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Michael Flynn White house adviser on national security, Michael Flynn runs the risk of losing the confidence of colleagues after publications that he tricked high-ranking administration officials, discussed the sanctions with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak and trying to keep silent about it. This writes the newspaper The Washington Post (WP). Some officials say on condition of confidentiality that the positions of the adviser then weakened and credibility greatly undermined. As explained, this happened because of the conviction that Flynn is disingenuous when we are talking about Russia. “Flynn’s already pulled a knife,” said one of them. Earlier, U.S. President Donald trump said that he has no information about conversations Flynn Kislyak, and promised to investigate the matter. White house spokesman Sean Spicer, in turn, said that trump is “full trust” of Flynn. February 9, WP reported that Flynn in December 2016 discussed with the dubious anti-Russian sanctions. Advisor trump tried

Steven Miller At the White house, there is ample evidence of fraud in the presidential election. About it senior Advisor to Donald trump for political Affairs Steven Miller said in an interview with ABC television aired on 12 February. “The white house has provided a huge amount of evidence of voter fraud, we are talking about voters and people living in more than one state,” said Miller. According to him, the recorded part in the procedure of dead people and those who were not American citizens. Voting dead people, people without U.S. citizenship. You will not deny that on elections was the huge number of votes of the people who are not citizens of the country”, — said the Advisor. Miller called the situation a scandal and added that the United States should be “terrified” due to the fact that the election vote, those who have no right to, thereby

In Romania, tens of thousands of people again took to protest against the government, reports Reuters. In the capital, Bucharest, in front of the government building gathered on Sunday, February 12, 50 thousand people. At 21:00 (22:00 GMT), they simultaneously raised above the heads of the sheets of paper of red, yellow and blue, thus forming the Romanian flag. In other cities of the country and abroad protested in tens of thousands. Previously, the Romanian government refused the amendments, which could lead to the release from prison of convicted in corruption cases supporters of the ruling party. However, the protests do not stop. This wave disturbances — the biggest since December 1989, when it was overthrown by the power of the Communist party led by Nicolae Ceausescu.

In the United States declared urgent evacuation of the population living below the Oroville dam (in Northern California. On Sunday, February 23, according to Reuters. Authorities fear that the damaged as a result of erosion of reserve spillway could collapse in the next hour, which will lead to a flood of uncontrolled flow of water from lake Oroville. To prevent accident, discharge of water is increased to 100 thousand cubic feet (2.8 thousand cubic meters) per minute. The volume of the reservoir is about 4.3 billion cubic meters. In Orville live more than 16,2 thousand people, they were ordered to go in any direction except North, there is a dam. On 11 February after heavy rains the water in the dam started to overflow through the emergency first, and then the main spillway, there is a marked destruction of the past. The lake level substantially increased, after a series of

USA, Japan and South Korea demanded the convening of an emergency UN Security Council with regard to the recent North Korea missile launch, reports Reuters. The meeting is expected on Monday, February 13. The missile test was held on Sunday, February 12. According to the South Korean military, ballistic missile medium-range Pukguksong-2 (Pukhansan-2, “Northern star-2”) class “Musudan” was launched from site in the province’s Do. Flying about 500 kilometers she fell into the sea of Japan. In testing was attended by North Korean leader Kim Jong-UN. Pyongyang said that tests of new ballistic missiles were successful. North Korea claims that it has managed to test the possibility of equipping a projectile with a nuclear warhead and its ability to evade interception. In 2016, North Korea carried out more than 20 launches of ballistic missiles and two nuclear tests, which violate the resolutions of the UN security Council. Subsequently, the security

Steven Miller The White house is considering five options for further action in connection with the suspension by the court of the immigration decree, issued by Donald trump. On Sunday, February 12, said on the NBC television network senior adviser to the President on political Affairs Stephen Miller. “We consider all of our options. Including, you can continue to appeal to the ninth (circuit court of appeals), to require the Supreme court issuing an emergency order to suspend (the court decision of the ninth circuit), it is possible to hold a hearing on the merits at the district court or in the extended format, the ninth circuit court. You can also take further action through Executive decrees,” explained Miller, noting that every effort will be made to protect the United States from terrorism. He also added that the Executive branch counts on a par with the judicial branch, not the

Citizens of Switzerland supported the simplification of procedures for obtaining citizenship by migrants in the third generation. As reports on Sunday, February 12, RIA Novosti, these are the first results of the referendum held on this day in the country. According to preliminary data, for the amendment to the Constitution on the simplification of naturalization in the country living grandchildren of immigrants voted about 60 percent of the participants in the procedures against, respectively, is of the order of 40 percent. At the present time to issue citizenship under the simplified scheme could only foreigner, and six or more years of marriage with a Swiss or Swiss. Approved by a majority of referendum participants facilitate naturalisation for the grandchildren of migrants does not automatically obtain citizenship. He who is born in the third generation once arrived in Switzerland, and now the resident family shall submit an application before the execution

El Jerry American jazz musician and singer El Jerry died on the 77th year of life. On Sunday, 12 February, reports TASS citing a statement by the contractor’s Manager Joe Gordon According to him, the death occurred in a hospital in Los Angeles (California, USA) on 12 February at 05:30 local time. At the time of the death of El Jerry was surrounded by family and friends. The cause of death of Gordon was not called. The portal TMZ, it became known that the musician was recently hospitalized. In recent years, he had breathing problems and heart. The site notes that El Jerry has toured almost without interruption for the last 50 years, but a few days ago it became known that he was forced to abandon the concert activity. El Jerry was born in Milwaukee (Wisconsin, USA) March 12, 1940. The popularity came to him in the 1970s, he

To date, the tax for financing public expenditure paid about 46 thousand citizens of Belarus from 470 thousand, which was sent the appropriate notice. This broadcast ONT told the chief of Department of the taxation of physical persons of the Ministry for taxes and levies of the Republic Mikhail Rassolko. The amount, according to him, is of the order of 14 million rubles (equivalent to 433 million Russian rubles). The deadline for payment is February 20. “To predict how many people will pay the tax, is problematic. But I can say that a large number of applications currently available in the local Executive authorities and councils — citizens seek the possibility of exemption from paying the fee,” explained Rassolko. If someone is eligible for benefits, you need to provide relevant documents, warned the official. If it didn’t work in 2015, a certain number of days, he is obliged to pay

Player team Germany’s Andrea Petkovic The international tennis Federation (ITF) will not be punished, the Association of the United States tennis (USTA) for the voiced before quarterfinal match of the Federation Cup between the United States and Germany the national anthem of the Third Reich. This was reported on the website of the ITF. “USTA apologized and said that this will not happen again. Any sanctions applied will not” — says the statement of the ITF. Earlier, on 12 February before one of the fights quarterfinal match of the Federation Cup between USA and Germany in Lahaina American voiced version of the German anthem used during the Third Reich. After the incident, the USTA apologized for the incident in his Twitter account. As the anthem of the Third Reich used the first stanza of “Song of the Germans”, written in 1842 by the poet Hoffmann von Fallersleben on the music