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All employees of the Russian Embassy left Yemen. On Tuesday, December 12, RIA Novosti reported citing a statement of the official representative of the MFA of Russia Maria Zakharova. “Given the situation in Sanaa, the decision on the temporary suspension of the Russian diplomatic presence in Yemen,” she said. According to Zakharov, the Ambassador of the employees are to perform their functions, while in the Saudi capital Riyadh. 4 December in Yemen, was killed by former President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Previously, the current head of state Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi ordered to send troops to the capital Sana’a, where the conflict continues between the former allies — the rebels-Houthis and supporters of Saleh. As reported by Sky News Arabia, by 4 December the victims of the fighting were at least 245 people. In Yemen a few years of civil war. One of the warring parties is the military wing of

Italy imposed a state of emergency (state of emergency) due to the termination of Russian gas supplies through the emergency distribution hub in Austria. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of economic development of the country. The Ministry said that fuel supplies to Italian consumers will be provided in any case due to the inventories held in underground storage. Earlier on 12 December in the explosion and ensuing fire at the largest gas distribution station in Baumgarten (Austria) began interruptions in the supply of fuel to consumers. In addition to Italy, Russian gas left Hungary and Slovenia. The Austrian police in his Twitter says that the cause of the explosion was a technical malfunction. In the accident one person was lost, traumas and burns have received from 18 to 60 employees. The Central European hub in Baumgarten is among the three largest gas distribution centers in Europe

Spanish police arrested a 65-year-old Moroccan retiree for attempting to illegally smuggle 12-year-old migrant across the border. About it reports The Local. The guards at the checkpoint between Morocco and Melilla, a Spanish enclave on the border with that state, found the child in the dashboard of a BMW X5. The boy was able to detect by means of a special instrument that calculates the number of people in the car on the heartbeat. It is noted that the teenager originally from Guinea was in a semiconscious state. He was barely breathing, he had a high temperature. The boy was sent for medical examination. How long the child was in the dashboard, not reported. In early October of this year in the UK bus driver found near the engine of four migrants from Eritrea and Sudan. According to the man, he was carrying passengers from France to Britain, when he

The Olympic Committee of Russia took the hit that the athletes were able to participate in the Olympic winter games 2018 in Pyeongchang. This was stated by the head of the organization Alexander Zhukov. His words leads TASS. “The ROC was in no way involved in this [dope — approx. “Of the tape.ru”] the system and these machinations, but the Russian anti-doping laboratory had to fight against doping, but instead violated the rules. Yes, we took the brunt of it, so our athletes could perform,” — said Zhukov. The official also called the double-dealer, the former head of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory of Gregory Rodchenkov. “Of course, Rodchenkov and his entire team existed not in a vacuum. They have caused huge damage to the Russian and international Olympic movement. But that hypocrites, they durosnel. They put on a defense of the ideals of clean sport, but they did the opposite,”

The explosion and ensuing fire at the largest gas distribution station in Baumgarten (Austria) led to disruptions in fuel supplies to consumers, including Russian gas. It is reported Bloomberg. His flow ceased in Italy, Hungary and Slovenia. According to the Agency, “Gazprom” already declared that “working on the reallocation and is doing everything possible to ensure uninterrupted gas supply to customers in the transport direction”. At the same time TASS with reference to the Austrian regulator E-Control reports that gas continues to flow from the hub, located in Germany. Earlier, on 12 December it was reported that the accident at the gas hub, one person died. According to various sources, wounds, injuries and burns received from 18 to 60 employees. Several victims were hospitalized by helicopters to the nearest hospital. The Austrian police in his Twitter says that the cause of the explosion was a technical malfunction. The Central European

European leaders involved in the abuse of tens of thousands of migrants in Libya. This was stated in the human rights organization Amnesty International, reports The Guardian. Human rights activists explained that European politicians were aware of the fact that the coast guard in Libya, which was funded by the EU, subjected people to torture and exploitation. The EU was interested in the fact that migrants held in Libya. “The lives of hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants in Libya are dependent on Libyan authorities, military formations, armed groups and smugglers, often working as a single unit for financial gain,” according to the report of human rights activists. According to Amnesty International, currently up to 20 thousand people “are in overcrowded, unsanitary detention centres”. The President of France Emmanuel macron said earlier that the European Union can support “military action” to combat networks of traffickers in Libya. The head

Alexander Ivanov The first Deputy head of Roscosmos Alexander Ivanov called the cause of the unsuccessful launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome rocket “Soyuz-2.1 b” with the upper stage “Fregat” and 19 satellites, reports RIA Novosti. “NPO Automatics produces a control system of the launch vehicle, and the school npcap control system of the booster units. They have different things, this discrepancy founded 20 years ago,” Ivanov said, and I noticed that in this case, the experts “ran into the difference in the two schools.” The official pointed to “the imperfection of the software algorithms of the control system upper stage”. “The algorithm of operation of the control system resulted in incorrect determination of the orientation of the block after separation from the booster when you incorrectly set the initial azimuth of the launch vehicle and upper stage at the launch complex. While existing methods of mathematical modeling could not identify

The latest American destroyer the USS Zumwalt has interrupted the test and returned to the shipyard, located in Maine. The cause of the incident was the failure of the ship, said in a statement the U.S. Navy. It is reported portal of the naval Institute, U.S. (USNI). It is noted that the day after the departure from the shipyard the destroyer “refused harmonic filters that protect sensitive electrical equipment from undesirable power fluctuations”, reports RIA Novosti. As a result, the ship disappeared the opportunity to use a complex electrical network at high loads. High-tech destroyer, launched last fall, has several times visited in the repair. In addition, the ship was expensive to operate. So, at the cost of the ship at $ 4.4 billion, shot out of a cannon costs the budget of 800 thousand dollars. The laying of the first Zumwalt destroyer was held in November 2011 in the

Bashar Al-Assad The administration of U.S. President Donald trump agrees with the finding of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad in power until 2021. On this edition of The New Yorker told a number of sources in the American and European corridors of power. The official position of Washington was influenced by successes of Syrian government forces with the support of Russia, Iran and Hezbollah. Currently, Damascus control such “gems” of the opposition, as Damascus, Hama, HOMS, Latakia and Aleppo — of the territory called in the US “useful Syria”. Assad has managed to combine the things that a year ago was caved in, the newspaper said. In addition, the success of the Syrian opposition in the fight against “Islamic state” (IG, an organization banned in Russia) was much more modest indicators of Damascus. On the backdrop of the internal contradictions of the U.S.-backed factions quarreled among themselves, and unable to be

In the Indian state of Odisha (formerly Orissa) wild elephant trampled a young man who was trying to make selfi on the background. About it reports the edition Pragativadi. Jayakrishna Nayak (Nayak Jayakrushna) from the village Dimidiata wanted to take a picture with a lonely male who strayed from the herd. The animal wandered near the temple Madhubala in the village Nuapada. The elephant was moving slower than usual and seemed sick, so Nyack decided that he was safe. However, when the young man was ready to make the animal rushed at him. Victim in critical condition was taken to hospital, but doctors were unable to save his life. A similar case occurred in the same state in September. Then killed the drunk man who tried to be photographed with an elephant and made him angry. In November, the elephant attacked two tourists and trampled them to death in Zambia.