofia, but has denied the information on transfer of any documents. The official review of the administration of the President of Bulgaria the publication could not be obtained. In the presidential elections

The appellate court in Oslo upheld the earlier verdict against a citizen of Russia Adam Magomadov. He was accused of having links with terrorist group “Islamic state” (IG, is prohibited in Russia). On Friday, March 24, reports TASS with reference to the Norwegian Telegraph Bureau. In the coming days, the court must decide where the Russian citizen will serve his sentence. It was assumed that Norway can deliver it to Russian authorities. In August 2016, the 23-year-old Russian, who lived in the Norwegian capital, was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for what he colluded with militants to carry out terrorist attacks in the Kingdom. To six years in prison as part of the same case were sentenced citizen of Norway of Pakistani origin Ahmed Hassan. The investigation found that men in 2014 have gone to Syria and joined the rebels. The Russians, in particular, fought near

Devin Nunes The head of the intelligence Committee of the U.S. house of representatives Devin Nunes said during the election campaign Donald trump and his staff several times, became the object of surveillance of the security services. About it reports Reuters. Núñez said that the relevant information was provided to him by an unnamed source. The Congresswoman saw firsthand reports on the observation of the trump — in his words, it was “a standard surveillance under the “Act of secret surveillance for the purposes of foreign intelligence””. In the documents that he reviewed, there was no indication on the relationship of the tramp with Russia. However, this does not mean, said Nunez, that such documents do not exist in principle. The Congressman did not rule out that the security services continued to sporadically monitor the President and after the elections, and noted that he is concerned about this issue. Sunday,

Charge d’affaires of Russia in Ankara, Sergey Panov summoned to the foreign Ministry of Turkey. There the diplomat reported serious concern over the death of Turkish soldiers in the shelling from the territory controlled by the Syrian Kurds, said the official representative of Department Hüseyin Muftuoglu. His words leads TASS. “Shots were fired from the territory in Syria, where the control and execution of cease-fire Russia’s responsibility, so we invited the chargé d’affaires of the Russian Federation”, — said Muftuoglu. He said that the sniper killed Turkish soldier, acting in the area controlled by the Kurdish party “Democratic Union” (PYD; Ankara considers this terrorist organization). Speaking about the current Moscow representative office of the Syrian Kurds, Muftuoglu noted that Turkey always explains Russia the danger from PYD. “We expect the steps of Moscow on the closure of the office of the “Democratic Union””, — summed up the diplomat. Soldiers of

Wolfgang Sobotka The Austrian authorities doubled the payout in the country for migrants who are willing to voluntarily return to their homeland. It is reported by Kurier. As stated by the Minister of internal Affairs Wolfgang Sobotka (Sobotka Wolfgang), the first thousand asylum-seekers, who decided to leave, will receive one thousand dollars. In addition, the Austrian authorities promise to organize transportation of residents of middle Eastern countries. The interior Ministry said that inhabitants of the Balkan countries should not rely on payments. Sobotka noted that by 2019 Austria can leave about 50 thousand workers. In 2016, the country has left 10.7 thousand asylum seekers, of which 5.8 thousand people left voluntarily, the newspaper notes. In 2015, the EU broke out the most serious since the Second world war the migration crisis caused by the influx of refugees. In Europe arrived more than a million immigrants from countries in the Middle