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The airport, located on British-owned island of St. Helena, on Saturday, October 14, has received his first regular passenger flight. About it writes Daily Mail. On the island landed the airliner South African company Airlines SA c 78 people on Board, which made the six-hour flight from Johannesburg. Such flight is planned to be done weekly. On the island of St. Helena is home to about 4.5 thousand people. The construction of the airport cost the Treasury of great Britain to 285 million pounds. The designers have made several mistakes, causing awagaman some time could not accept large aircraft. Because of this airport in British media called “the most useless in the world.” First passenger plane landed at the airport only a year after its construction in may 2017. St. Helena is famous due to Napoleon Bonaparte, who spent here in exile the last years. The tourism industry the island

Kim Jong-UN U.S. intelligence and South Korea have recorded signs of Pyongyang preparing for another test of ballistic missiles. This is with reference to South Korean media on Sunday, October 15, TASS reported. The media indicate that the US satellites took the movement of mobile launchers in the four areas of the DPRK including Pyongyang neighborhood. It is noted that the DPRK may experience several types of weapons, among them ballistic missile of average range “And 12”. It is not excluded that will be simultaneously launched several missiles or Intercontinental ballistic missile “Hwaseong-13”, the exact characteristics of which are still unknown. September 15, North Korea launched a rocket of unknown type from the area of Sunan in its capital Pyongyang to the East. Earlier, on 3 September, North Korea conducted a successful underground test of a hydrogen warhead for Intercontinental ballistic missiles.

The place of death of the plane “Tu-154” The Polish Commission found the record of the moment of explosion in the flight recorders of the Tu-154, which, in 2010, crashed in Russia. This was stated by the Minister of national defence of Poland Anthony Macierewicz, reports Rzeczpospolita. “The time of the explosion were identified, we found him in recording one of the registrars. Now we are busy analysing and exclude all possibilities of other interpretations of this electronic record,” said Macierewicz. He pointed out that by the end of spring 2018, a report will be submitted which will contain not only the sequence of events, but the names of those on whom the responsibility for the crash. On 9 August a new Polish Committee investigating the circumstances of the crash near Smolensk, has released a statement in which it was said that the left wing of the plane Kaczynski began

In Turkish side, killed a tourist from Bashkiria. About it reports the edition Ufa1. As noted, the 48-year-old Svetlana Feoktistova from Salavat September 19 went to the hotel Club Serena Beach according to the permit. Two days later Feoktistov suddenly made contact with the family. September 24, her son Ivan called employees of the insurance company and was told that she died. He said that Feoktistov went to sea when all the tourists it was banned because of bad weather, and drowned. However, they indicated that this happened on September 23. “They say the sea there was a storm, bathers were not allowed, and she disobeyed, I went into the water and drowned. I can not understand how in the sea, if all the photographs that we sent, mom was at the pool?” — asks Ivan. On his page in social network “Vkontakte” Feoktistov last time came also on September

At the headquarters of the international antiterrorist coalition led by the United States, said that fighters of the terrorist group “Islamic state” (IG, is prohibited in Russia) and civilians of Raqqa will be able to leave the city. Reported by the Associated Press. Indicates that the heads of the tribes asked the U.S. coalition and the leadership of the “Syrian democratic forces” (SDS, SDF) with the request to allow the evacuation (including the militants), in order to avoid further bloodshed. They noticed that the evacuation of the terrorists to save the lives of civilians that the militants are using as human shields. Last week, the city had 4 thousands of civilians, the Agency said. “Observatory on human rights in Syria,” told the Associated Press that the agreement on access of foreign fighters has not been reached. According to the representative of the Kurdish groups among foreigners in the ranks of

Alexander Bastrykin Chairman of the Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia Alexander Bastrykin said that the moratorium on the death penalty in the country can be canceled exclusively by referendum. About it told the official representative of SK Svetlana Petrenko. Saturday Bastrykin visited the Moscow state law University named after O. E. Kutafin (MSAL), where she gave a lecture to students. Answering questions, Bastrykin said that the moratorium on the death penalty is permissible only to cancel the referendum, and to apply it would only in exceptional cases against the perpetrators of particularly serious crimes pose an increased danger to the public. “At the same time he is a supporter to act in a humane means, and not to aim at intimidating people,” — said Petrenko. Also Bastrykin believes that the format in which the Agency operates today, is optimal. Also in his speech Bastrykin gave a number of statistics. “For

Drunken German soldiers from the NATO mission staged a brawl in the bar of the Lithuanian city Rukla, after which one soldier required hospitalization. It is reported by Spiegel. The incident occurred a few weeks ago. Holidaymakers in the bar at night soldiers controversy ensued, quickly transfered into the “wild brawl”, says Spiegel. The two brawlers were able to separate their colleagues, and then arrived at the scene the police of the city. One soldier was sent to a local hospital, the other soldiers returned to the barracks. On 5 July it was reported that in the Lithuanian city of Jonava beaten by four unknown soldiers of the Bundeswehr is part of NATO battalion, deployed in the Republic. Injured in a skirmish the German soldiers were in a state of alcoholic intoxication. In February in the Lithuanian Klaipeda was detained five drunk and aggressive Czech soldiers. According to the police,

Yulia Latynina The chemical that was doused with the house and car of the journalist of “Novaya Gazeta” Yulia Latynina in the summer of 2017, is an extremely toxic and posed a threat to life Latynina and her family. Evidence of an independent examination is published on the website of “Novaya Gazeta”. After the incident, “Novaya Gazeta” sent samples of the chemical to the independent expert. “The detected connections represent a high degree of danger to life and health”, — quotes the edition of excerpts from the expert opinion. He found that a car and a house Latynina was poured dimetilformamida (DMF) and high molecular phthalates. These substances are extremely toxic. “Phthalates are highly hazardous substances, which are capable of forming life-threatening concentrations, even in small amounts,” — said the expert. He also indicated that phthalates can cause cancer and problems with asthma, and may also be absorbed through the