
There is a lot of news for a day. Every evening we select only those events that we consider really important, and share them with our readers.
Apple is going to combine the recently purchased Texture application with Apple News, learned Bloomberg. The company will offer users to buy a premium subscription. It is assumed that the service will work on the same principle as Apple Music.
The Texture application allowed subscribers for $ 10 a month to read articles of large media, such as The New Yorker, Esquire, Popular Science, Vogue. The updated news application is supposed to be launched during 2019.
The nerve-paralytic substance “Novice”, which was poisoned by the ex-colonel of the GRU Sergei Skripal, was delivered to the UK in liquid form. According to them, to clean the city of Salisbury from traces of a substance, it will take several months.
As one of the developers of the substance said , there were four variations of the “newcomer” in total. Three of them are liquid, and the fourth option is in crystalline form.
The Federal Security Service (FSB) announced the detention of three members of the Islamic State in the Rostov Region. One of the ISIS members blew himself up during the detention. At the scene of the detention, the AK-74 assault rifle, manual grenades, and instructions for the manufacture of homemade explosive devices were found.
Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev became a member of the jury of the Cannes Film Festival. The jury will be headed by the Australian actress Kate Blanchett. The festival will be held from May 8 to May 19, it will be opened by the film “All this Knows” Iranian director Asgar Farhadi.
The Ministry of Labor has placed a bill for public discussion, offering to raise unemployment benefits. It is proposed to equalize the maximum amount of the manual with the subsistence minimum, and the minimum is installed at the mark of 30% of the maximum size. At the same time, it is proposed to pay it not 1 year, as before, but six months.