Category: World

Several employees of mission of the United Nations was captured by the Islamists in control of the territory West of the Libyan capital Tripoli. About it reports Sky News Arabia. According to preliminary data, the extremists stopped a car in which there were UN personnel, transplanted them into their cars and drove away in an unknown direction. Other details of incident are not reported. It is known that the group, taking hostages, not subject to Central authorities. After the overthrow and murder of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 the country began a civil war and actually there is no single authority. Part of the territory seized by radical Islamists, until recently Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte was controlled by the banned terrorist group “Islamic state”. Until February 2016 in Libya, there were two governments: democratically elected and recognized by the international community in Tobruk and the Islamist — in Tripoli.

Emmanuel macron and Donald trump The President of the United States Donald trump accepted the invitation of his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron to visit Paris on the national holiday of France —Bastille Day, celebrated on 14 July. It is reported BFMTV with reference to the statement of the Elysee Palace. As noted in the document, the leaders will attend the military parade, which is held annually on this day, on the Champs Elysees. “This year marks the centenary of when the United States entered the First world war. In the solemn March will take place and American soldiers”, — the document says. As pointed out by the channel, despite the demonstration of historical solidarity, trump will not go along with a Macron on the same day in nice. There the French President needs to take part in the ceremony of commemoration of victims of the terrorist attack that occurred years

Sergei Lavrov Russia will respond adequately and proportionately in the event that the United States implement its threats against Damascus over alleged preparations for a chemical attack. This was stated by Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a press conference with his German counterpart Sigmar Gabriel, reports “Interfax” on Wednesday, June 28. “I very much hope that this time the U.S. will be guided by the need to protect the non-proliferation regime of chemical weapons, and not to speculate on imaginary intelligence, which are secret and no they can not show in order to provoke or to create a pretext for fresh attacks on the forces of the Syrian government army, fighting terrorists,” said Lavrov. The Minister confirmed that during a recent phone conversation, U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson told him that in the country have data about the upcoming Damascus chemical attack. Earlier, Washington had threatened the Syrian

The death toll in a fire at an apartment building in London has increased to 80 people. About it reports Reuters, citing a police statement. According to the investigator Fiona McCormack, to establish the exact number of victims of this tragedy will take a few months. She also reported that in connection with the ongoing investigation law enforcement authorities investigate the documentation of about 60 companies that participated in the recent renovation of the skyscraper. On June 19 the head of police of the British capital, Kandy Stewart stated that not all victims will be identified, and their number is expected to increase. “If the fire was the result of criminal negligence, I will do everything in my power to bring those responsible to justice,” promised Kandy. The cause of the fire remains unknown. As reported by “Russian service Bi-bi-si”, among the most likely versions — defect wiring, gas explosion

Park Geun-Hye DPRK authorities have promised to impose a death sentence on former President of South Korea Park Geun-Hye and the head of intelligence of the country, Lee Byung-Ho in plotting the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-UN. This is stated in the joint statement of the Ministry of state security (MGB), the Department of homeland security (DHS) and the General Prosecutor’s office of Korea, which is published by the Agency KCNA. “Declare inside the country and outside of it that will condemn the perpetrators in the preparation state the largest terrorist act — izmeniti Park Geun-Hye and the head of the puppet intelligence service Lee Byung-Ho, has developed a forced egregious and nefarious intentions to harm our guide to capital punishment”, — the document says. In addition, the statement indicated that the perpetrators can’t count on mercy, “even if they die a dog’s death”. May 5, Pyongyang accused

Three police officers of the city of Chicago (Illinois, USA) was accused of conspiring to conceal the murder of a black teenager. About it reports BBC News. “From the indictment, it is clear that clients are not only kept an informal “conspiracy of silence”, they lied about the incident to mislead the investigation and not let him get to the truth,” said special Prosecutor Patricia brown. The murder occurred in October 2014. The guards claimed that Laquan MacDonald attacked them with a knife. But the record issued later, proved that the teenager really had a knife, was said to the police, but he did not rush at them, and walked in the opposite direction. One of the officers, Jason van dyke, jumped out of the car and shot him with 16 bullets, shooting the whole store. 24 November 2015 in the court of the Prosecutor’s office in Chicago charged with

The European Union for six months extended economic sectoral sanctions against Russia. This is stated in the statement of the EU Council on Wednesday, June 28. The restrictions will be in effect until January 31, 2018. Before that, they were approved until 31 July 2017. As noted, the decision was taken unanimously. This was done after the report of the President of France Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the implementation of the Minsk agreements at the summit of leaders of member countries of the EU on 22-23 June. On 23 June the Chairman of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Leonid Slutsky noted that the European Union is, once again, extending the anti-Russian sanctions, goes to the far West and thus pushes himself to a standstill. A day earlier, the President of the European Council Donald Tusk said that the leaders of the member countries of the

The Minister for the Armed forces of France, Florence Parlee ordered to begin a preliminary investigation in respect of General Richard ribola the suspected use of training and combat aircraft for personal purposes. It is reported BFMTV. The reason for the start of the inspection was the publication in the weekly Canard enchaîné. It is alleged that the officer repeatedly used the Alphajet aircraft to fly from the place of service (Bordeaux) in Provence, where his private residence. From August 2016 such flights was committed at least ten. Thus the General not only used military equipment inappropriately, but also state-owned spent fuel that was not paid. After the inspection, the officer could face disciplinary punishment General REBOL is the Deputy commander of the French air force, and, concurrently head of the training center for training pilots in Bordeaux. Alphajet — light jet aircraft for the German-French development. Used for pilot

Security professionals took control of the spread of the virus-ransomware Petya and stopped a cyber attack, according to the website of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. The report also States that currently the experts are working on recovering data that was encrypted. Details of “victory” over the virus is not revealed. On Tuesday, June 27, Ukrainian and Russian companies announced a powerful attack that their computer networks were hit with a virus-extortionist. The malware has encrypted all data on the device and demanded a ransom of $ 300 in bitcoins. According to Group-IB, June 27 from Petya.A in Russia and Ukraine suffered more than 80 companies. The virus has infiltrated the corporate network through phishing emails containing a malicious link. Later, the experts of Positive Technologies, specializing in information security, revealed a kill-switch is able to locally disable the Trojan.

Hijacker Venezuelan police helicopter attacked the building of the Supreme court, was linked to the CIA and the U.S. Embassy. This information was announced by the Minister of communication and information Ernesto Villegas, his words, reports the newspaper El Nacional. He urged citizens to be alert and wary of coup attempts. According to Villegas, the attack will not stop the convening of a constituent Assembly, and President Nicolas Maduro will take care of the security of the Venezuelan people. Oscar Perez June 28, stole a police helicopter that fired 15 bullets at the Supreme court building and threw four grenades at him. With the aircraft he also waved a flag with the inscription “Freedom”. Perez announced the deployment of ground and air operations in the country with the aim to “return power to the people and to restore constitutional order”. In a network there was video of the incident. The